5 Steps To Create A Detail Family In Revit
5 easy steps to create a Revit detail family which you can use for detailing views and sheets.
1.Start a new Family using the Metric Detail Item family template.
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2. The intersection point of the two Reference Planes will be the insertion Point. Draw with this in Mind.
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3. Start the Detail Line tool.
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4. Draw your detail to the correct size, for this brick I drew a rectangle 225 x 75mm.
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5. Save the Family.
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