Revit 2021: Essential Training for Structure (Imperial)

Find out how to use Revit 2021 for structural engineering. Learn to design foundations, add framing and rebar, and plot drawings—using examples in imperial units (inches and feet).

Introduction

• Learning Revit 2021

1. Setting Up the Project

• Linking architecture
• Creating levels
• Copy/Monitor
• Adding and setting up structural views
• Creating view templates

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
• 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 and 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

6. Reinforcing

• Parallel to face
• Perpendicular to face
• Sketching rebar
• Adding area reinforcing
• View settings
• Adding freeform rebar

7. Steel Brace Frames

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

8. Stairs, Ramps, and Slopes

• Creating stairs
• Adding C shapes to stringers
• Creating ramps
• Sloping slabs
• 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
• Customize a connection
• Breaking a connection
• Adding a plate and bolts
• Adding welds and symbols
• Adding modifiers
• Adding a miter
• Adding parametric cuts

14. Precast Concrete

• Setting up the configurations
• Splitting a wall into precast elements
• Adding reinforcement to a precast element
• Creating precast concrete planks
• Creating precast shop drawings

Conclusion

• Next steps