Revit 2019: Essential Training for Structure (Imperial)

Learn how to use Revit 2019 for structural engineering. Find out how to design foundations, add framing and rebar, and more—using examples in imperial units (inches and feet).

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• What's new

1. Setting Up the Project

• Linking architecture
• Creating levels
• Copy monitor
• Adding and setting up structural views
• Creating view templates
• Transferring project standards

2. Grids and Columns

• Adding grids to the model
• Adding steel columns to the model
• Creating column offsets
• Creating a column schedule
• Adding slanted columns
• Attaching columns to steel

3. Foundations

• Adding foundation walls
• Adding wall footings
• Adding piers and pilasters
• Adding isolated footings
• Creating a CMU elevator shaft
• Shaft openings
• Foundation slabs
• Adding step footings
• Tagging a step footing
• Adding a step footing family
• Retaining walls and footings

4. Steel Framing

• Adding perimeter beams
• Adding beam systems
• Modifying beam systems
• Copy paste aligned
• Altering beam elevations
• Adding joist systems
• Tagging framing
• Configuring beam joins

5. Floors and Slabs

• Creating a slab on grade
• Adding a concrete floor with steel decking
• Cantilevering slab edges
• Creating thickened slabs
• Creating slab depressions
• Creating custom decking

6. Reinforcing

• Parallel to face
• Perpendicular to face
• Sketching rebar
• Adding area reinforcing
• View settings
• Adding a rebar coupling
• Adding free-form rebar

7. Steel Brace Frames

• Adding a brace frame elevation
• Adding a brace frame
• Modifying plan view symbology
• Adding brace-frame gussets
• Creating a brace-frame sheet

8. Stairs, Ramps, and Slopes

• Creating stairs
• Adding C shapes to stringers
• Creating ramps
• Sloping slabs
• Sloping framing
• Pitching floors to structure

9. Detailing and Annotating

• Sections and callouts
• Coping
• Adding detail components
• Inserting AutoCAD
• Adding text
• Adding dimensions

10. Schedules and Tagging

• Footing schedules
• Pier schedules
• Creating a pier tag
• Creating a material takeoff

11. Trusses

• Adding Howe trusses
• Attaching trusses to roofs
• Changing truss materials
• Editing the truss bottom chord
• Detailing trusses

12. Project Management

• Phasing
• Keynoting
• Revisions
• Plotting
• File sharing

13. The Steel Tab

• Configuring the connection settings
• Adding a base plate
• Adding a clip angle
• Adding a column support
• Customizing a connection
• Breaking a connection
• Adding a plate and bolts
• Adding welds and symbols
• Adding modifiers
• Adding a miter
• Adding parametric cuts

Conclusion

• Next steps