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Editing and creating family types

Editing and creating family types

- [Instructor] In this video we're going to discuss family types. Now, if you think about the hierarchy of elements in Revit that we talked about earlier in the course, every element has a category, it has a family, and it has a type. So we've been working on a pool table family here in this chapter so far, and the category for our pool table is furniture. And then the pool table version one is the current incarnation of our family. But so far, this family doesn't have any types. So let's discuss that a little bit, and then talk about how to create some types. So let's consider some of the out of the box families you might be familiar with, like this Corbu chair right here. If you have this chair, you may have noticed that when you select it and look on the properties pallet, that there is only one entry beneath the family and it has the same name as the family itself. So it's going to say chair Corbu twice essentially.…

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