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Creating detail views

Creating detail views - Revit MEP Tutorial

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Creating detail views

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- [Instructor] Let's take a break from modeling and talk about basic 2D detailing. In Revit, contrary to what I may have been saying, you can draft in 2D. Okay, sometimes you just have to, but, that's okay. We're going to investigate how to safely do this. In this video, we're going to explore how to create a drafting view from scratch, and start using our annotation tools to create a detail. Revit does have a pretty nice library of 2D detail components to choose from. So let's get ahead and get started. The first thing we need to do is create a drafting view. Go to the view tab, on the create panel, click the drafting view button. For the name in all caps, let's call it curb detail. We can keep this scale at an inch and a half equals a foot. We can always go back and change it later. Click OK. Now here we are with a blank slate. The next thing we need to do is go to the annotate tab. On the annotate tab, you're going to find all of our detailing tools. Let's just start drawing some…

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