Discover the step-by-step process of setting up brace frame elevations in Revit Structure. This article provides a detailed walk-through of how to navigate the software, create and rename elevations, and place brace frames effectively.
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- The article explains how to use the Revit Structure software to set up brace frame elevations, starting with creating an elevation at the location of the braced frame on the plan.
- Various software navigation steps are discussed, such as using the 'create panel' and 'elevation dropdown' to select a framing elevation, and placing brace frames at specific gridline reference points.
- The article also covers how to rename the created brace frames for easy reference, and how to use the software's visibility settings to inspect the 3D model of the brace frames within the building structure.
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Hello and welcome back to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've finished our roof framing, we're going to set up our brace frame elevations.
So let's get started. Let's go to level one. And here we have our level one framing plan that we did earlier.
We have our nine inch concrete slab. Zoom in. We have our columns, concrete, columns, steel.
Okay. Now what we want to do is we want to place a braced frame where we've located them previously on our plans. The way we do this is we need to create an elevation.
We're going to go to our view tab, our create panel, and we're going to go to our elevation dropdown. So let's pick it. You see, we have two options here.
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We have a building elevation, which gives us exterior building elevations, and our framing elevation, which gives us elevations at gridline reference points. We want our framing elevation. And the first thing we want to do is we want to locate our brace frames, which are the core of our building.
And we will hover over one of them and you see it creates a section bubble. This is the view in which we will be looking at our brace frame. As you can see, if you hover on this side, it's above the line.
Over on this side, it's below the line. We want it above the line. So let's pick it.
That's our first elevation. We have another elevation here for a brace frame, elevation here for a brace frame, and elevation here for a brace frame. Okay, let's escape out of that.
Okay, what we want to do at this point in time is we'll pick our elevation. And you see we now have our elevation noted by our gridlines at D and C. Let's get a little better look at it. Let's get it to a scale we can use.
I like quarter inch and bring it to a fine visibility. And let's save our project. Always save your project.
Okay, that gives us our elevation of our frame. Okay, what we want to do is we want to go to our first level. And what we're going to do is go to our structure tab, our structure panel, and we'll go to brace.
So let's pick it. As you can see, it's going to give us a dimension lumber for our brace. Well, let's scroll down.
And we're using hollow structural sections. As you can see, we have an eight by four by one half, which is not what our designer wants us to use. So again, we'll go to edit type.
We'll go to load. We'll go down to structural framing, to steel. And what we want are hollow structural sections.
See, they're square tubes or rectangular tubes. If we wanted round tubing, we'd pick this one. We see we have round tubes, but we are using the square or rectangular tube.
So let's pick it. And by design, our designer has us using a six by six by five eighths at the lower levels. So let's scroll down, find it.
See, we have a lot of selections. We want a six by six by five eighths. And our upper levels are going to be a five by five by one half.
Scroll down. Five by five by one half. There you have them.
Okay, we know which ones we have. Let's hit okay. And we want the six by six by five eighths first.
Let's hit okay. Let's get started. Our program is going to give us intersecting points where we'll start.
And we are using X-braced frames at every other story level. We want to start at our base point at the column, concrete column, steel column intersection, and the midpoint of this beam. Okay, let's escape out of this because what we're going to do is we're going to create a reference plane at the center line of this section.
What that will do, it will give us reference points to set our brace frames. Okay, again, let's go back to brace. We have our six by six by five eighths.
Let's get started. Here, you notice the program clips the end of that brace for us. Okay, so let's go here to the endpoint of this frame.
Okay, from the endpoint of these frames back to this point. And from the end of this point to this point. Okay, let's finish placing them to about the midpoint of this one.
Let's take it from the endpoint of this brace to the midpoint of this beam at the column line. Okay, let's do this one to the endpoint of this one. About the midpoint, the endpoint of this one.
Sometimes we miss and we'll start over again. We'll start from the endpoint, this one again, about the midpoint of this beam line. Set it from the endpoint here.
Sometimes it can be a little bit stubborn, so we have to work it until we can find it or estimate it. There we go, we have it. And let's go to the midpoint of this beam.
Let's go from the endpoint of this one to the midpoint of this beam. The endpoint of this one. Okay, there we have it.
We've set our brace frame at this location. What we can do now is go to the other four or other three locations and set those. We'll get out of this.
We'll go to our next. And as I told you previously, we didn't have a designation for these frames. But now that we've placed a set of frames, we have this dashed line, which lets us know we have a set of brace frames in this building.
So you go ahead and finish out the other three. And when we come back, we'll take a look at what we have. Okay, now that we've finished placing our braces, let's go back and take a look at what we have.
That's X out of this elevation. Take a look at our plan. You notice we have the dashed lines at each of our locations of our brace frames.
Now we know that we have them. Okay, let's take a look at our 3D model. Go in and turn off all of our framing.
Let's take a look. As you can see, if we pick the front, we have the frames in this direction. The side, we have the frames in this direction.
Very good. Okay, let's close our 3D model. First, let's go to our sunglasses.
Go to reset temporary. There you have it. And if you really want to take a good look at them, again, we go to the top view, we can go to our section box.
Pick that. And we can bring a section down into the area that we want to look at three-dimensionally in our frames. There you have it.
There are your frames. Looks good. Okay, what we can do now is we can rename them.
Coming over here to view name. Let's call this BF for Brace Frame 1. Okay, let's close that. You see now it's renamed BF1.
Let's go to this one. We can rename it. Let's open it up.
And again, we go to our view name. Here, let's call this BF2, Brace Frame 2. Let's close that. Let's go here.
And again, we'll call this BF3. And our final one, we'll call this BF4. There you have it.
You've renamed all your frames. You have them located. We can get rid of this reference line.
We can take a look at our upper levels. You notice they are named also accordingly. And we have them shown all the way up to our roof line.
And again, you see the dashed lines are present. We know we have a brace frame there. Let's zoom out.
Very good. That's all for this video. And thank you very much.