5 Tips for Construction in Revit

what's going on guys Balkan architecture and in today's tutorial I'm going to be sharing with you these five amazing tips for construction in Revit so construction in Revit is one of those topics that's really important and people always like to learn new tips and tricks on how to add some construction elements in Revit and make your models more structurally complete so in this tutorial I'm going to be showing these five tips so we're going to be covering how to use the slab edge tool to reinforce the address of your concrete slabs then we're going to be talking about structural connections how to load them in and place them in the model also we're going to be talking about the analytical model and how to view it and what it is how it works also we're going to be talking about creating a construction for our sloped roofs how to add all of those roof beams and finally we're going to be tagging all of our structural elements okay but before it get started I would just like to ask you to like this tutorial it helps me out a lot and if you haven't already I suggest you subscribe because I make useful Revit tutorials each week also if you want to download all of my Revit project files like the files that I'm going to be using in this video I suggest you check out my patreon first a link in the description also there you can find all of my one our advanced private courses I've got like 17 out so far and I'm making new ones each week okay without with that out of the way let's move into the tutorial so let's start off with the slab edge so here I've got a project from one of those advanced courses a house that I worked on for like five courses so it's five hours long and here I'm just going to move to my 3d view so let's go here to my 3d view and here I want to access the edge of this outside slab so what I'm going to do is just select all of this topography go to my temporary height isolate and I'm just going to hide all of these elements as well as this element over here this is created by that topo surface or when you go over here this building pad so I'm just going to select that as well and hi that element okay now we have full access to the edge of this slab now to add that edge of the slab to reinforce this slab also if I go maybe into one of my sections yeah here is where that reinforcement should be it shouldn't be like this then in the end it should have some sort of reinforcement here so to create that you need to go here to floor and here we have the slab edge tool so if I wait just for a second there you go that's what it looks like now as you can see over here these slab edges that come with Revit are quite large so if I select it and if I go here into slab edge and go into edit type you're going to notice that we have multiple profiles but if you look at them you can see that they're all quite large so there are 300 millimeter by 600 or 800 by 900 there are very large a slab address and here if I cancel out of that is you can see this year is very 10 this is I think only 10 centimeters yeah so this is a or yeah it's that so it's a very thin concrete slab so what I'm going to do is create a new slab edge profile to use over here so I'm just going to scroll down here to my families let's collapse this annotations scroll down let's find profiles okay so here we have profiles open that up let's close this off and we should have slab edge let's see slab edge okay here we go open that menu up and here you have those regular profiles now I'm just going to right click over here go to duplicate and let's call this one 200 by 100 so 200 by 100 and let's get rid of the number two hit enter and here we go now I'm just going to double click over here open up that menu and here for the width let's drop it down to 20 centimeters and for the thickness let's drop it down to 10 hit OK okay again and there we go now I can go into my 3d view go over here to floor slab edge go into edit type change it from this to my new type that I've created hit apply okay and and just come to this edge and select it and there we go and now if I were to go to my section so let's go here into my section there we go we've got our slab edge now usually the slab edge is going to be made out of the same concrete as your slab so do fix that to make it look correct I'm just going to select it go into edit type go to material search for concrete let's see our K concrete and I think this is the one that I'm going to be using so just double click there hit apply ok and there you go and the slab edge is immediately going to be joined to that slab and now it looks correct we have correct reinforcement at the edge of this slab now let's move on to steel connections or structural connections the reason I said steel connections in the beginning is because they're usually used to connect steel elements to each other or steel elements to concrete elements so here I have this simple project where I have two columns and a beam connecting those two and as you can see here it looks quite silly at the address so it looks like this is just ending up here and it's just floating in the air and it's not going to look like that in real life so rabbit has an option to add connections to that so I'm just going to go here to structure go to connections and then before we can use our connections because if I select it and go here to connections we only have this generic connection and I can go over here and select the beam the column and then we can just gonna select those two hit enter and there we go we have this generic connection but it looks pretty much the same and that's not what you want to have you want to have an actual connection so to load some connections in you need to go here and click this little 45-degree arrow and just select it and wait for a second for Revit to load in your connections dialog so it's going to take a while and here we go so here we have our structural connection settings and here we have the available connections and the loaded connections now keep in mind that it might slow down your your Revit model or Revit project if you load all of those and I'm just going to load them in for the purposes of this demonstration but usually you would only load in the ones that you're going to be using so let me just add two loaded connections hit OK and there we go now if I select this connection and open up the drop menu as you can see now I can load multiple connections in now I can just scroll over here and I'm going to go to the clip angle one and just select that one and it's going to load it in now I suggest you go here into fine and now you can actually see it so I can select that connection and here we go I can see that connection now if you want to learn more about these structural connections i've already have a tutorial on that the an extensive tutorial that covers all of these steel connections so I'm going to be leaving a link in the description of this video so you can check that out now let's move on to the next topic and that's the analytical model now when I started this project I've created it using these structural template with and rabbit so when creating a structural template you have in your 3d views this analytical model and if I selected just double click you're going to notice that we have something that looks like this so we have just these beams that are just analytic all columns and if I select them it says analytical column if I select this bar on top it says analytical beam so what does this mean how does this work well to explain that I'm actually going to be starting off a new project and I'm just going to be using the normal architectural template that doesn't really have this analytical model 3d view and then we're going to be talking about how to create that so let me just cancel out of this project and yeah I'm just going to save all of the changes so you can download the file and let's go here to architectural template and here we go now here I'm just going to go here to structure go with columns and let's load some columns in I'm just going to scroll down find structural columns concrete let's go with these square ones open that up and set the height to level two and there we go so I'm just going to maybe do I don't know like great columns just like this let's let's dimension them just to make sure that they're at equal distances I'm just going to hit EQ here just to make this one in the middle delete the connection okay unconstrained okay and then let's copy these a few times so let's copy it like this and once again just like that okay so we've got these columns let's go to level two we can see the columns now let's add some beams so just go here to beams let's load some concrete beams in so I'm just going to go back your structural framing let's see okay do we have concrete there we go and let's go with a simple rectangular beam and here level two and just for beams make sure you go with the detail level fine just because if you go with course and you create a beam over here it might not be visible so you might need to go to fine and also one more tip is if you can select your beams right here what you need to do is you need to go into your VR or view range settings and I just like to set these two down to unlimited the bottom one and view depth and hit apply okay and now you can select these so just like the beam and I'm just going to drop it down to 300 millimeter and just copy it multiple times from here to here and here as well okay so we've got those beams and let's do a floor so here for the floor I'm going to go with a structural floor so I'll just go like this structural floor as be and then let's do a rectangle and I'm just going to go here from the outside all the way to the other side also one more thing when creating structural floors this is the like the the line that's going with the span direction but I'm just going to be creating a new span direction going from here to here because that's the actual span direction for this type of this type of a floor slab because we have our beams running horizontally then the slab should be running vertically and apply and there we go and also when creating these these structural these structural slabs or structural floors you're going to get immediately the span direction symbol in the middle okay let's go into 3d and this is what that looks like so we've got some beams some columns and the floor now if you look at this we don't really have any analytical elements but if I were to go into my VG settings or visibility graphics just click VG here we have analytical model of categories and it says analytical model specifically so it's a model those are model elements and there are going to be visible in 3d so if I select that and turn it back on and apply okay you're going to notice that here we have some elements but the view them in a better way I always suggest you go here and for your analytical models turn on your wireframe settings and now you can see them easier so each column has the actual column but inside it has this analytical column so you can select either the analytical column or the regular column and as you can see the analytical column goes all the way here to the top where the analytical lines for the rest of these elements are you might want to turn on turn off 10 lines to view it better so this blue line is the analytical column and it's going all the way up here so basically the analytical elements or model elements are going to be connected in a way that they transfer forces so basically Revit is trying to simplify this structure here for easier calculation because you don't really have to calculate in each spot of this profile of this column you really just need to have one line running through the middle for your calculations and that's what we have here these orange lines they're basically if four beams and usually the analytical beams are going to be running on the top of your regular beam so just keep that in mind and this brown line is representing our floor so it's that's the analytical floor and also keep in mind that here even though the floor is going all the way to the edge of this structure the analytical is kind of on the middle just on basically the axis of the column and and the beams because Revit is automatically recognizing where those forces are going to be located at and it's creating those analytical elements in a correct place so our floor is directly transferring forces to our beams and the beams are directly transferring those forces down to the ground so that's what your analytical models are for and later on your structural engineers can use some software's like out desk robot to do all of the final calculations for all of the structure also it might be a good idea to tag these so for that step I usually like to go here to ceiling plans and then in the ceiling plan I go into V G or visibility graphics scroll all the way down to model categories until I find structural elements and here I turn on a structural framing you can apply okay and now we have basically a reflected ceiling plan where we have the whole construction of the floor above and usually this is where I like to do all of my annotation and here I can tag all of these elements so I can go here to architecture or annotation and go to tag category and then here I can place a tag for this beam also I like this like these tags and turn off the the box to standard and then here we have representation of that beam then we can go here for the column now we don't have any four columns so let's load those in so just go to annotation structural oops not that let's try that again so structural and here we should have structural column tag open that up and now as you can see you can tag your structural columns and finally let's talk about adding construction elements or a beam system construction beam system to our roofs so when creating roofs in Revit and let me just go here to the architectural tab and maybe to a level two and let's create a simple roof so I'm just going to go here with roofs and let's do a simple dangle just like that let's turn off slope on these two sides and here for slope let's go with something like 15 degrees something like that hit finish and there we go so here we have a simple roof now we have multiple options for roofs now I'm just going to go with a simple generic roof and then maybe we're going to be modifying it a little bit and let's go here in this section oops let's make a straight section so let's just go like this okay open that section up and there we go so this is the roof we have now just to add some layers let me just go here and set this to fine select that roof go into edit type duplicate this type and let's call it let's just call it roof 300-millimeter hit OK and here for structure I'm just going to do structural part for like something like 200 millimeters and then I'm just going to insert another layer and that's going to be moved up here and it's going to be a finished layer and let's add a ten-centimeter finish and I'm just not going to do the the material for that because that's not really important for this tutorial what is important is here for structure instead of adding a structural element in this case that would be some sort of wood construction I'm actually going to add insulation so I'm just going to search for insulation let's go with this rigid insulation and there you go hit OK ok again and this is what we have let's see once again yeah this should be 100 ok hit OK apply ok there we go so here we have that rigid insulation and here we have that finished layer now our construction should be within this rigid insulation layer usually roofs are constructed that way you basically do your roof beams and then you add an insulation or thermal insulation in between those beams so how do you create that those beams so what you need to do is you need to go here to structure maybe go into 3d for this ok here we go here we have our roof and now once you're here go here to BIM system and when you start your beam system tool you're going to notice that here we have the beam type and we only have an option of selecting a concrete beam or maybe this steel beam and that's really not something I want to use so let me just exit out of that cancel out of that yeah then go into insert tab and load in a family for a some sort of structural framing that's going to be used in this roof so just go here to structural framing go to wood and let's see we have timber select that now I'm just going to select maybe just this type because I'm just going to be editing and we don't really have the one that I need so now go back into your structure tab go to beams now we have to Mesa Kalia just that beam go here and to edit type and just duplicate and let's call this one two hundred by 100 millimeter beam so the basically the height for B I'm just going to set this to two hundred and for the I'm just going to set this to one hundred hit enter okay and now this beam let's just test it out over here okay so it's standing down horizontally just we just need to flip that so it should be one hundred by two hundred so it should stand vertically hit apply there you go this is what it should look like then I'm just going to delete it okay going back to our beam system now go over here and select that beam over here in the beam type yeah that's the one also what you need to do is set the fixed spacing so the fixed spacing for roofs are usually around seventy-five two centimeters to one meter so let's go with it something like eight hundred millimeters which would equate to eighty centimeters hit apply okay and now before we set the beam system we need to set a plane so you need to go here to set work plane pick a plane go okay and then pick this bottom plane once you've done that you can go here and use pick lines to pick basically the outline of that system then just use the trim and extend just like this and one more thing that you need to set is beam direction as you can see this these two lines are in the the beam direction so I'm just going to go here to beam direction and basically go from the center of this line to the center of this line at 90 degrees yet to finish and there we go we have a beam system now unfortunately at this point is it's down below the roof align so what we need to do is we need to go into our section that we have already created select the whole beam system so you just go over here to select the beam system make sure that it says structural beam system if you select just the beam it will say structural framing so just go to beam system go here and then you can select it go to move command and then you can move it off over here let's try that again okay so this element is Bend that's the problem so what we need to do is we need to select it and here we have this option to disassociate workplane and now once we have done that we can actually move this thing around so now I can select it and finally move it hopefully it will work now and there we go now it's inside of this and now if we go here into 3d let's cancel out of this and as you can see now those beams are actually inside of our roof and our roof actually has construction and in between that construction we have some insulation so there you go that's how you do that in Rabbit okay I really hope these tips were useful and I hope you can incorporate them in your future projects thank you for watching please subscribe like and share this video and if you want to download these project files or get access to some of my advanced courses check out the first link in the description to my patreon where you can find all of that thank you for watching and have a nice day

Channel: Balkan Architect

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Keywords: Revit, tutorial, english, learn, BIM, building information modeling, easy, fast, quick, how to, autodesk, modeling, construction, roof, floor edge, reinforcement, beam, analyze, analytical, tags, tag, connections, architecture, family

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Length: 21min 48sec (1308 seconds)

Published: Sun May 19 2019