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Adding columns

Adding columns - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Adding columns

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our 09_Office.rvt file and we're in the 00-Ground Floor plan. Now you can see that at the top of the screen in the title bar, it's also in the project browser, in the floor plans there. Can you see the 00-Ground Floor is highlighted in bold? Just remember, though, that your project browser will normally be, by default, left-hand side of the screen, towards the bottom. Because I move my project browser to the right hand side of the screen, as I've mentioned previously, that's just the way I work in Revit. So in our 00-Ground Floor plan, and what we're going to look at now is placing some structural columns utilizing our linked CAD file information. So just zoom and pan to the left-hand side of the linked in CAD file, you can see it there. And can you see the little squares it's showing on the intersections there of our gridlines? Now, those are columns. Now, you'll notice that they're square columns. And they are, potentially, concrete columns. Now it…

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