Annotating Foundations and Identifying Structural Elements in Revit Structure

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.

First thing we're going to do is we're going to go to our project browser. We're going to go to level zero which is our foundation level. Pick that twice and there we have it.

Let's zoom all. Now we have elements in our foundation that we need to identify. We have spread footings, we have grade beams, we have columns, and we have continuous footings.

Okay, let's get started. Let's zoom in a little bit and let's take a look at our first grade beam here. Let's pick it.

Let's right click on it. Select all instances visible in this view and as you can see over here in our properties we have four of them. In our properties bar we have the edit type which describes all the properties that our element has.

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So let's pick that and here we have our type properties dialog box. First thing we want to do is we want to give it a type mark which will be referenced in a schedule later on. This one we're going to call gb-1 or grade beam one.

Let's apply it. Let's hit okay. Let's move on to our next grade beam.

Let's pick it. Let's right click. Select all instances visible in this view and again we see we have four and that grade beam is six feet by three feet deep.

Again, let's go to our edit type. Let's pick that. We're going to give this a type mark in our parameters of gb-2 because they are two individual, I'm sorry, gb-2 because they are two individual grade beam types.

Let's hit okay. Very good. Now let's look at our spread footing.

Our first one is 96 × 96 × 48 inches deep. So again, let's go to our edit type. Since 96 inches is eight feet, we're going to call this f8 as it's already marked.

Okay. Now let's go to our exterior footings. Let's right click.

Let's do a select all visible in view and we see we have eight of them. Let's pick our 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. It helps us identify the size of our footing also. And the last but not least is the continuous footings.

Those will be covered in a detail but we do need to show the of the footing in this drawing. So let's start there. Let's zoom in.

Let's go to our annotate tab. Let's pick our align 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, the faces of our footing.

Again, it's three feet wide. Let's pull it out. Align it.

Let's go around and finish here. And the last face here. Okay, that looks good.

Let's zoom on. Now let's identify our grade beams and our footings. Let's escape out of the dimension command.

What we're going to do again, we're going to tag these. So let's go to our tag. We do want the leaders for the spread footings.

We want the leader to have free ends. Let's pick that. Now let's check our foundations, our structural foundations.

We have our structural foundations. We have our foundation dag as a type mark which is correct which is going to be identified by the type mark that we gave it in the properties. Okay, let's get started.

Let's find our first footing. You see here it's identified as an F6, which is correct. And let's finish identifying the rest of our footings.

Okay, go ahead and finish the spread footings. When you come back, 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.

First thing we want to do is pick a column. Again, right click. Let's go to our select all instances visible in view.

Let's pick that. And as you can see, we have 25 columns. What we want to do again is give it a type mark.

Let's go to our edit type in our properties. And as you can see, we've type marked it as a CC1 or concrete column number one. Hit okay.

Let's go ahead and identify our columns. Again, let's go to tag. Let's check our tags.

Make sure that our structural columns are correct. Here we have columns. Our column tag is type mark.

That's what we want. Let's hit okay. Let's start identifying our columns.

Okay, let's go around the building and identify these. Okay, go ahead and continue identifying your columns. And 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 tag.

And in the grade beam case, we don't need a leader. Again, let's check our tags. Foundations type mark.

All set. Start tagging. You notice that it places it at our insertion point.

So, we have to do a little massaging here and move it around a little bit. Now, all of these type marks, again, will be referenced in a schedule that we'll make later on for grade beams, columns, and foundations. Let's finish tagging.

Okay, is that all of our elements? No, we have one here. So, grade beams and all of our grade beams. Very good.

Let's zoom all. Okay, let's identify our slab on grade. Let's find it.

Let's find a coincident joint. Let's pick the walls. There it is right there.

And we have a five-inch concrete slab on grade. So, let's go to our annotate tab. Let's go to our text.

Let's pick our text mode. We want the two segments. We want it top justified and aligned to the left.

Okay, let's place an arrow here. Start here. Let's identify it.

It's a five-inch concrete slab on grade. Escape out of that. Zoom on.

Very good. Now, we're finished annotating our foundation plan. All of the references we've made will be showing up in, again, schedules as we proceed through the videos of making project sheets.

That's it for this video. We'll see you in the next one.