Revit - Adding Clearance Areas to Revit Families
Revit has a great interference checking tool that allows you to make sure solid items aren’t inside other solid items. But what about checking against clearance requirements?
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Revit has a great interference checking tool, that allows you to make certain your conduit isn’t going through a column, or a light fixture isn’t in the same spot as an air register.
But what about checking against clearance requirements?
Your basic Revit families don’t do this, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t. We just have to edit the existing family and add this functionality. It’s an easy process, and takes less time than validating clearances by hand.
Adding a clearance space to an existing family is pretty simple, and only requires a few steps:
Open the family for editing
Create a new material named “Clearance” or something similar
Create a new extrusion the correct size and location to represent the clearance space
Assign the “Clearance” material to your extrusion.
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