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Chapter 1 • The Revit World
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Building on Existing Geometry
Now that you have some geometry to work with and you have some objects
placed in your model, Revit starts to come alive. The benefits of using building
information modeling (BIM) will become apparent quickly, as explained later in
this chapter. For example, because of the fact that Revit knows that walls are
walls, you can add identical geometry to the model by simply selecting an item
and telling Revit to create a similar item.
Suppose you wanted a radial wall of the same exact type of the other walls in
the model. Perform the following steps:
1. Type ZA to zoom the entire screen.
2. Press the Esc key.
3. Select one of the walls in the model — it does not matter which one.
4. Right-click on the wall.
5. Select Create Similar, as shown in Figure 1.29.
FIGURE 1.29: You can select any item in Revit and create a similar object
by right-clicking and selecting Create Similar.
6. On the Place Wall tab, click the Start-End-Midpoint Arc button, as
shown in Figure 1.30.
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