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Understanding wall families

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Understanding wall families

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- [Instructor] The subject of all the videos in this chapter is going to be walls. So, I thought it would be good for us to take a high-level look at walls before we start on any specific topic. Let's begin the discussion with a reminder of how walls fit into the overall Revit element hierarchy. At the top of the hierarchy, we have categories. There are many categories, including walls, and they're responsible for making elements behave in ways consistent with their real life namesakes. Categories next branch into families, and there are two varieties, component, or loadable families, and system families. The main two distinctions of note between these two are if the family is loadable or if it is editable. Component categories are loadable and editable by the end user, system categories are not. So, to use a loadable category, you must first load and possibly create a family of that category to make that element available for use. With system categories, loading is not possible, nor…

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