In this Autodesk Revit tutorial, I am going to show you how to use the “Mirror” tool. We’ll take a look at both utilising a pre-defined axis and also drawing your own. Before reading the written tutorial, you may wish to view the video version first……
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When you mirror an element in Revit, you need to use a “mirror axis”. This is a plane along which the element will be mirrored. You can either define this plane yourself (at the time you perform the mirror function), or you can use an existing plane in the model- such as the face or centreline of an existing element. I’ll show you both methods in this tutorial. Let’s first look at the method with utilises an existing plane to form the mirror axis.
In the image below you can see we have an external wall with a window (1) placed into it. We also have an internal partition wall (2) that joins the inner face of the external wall at a right angle. What we…