This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to properly use the Revit Structure software to model a high roof, including tips on hiding elements, placing information, tagging beams, and annotating the basic roof structure. Readers will learn the best practices for using the software effectively.
Key Insights
- The article emphasizes the importance of hiding elements to create a clear field for information placement when modeling a high roof using the Revit Structure software.
- Tagging beams and annotating the basic roof structure, such as a one and a half inch galvanized steel deck, are critical steps in the modeling process.
- The author advises the use of the 2D grid function in the software to fit the model better on the page, showing the practical application of the tool in creating a more effective model.
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Hello and welcome back to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've finished placing information, adding notations, and tagging our elements at the roof, let's take a look at the high roof.
Okay, let's go to our project browser. Let's go high roof, pick that twice, and our high roof shows up. Let's zoom all, get a better look at it.
Okay, first thing we want to do is we want to hide elements again to give us a clear field to place the information. So let's create a window here. Let's hold the control key down and create a window here because we don't want to hide the columns.
And let's pick this one holding down the control key here. Very good. Let's right click, hide and view elements.
Very good. Now we've got a clear field to place our information. First thing we want to do again is go to the annotate tab, go to our symbol panel, and we'll go to our beam system symbol.
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We'll pick that, save the project first, always save, and we'll pick the beam system here and place the information. You can see it's telling us we have a 16K9 roof truss at two foot on center, which is what we placed earlier when we were modeling. Okay, let's go ahead and tag our beams.
We're not tagging the columns because we tagged them at the roof where they started from. They run from the regular roof to the high roof. And this is generally an office procedure.
Again, check with your bin manager. So let's get started on tagging our other beams. Let's go to tag.
We want to turn this off, the leader, check our tag information, structural framing, tag standard. Okay, let's get started. Okay, we can see we have our steel beams here.
Let's place tags on all of those. Now that's finished. Let's get out of that command.
And now we're going to annotate or place the notation of our basic roof structure, which is a one and one half inch galvanized steel deck. Okay, let's go to our text. Again, all the parameters are set from our previous roof notation.
And we have the two segments. So let's go ahead and get started. Let's pick here.
Place our leader and start typing in one, one half inch steel. Again, cap locks. Let's go with caps.
Steel deck. Very good. Okay.
Let's escape out of that command. Let's zoom back out. And now we have the roof set to place in our drawing.
First thing we're going to do, though, before we do that is we're going to bring the grid lines down a little bit. You notice that it says 2D here, which means it will only change the length of the grid in this plan. If we pick 3D, it will change the length of the grid at all of our levels.
We want 2D. Let's bring it down a little bit, and this will fit better on our page. Again, let's set this to 2D.
Set this to 2D. Oops, we left it at 3D. We don't want to do that.
Let's go to 2D. Set it. Very good.
Let's zoom out. And there we have it. Okay, this is ready for placing in our sheets to start our drawing set.
That's it for this video. We'll see you in the next one.