Beginner Concrete Construction in Revit Tutorial (beam, column, foundation)

what's going on guys bulk marketed here and as I just finished my quickest fastest to Revit 2019 free online course I thought it would be an interesting idea or a topic to kind of expand on rabbit a bit and show you some of the more complex options in Revit so in today's tutorial I'm going to be showing you how to model a a basic concrete construction in Revit so maybe I can get add some construction elements to your a simple building but before we 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 they make tutorials like this every day and if you want to download this complete construction file or any of my previous Revit models you can check out my patreon first a link in the description ok so let's get started so for this you can either use the structural template or you can use the architectural template that it doesn't really matter I'm just going to choose the structural one because it gives you just some presets that can be useful so if I open it up like this and if you go you can see you've got your levels in if you go to South elevation yeah so we've got some analysis levels it's not really something that I'm going to be using in this tutorial but it's just good to know you have those and we've got this analytical model and I'm just going to be showing you that a bit later on so let's go first to maybe a level two one and let's create a grid for our simple building so for that just go here to grid or you can use the shortcut gr as the shortcut for a grid and then maybe just do one line I like so and then you can just use the offset so again I'm just going to type in gr for grid use the offset tool give it an offset of like I don't know six thousand millimeters or six meters so just go like that and let's make something simple like so then go again gr for grid and do one like this and then again use pick lines but before that I'm just going to rename this from five to a and once they do that when I go gr and reclines and again 6000 and when I go like this is you can see now it's going to continue on ABC so we got one two three four one two three four and then ABC and as working in millimeters is really annoying when you're working in like construction out with construction elements I'm just going to type in UN and change the units do meters and give it two decimal places so we can just see the dimensions or just input them a bit easier then I'm just going to select this get this ring bring it in a bit just to make everything better and let's select everything and Center it over here yeah maybe that yeah that looks good okay so once we've got this grid system and now it's time to start adding elements but before that I'm just going to go here to South elevation and add one more element so I'm going to drop this a bit drop this up a bit and yeah let's add another level so al al is the shortcut for that and yeah let's do it at four meters as well so this is level three and then I'm going to do one more over here at I don't know something like yeah let's do two point five and this won't be a level four this is level zero so this is like the foundation okay so once we have this now we have all the necessary infrastructure so we can continue or start modeling our construction so go to level one and here you can go to structure and create a structural wall so for the structural wall let's go with something like a generic 300 millimeter and this is for our structural core so I'm just going to go here with a rectangle and then select one of these quadrants and let's go with here and go from here to here now I'm just going to hover over one of them hit the tab key select all of them and then base constraints should be at zero and the top constraint should be at level three okay so once we have that let's go into 3d yeah this is what we want and as you can see this is that analytical file so if you go to analytical mode you can see this is just a graphical representation of the analytical model so this is just calculating the your your walls as far as structural elements go okay let's go back into level one and let's add some columns so go here to structural column and let's just load in a family because we only got two these steel columns and I want to use some concrete ones so I'm just going to scroll down to structural columns go with concrete and we've got the square concrete open that up okay and let's choose this one 300 by 300 s this is a small building and let's give it a height to level three and then just but one its each intersection of these grids or you can use at the grids and then select like this and go finish and as you can see now it placed them all all the way there okay so now if I go into 3d as you can see these don't really go up to up the foundation so I can select it like this go to filter check none and go with structural columns apply okay and then move them to level zero as well okay and as you can see now they go all the way up to foundation okay so once we have this let's add our structural beams so for beams you go back into level one and let's go so we go here to beam and again we only have a steel okay no we've got some concrete beams yeah that's why I chose the the template the structural template because you've got some pre-loaded elements so just go with the beam and then you're going to have these like structural beams going one direction and then you're going to have not one direction the band One Direction is just going to go in one direction and then we're going to have some structural structural beam system going in another direction so maybe go from here from this point all the way to this column then you go from this column all the way to this column and here add one like this okay so once we have this let's go into 3d yeah I really like the way this is turning out so now I'm just going to select all of these three go here to copy/paste align to selected levels and go level two and three here okay and there we go so now this is at all levels now sometimes you're going to have them at foundations sometimes not depends on your foundation system so for now on I'm just going to leave it without beams but if your project requires them just add beams and if I go here to the analytical model you can see we're already getting an analytical model for this over here so it's just connecting all of the beams and later on you can send this to somebody doing calculations in a robot or something and they can use this model okay let's go back into a level one and let's just add that beam system to kind of complete the whole look and for that I'll just go here to structure go to beam system and here we've got automatic beam system or immune system by sketch I'm just going to choose by sketch but first when you open this up you can see we've got some the beam type and if we open this up we only have those that are offered as beams but these don't work for our model they're - they're too big so let's go to structure go to beam and go into edit type and here just duplicate it and let's just call it I don't know 400 by 150 by 400 let's say that works so hit OK and change this to 0.15 and this to 0.4 okay so once we have this hit okay so we've got the smaller beam and now good structure a beam system a scatter beam system and then go with either pick lines or you can use rectangles I'm just going to go with back lines go from this grid to this endpoint over here to this endpoint this endpoint and rest all the way around this wall about just move it to two grids so those structural elements align okay so now just trim and extend so trim and extend this this here this here this here and this here and I'll move this to the outside of the and if you can't adjust it just go al for a line and yeah do it like that okay and this line over here that he has these two lines on top on and on bottom that means that's the beam direction but we actually want to be in direction to be going vertically so just go here to beam direction and place one on line like this okay so just go finish and this is what you get so it now it's the wrong beam type as you can see these beams are quite thick so let's scroll down over here and for the beam type let's change it to the new smaller one we have and now they're smaller so if we go into 3d this is what we get so you can see these are a lot smaller than our big beam is going in that direction so if we look like this yeah this actually looks quite all right and if we go to the analytical model yeah this is what analytical model looks like so you can go into 3d hit tab a couple of times selected the whole beam system and just go here to copy based align to selected levels and align them to levels two and three and there you go and let's just add some foundation elements just for the fun of it so and before that let's turn this into hit in line just to see the better and maybe add some shadows yeah that looks cool okay so let's just add the foundation so go to isolated foundation and yeah let's work with this one so you're just going to go to level zero and yeah let's go to level zero yeah this is going to be a bit easier to place it here and then you place it at all of the intersections so you go just like that okay I think I missed over here yeah let's delete that one so let's place it here here and here and for our structural core let's go with our wall foundation go select multiple and then oops let's go back sorry about this wall okay I can work with the with the bearing wall yeah and let's select the okay this works and there you go surges go all the way around and you place this foundation okay and if we go down this is where our foundation lies and if we go to the analytical model this is how that thing looks like so you can send this to your structural engineers and they can calculate this building construction okay so this is cool I think you have learned something new about these structural systems and structural elements in Revit that's pretty much it for this tutorial thank you for watching please subscribe a like and share this video and if you want to download this model check out my patreon first a link in the description thank you for watching and you have a nice day [Music]

Channel: Balkan Architect

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Keywords: Revit, tutorial, english, learn, BIM, building information modeling, easy, fast, quick, how to, autodesk, modeling, architecture, family, Structural, Beam, Column, Beam System

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Length: 11min 53sec (713 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 17 2018