Autodesk Revit for Structural Engineers

Emmanuel K Maenda

Introduction

Having successfully completed Revit Architecture Essentials(or any entry level knowledge of Revit), this tutorial focuses on how to
create a structural model with structure elements such as foundations, columns, beams, floors,roofs and trusses.

Revit is the Autodesk BIM solution for Architects, Structural and MEP Engineers, therefore has tools for all those disciplines, thus
we will only focus on Structure specific tools.

We will also look at how to collaborate with Architects who use Autodesk Revit, how we can create structural models out of the
Architecture model

This training is compatible with Autodesk Revit 2015 R2 or higher versions (2016 and/or 2017) as the user interface and key
features outlined on this tutorials are for that.

In this training you learn how to:

1. Import CAD files and reusing the geometry as your reference in creating Basic Revit Structural elements
2. Define levels and grids
3. Create a basic concrete frame structure
4. Create a basic steel frame structure with added features such as rafters, purlins and bracing
5. Link a Revit Architecture model to create a structure model
6. Perform model coordination if there is an update to the architectural model
7. Draw different types of Reinforcement in Revit Structure (Path and Area Reinforcement)
8. Create Structural specific schedules
9. Preparation of views for documentation and Printing

Class files are found on the folder name Revit Structure Class Files on the disk/s provided. You can copy and paste them in your
Documents Folder in your workstations for better workflow.

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 User Interface

Let’s get refreshed in some of the features you will (always) use any time in Revit. Knowledge in these terms makes
the usage(and learning) of Revit pretty easy
Quick
Access
Toobar Contextual Ribbon Tab

Options Bar

Properties
Palette Project Browser

View
Controls
Bar

Status Bar

1. Quick Access Toolbar-Add a frequently used command as a shortcut

2. Contextual Ribbon Tabs- Only dsisplay when a command is active, or when an element is selected. You might have
realized when the green ribbon tab is visible on the ribbon, no other command is available until you press ESC to exit
that command.
3. Options Bar-When an object is selected/when certain commands are on,it displays different content depending on the
command/element
4. Properties- Shows instance parameters of a selected object. By default it displays parameters of the view in which you are
on
5. Project Browser- The central manager for all the aspects of your Revit Project. Use it to Navigate to
Plans/elevations/sections/3D Views/Sheets/Schedules
6. View Controls Bar- Adjust view styles, add different effects like shadows/sun path/hide/Display hidden elements etc
7. (Drawing) Status Bar- The status bar, in addition to the tooltips that display when you hover mouse on a command, gives
you a hint on what to do with a selected command.

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Start a Revit Structural Project

Here we start from a default Revit Structure Template.(Structural Analysis Default.rte) found on the default template folder in Revit.

Internet connection is needed when installing Revit so that all the required templates and component libraries are downloaded
from the online Autodesk Server.

Here is how you start. On the Revit Dashboard, click on the Structural Template shortcut

or you can also browse for it on the application button

The Location of the template(if you have done a proper installation of Revit) is found on C/Program
Data/Autodesk/RVT2016/Templates/US Metric/Structural Analysis Default.rte as shown below

You should be able to have opened a new project.

Program Data- Normally a hidden folder you can always toggle its visibility on windows explorer

US Metric/UK content can always be configured during installation. Visit http://knowledge.autodesk.com for more info

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Create a Revit Structure Model

In this session, you learn how to import or link to files from different drawing programs. The imported file is used as a
background template for creating the structural elements of the model.
Dataset: Hotel-Lobby-Floor Plan.dwg
You will first Specify new levels that will host the upper floors and other structural elements.

Create levels
Navigate to any elevation view:

From the Structure Tab>Datum Panel>click Level and create levels as descibed Below

1. Change Level 2 elevation to 4000

2. Create Level 3 to Level 8, each at 3600mm floor-floor height. Create a level below Level 1, 2500 below Level 1, that will
be our foundation level

3. Rename the Levels as following:

Level 1- 00 Ground Floor Level
Level 2- 01 Mezzanine Level
Level 3- 02 first Floor Level
Level 4- 03-Second Floor Level
Level 5- 04 Third Floor Level
Level 6- 05 Fourth floor Level
Level 7- 06 Sixth floor Level
Level 8- 07 Roof Level

And Lastly Level 9- 00 Foundation Level

4. Save your Project as Revit Structure Training _(Your Name)

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Import a CAD File

In this section, we import a CAD file into Revit and see how we can use the imported geometry to create Revit Elements.

1. On the Project Browser>Views(all)>Structural Plans, Double click to open 00 Ground Floor Level. You notice that it is
in bold.

2. On the Insert tab>Import CAD Navigate to your Class files Revit Structure folder>
select Hotel-Lobby-Floor-Plan.dwg

On the Above dialog box specify the following options are set:
 Layers/Levels-All
 Import Units- Millimetres
 Positioning- Auto- Center to center
 Place at- 00 Ground Level
3. Your imported CAD drawing should be at the center of the drawing Canvas. You can type ZF or ZE to see the
drawing
4. Select the imported CAD Drawing. On the Modify Panel>Pin. This prevents accidental deletion or movement

Adjust the visibility of the CAD file by going to the View Tab,Graphics Panel>Visibility/Graphics>Under the Imported
Categories tab,beside Hotel-Lobby-Floor plan.dwg, make it halftone by placing a tick mark on the Halftone column

5. Save your work

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Adding Structural Grids

Here we create structural grids from the existing CAD Geometry.

1. Navigate to 00- Ground Level. On the Structure Tab,Datum Panel>Grid On the Modify/Place Grid Tab, click

pick lines
2. Start with the vertical lines on left hand side grid line going to the right (and make sure you click once), your grid lines
named from 1 to 10
3. Repeat the same procedure with the horizontal grids, starting with the lower one going up. You will start by renaming
the first horizontal grid 11 on the lower(south) end as A. As you pick grid line on the upper side, you notice they are
named as B, C, D and E in that order.
4. Hide the Visibility of the CAD file by selecting the CAD File in the canvas, RMC. From the shortcut menu>Hide in
View>Elements
5. Your completed exercise should be as shown.

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Adding Foundations

In this activity, we place foundations that are going to support the columns and beams above to transmit load from the top down

1. Activate 00 Foundation View

2. On the Structure Tab>Foundation Panel>Isolated Foundations

Here on, we are going to create three types (sizes) of foundations. We now have to create a new family type from the
existing foundation types.

3. On the contextual ribbon tab, Navigate to the Properties Palette, click Edit Type
4. On the Type Properties Dialog, click Duplicate> Give it the following Name B1
5. On the type parameters, give the following Dimensions: Width-2700, Length-2700, Thickness-300
6. Place the New B1 Type Foundation along Grid intersections B3,B4,B5……B10 and along E3, E4, E5…..E10 as shown

Activity

Create the following new Bases

 B2- Size 2200x2200x200mm to be placed along grid intersections C1, A1, A2, A3…….A10, B1,B2,
 B3- Size 3800x3800x500mm to be placed as the lift wall foundation

Completed Exercise

Save your Work

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Adding Columns

Here on we add Structural columns to our model of which are going to be supported by the foundations

1. Navigate to the foundation level

Structure Tab, structure panel>Column,

2. On the Type Selector, Select Concrete Rectangular Column 450x600 and on the options Bar, make
sure you choose Height to 00 Ground Floor

this constrains the column height to 00

Ground floor level
3. On the Ribbon, Select At Grids and select the grid intersections at the upper parts., then click the green “finish” button.
4. Repeat the same procedure with the foundations at Grid line B
5. For the remaining foundations, you can specify the 300x450 type column and add the columns.
6. This should be your completed exercise

Activity

 Add Columns type 300x450mm on each level going up to roof level. Remember that it is inaccurate to specify columns
going all the way to the upper level(say, foundation, past 1st..2nd…nth floor) to Roof level. Columns are specified at each
level as failure to do so may have serious issues with the analytical model. Your completed model should be as shown
below:

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Adding Floor Slabs

Here we are going to add slabs to our building model, after which you are going to specify material and use the imported CAD
file to draw the outline of the slabs on the ground level going up.

You learn how to copy/paste an individual element aligned to different levels and

1. Navigate to 00 Ground level plan view. Ensure that the CAD file is visible. Check (Visibility/Graphics overrides)

2. On the Structure tab>Structure Panel, Click Floor

3. Here we are going to create a 300mm Thick concrete slab for the ground floor. On the Type Properties> Edit Type

and on the Type Properties Dialog box, click Duplicate( Since we are creating a new family

type for use in our project)

4. Give it the name “300mm Concrete Floor Slab”

5. On the same Type Properties dialog box, Structure, click Edit

6. On the Edit Assembly Dialog box, you have to just change the Material Parameter that is “By Category” to “Concrete-Cast
in Place Concrete- 35Mpa” Click OK out of both dialogs when
complete.

7. On the Create floor Boundary Ribbon click Pick lines and pick the green outer lines
of the CAD Drawing. Use the tab key to select chains of lines.(faster way of working)
8. Use the Modify tools like Trim/Extend to corner to complete the sketch of the floor.
9. Your completed sketch should be as follows. Click the Green Tick once completed

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 10. Navigate to the 3D View to see your completed floor element

Add Floor to the upper levels.

11. Navigate to 01 Mezzanine Floor. You can set the underlay of the view to 00 Ground Floor at the properties palette . That

way you are able to see the CAD file that you attached to the Ground floor level.
12. Structure tab>Structure Panel>Floor: Structural> Repeat the Procedures 7 to 9 only this time you include the small
balconies, and a slight modification to the south side of the plan as shown. Click Finish edit Sketch to complete the
exercise.

13. From here on we are going to copy the new Mezzanine floor geometry to the other upper floor levels( Since it is similar
except for the roof level.

14. Select the newly drawn mezzanine floor, on the Modify Floors>Clipboard Panel>Copy to Clipboard

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 Then on the Paste Dropdown, select Aligned to Selected Levels
15. On the Select Levels, select the first to fifth floor excluding the roof level.Use the CTRL key to select the upper levels as

shown
16. Repeat Steps 14 and 15 to copy the Ground floor sketch to the roof level. Your completed model should be as shown

17. Save your Work.

Next up we draw foundation walls and lift walls..

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Adding Walls and Wall Foundations

Here on we draw walls for the foundation as well as draw the lift walls that will go all the way up to the roof level.

1. Navigate to the Ground level. Set the underlay to be Ground level to be able to view the CAD File on the Ground level.

2. On the Structure Tab, Structure panel>Wall: Structural

3. On the Type Properties, type selector drop down, Create the wall type “Retaining- 200mm Concrete”(refer to Edit Type
Instructions above)
4. On the Options Bar, Depth=00 Foundation Level; Location Line Finish face Exterior
5. Use Pick Lines to select the green line sections all around the perimeter

Adding Wall Foundations

6. On the foundation Walls we have just added, you are going to add foundations to those walls.
7. On the Foundation Panel on the Structure tab, select Wall foundation.
8. In the type selector, select Bearing footing 600x300x300 and pick all walls along the perimeter of the wall.
Your Completed Foundation plan view should be as shown below. Change the visual style to have a clear picture.

Add the lift shaft wall.

9. Activate 00 Ground floor View. Draw a wall on the western part of the plan, On the options bar ,depth=00 Foundation
View; Wall Type, use Retaining- 200 mm Concrete; location line- Wall Centerline, draw from the intersection of Grid 2d to
3c as shown

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 10. Select the chain of walls drawn. On the Properties palette, specify Top Constraint to 07 Roof Level

11. Your Completed Model should be as follows.

Next up, We are going to define wall openings and floor openings to our structure model

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Wall openings

1. Activate 00 Ground floor View

2. On the structure Tab>Opening Panel>Wall Opening select the lift wall on the south, draw the
opening from the upper left to the lower right side; length of the opening as 2400mm.

3. Open the 3D View and adjust the size of the opening by adjusting the blue shape handles.

4. Copy the Opening aligned to the upper levels Select the opening, on the clipboard panel,copy to clipboard>Paste
Aligned to selected levels. Save your work.

Wall openings completed

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Floor (shaft) openings

1. Activate 00 Ground floor level.

2. Structure tab>Opening Panel> Wall Opening

3. On the Properties Palette Under constraints, set the base constraint to 00 Foundation Level; top constraint to 07 Roof

Level
4. Draw the opening at the inner part of the lift shaft walls. Click Finish Sketch once complete.
5. Repeat the activity by adding other openings on the eastern part of the plan, where stair flights are going to be located.
Your completed exercise should look as follows(with the three shaft openings)

Save your Work

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Adding Structural Framing(Beams)

Here on we are going to add beams that will complete our concrete structure model.

1. Activate 01 Mezzanine Floor Level

2. On the Structure Tab>Structure Panel>Beam On the Properties Palette, select the 300x600mm type

On the options bar ensure you place a tick mark on the Chain option and draw continuous beams across
the columns as shown below. You can hide the imported CAD File for clarity by going to Visibility/Graphics overrides.

3. Copy paste the beams you have just drawn along the selected levels. Pick a beam, RMC and on the shortcut menu, select

all instances>Visible in the View. This now selects all the beam types in that view. Now copy paste the
beams all through to the roof(Refer to pg. 10 and 11 just incase you want to remember how to copy paste along
selected levels) remember to make modifications to the roof beams to extend so that they support the curved parts of
the slab( Hint: Trim/Extend Multiple Element)

Your Completed Concrete Structure.!

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Adding Stairs

Navigate to the 00 Ground Floor Level. We are now going to add concrete type of stairs to the building structure to both the
western and the eastern part of the building.

1. On the Architecture Tab>Circulation Panel>Stair>Stair by component

2. From the Properties palette, Type Selector drop down,select the Cast in Place, Monolithic Stair

3. On the options bar, adjust the : Location Line as Run Center; Actual run width as 1200
4. We are going to draw stairs of 20 risers, remember that our floor to floor height from ground to mezzanine level is
4000mm. On the Properties Palette, set the Desired number of risers to 20 and leave the Actual tread Depth as 280
(ignore the warning that comes up by clicking OK)

5. On the Drawing Canvas, we are going to use the underlying CAD drawing as our reference. Click to start from the first
flight on the south side, making sure you have 10 risers on the first flight

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 6. Now you start drawing the second flight of stairs starting from the upper right hand side completing the whole flight of
stairs. You notice that the landing is automatically created. You can now adjust the size of the landing by manipulating
the shape handles to properly fit the space provided by the stair.

7. To complete the stair sketch click on the Finish Edit Mode Navigate to the 3D View. You notice
that the stair is not visible. For some reason using the structural template we used to create our project, the stairs are
hidden. Unhide the visibility of the stairs by going to the Visibility/Graphics Overrides( You can also type VG on your
keyboard) Turn on the visibility of the stairs by scrolling down under the Model Categories Tab and put a tick mark on
Stairs

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 8. You should now see the stairs in 3D

9. Navigate to 01 Mezzanine Level. Keep in mind that you now have a uniform floor to floor height of 3600 going on all
the way up to 07 Roof Level. Draw the next flight of stairs from 01 Mezzanine to 02 First floor. This time, set the
Multistory Top Level to 07 Roof Level( to have the stair flights drawn all the way to the roof level).

10. You should now be able to see all the stair flights as shown below. Complete modeling the stairs on the eastern part of
the building.

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Steel Framing Essentials.

This section covers the fundamentals of creating a basic steel frame in Autodesk Revit Structure. Here on we going to create a
steel frame/s on the roof level of the structure.

This section will cover the following:

a) Steel Columns
b) Rafter Beams
c) Creation and using of reference planes
d) Adding Purlins(Loading particular steel sections from an installed library)

Let’s Get started.

1. Create a new Level 2700mm above 07 Roof Level and rename it to 08 Upper Roof Level. We are going to start by
adding steel columns going up from 07 Roof Level to 08 Upper roof Level

2. On the Structure Tab,Structure Panel> Column. On the Properties Palette, select Universal Column 254x254x73 UC.
Remember to adjust the options bar to set to Height, 08 Upper Roof Level.

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 3. Click on at Grids Place them on the middle grid intersections and select the middle grids as shown.
Click Finish once complete.

4. Your columns should be as shown below

5. Navigate to 08 Upper Roof Level. Here you are going to draw two Steel beams each to intersect at the middle of the
span. Draw steel beam Type 254x102x28 UB starting from one column and end it at the centre of the span between
those two columns. Your result should be as shown.

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 6. Next up, we are going to adjust the steel beam’s Instance parameters in order to have a pitched profile. Select the two
beams and on the Properties Palette, under Constraints, change the End Level Offset to 1000. Your result should be as
follows:

7. On the Modify Tab, Geometry Panel, click on Beam Column Joins and adjust the beams by

clicking on those arrows till you see a miter join formed

8. Your completed Exercise should be as follows.

9. Copy the beams to all the other bays to complete the frame..

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Reference Planes

At times you may need lines that do not print when you want to align certain elements at certain locations. Use reference lines to
snap elements or when you want to line up elements. Reference lines display in associated views because they are infinite planes.

In this next step we are going to align the purlins along the rafter beams but first we are going to create a reference plane.

1. Navigate to the West Elevation to view the frame in an elevation

2. On the Structure Tab>Work plane panel> click Ref Plane and on the Modify/Reference Plane Tab

click Pick lines and pick the outer line of the rafter beam. Use the blue circle shape handle to adjust the length of
the new reference plane. Press ESC when complete

3. Select the new Reference Plane and on the Properties Palette, under Identity Data, Give it a name, say, Purlins Plane

4. Now we have to navigate to 08 upper roof Level and make the newly created reference plane as the active work plane.

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 5. Activate 08 Upper Roof Level. On the Structure Tab>work plane Panel, click Set and from the
Work Plane Dialog change the active Work Plane from 08 Upper Roof Level to Reference Plane: Purlins Plane. Click Ok
when done.

6. Now we are going to place Zed Profiles as our purlins at 08 Upper Level. On the Structure Tab>Structure Panel>Beam

and on the Place Beam Contextual Ribbon Tab, click Load Family
Here you are going to load the Zed profiles from your installed content Library (Structural Framing>Light Gauge
Steel>M_Light Gauge Zeds.rfa) Pick size 142 x13 Profile. Please note that US Metric and UK Content may vary so be
judicious to choose what you want to use as your purlin.
7. Draw out your purlin beams. Change the Level of detail from Coarse to Fine to have a clearer view.

8. Adjust the View Range of 08 Upper Roof Level to have an uncut view of the whole drawing view. Still on 08 upper Roof
level view , the properties palette, Edit the view range and make the top range be 2300 and the cut plane be 2100

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 9. Navigate to the 3D View. Your purlins should be aligned as shown below.

10. Now we have to adjust the instance parameter to make the purlins sit on top of the rafter beam. Select your newly drawn
purlins. From the properties palette, change the Z offset Value to 142(the total depth of the purlin)

11. Your purlins now sit on top of the beam. Now you finish drawing the beams spacing them out to the apex. You can still
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 12. To be able to mirror the purlins on 08 Upper Roof Level to the other side, we have to set the active work plane from
Reference Plane Purlins to 08 Upper Roof Level.
13. Navigate to 08 Upper Roof Level and on the Structure Tab>Work Plane> Set. On the work plane dialog select 08 Upper
Roof Level and Click OK

14. Select the Purlins you have drawn and on the Modify Tab, select Mirror

( Either Pick Axis or Draw Axis, whichever works for

you) and ensure you pick the apex(which is the midpoint, to be used as the mirror line axis).
Your completed Frame should be as shown below

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Adding Reinforcement bars/Adding Rebars

There are three types of reinforcement that can be used with walls, floors and slabs and sketched custom shapes.

1. Area reinforcement- Places evenly spaced rebar in structural walls and floors according to a boundary you specify.
2. Path Reinforcement- Specify reinforcement that bends from, say a slab, into a bearing wall.
3. Fabric reinforcement- Spaces sheets of reinforcing wires within a boundary that you specify.

In this section we are going to explore the different ways of adding reinforcement to your concrete structure frame, specifically
the columns/beams, walls and Slabs

Learning Objectives

 Examine types of elements that can have reinforcement placed on them

 Set specific reinforcement settings
 Place existing rebar shapes in structural elements and sketch custom shapes for single or multiplanar rebar
 Set up views so that you can see the rebar
 Place Area and path reinforcement
 Modify boundary or path and properties of area and path reinforcement

Let’s Get started

1. Examine the reinforcement settings

On the structure Tab, Reinforcement Panel, click on the Reinforcement Settings Setting the following
options as shown in the figures below

a) this ensures your slab reinforcement will be

visible in 3D and also Revit will pick up a shape code from the rebar you sketch, instead of creating multiple shapes.
Ensure you set this up before drawing any reinfocement

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 b) this specifies the naming of the different layers
when doing area reinforcement.

c) this sets up annotation of the path reinforcement.

2. Set up a view to add reinforcement to the structure element. In this example, we are going to set up an elevation view
for a set of foundations, columns and beams..Activate 00 Foundation level.

3. On the View Tab>Create Panel>Framing Elevation the elevation mark snaps to a

grid. Snap the elevation mark along Grid 4

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 4. On the Project Browser, expand the Elevations(Framing Elevation) double click to activate the new “Elevation 1-a”. Set the
scale to suit, say 1:25 and set the level of detail to “Fine” from the View Controls Bar. Crop the view to have the view you
need to see.

5. To add reinforcement, you pick the beam and on the Modify/Structural Framing, click rebar
6. On the shape browser, choose an appropriate rebar shape and place it into the beam at the Mezzanine Level

Select the rebar and select the rebar type 16M from the properties palette . You can adjust the number of the
reinforcement from the Modify/Structural Rebar by changing the Layout from Single to Fixed Number. Set the number
to 3
7. Mirror the reinforcement bar to the other side of the Beam. Set the Quantity to 2.

8. You can now draw the stirrups/links by once more selecting the beam and on the Modify?Place rebar on the Placement
orientation>Perpendicular to cover, select the “Shape M-T1” and place at the position as shown

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 9. Select the stirrup and select the Layout to Maximum spacing with a spacing of 200. Your new arrangement should look
as follows:

You can set the Presentation of the rebars as Show First and Last

and your rebars should be presented as follows.

10. Select the rebars and on the Properties Palette>under Graphics, edit visibility states

11. On the Edit Visibility States make sure that the Rebars are viewed unobscured and Viewed as solid on the Default 3D
View This setting ensures that the rebars will be visible on the 3D view.

12. Open the 3D View of the model. Adjust the Transparency of the Model and change the leshouldvel of detail to fine. Your
model with the reinforcement. Try the same procedure with columns and the foundations

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Area Reinforcement

Navigate to the 01 Mezzanine Level

1. Select the floor slab. On the Ribbon, click Area Reinforcement , draw an rectangular sketch
on the floor area in which you want to draw your slab. In this example, let us draw bottom layer reinforcement on the
slab.

2. Set your properties palette parameters as follows. Remember to uncheck the Top Major and Top Minor Direction bars.
Also edit the visibility states of the rebar to be viewed unobscured at Mezzanine floor level and unobscured in the 3D
View and viewed as solid(refer to the steps above) Click finish edit mode once done Open the 3D view to see the 3D
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Path Reinforcement

Use Path Reinforcement to place reinforcement along a path. This is mostly used on slab/ Wall Edges.

1. Navigate to 00 Ground Level Select the floor. On the structure tab>Reinforcement Panel> Path
2. On the Properties you adjust the visibility state of the rebar(if you want to be able to view the rebar in 3D and draw the
path along the edges of the slab. You can also use “pick lines” to place the path reinforcement in the curved section.
Click Finish Sketch to exit the command

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Annotating and detailing Drawings

This involves adding information in form of text, dimensions or in form of tagging objects.

The first step towards this is to prepare the view by cleaning it up/Embellishing the view. In this exercise let us go back to Framing
elevation 1-a where we previously modelled the planar reinforcement.

1. Navigate to the Framing elevation that you had drawn reinforcement below:

2. First you can hide/turn off the visibility of the cropped region by turning it off from the properties palette. From the
Properties Palette you can tick on Crop View and untick the Crop Region Visible

3. You can now add detail items such as Break line symbols which are 2D line items symbols available from your library. On

the Annotate Tab>Detail Panel>Component drop down> Detail Component In your library
navigate to the Libraries>US Metric>Detail Items>Div 01-General>M Break Line Symbol and place your breakline on the
columns view as shown. Copy and mirror the breakline along the other places to finish out the clean up

4. To add dimensions, go to Annotate tab, dimensions Panel>Aligned and place dimension from grid E to Grid B to A a
click outside the dimension to exit the command.

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 5. To tag the reinforcement, we will use the Tagging tools on the Tag panel
To start with the beam main rebar, you can use the Tag by Category shortcut Command on the Quick Access toolbar or
you can get it from the Annotate Tab>Tag Panel> Tag by Category

and select the rebar. Your drawing view should

be as follows. You can change the content of the tag type by changing it from the type selector.

6. To tag the stirrups, you use the Aligned Multi-Rebar Annotation. Although I have to warn you that this is some pretty
memory intensive task. (I still cannot figure out why they have not come up with a solution to this)

7. To tag the surface area reinforcement on the walls/Slabs, you can either choose to tag them while they are still as Area
Reinforcement or you can Remove the Area system and tag them as individual bars.

Default Area Reinforcement tag

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 8. You can remove the Area System for the bars originally applied as area reinforcement by selecting the Area
reinforcement bars and clicking on the Remove Area System to have them tagged as individual bars on each layer

separately.

9. Use the Aligned Multilinear Rebar command to place the tag on the reinforcement once you removed the Area System.

You can uncheck the leader tickmark on the options bar then
place the tag at an suitable position as shown

10. To edit the tag, you select the Multi rebar tag and on the ribbon, click Select Tag to edit the tag type.

Here we can edit the content by choosing to edit the Tag Family.
a) This opens the Family Editor which is another graphical workspace that is different from your usual revit User interface
and has tools specifically for the creation and edition of that category.

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 b) Select the tag which is that text and on the ribbon, click edit Label
and from the edit label dialog, we are going to edit the information that is going to be shown in that tag, for instance,
we need to remove the “X” suffix by clearing it and add the parameter Spacing on the fourth row.
c) From the Edit label dialog, clear that “X” Suffix and
d) from the category parameter drop down, select Spacing and add to by clicking on the green arrow as shown below. Click
Apply and Click OK

e) You can also (optionally) delete the detail lines and remain with the text and expand the text box as shown

f) We now Load the tag back into the project by clicking into Project .You get a warning that the
family already exists. Click Override the Existing Family Version and its Parameter Values

g) You can see that the new annotation displays new set of rebar information. (You can always edit the rebar spacing and it
updates)

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Prepare your Model for Structural Analysis

The Main Objectives for this session focuses on:

• Prepare your Model for Structural Analysis

• Structural settings to prepare the model for analysis, including symbolic representation, load cases, load combinations and
analytical mode and boundary condition settings.

the Analytical Model,visible by opening the Analytical Model 3D View on the project browser.

• As a Structural modelling software, Revit does NOT perform actual calculations but provides all the information required
for analysis. Revit helps you

 Set up and create structural settings(such as Load cases)

 Create analytical views

 Adjust Analytical Elements

 Add loads: Point Loads, Line Loads, Area Loads

Examine the structural settings by navigating to the Structural settings where you set preferences for your
analysis workflows. Let’s get started by trying to understand what each setting mean.

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 1. Display and modify existing Autodesk Revit Load Cases and create new ones
to suit the code and analysis software with which you are working. Once created, they are exported as loads into the
analysis software you are using.

2. Create load combinations by using a formula based on existing loads

3. Check the structural stability of your model as you design.

4. Applicable if you are defining a condition in which other forces are assumed to
support a structural element. A typical boundary condition could be supporting the earth underneath a footing, or a slab
on grade. As you physically place a boundary condition in the model, these settings define its appearance.

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 Adding Views to a sheet.
You can now add all the plans and elevations to a sheet by Navigating to the view tab> Sheet Composition Panel> Sheet

1. From the New sheet dialog box, you can use the default Title block sheet provided or you can choose to Load
another Title block sheet family by clicking Load. For now let us Click OK.

2. You can now navigate to your sheet from the Project Browser under the Category “Sheets(all)

3. To add a view to a sheet, simply drag and drop the view to the sheet.

You can adjust the scale to make the drawing view fit.

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 4. You can reduce the size of the view by clicking on the Activate view to adjust the crop region properties on the
viewport as shown below. This is done at the Properties Palette once the view port is activated. Below is an example.
Ensure that Crop View and Crop Region Visible tick mark is selected. Size the viewport to fit in the sheet.

You can now untick the Crop region visibility to hide the Cropping boundary.

5. Now Right Mouse Click to Deactivate View You can move the viewport title to position by selecting
the view title and either use Move or use the Arrow keys.

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 Printing
With 2016 and future versions of Revit you can print Selected views/sheets through the all new print dialog
box. With an integrated PDF conversion support, printing now is all easy.

In this example you click on the Select Button and from the resulting list, select the views/sheets to be printed. Once
completed click OK and the document instantly starts printing.

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