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Creating spaces - Revit MEP Tutorial

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Creating spaces

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- [Instructor] Let's talk about spaces. We added a couple, but we didn't really discuss what they are or what they do. The reason we don't put rooms into an MEP model is because spaces relay a lot more information than the room is going to. Really what the architect cares about is the name, the number, and maybe the square footage. What a lighting engineer or an electrical engineer or mechanical engineer cares about is actually the volume and the lighting and the loading that we have in our space. So that means we want to put a space in, but we still want it to read the same name and number that the architect has. So let's do that. Let's jump into Revit under Projects, we'll go Open. We'll grab Electrical Project 03 then click Open. Now I want to tag everything in one shot. If we go to the Annotate tab, and we select Tag All, let's scroll down til we find Space Tags, click Apply, and click OK. Zoom in on Office 101. I've actually changed this tag up a little bit. Select your space…

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