Learn to enhance your Revit Structure skills by populating a wall, slab, and foundation with existing information. This article simplifies the step-by-step process of copying details, aligning rebar, extending structures, and annotating efficiently.
Key Insights
- In Revit Structure, you can copy information and reinforcement details from a previous detail and populate it into a new one, making your work more efficient.
- Revit Structure allows you to align and extend structures, such as rebar, to match the top of a footing. It also enables you to mirror structures over for uniformity and extend multiple structures at once.
- Revit Structure enhances your project's efficiency by developing typical detail libraries that you can modify slightly for each project. Additionally, it allows you to annotate details to provide more information about your project.
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Hello and welcome to Revit Structure. Let's get started. In our previous video we completed putting hatching and rebar into our detail.
Let's continue. In this detail we're going to show how to quickly populate this wall and slab and foundation with existing information and bringing it into this detail. What we're going to do is first, let's zoom out, let's go to our first detail that we had placed information on.
Let's double click it and now it's active. What we can do is we can now grab all the information that we had placed in this detail with regard to information and reinforcement and we'll copy it. Let's deactivate this detail.
Let's zoom in on our detail that we brought in from Revit. Let's go to modify and paste. Okay, you see it doesn't place it exactly, but since it's highlighted, it'll move as a unit and we can place it as closely as possible to where we want it.
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Okay, there we have it. Let's click and you see we've populated our Revit detail with the existing information we brought in from the AutoCAD detail. So let's finish.
Let's stretch this up and the difference between the Revit and the AutoCAD detail is that the AutoCAD detail has attributes that we can use to create a good looking detail. With regard to the brake line, we can bring it to front and we can overextend our hatching and our rebar and get a nice line on the finish. Let's move our note down and realign it here.
You see we have our dowels and our bottom bars in our footing. Let's just bring those up just a little bit. Very good.
And now again, what we can do is we can extend our rebar by picking Trim Extend Multiple, picking the end of the rebar, or actually the proper command would be Align. Let's pick it and we can align the rebar to the top of this footing. Let's move our existing slab information down.
That looks good. Okay, now what we can do here is we can move this bar over to the left a little bit. Let's grab these bars and let's mirror them over.
Again, copy once, mirror over, and there we have our slab rebar. Let's extend it out here. Okay, and we'll finish out by grabbing our rebar and let's copy it in our sections and let's drag it up one foot four inches.
Now you see we have rebar showing over our block outlines or break lines. Let's pick it. Let's right click.
Let's select all instances visible in the view and it shows us our three break lines. Now what we can do is we can bring them all to front all at once and it cleans up our detail. You see how quickly that went.
Let's pull this in. Let's realign this. And there you have a completed detail just that quick.
The nice thing about Revit is you can develop Revit libraries with typical details that you bring in and modify slightly and bring efficiency to your project. Now you notice that we have extra hatching for our sand and our earth. Let's annotate this a little bit because annotations don't carry over very well.
Let's pick here and here and here. Okay, let's pick here and here and we're going to do the same thing. Since we're calling out our footing on the plan, let's pick this, replace the text with per plan.
Very good. Let's escape out of that and there you have a completed detail and you can add more information if you like, such as rebar, rebar types, and continue on from there. That's it for this video.
We'll continue on with detailing the structural framing next.