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Revit: Structural Families

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Autodesk Revit Courses Structural Engineering Courses Structural Design Courses Trusses Courses Foundation Design Courses

Course Description

Overview

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

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Eric Wing

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