Creating and Annotating Concrete and Steel Details in Revit Structure

Hello, and welcome to Revit Structure. Let's get started. In the previous video, we had added poche 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 poche 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 double-click, and now we are 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 the Annotate tab.

Let's go to the Detail panel. Let's select 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 the Rectangle tool, find a corner, and stretch it to the opposite corner. Let's finish it. There's our concrete.

Let's do the same for the wall. Again, go to the Detail panel > Region > Field Region. Again, it's the Concrete Transparent.

Again, we can go to the Rectangle tool and finish placing it here. Very good. There we have it.

Let's finish placing some rebar. Again, let's go to our Detail panel. I'm going to go to the Component tool.

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 No. 3 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 at the top and a reinforcing bar at the bottom. Let's hit the space bar and go to a vertical element.

Let's place a bar on this face and let's place a bar on this face, then press Escape to exit the command. Again, what we want to do is stretch these a little bit, get a little overlap, and create a proper control joint or prevent cracking at that location. 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 No. 3 bar. Let's pick it.

Let's hit the space bar and rotate it to the proper position. Let's place it, then press Escape to exit the command. Set both lengths to two feet. Two and two.

Very good. Now that we've 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 No. 5 and place that.

Again, offices have different standards, so check with your BIM Manager, Design Engineer, or whoever is 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, select Copy, and set it to Multiple. Let's pick a point, stretch it out, and copy them to 12 inches 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.

We've finished placing reinforcing bar in our slab-to-wall detail. Let's finish with some annotation. Let's go to Text.

We again want the two-segment leader. Let's check our text, which is 1/8-inch Arial. Let's make sure our Caps Lock is on.

Let's get started. We'll just call this Concrete Slab per Plan. We'll call this Concrete Wall per Plan and Reinforcing.

Very good. That's pretty much it for this detail. It doesn't require much more until we get into design and determine exactly what the reinforcement is. For now, we've identified it, shown 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 place a couple of new items.

We're going to go to Symbol and place Weld Symbols in this detail. Weld Symbols contain information that we need to address. So let's double-click.

The first thing we want to do is 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 is important to give a clean look to a detail. Let's move on. Let's press Escape to exit that.

Okay, what we want to do now is 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 only have the centerline available. Let's go to Load Family. You can also find Load Family in the Insert tab. So let's Load Family.

Go to Detail Items. Actually, let's go to Annotations. Scroll to the bottom.

Navigate to the Structural folder. Scroll to the bottom, and here we have Weld Symbol. 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.

Press Escape to exit the command, and let's take a look at our Weld Symbol. You see we have information that we need to fill in. So let's pick it.

When we do, the Properties dialog box opens, and we see we have a full list of elements to configure our Weld Symbol. First of all, we do want the weld symbol on each side. So enable the Top Symbol and Bottom Symbol here and here.

Add a tail note, and set it to read "Typical." Set the Weld Length to 0, as we want it to represent a full-length weld. Set the Weld Size to 1/4 inch.

Weld Size is now 1/4 inch. Leave Weld Length blank. Now when we look at our Weld Symbol in the drawing, all the information has been correctly placed.

Okay, let's add a Leader. Again, this is a contextual box, so we'll click Add, and it will show us a Leader. We have options for Symbol Left or Symbol Right.

Currently, the symbol is on the left, which is correct. If we click it, it flips to the right—but we want it on the left, so let's keep it there.

Drag the arrow to where we need it. Right here. Okay, that takes care of this corner.

Let's copy this and place a weld around this edge. Now that we've copied it, exit the command. Select our symbol.

Bring the arrow upward, and let’s adjust the settings since we want a weld on only one side. Select this. Go to the Fillet option and set it to None; we don't need a weld size here.

And we're going to place this weld with the tail note set to read "Typical – Three Sides." Now we've completed all the necessary settings in the Properties dialog box. Let's return to the drawing—and there you have it.

Now you see we don't have an arrowhead on our Leaders. Let's pick it. Go to Edit Type, and here the Leader Arrowhead is set to 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 click OK. 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.

Select Metal Fastenings, and you see we have a number of elements in our Metal Fastenings. Let's scroll 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 several different types.

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

Let's open it, and we see we have a 1/2-inch bolt. Let's use the 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.

Select Load. Again, cancel that. Click OK.

Now it's loaded into our project. Here we have a 1/2-inch bolt, and we notice we also have a 1-inch and a 3/4-inch diameter bolt. Let's pick that.

Scroll down, find the 3/4-inch anchor bolt, and place it right here. Press Escape, and you'll see we have a length here. What we want to do is give it at least a 12-inch embedment into this column.

We have 12 inches plus the length of the bolt above. So let's take a quick measurement. It looks like it's about—let's get a better measurement here—about 2 inches. Okay, so we want a 14-inch bolt.

Go to the Length parameter and set it to 14 inches. Let's move it down into position. Okay, now let's give it a quick dimension.

The centerline of the bolt to the edge of the column—or actually the edge of the plate—is 2 3/4 inches. We're going to want that at 3 inches. So let's pick the bolt.

Now it takes us to a working dimension. Let's change that to 3 inches. Click OK. Let's move this over here.

Now let's mirror this to the other side. Use Mirror > Centerline, 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, go to our Components. Again, let's go to the drop-down. Select Reinforcement.

We want Elevation. Let's make this a No. 5 bar. Let's make it just a little bit heavier.

Stretch that out. Again, go to a section. Go to Component.

Go to Rebar Section. Let's choose a slightly larger bar. Let's take a No. 6 bar.

Let’s make this very prominent since it is a grade beam. Copy these out. Space them at 1'-1", 2'-2", and continue spacing outward.

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

Now let's place our anchor bolts. Here we see a 1/4-inch anchor bolt. We have six, so we’ll place two at the plate and two at the gusset.

Go to Components. Go to Anchor Bolts. Select the side view, 1/4".

Place this one. We can assign it a number, or we can stretch it into position and make it a 2-foot anchor bolt. Let’s mirror it.

Then let's copy it. Let’s apply a dimension. We'll offset this one by 3 inches.

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

Let’s get that into place. Let’s get this aligned. Let’s make this visible.

Again, we want our details to be clean and fully visible with all information. Let’s select this weld and stretch it up slightly.

There we go. And there we have it. Let’s bring this rebar to the front so we don’t have a broken rebar representation.

Click out of that. Use Zoom All. 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.