Learn how to place details, add rebar, and insert annotations in your Revit Structure project. This comprehensive guide walks through the process of working with a foundation sheet detail, placing reinforcing steel, and utilizing the Annotate tab and Components to populate the details for a foundation, wall, and slab.
Key Insights
- Placing details in a Revit Structure project involves working directly within the detail, adding rebar or reinforcing steel to foundations, walls, and slabs, and using the Annotate tab and the Detail panel to add components from the Imperial Library.
- Revit Structure enables users to choose from various rebar sizes to populate their project details. By selecting the number 5 rebar, for example, users can place the rebar in a slab and copy it multiple times at a designer-specified distance.
- Details can be annotated using two-segment lines, adding text for elements such as concrete slabs, walls, and footings. Revit Structure also allows for dimensioning and provides the ability to replace text with specific plan details if needed.
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Hello, welcome to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've placed details in our project, let's take a look at placing information in our details.
Let's zoom in on our foundation sheet to our first detail. Here we have our first AutoCAD detail that we've placed. Now we're going to add rebar and text or annotation to this detail.
Let's pick the detail twice and open it. If you notice, we have the detail and everything else is grayed out around it, so now we're working specifically in our detail. First thing we want to do is we want to place rebar or reinforcing steel in our foundations, wall, and slab.
So let's go to the Annotate tab, the Detail panel, and Components. Let's pick Components, and you notice we have a concrete block as a component. What we can do now is we can go to Edit Type and go to Load, and that brings up our Imperial Library where we want to go to Detail Items.
This provides components and information for our detail. We don't want to go down to the structural information here because this is all 3D information for our model. Detail items pertain to the 2D drawing elements in our working details.
So let's pick Detail Items, and here we have the divisions as set out in the Master Spec Book. We want to go to Concrete. It's Division 3. We want to go to Reinforcing Steel.
You see we have other elements in here, but what we want to do is place Reinforcing Steel in it. So let's pick it twice. Let's open it, and here we see we have different elements that we can use.
What we want to use is Rebar Bend or Bent Rebar as the diagram shows. Let's open that, and we also want to load our Rebar or Reinforcing Steel that is straight, which is in elevation. Also, we want to load our section because when we cut the detail, we will see the section of the rebar and note it.
Let's again go to Reinforcing Steel, pick that, and go to Bar Section, and as you can see in the diagram, it is just the end cut of the rebar. Let's open it, and you see when we load it, we have a number 10 here, but if we go to the drop down, we have different sizes, number 3 through number 10. These are the rebar sizes we will need to populate our details.
Let's go with the number 5. Let's hit OK. What we want to do is we want to place the rebar in our slab, so we'll start here, and depending upon the design, we'll copy it multiple times at a distance as specified by our designer. At this point in time, we'll go with one foot, and when we copy multiple, we can just put in a number, one foot.
It drops it at one foot, off, another foot. Let's escape out of that. Now we want to place in horizontal or the rebar elevation.
We want to do it vertically and horizontally. So again, let's go to our component. You see we have Rebar Section.
Let's go to the drop down now. You see we have separate elements here. Let's scroll up, and we see we have Rebar Elevation.
We'll want to use number 3 because if we get it too heavy, it will just make a big blob on our drawing, and we don't want that. We want a nice clear definition of what we're trying to accomplish. So let's place our elevation.
Let's escape out of that. Now you see if we pick it, we have a length we can put on it, or we can drag it to our break line and place it. What we can do now is either we can copy this, or go back to component, pick it again, and you see it defaults to the previous component.
Now the thing about Revit is if you hit the space bar, it will rotate that bar by 90 degrees. Space, space, space, space, space, and here we have it in the vertical mode. Okay, what we want to do is we want to place a bar here, and we have two bars.
Since this is a 12 inch wall, we'll have two bars, and again we'll stretch it up to the break line. Now what we want to do is we want to dowel out of the wall into the slab and into the foundation. We'll place some horizontal rebar in a moment.
Right now we want to work through the elements we're going to be using. So again we'll go to components. We'll again go to the drop down, and since we've already previously loaded our bent bars, we can scroll up and see where it reinforcing bends.
Okay, let's pick again a number three. We want a nice thin bar, and now here we have our bar, but it looks a uniform length and width to escape out of that. What Revit gives us in this bar is dimensional elements to change the length of this bar because we can't stretch this bar up or out.
We'll take a look at this number. We'll give it a foot, and it's trial and error, so we'll give this bar a foot. We'll change this to three feet.
There you have your dowel bar. Let's move it into position. Now the easiest thing to do is mirror this into your next position.
There you have your two bars. Let's move this one out a little bit, get it closer to the face. Let's move this one over.
It's not an exact science, but you'll get better at placing elements in your drawings as you work with Revit. Okay, since we now have vertical reinforcing and horizontal in the slab, let's place some more section bars in our drawing. Let's go again to component.
Let's go to the drop down. Let's scroll down to rebar section. Let's take a number five.
It gives us the best profile. Again, talk to your designer. He may want to see something different.
Every office is different. Coordinate, and you'll get a good result. So they're replaced too.
To escape out of that, let's copy them. In this case, we're going to copy them at 16 inches on center. So let's go to copy, multiple.
Let's pick a place, drag it up, and then go 16 inches, and 16 more. There we go. You'll see it's outside of the window that we need, so let's just delete those and leave what we have.
As you can see, we've populated our wall with reinforcing both dowel bars, face bars, and horizontal bars. Now, we'll want to put a few more bars in the bottom of the footing. So the easiest thing to do is just copy our existing members.
Remember, if you don't have to draw it, don't. Just copy it. It's quicker and easier.
Then make adjustments. Let's place this bar. Let's drag this bar in so they're uniform end to end.
Let's move our section bars up and over so they're in the center and visible. And there we have it. We now have a reinforced wall, slab, and footing.
Let's get one more dowel bar from this wall into this slab. So let's copy this bar. Let's pick it, rotate it, and let's move it into position.
And there you have it. We've placed reinforcement into our detail. Now, what we want to do is we want to put some annotations on this.
So let's go to our text. We want the two-segment line, so let's pick that. We want the elevation at the top right, alignment to the left.
Let's call this concrete slab on grade. Let's call this concrete wall. Let's call this our footing per plan.
Now, when we have information that's outside of our text box or outside of our drawing box, we can shrink it to fit and make it look like we want it there. Let's grab a couple of dimensions while we're here. Let's go to our dimension line, pick the first one, second one.
And what we're going to do is we're going to change some of the notation. We'll want to pick a dimension here to here to here, and we'll leave that because we want this noted in this detail. But this, being a continuous footing, may vary per plan.
We'll pick the dimension, then we'll pick the text information, and it gives us a dimension text dialog box. You see we have different variables here. We can replace the text with per plan, and this will replace the actual text value.
Is it okay? And there you have it. We've notated our detail. We can also add hatching if we wish to.
We will in a further segment later on. But this will show you the basics of how to place reinforcement and text and dimensions in a detail. That's it for this video.
We'll see you in the next one.