Creating and Annotating Concrete and Steel Details in Revit Structure

Hello, welcome to Revit Structure. Let's get started. In the previous video, we had added pocheting or shading to our concrete in our AutoCAD details.

We had placed rebar in our concrete details. Let's move on. Let's take a look at symbols and further finish some pocheting work on this project.

Very good. Let's zoom in on our first detail, which is the imported AutoCAD detail of the first level slab to our basement wall. Let's pick twice and there we are now inside our AutoCAD detail.

Let's add some hatching to it. Let's place our concrete hatch in our detail. Okay, let's go to annotate.

Let's go to detail. Let's pick region. And we see we have here our field region concrete transparent.

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We want it transparent because we have reinforcing bar that we want to place in this and finish it. Very good. Let's get started.

This is easy enough that we can go to our rectangle, find a corner and stretch it to the next corner opposite. Let's finish it. There's our concrete.

Let's do the same for the wall. Again, to detail, region, field region. Again, it's the concrete transparent.

Again, we can go to our rectangle and finish placing it here. Very good. There we have it.

Let's finish placing some rebar. Again, let's go to our detail. I'm going to go to component.

Okay, we have our reinforcing bar section. Let's go to the horizontal and vertical elements first. We want the rebar elevation.

There's the bend. There's elevation. Again, let's use the number three bar.

Again, check your office standard to see what type of look your office manager or BIM manager wants you to have. We're going to place a reinforcing bar top and reinforcing bar bottom. Let's hit space and go to a vertical element.

Let's place a bar in this face and let's place a bar in this face to escape out of that. Again, what we want to do is we want to stretch these a little bit, get a little overlap, create a nice crack joint across here or prevent cracking at that joint. Let's stretch this out to the break line and let's stretch these out to this break line.

You see, now that we're getting used to this, we can move very quickly through these details and finish them out. Let's again go to our detail component. Let's go to our rebar bend.

There it is. Let's go to our number three bar. Let's pick it.

Let's hit space and rotate it to the proper position. Let's place it and let's give it equal lengths to escape out of this of two feet. Two and two.

Very good. Now that we placed our horizontal, vertical, and bent elements, let's place our reinforcing sections in there. Let's go to components.

Again, reinforcing bar. Let's go to reinforcing section here. Let's grab a number five and let's place that.

Again, offices have different standards, so check with your BIM manager or your design engineer or whoever's doing the designing to place elements. Let's copy these at 12 inches on center. Let's pick them.

Let's go to the modify tab, copy, set it to multiple. Let's pick a point, stretch it out, and copy them to one foot on center. Yes, very good.

There's that. Let's make a copy of this one. Copy it.

Let's bring it down about two inches below the top of the wall. Now let's copy it 12 inches on center this way. Very good.

Okay, there we've finished putting reinforcing bar in our slab to wall. Let's finish with some annotation. Let's go to text.

We again want the two segment line. Let's check our text, which is eighth inch aerial. Let's make sure our caps locks is on.

Let's get started. We'll just call this concrete slab per plan. We'll call this our concrete wall per plan and reinforcing.

Very good. That's pretty much it for this detail. It doesn't require a lot until we get into design and figure out just exactly what the reinforcement is, but right now we've identified it, showed some figurative information on it, and we can move on to the next one.

Let's right click and deactivate this view. Let's move on to our next one. Here we have the beam to column detail, and here we're going to have a couple of new items placed.

We're going to go to symbol and actually place weld symbols in this detail. Weld symbols have information unto themselves that we need to look at. So let's double click.

First thing we want to do is we want to identify these, so let's give them some text or annotations. We'll call this steel column per plan and steel beam per plan typical. Very good.

Okay, see we have the tail of the leader at the bottom. Let's go up to our parameters and change that to the top. Let's pick our information.

Let's move that to the top. There you have it. Okay, let's identify our plates.

Again, let's go to text. Let's call this a shear tab, typical, each side. Okay, let's line this up.

And you see we have a line that gives us a consistent edge. Let's slide this back. Very good.

When we're doing details, and again this depends upon your office manager short tails, long tails, having text lined up, that's important to give a clean look to a detail. Let's move on. Let's escape out of that.

Okay, what we want to do is we want to place place weld symbols in our detail. So let's go to symbol in the annotate tab. Let's pick it.

Let's go to the drop down, and here we see we have just the center line. Let's go to load family, and we can also find load family in the insert tab. So let's load family.

Let's go to detail items. Actually, let's go to annotations. Let's go to the bottom.

Let's go to the structural folder. Let's go to the bottom, and here we have weld symbol right here. Let's pick it.

Let's open it and load it into our project. Here we have our weld symbol. Okay, let's place it.

Let's escape out of it, and let's take a look at our weld symbol. You see we have information that we need to fill in in our weld symbol. So let's pick it.

When we do, our property dialog box opens up, and we see we have a whole list of elements to fill out our weld symbol. First of all, we do want our weld symbol each side. So it is top symbol, bottom symbol, here and here.

We have a tail note, and we want to make it typical. And our weld length is zero, because we want it full length. Our weld size is one quarter inch.

Our weld size one quarter inch. Weld length is blank. Now when we come over here and look at our weld symbol, we have all the information placed.

Okay, let's add a leader. Again, this is a contextual box, so we will pick our add, and it shows us a leader. And here we have symbol left or symbol right.

Here we have the symbol on the left, so that's where we want it. If we picked it, our symbol reverses itself, and now we have the symbol to the right. But we want left, so let's pick that.

Let's drag our arrow down to where we need it. Right here. Okay, that takes care of this corner.

Let's copy this, and let's place a weld around this edge. Now that we've copied it, let's get out of the command. Let's grab our symbol.

Let's bring our arrow up, and let's change this, because we only want our weld on one side. So let's pick this. Let's go to fillet, and let's take it to empty, and we don't need a weld size there.

And we're going to place this weld in our tail note typical, three sides. Now we've taken care of all the information in our properties box. Let's go back to the drawing, and there you have it.

Now you see we don't have an arrowhead on our leaders. Let's pick it. Let's go to edit type, and here we have leader arrowhead says none.

We can pick that, and it gives us a number of arrowheads we can pick and use. I like the filled 15 degree. It looks neat.

Let's hit okay. Now we have an arrowhead on the end of our welds. Okay, very good.

Let's deactivate that view, and there very quickly we've completed two details. Go ahead and place information on these other details as you see them, and when we come back, we'll finish this sheet out. Zoom out.

Now that we've finished annotating and placing information on our details, let's finish up just one more thing at the concrete and steel columns. Let's zoom in, and we notice we call out anchor bolts, but we don't have any. Let's go find them, and let's place them.

Okay, let's go to the annotate tab. Again, we'll get into our detail. We'll go to components, and we'll go to edit type.

We'll go to load, and we'll go to detail items. Now, logic would tell us that we would go to concrete to find anchor bolts, but they are actually placed in the metals division with regular bolts, so let's pick metals. Let's go to common work results for metals.

Metal fastenings, and you see we have a number of elements in our metal fastenings. Let's go down to our anchor bolts. We have the top, and we have the side.

We have a J bolt. We have a typical bolt, anchor bolt. We have other different types.

We have carriage bolts. We have expansion bolts, and a number of other things in our division. What we want to do is, we want to pick the anchor bolt, a headed anchor bolt.

Let's open it, and we see we have an inch and a half bolt. Let's do a drop down, and we see we have a number of sizes. Okay, the first one we want to pick, well actually let's load it first.

Let's load. Again, let's cancel that. Let's hit okay.

Now it's loaded into our project. Here we have an inch and a half bolt, and we notice we have an inch, we have a three quarter inch diameter bolt. Let's pick that.

Let's scroll down, find a three quarter inch anchor bolt, and let's place it right here. Let's escape out of that, and you'll see we have a length here. Well what we want to do is, we want to give it at least a 12 inch embedment into this column.

We have 12 inches plus the length of bolt above. So let's take a quick measurement, and we see that it's about, let's get a better measurement here, about two inches. Okay, so we want a 14 inch bolt.

Let's go here, let's go to our length, go to 14 inches. Let's move it down into position. Okay, let's give it a quick dimension.

Center line of bolt to edge of column, or actually edge of plate, is two and three quarter inches. We're going to want that at three inches. So let's pick the bolt.

Now it takes us to a working dimension. Let's make that three inches. Is it okay? Let's move this over here.

Let's mirror this to the other side. Mirror, center line, and there you have it. We have our anchor bolts.

Very good. Let's go finish the other column at the brace frame. Let's double click out of this.

Let's take a look at this. Okay, let's finish this detail. Let's put some rebar in the grade beam.

Okay, so let's go to our components. Again, let's go to our drop down. Let's go to our reinforcement.

We want elevation. Let's make this a number five bar. Let's make it just a little bit heavier.

Stretch that out. Again, let's go to a section. Let's go to component.

Let's go to rebar section. Let's take a little bigger bar. Let's take a number six.

Let's make this very prominent since it is a grade beam. Let's copy these out. Let's give it one foot one, two foot two, and let's just finish it up out here.

Very good. Now let's mirror this because grade beams usually have considerably heavy reinforcing. There we have it.

Let's place our anchor bolts. And here we say we have an inch and a quarter anchor bolt. We have six, so we'll have two at the plate and two at the gusset.

Okay, let's go to components. Let's go to anchor bolts. Right here, side, inch and a quarter.

Let's place this one. And what we can do is give it a number, or we can stretch it into position and make it a two foot anchor bolt. Let's mirror it.

Then let's copy it. Let's give this a dimension. We'll put this one three inches off.

Very good. We're right on target. Let's clean this up a little bit.

Let's get that into there. Let's get this here. Let's get this visible.

Again, we want our details to be clean and visible with all information. Let's take this weld. Let's stretch it up a little bit.

There we go. And there we have it. Let's go ahead and bring this bar to the front so we don't have a broken rebar.

Let's click out of that. Let's zoom all. And now we've got our details finished.

We'll move on to elevations and other information in the next video. That's it for this video. We'll see you in the next one.