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Creating a downspout family

Creating a downspout family

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Creating a downspout family

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- [Instructor] Last week I talked about gutters and downspouts. The gutter was easy because there's a built-in tool for that and it just sweeps the profile along the eaves of your roof. The downspout, I showed you a technique using wall sweeps and it was a little involved when you got into the returns, but you could see the result of it right here. And it turned out that I had to create that in two pieces. So there's one sweep here and a second sweep here, and then they're just join geometry to join them together. And it's an effective technique, I think and definitely worthy of consideration. But this week I thought I would show you an alternative. Some of you might have been wondering, well, can't we just build a family for that purpose? And absolutely we could go into the family editor and we could create a downspout family. So that's what I'm going to do this week. Now, I'm going to keep this family relatively simple. It's just going to emulate this one that I've created right…

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