Revit: Structural Families

Learn how to create custom structural families in Revit 2020, including foundations, framing, and trusses.

Introduction

• Modeling the world of foundations, framing, and trusses
• Using the exercise files

1. Basic Families

• Learning what a family is
• The anatomy of a family
• Understanding parameters
• Looking at formulas
• Understanding reference planes
• Constraining with dimensions
• Creating parameters
• Creating extrusions
• Creating sweeps
• Creating blends
• Cutting voids
• Profile families

2. Foundation Families

• Creating stepped footing families
• Adding a stepped footing family to a wall
• Adding slab depressions
• Adding beam pockets
• Creating concrete bevels
• Creating custom cone top columns
• Making tapered concrete columns
• Creating tilt panels
• Creating tilt wall
• Modeling pour stop families
• Modeling trenches
• Creating shallow footing families

3. Framing and Metals

• Creating lintel openings and headers
• Creating lintel if parameters
• Tagging lintels in the model
• Creating joist bridging annotations
• Creating joist bridging 3D elements
• Creating in-place structural stiffeners
• Creating structural stiffeners using a template
• Creating cross bracing
• Creating a bolt
• Type lookup files

4. Detailing and Annotations

• Creating beam tags
• Creating stepped footing tags
• Creating column tags
• Creating generic annotations

5. Sheets and Printing

• Understanding shared parameters
• Creating a startup sheet
• Creating a view title

6. Trusses

• Using the truss template
• Modeling trusses in place
• Creating purlins
• Modeling truss webs
• Creating line-based trusses

Conclusion

• Next steps