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Using constraints

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Using constraints

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- [Instructor] A very powerful feature of Revit is its ability for you to lock in your design intent using constraints. Now, constraints are a way for you to build in rules or relationships between objects and maintain those rules so that they can update over time. So the easiest way for me to explain constraints to you is to just show you some examples. So I'm going to start over here on the right hand side of this floor plan, and let's say that I want to control the position of this door and always maintain it at a certain distance away from this wall, okay? So you can imagine that being something that we wanted to maintain in a design that might be important. So the first couple examples I'm going to show you for constraints are going to be tied to dimensions. So the first thing that we need to do is create a dimension object. So I'm going to come up here to the quick access toolbar and the Aligned Dimension Tool or DI is the shortcut. And I want to pick my first witness line…

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