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Using constraints

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Using constraints

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to talk about one of the features that makes Revit so powerful, and that is constraints. So you can put a number of constraints on your model that allow you to lock in your design intent, and Revit will maintain those relationships or those rules as the project progresses. So there's lots of interesting ways that we can do this, and I think the easiest thing to do is to show you some examples so you can kind of get the idea. So I'm going to zoom in over here on the right hand side of this plan, and I'm going to focus on this break room first, and let's say that it's important to me to establish the distance of this door off of this wall, and then to constrain that, to lock that in to prevent that from changing. So let me show you how we would do that. I'm going to come up here to the quick access toolbar and click the aligned dimension tool, or DI, and I'm going to start in the…

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