Autodesk Revit: Trimming and Extending Elements

In this Autodesk Revit tutorial I am going to show you how to use the suite of “Trim” tools. This suite is actually comprised of 3 different Trimming tools:-

Trim / Extend to Corner
Trim / Extend Single
Trim / Extend Multiple

We will cover all three variants in this tutorial. If you’d like to watch the video version of this tutorial, simply click in the box below…

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The trimming tools can all be found contained in the drop-down for the “Trim” button, found on the Modify menu…..

Let’s start with the “Trim / Extend to Corner”. This tool is generally used when you have 2 elements hat don’t yet intersect- but you need them to be extended (or trimmed) and a neat junction formed between them. The two walls in the image below are a classic scenario when you’d want to use this tool…..

Switch to the “Modify” menu and select “Trim / Extend to Corner” from the “Trim” drop-down sub-menu……

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