Discover the process of annotating and identifying individual elements of a building's foundation using Revit Structure. This detailed guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to label and classify different parts of the foundation, including spread footings, grade beams, columns, and continuous footings.
Key Insights
- The article instructs on how to annotate and identify different components of a foundation plan in Revit Structure, including grade beams, columns, and footings. This involves assigning type marks that can be referenced in a schedule later.
- Identifying these components involves using the edit type in the properties bar, giving each component a unique type mark such as gb-1 for grade beams, and f8 for footings measuring eight feet. These type marks help distinguish between the different components in the foundation plan.
- The article also outlines the steps to annotate and identify a slab on grade. This involves finding a coincident joint, picking the walls, and denoting the slab as a five-inch concrete slab on grade. The slab is then marked using the annotate tab and the text mode.
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Hello, and welcome back to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've finished annotating our high roof, or placing notations describing the elements of our high roof, let's go back to the foundation.
The first thing we’re going to do is go to our Project Browser. We’re going to go to Level Zero, which is our foundation level. Double-click it, and there we have it.
Let’s use Zoom All. Now we have elements in our foundation that we need to identify. We have Spread Footings, Grade Beams, Columns, and Continuous Footings.
Okay, let's get started. Let's zoom in a little bit and take a look at our first Grade Beam here. Let's pick it.
Right-click on it. Select All Instances > Visible in View. As you can see over here in our Properties, we have four of them. In our Properties bar, we have the Edit Type option, which describes all the properties that our element has.
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Select that, and here we have our Type Properties dialog box. The first thing we want to do is assign it a Type Mark, which will be referenced in a schedule later on. This one we're going to call GB-1 (Grade Beam 1).
Click Apply. Click OK. Let's move on to our next Grade Beam.
Let's pick it. Right-click. Select All Instances > Visible in View. Again, we see we have four, and that Grade Beam is six feet wide by three feet deep.
Again, go to Edit Type. Select that. We're going to assign a Type Mark in our parameters as GB-2, because these are two individual—I'm sorry—GB-2 because they are two individual Grade Beam types.
Click OK. Very good. Now let's look at our Spread Footing.
Our first one is 96 × 96 × 48 inches deep. So again, go to Edit Type. Since 96 inches is eight feet, we're going to call this F-8, as it's already marked.
Okay. Now let's go to our exterior footings. Right-click.
Let’s do a Select All Instances > Visible in View, and we see we have eight of them. Let’s pick Edit Type, and we can see that they are 72 inches, which is six feet. We are going to call this F-6.
Very good. This helps us identify the size of our footing as well. And last but not least are the Continuous Footings.
Those will be covered in a detail drawing, but we do need to show the width of the footing in this drawing. So let’s start there. Let’s zoom in.
Go to the Annotate tab. Select Aligned Dimension and let’s dimension our footing. We see it's three feet wide.
We can pull it out and place it. Let’s go around the building and do this. Again, dimension the faces of our footing.
Once more, it’s three feet wide. Pull it out. Align it.
Let’s go around and finish here. And the last face here. Okay, that looks good.
Let’s use Zoom All. Now let’s identify our Grade Beams and our Footings. Press Escape to exit the dimension command.
We’re going to tag these next. So go to the Tag tool. We do want leaders for the Spread Footings.
Set the leader style to Free Ends. Let’s select that. Now let’s check our Structural Foundations.
We have our Structural Foundations category. The foundation tag is set to Type Mark, which is correct and will be identified by the Type Mark we assigned in the Properties. Okay, let’s get started.
Let’s find our first footing. You see here it's identified as F-6, which is correct. Let’s finish identifying the rest of our footings.
Okay, go ahead and finish tagging the Spread Footings. When you return, we’re going to take a look at the Columns. Okay, now that we’ve finished identifying our Spread Footings, let’s take a look at the Columns.
The first thing we want to do is pick a column. Again, right-click. Let’s go to Select All Instances > Visible in View.
Select that. As you can see, we have 25 columns. What we want to do again is assign a Type Mark.
Go to Edit Type in Properties. As you can see, we’ve Type Marked it as CC1 (Concrete Column 1). Click OK.
Let’s go ahead and identify our columns. Again, go to the Tag tool. Let’s check our tags.
Make sure that our Structural Columns are correct. Here we have columns. Our column tag is set to Type Mark.
That's what we want. Click OK. Let's start identifying our columns.
Okay, let's go around the building and identify these. Go ahead and continue identifying your columns. When you come back, we'll take a look at the Grade Beams.
Now that we've finished identifying our columns, let's finish with our Grade Beams and our Slab on Grade. Let's zoom in. Again, we're going to go to the Tag tool.
In the Grade Beam case, we don't need a leader. Again, let's check our tags. Foundations are tagged by Type Mark.
All set. Start tagging. You'll notice that it places the tag at the insertion point by default.
So, we have to do a little massaging here and move it around slightly. All of these Type Marks will be referenced in a schedule that we'll create later for Grade Beams, Columns, and Foundations. Let's finish tagging.
Okay, is that all of our elements? No, we have one more here. Let's finish tagging all of our Grade Beams. Very good.
Let’s use Zoom All. Okay, let's identify our Slab on Grade. Let’s locate it.
Let’s find a coincident joint. Select the walls. There it is right there.
We have a 5-inch concrete Slab on Grade. So, go to the Annotate tab. Go to Text.
Select the Text tool. We want a two-segment leader. Set it to be Top justified and Left aligned.
Okay, let’s place an arrow here. Start here. Let’s identify it.
“5-inch concrete Slab on Grade.” Press Escape to exit. Use Zoom All.
Very good. We’ve now finished annotating our foundation plan. All of the references we’ve made will appear in schedules as we continue creating project sheets in the following videos.
That's it for this video. We'll see you in the next one.