Discover how to enhance your 3D models in Revit by adding structural foundations to your design. This article guides you through the process, from selecting the right type to positioning the foundation correctly.
Key Insights
- The article emphasizes the necessity of adding foundations to 3D columns in your model to create a more robust appearance. This can be done by navigating to the structure tab and selecting the isolated foundation option.
- It stresses the importance of forming a habit of creating a new type, rather than overriding existing ones. This approach ensures that there are multiple types within a project and avoids the risk of modifying those already in use.
- The article provides practical guidance for positioning the foundation accurately. This involves setting the height offset to match the depth of the columns and using the 'at grid intersections' function to place the foundation at all grid lines.
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We can't add columns and not put a foundation below them. When you look at it in 3D, and this will be helpful when we can cut sections as well, but it just looks kind of wimpy without something for this to sit on. And so what we'll do is we'll go to our structure tab and we're going to click isolated foundation here.
And then we need to load in the family. And so if you have the Imperial library loaded, then you can just click yes here. And then we're going to go into our library and we're going to look for structural foundations, and we want this rectangular footing.
Now, when you look at the type, this one's a 72 × 48. We're going to go for a square footing and a little deeper. We're going to change this.
We'll say edit type duplicate, and then I'll change the type to 72 × 72 by 24 inches. So six feet by six feet by two feet deep and hit. Okay.
And then I'll change my parameters here. So two for the thickness and then make sure they're both six feet here. Now you may be asking, you know, why did we make a new type when we're clearly not using this anywhere else? And honestly, it's just because you need to form that habit to always be making a new type.
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So it's better to have multiple types within a project than to override an existing one. Cause you definitely don't want to form that habit of overriding those existing ones. So make sure we're on the right type here.
72 × 72 by 24 and hit. Okay. And then I'm going to jump over to level one and I'll have to reactivate this command and you'll see why we want to do that here in a second, but essentially making sure I got the right type set.
I can set my height offset to negative two. Cause that's how low we put the columns. And then I can just say at grid intersections, just like we would have with our structural columns.
And then I pick all of the grid lines and then click finish. And it won't show any of these in the view cause they're down below level one. But if I were to go to my 3D view, you can see all of my footings have been created.
