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What could go wrong with in-place geometry?

What could go wrong with in-place geometry? - Revit Tutorial

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What could go wrong with in-place geometry?

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So, we've taken a look at an unusual aspect of creating in-place families and how they can really make our life so much easier, because here we are nesting furniture families into an in-place family, just, you know, to make things easier for us, just to make sure that we are modeling the family geometry with regards to the context in the project. Then what could go wrong with it? Why shouldn't we use it all the time? Why do we need to go into the family editor at all? Let's take a look at this use case to illustrate our point. So let me show you what can go wrong. Here is my in-place family, and I'm just going to make copies. Just watch my project browser. I hold down Control. You know that's what I like to do, right? It helps to make things so much easier for me. Look at that. One copy of the in-place family has appeared, and there's another, and there's another, And you know what? Let me do something really drastic. And there's another. So here's what has happened. I have gone ahead…

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