Gain practical knowledge on using Revit Structure to build your architectural models. The article provides step-by-step instructions on how to place main beam systems, frame openings, modify beam sizes, and check if beams have been placed correctly using the 3D snapping tool.
Key Insights
- The article offers a detailed guide on how to construct a full architectural model using Revit Structure. It covers everything from placing main beam systems to framing openings such as stair access to the roof.
- It stresses the importance of the 3D snapping tool in Revit. This tool allows you to automatically slope beams to match the elevation of other beams in the vertical direction, ensuring accurate placement and alignment of all structural elements.
- Advice on how to correct and adjust beam sizes and placements is also provided. For instance, the author demonstrates how to change a beam to a different size, like the three and one eighth by 12 inch glue lamp, through the properties dropdown menu.
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Hello, welcome back to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've placed our main beam systems, let's go in and frame our openings, the stair access to the roof.
What we will need is a beam. So let's go to structure panel. Let's go to beam.
Let's pick that. And again, we want the five and one eighth by 16 and a half inch glue lamp for this edge. Start here to here.
And now we can place this edge here to here. Again, we have the slightly off axis, not to worry. What we're going to do now is we're going to change this to the three and one eighth by 12 inch glue lamp.
Let's pick it. Let's go to properties, drop down, three and one eighth. There you have the change.
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That one's framed. Let's move on to our elevator. Again, what we want to do is we want to put the five one eighth inch glue lamp beam almost center, but close here to frame that elevator.
Let's escape and across this face. This is going to be for the elevator overrun and across this face. Escape out of that.
Now that we have our framing around our openings, let's do our typical floor framing. Again, we want the five and one eighth inch beam by 16 and a half at the midpoint of our beams. So let's place those.
Again, our joists will span this length, so we do not need one here, but let's place one here. And go down and finish the rest of our system here. Again, as you notice up in our status bar, we have our 3D snapping on.
What this does, it references and slopes our beams automatically to the elevation of the beams in the vertical direction. Oops, looks like we forgot to place one here, so let's go back to our 16 and three quarter by 16 and a half. Finish out our framing here.
And go back to our five one eighth by 16 and a half beam. Finish placing them in this direction. Let's escape out of that.
Again, let's take a quick reference with our section to make sure that our intermediate beams have been placed properly. There you have it. Again, the 3D snapping works to get us to our elevation points of the given girders.
Okay, let's finish this up. Let's place our floor system again. Let's go to structure tab.
Let's go to structure panel. Let's go to beam system. Now, in this case, we have a shallower joist type, so we want to pick the two inch by 10 inch joist centered.
Again, it's a fixed distance of 16 inches on center. Let's turn our tag on placement off. Okay, let's start placing.
Again, you see when we touch our vertical member, it shows us the placement of our joist as it will be placed in the plant. Okay, let's continue placing. And again, we have our, whoa, wait a minute.
We didn't turn our 3D snapping on. Let's go back. Let's undo that.
Okay, we still have our two by 10 joists on center with the fixed distance. Let's turn our 3D snapping on because we want it to snap to the elevation of our sloped girders. Again, our elevation, we want to set it zero.
We've checked all of our parameters. Let's get started again. Let's continue.
Okay, in this case, it's showing us it's going to fill this whole area with joists. We'll come back to that. Okay, continue placing the areas on your own.
And when we come back, we'll look at this area up here. Okay, now let's go back and take a look at the areas that we didn't frame using a beam system around the stairwell and the elevator. Let's start at the stairwell.
Okay, what we want to do is we want to go to our structure panel, pick our beam, and we find that we have our joists that we want for our roof joists. So let's check our parameters. Set as a joist.
Our offset value is zero. It's where we want it. We have our structural uses as a joist and we have our 3D snapping on.
That's important because we want it to match the slope of our beams. So let's get started here. We have our tag placement off.
We don't need that at this point in time. Let's get started placing them. Sometimes we have to hand place information because the system won't give us a clean line to work with so that our beam system works.
But we can take care of this by hand. Just a little effort. We can make it good.
And using the 3D snapping, it'll match the elevation of our sloped beams. This takes a little bit of time. Sometimes it's the most efficient way that it will happen.
Place the last one here. Okay, let's place this area now. And it's nice that the program gives us a starting point, which is the end point of the previous beam that we placed.
We notice our elevations are a little different because we're sloping across this line. Okay, we finished framing that. Let's escape out of this.
And let's take a look at a section through our beams. Okay, we find that we have one little anomaly here of a beam because it was a reaction to the existing joist that's framing our stair. Let's go back in and fix it.
What we'll do is we'll go here and we'll pick the elevation on this beam. Do a Control-C, copy it, and we'll paste it into this end point with a Control-V. Okay, now let's take a look at this end.
We've got this elevation. Let's see what we have on this end. Let's unpin it.
Okay. Looks like we have the same elevation on this end and the same elevation on this end. So, let's take a look at our section again.
Escape. Okay, there we have it. We have a uniform slope to our joist that matches our roof line that our architectural LinkedIn model gave us.
Let's go back and let's finish the other area around the elevator. Again, we want to make sure that we go to our structure panel, our beam tool. We have our correct element that we want to work with.
Make sure that our parameters are correct, and they are. Let's get started. Finish this out very quickly.
Escape out of that. Let's go ahead and grab our detail again. Let's reference our opening area, and we can make this an active bubble by picking this little circle here and changing the end point of our section.
Let's pick it. Let's zoom in, and there we have it. Evenly sloped joists that match our roof line around the elevator area.
Okay, let's get out of this detail. We can erase this detail now. We don't need it anymore as a reference.
Delete it. View section 1 will be deleted. Okay, let's zoom out, and there you have it.
We finished framing our roof system, and that's it for this video. We'll see you in the next one.