5 tips for Floors in Revit Tutorial

what's going on guys Balkan architect here and in this tutorial I'm going to be sharing with you these five amazing secrets for floors in Revit now everybody knows how to do floors in Revit as soon as you master these sketching tools which are not that difficult to master well you can then do all kinds of floors that you want and it's it's quite simple but in this tutorial I'm going to be showing you these five secrets or these five tips and tricks to take your floor game to another level and now in this video I'm going to be covering first it kind of for a little bit for sidewalks first how to create a ramp on a sidewalk so a handicapped ramp or something like that that allows you to go up a sidewalk in an incline so that's the first thing the second thing or the second tip or secret will going to be how to do a curb in Revit and that's that's quite cool to create again for a sidewalk a sidewalk curb that's the second thing the turn of the tip that I'm going to be sharing with you is different floor finishes so for your floor you want to have a single basically a single concrete slab for the whole floor but then you want to have different floor finishes in different rooms maybe for the living room you want some wood flooring then for maybe for the bedroom you want some carpet and for the kitchen you want some some tiles and in this tutorial I'm going to be showing you how to divide up just the top layer of your floor which is quite cool then I'm going to be showing you as well how to how to basically manipulate your your floor to get some weird shapes so you can basically create a a floor in pretty much any shape in it within Revit and also I'm going to be showing you how to create a metal deck floor so that's a floor that's basically constructed using a metal deck and then concrete is poured into it it's a quite common construction these days it's very efficient and that metal deck basically adds a little bit of strength and or I guess flexibility to that whole floor and I'm going to be showing you all of the tools that future the drive it has on offer for creating that specific type of a floor and how to load in different different metal decks and to Revit and load them into your floor so that's what this tutorial is going to be all about now before we get into that just quickly I would just like to ask you to like this video tells me out a lot with the YouTube algorithm and if you haven't subscribed already I suggested you I make useful Revit tutorials each we can make multiple tutorials plus I do one advanced bulk an architect course ed these courses are all over one hour long one comes out each week and first link in the description takes you to my patreon there you can find all these courses as well as all of my Revit project files so I've got like almost 40 hours of content over there as far as courses and then I've got over 300 Revit project files so if that's something you're interested in first link in the description ok without any further ado let's get into the tutorial I'm going to start this project from scratch just so anyone can follow along so I'm going to go here to models and then let's start in your model and let's go with an architectural template for this demonstration I'm just going to click OK and there we go now the first step is going to be regarding to creating sidewalks in Revit now creating a sidewalk is pretty simple you just go here to floor and then you just do a simple rectangle it hit finish and there you go you have your sidewalk now a sidewalks usually contain those little ramps now these ramps are either for disabled people for people using bicycles for those children carriages things like that so you should have a little ramp that allows you to get on this sidewalk and this is actually pretty tall this is a 400 millimeter floor and it would be quite difficult to get up this in for a disabled people or something like that so you really do have to have a ramp now these ramps are usually built into your into concrete and let me show you how that is built a wooden rabbit so to do something like that I'm going to be using these shape editing tools that are over here so when you select your floor here on the modify tab you get these shape editing tools so first let's go here into a level 1 and then I'm going to go with the split align option and now we need to sketch that ramp out so I'm going to go like this maybe 1.2 meters and let's do the angle of 60 degrees and then for the second line let's go or from here you can check on chain it's going to make it a bit easier so let's go maybe 1.4 meters and then or 1,400 millimetres and then let's go back at the same angle of 60 degrees just go back to this line and then click now let's hit escape now let's go back and add a couple of more split lines so I'm going to go from this point down to this and then go back to split line and from this point down to this line then go to modify and let's go into 3d and see what we have created so we have basically sketched out the way this would look in the floor plan but now we have to just address the heights so we get that so we get that ramp so just select your floor again go into modify sub elements and now as you can see all of these are sub elements and when you select them you can modify their height now I want to select this line over here in the middle line so it don't select the other ones select the middle one and then you just use these drag grips to move it all the way to the bottom so it creates a ramp from the bottom now the whole thing is going to highlight in orange just because it's recognizing an error so just go back here to the modify tool and as you can see it looks a bit weird just because the whole floor moved down and now you can focus that you can make sure that it just goes down to a single point or a line by going and selecting the floor go into edit type and here under structure we can edit the material to have a variable thickness so once you check this and click OK and apply now this allows us to demand the material to have a variable thickness so it doesn't go down over here and it basically go the thickness goes to zero at this point and there we go we have that a little ramp for disabled people or for people with children or something like that and if I go maybe until level one we can create a section that goes through this and then if you open up the section there you go you have that ramp now of course you can modify it if necessary maybe the slope is too high so you can go go ahead and here are going to modify sub-elements and then or maybe add split lines can we select this split line yeah I think we can move it yeah there we go so he can move it to make the angle a bit larger or smaller or something like that but there we go that's how you create these ramps in Revit the these ramps on sidewalks ok moving on now let's talk about while talking about sidewalks let's add the curb so I'm going to perhaps select this go into edit type and then perhaps let's do a little fill at edge over here and let's say we want to add a curb to this your sidewalk now to add a to add a curb you can go and use some sort of a a sweep so go model in place and then do some sort of face sweep but that's quite inefficient for curbs what they like to use is by going here in the floor we have the option for a slab edge now if we open up that up we have some default slab edges and if you go ahead here and place one of these it looks like this so it's a regular slab edge usually for structural purposes and that's not what we want to have we want something that resembles a curve so to model something like that what you need to do is you need to create a new kerb profile so go here to file go to new and let's create a new kerb profile family so you go into family you scroll down and you try to find some profiles there we go metric profile and yeah open that up this is what that looks like now as you remember the height of that of that concrete slab or our sidewalk is 400 millimeters so just keep that in mind go 400 millimeters down and then let's do a curve that looks like I thought of something like this maybe it can be a bit smaller and more narrow something like that there we go so we have a perfectly decent curb now you'll just go ahead and save this I'm going to save it on my desktop let's call it curb it's save there we go and let's load it into the project and close it off so once it's loaded into the project what you need to do is you need to change that you need to change that slab edge profile so if I go here into slab edge go into edit type here we have the profile option and now we can search for that curb profile hit apply okay and then also for the material we can change that and I'm going to go with some white material maybe drip some wallboard or something like that just so he so we can have a different color here for the curb then let's go into 3d go into our floor slab edge and now the trick is to select the top edge then you click and there we go so you add your curb pretty much everywhere where you need it and when we go into realistic it's going to have that other color and it's going to look really nice and as you can see it goes around curved surfaces or curved edges which is really good another thing that's really cool as far as Revit floors are concerned that not many people know about and that's a metal decking so for floor constructions sometimes you use metal decks and then are over those metal decks you pour concrete and for that we actually have a Revit floor and it's a kind of a system family when you go here to floors here we have the sixteen hundred and sixty millimeter concrete with 50 millimeter metal deck now if I open that family up and let's just model a piece of floor here hit finish and then let's go into level 1 and let's perhaps move this section to go through that let's open that section up and as you can see here if I go here to find level of detail here we have a metal deck on the bottom now of course this can be changed so if I select this floor and go here into edit you have to go into structure and then here we have the metal deck and currently it's just here you can set the material but for the profile you need to go down to the structural deck properties which is only inside of this family and then here you can you can basically edit either the usage so it can be either a standalone deck or bound a layer above so that basically means are you pouring concrete inside of this metal deck or are you just placing a some sort of a concrete slab over it so if you go to bound layer above that means that concrete is pouring into it and then if you go and do standard a standalone deck and hit OK apply ok as you can see now we have here first the concrete and then underneath we have the the deck if I go into realistic you can see that even better and let's let's select that thing again go back into edit type into edit structure select the material or the layer and then we can go back to bound to layer above hit OK apply and now we're back to what we had now of course you can change this deck so just again select the layer you can change this profile currently there is only one loaded end but if we cancel out of this menu what you can do is you can always go here to the insert tab go into load family and then here in the u.s. metric library or US imperial depends on what you're using you can find some you can go and find some profiles so let's go to profiles here we go and here we have methyl decks and there we go so we have a couple of these so you have this one this one this one and this one let's go with maybe the composite one open that up you select your floor you go into edit type going to edit structure select the layer that's called structural deck and then here you can change from one of these so maybe let's go with this one hit OK apply and as you can see now we have a different type of a metal deck it has these little can not sin to it things like that so you can play around with this and you can find the metal deck that you're looking for now talking about the structure of floors let me go back into 3d and let's do another floor so I was going to Architecture the floor and then let's do another floor over here and for this floor I wanted to be perhaps now let's go with degenerate 400 millimeters but let's go here into edit type let's duplicate this one and let's go layered floor I'm just going to call it layer four and here I'm going to change the base structure layer to 200 millimeters and then here I'm going to insert maybe a couple of more layers so maybe here we have some others some insulation maybe some a rigid insulation and let's do that at I don't know like 30 millimeters and then here let's do some wood finish and let's go with oak flooring and that can be 20 millimeters now here make sure to change the function one when you're doing this so go here into a structure and or and the function and change it to and we can go maybe with substrate and for this one the final one that will be finished one okay so whether the function is changed maybe we can track off variable for this this thickness just because it's not necessary for this particular wall click OK okay again and there we go so as you can see here we have wooden finish now let's say this is part of your floor and then on your floor plan maybe in some parts you have your bathroom and bathrooms should have a different floor finish you can have a wood in the bathroom you should have some sort of a tile now to change that what you would have to do usually what I see people doing is going to edit boundary and then they kind of cut out a small portion and then they do a whoops let's continue and they trim and extend and then they do a different type of a floor in this area so they go again to floor and then they do a different floor here then they change the layers for that floor and that's how they get different finish material now this is a very inefficient approach and what they like to do is I like to have one single piece of floor with the different finishes well how do we add as that let me just go back a couple of times there we go one more there we go so how can we edit just the finish material well we can do that by going here on the modify tab once this floor is selected going to create and here we have the option to create parts now this basically allows you to separate your floor into your layers now once it's separated as you can see you can select individual layers so we can just select the finish layer and then go here and to divide parts and once you're here you can go here into edit sketch and then you can sketch out the division of these parts so you can go just like this hit finish and then add to finish again and there we go now we have a separated layer here and we can select this we can select this part basically and then we can play around with it we can uncheck this option where we have a material by original uncheck that and then we can have a separate material perhaps tile let's see do we have some tile or maybe carpet yeah let's try out the carpet and there we go so we have a different finished material here and you can do this infinitely you can select this again going to divide parts and then sketch something out maybe an arc get to finish and then you can select this again uncheck a material buy original and then you can change this to some sort of a well let's do tile here a ceramic tile that works and there we go so here we have okay this doesn't look like ceramic tile let's try something a bit better I don't like this look either let's see tile porcelain this might look a bit better there we go this looks a lot better so there you go that's how you can change the finish materials without having to change the whole structure off you're off your floor and finally just for fun let me show you how can you create some wacky floor shapes so let's go here in the floor and I'm going to do a rectangular floor maybe did this type and let's do a rectangle here hit finish and I'm going to do one more so let's go to floor again and then for this one I'm going to do an arc kind of like that and then I'm going to offset that by 1200 millimeters just like that and then let's just close it off to the sides with no offset of course there we go hit finish there you go okay so here we have this this floor and let's see how can we play around and get some wacky shapes so when you select the floor here we have the modify sub elements that what that's what we used here for this sidewalk ramp but also you can play around and go to modify side modify sub elements and then you can select this dot for example this point here let me try bit better there we go and then you can maybe extend this upward yeah okay now unfortunately this is that a variable floor so it's going like this all the way to the ground but if you don't want that let's switch it to the layered the floor and you get something that looks like this and it looks really cool let's do the same thing here with this ramp let's switch to our layer the floor so this is how you can create this hyperbolic paraboloid earth shaped roof or something like that and then here for example this I can turn it into a spiral ramp just by going here to modify sub-elements and then just by switching this up and so we have a spiral ramp in Revit just by using the floor tool with the modify sub elements now feel free to play around with these and come up with some cool wacky shapes okay so that's pretty much covers this ll tutorial that uncovers some of the secret tools and tips and tricks on how can you use floors in Revit in different ways to achieve different results okay so if this was interesting please subscribe like and share this video and also if you want some of my advanced balkan architecture courses check out my patreon first link in the description there you can get access to all of my courses over 38 hours of content so far also if you're interested in these project files all of my project files can be found there as well ok so that's pretty much it 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, floor, ramp, sidewalk, curb, profile, free form, metal deck, different floor, finish, architecture, family

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Length: 20min 47sec (1247 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 10 2019