Overview
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Learn how to create custom structural families in Revit 2020, including foundations, framing, and trusses.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Modeling the world of foundations, framing, and trusses
- Using the exercise files
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Creating beam tags
- Creating stepped footing tags
- Creating column tags
- Creating generic annotations
- Understanding shared parameters
- Creating a startup sheet
- Creating a view title
- Using the truss template
- Modeling trusses in place
- Creating purlins
- Modeling truss webs
- Creating line-based trusses
- Next steps
