Structural Design in Revit Exploring the Power of Trusses

hello and welcome um today I will talk about twists and how you can make them properly by yourself and um adding some basic parametric uh dimensions on it so you can change it along the way while you um modeling it and of course the Tresses are a a great example for roof um designing and um don't be afraid to follow along with the video and uh see where you get it's uh not that hard so um yeah let's get straight into it as you see um I already placed four wooden columns in a concrete slab uh before uh you can do that um you need to insert the columns and of course uh the beams so uh first we're going to do that how we going to do it very simple you go to the insert tab go to load Autodesk family and first we're going to um load a the beams so where do we um find the beams very simple we go to structural framing right here then we will pick wood and then you just check the box in and you click on load and then you can choose which Dimensions you want or you can make uh some different dimensions by your own and for the columns it's the same but instead of structural framing we go right here here with structural columns we go to Wood check the box again load it in and later on you can choose which uh dimension of a column you want so that's the first thing that you want to do so the next thing that we going to do is go to the floor plan and you see here the columns and then we need a section view uh to see where we're going to put the truss of course so we go to the view of section and there you go you see the columns here and between those columns is uh there is 6 M so we're going to make a tress uh 6 M long and a angle of 45° well we go to the file and make a new family right here now we're going to look for the Tresses there are something here so here you see metric stru Tresses you click open and that's what we have now to work easily we going to split the view so we can see what we are going to do or make so we're going to leave it right here and this going to leave it right here now before I start uh drawing the dresses I will um uh look if the dimensions or the project units are okay I want it in centim so I go to to the manage set right here then you go to uh project units and here you we see the distance in centimeters good but this one we need in centimeters also we click okay and now you see uh the trust length is 25 M but uh we only need six Metter so how do we change that very simple you go to the create Tab and then you go to the family types right here and don't mind of these parame parameters we will change them uh later in the video on so don't worry about it now instead of 25 M we need six M and there we go we click apply and voila there we have our six M now to know the height of the truss uh we will uh do that right here in the prct how we're going to do that very simple you're going to draw a detail line of the the trust that we want so this is the bottom one and this is the top shorts that we want 45° same with this one uh 45 degrees then we're going to use the trim tool oh trim tool and voila going to put a dimension on it right here and voila oh look it's the same it's uh 300 so we don't need to change that so we go back to our family and now uh the drawing of the trusses begin so we go to the create tab right here and then we're going to uh first draw a top uh short so these are two uh beams that we want so we're going to draw it again under 45 degrees all right now we going to draw the bottom short so we're going to go to the create tab again and now we're going to draw the bottom short and we go to from this point to this point because it's six M and this is also 6 M and now we need a vertical one so we're going to go to the uh um create tab H we're going to make a web and we're going to make the vertical one and there we going to make a diagonal one and also there and there you go and now we can just load uh the trust family into the projects and place uh the trust itself so um we go to the family again we go to uh load into projects okay and now it's loaded I will uh cancel this because I will show you properly how you can um uh pick the trust that you want and where to find them so I will click cancel and I will change the view a bit from this to here or maybe a little bit more like here so we can see still see where we are working on now so the first thing that we're going to do is um go to the level that we want to draw the dress of course so we want to draw the dress on level one so we go to level one and there you have it so uh to find the dress you go to the structure tab right here you click on uh trust and then you see our family here that we made that's the exact same family here so we have it already and keep in mind that you uh always draw the Trust on the level that you are on so the work plane here is level uh one you can't change that later on so keep that in mind now we're going to draw the chart from the center of the column to the other center of the column and there you see it that's our um trust that we want we go to the section see that's the trust that we exactly want and now we going we are going to go to 3D so we can see it better and uh make it better now I already see some issues that we want to resolve so um the first thing is that the vertical one needs to go uh through them or higher and the these ones needs to be uh or not uh crossing the middle one so they need to move a bit outwards so we going uh change that to the family again but we're going to assign the beams uh first to the dimensions that we want so we can see easily uh how we want to adjust the Family Trust again so how do we do that very simple we click on the tress you go to edit type and now we going to uh uh chck change the charts and vertical or diagonal uh webs so for the top charts so these beams right here we want other beams so we will select the structural framing uh type over that's the bottom one need top top one structural framing type I already made them and I will use the dimension uh 15 by 15 you click apply and there we go that's what we want to have also for the bottom short we also want the 15 by 15 and we're going to also do that for the a vertical one so we going to change this to 15 by 15 right here apply and the diagonal ones we will uh make or assign a little smaller ones so 10 by 10 apply and there we go so as you see uh we will need to move uh the beams more out towards and we want this beam uh moving more uh above the Top Choice so how do you do you want to do that very simple we go to the family again I'm going to make the window again a bit smaller so we can see what we are doing that's what we want now um I'm going to make a parametric dimension for the for the vertical beam so we can just it manually in the project itself so how do you do that very simple we go to the create tab right here we're going to make a reference plane we're going to draw that right here it doesn't really matter where you uh draw it you're going to make a CH short um um vertical beam excuse me um a little bit higher and we're going to align it to the reference line we're going to pick the reference line and then the dot of the line and lock it then we're going to add a dimension right here we're going to lock it also move it a little bit outwards and now we're going to assign a a label or a parameter where you do that very simple here you can assign a label you create create parameter and I will use a Dutch uh Dutch term because I don't know it in English all right you click okay that's how we want it and now we're going to test it if it works where we can do that right here on the family types and right here you see our parameter that we made now it's 40 I will make it 20 apply and there we go it's changed so we will back to 40 so we can see the difference now again we go to load it to the project of course and now we going to uh only overwrite the existing version and its parameters because we add a new one of course and then you see already it pointing out so we going to re red Dimension our view boxes and now so the next thing that we're going to do is cope them so they are more realistic oh oh we forgot the spacing oh my bad not good so we're going to back to the family and we're going to make the window bigger again if I can can snap it all right we're going to pick it now how do we do that uh very simple going to make a offset right here it can adjust offset and we need 10 of course and then we're going to just offset it pick the diagonal once to here then delete this ones and again load it into project okay overwrite it and there we go that's a lot better now we're going to make this window smaller again so we can uh adjust the beams so now uh what I wanted to say is of course when you are going to cope the beams uh make sure you do that as last because if you cope them and you want to redim menion them the coping will be uh gone so keep that in mind now uh we're going to select all the beams and we're going to unpin them first or you can't uh really cope them or do anything with them so we going to uh select all instance visible view we're going to unpin them right here and pin and there we go now we're going to extend it to the dimension that we want by the way for this uh bottom chart can do it like here but on the both sides it's just the same but they're going to do it uh like this for now then we're going to diagonal we're going to extend also we going to extend this also and now for this one um we going to add it like here you see the the parameter that we made we going to set it to 25 that will be high enough all right there we go and now we're going to cope them so how do we do that very simple you go to the modify tab here and then you go to cope and now we going to cope the beam so now the first beam that you uh want to select is the beam that you actually want to cope so I want to cope this Beam with this one and now you see it's really nicely done same with this one and this one and now the same from this one with this one and this one with this okay there we go want to goope this one but now as you see there was some spacing and we don't want that of course how do we change that um I will show you in a minutes like right now um how do you do that again you select the beam and as you see uh we have a new parameter on the structural one here it stands coping distance too and if we do that by zero it will be gone and voila now we can select of course multiple beams that we can adjust a coping distance right here but keep in mind that you only need to select the beams that to be coped because if you select this beam the parameter will be gone so uh keep in mind that you only select the be them that you coped so we going to unselect this one and now change it to zero there we go and voila there we have your nice looking TR and one extra thing that we need to do is to uh offset the trust a little bit more so it's uh right on top of the columns that's again on the section tab you select the dress or first we going to measure it of course my b it's from here to here it's eight so we're going to select a TR and we're going to do uh start offet level this one eight and there we go now the tress is on top of the column and uh that's how you make a yeah family dress I hope you guys enjoyed the video uh and uh yeah please like And subscribe and see you in the next one bye-bye

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Length: 15min 57sec (957 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 27 2023