Master the technicalities of Revit Structure by learning how to manage the placement of footings for walls and the creation of a 5-inch concrete slab on grade. Enhance your efficiency with the automated features of this software that saves time and increases productivity.
Key Insights
- The Revit Structure software allows for the modification of footing sizes to suit specific needs. This involves altering the properties box to reflect the desired footing depth and dimensions.
- Footings are automatically placed at the base of walls, and can be made continuous with the length of the wall. This feature contributes to the efficiency of using the software.
- Creating a 5-inch concrete slab on grade involves duplicating and editing a floor type in the program, specifying the material as normal weight concrete with 3000 KSI compressive strength, and then setting the depth at 5 inches.
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Hello and welcome back to Revit Structure. In our previous video we had placed all of the footings for our major vertical structures. Now let's place footings for our walls.
First place we want to go to is structure. Under foundations we want to go to wall. Now over in the properties box we have a bearing footing 36 × 12.
Well that's kind of small for what we need so we are going to modify it. First thing we are going to do is we are going to rename it bearing footing 36 × 18. Now what we want to do is we want to go to foundation thickness and we want to change that to 1 foot 6 inches.
Okay, we have set our footing depth now we are ready to apply it to our model. What we want to do is we want to zoom in a little, hover over the wall and you notice that the Revit program highlights the wall. This is because the footing is automatically placed at the base of the wall.
Okay let's continue placing footings. You notice that it places the footing continuous with the length of the wall. Where we don't need footings let's not place them.
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And where we do, let's continue. Since the program is automated in this manner it saves us time and makes us more efficient. Let's take a 3D look at our model.
Let's rotate it to the underside, let's escape out of this command. We see now we have placed all of our spread footings, grade beams and continuous footings for our building. Okay, let's get out of this window.
Let's go back to our foundation. Now that we've done that what we want to do is we want to put a slab on grade in our basement. So let's get started.
Let's go again to structure, to floor, let's pick floor and we have here in the floor three different types of floors. Well these are not what we want. What we want is a 5 inch concrete slab on grade.
So let's pick this one, go to edit type and create a new type of floor. Let's go to duplicate and we'll name this one concrete 5 inch slab on grade. Hit okay.
Now what we want to do is we want to take this and edit it to the materials and depth we need. Okay as you see we're in structure, it's the function. And here's material.
Let's pick that. Here we have a radio button and it takes us to our materials. Let's go to search, type in concrete and it automatically gives us different items that we can choose from.
Our concrete floor is going to be a normal weight concrete, 3000 KSI compressive strength. Let's pick that, hit okay. Now our depth is 5 inches, here we have 3 quarter inch.
Let's change that to 5 inches, hit okay, hit okay. Let's get started. There are any number of ways to place a floor.
I like to use the pick lines because it gives us a more efficient way to create our floor line. Okay, let's continue. Picking the perimeter of our floor.
Sometimes you have to get close, you may end up with extraneous lines, just delete those. Go back to pick line and continue. Okay, let's go around and clean it up.
Here we have to clean the corners up a little bit because you cannot have intersecting or overlapping lines in a closed loop. That looks good, let's hit, let's go up to modify create floor boundary, hit the finish edit mode. And here we have a 5 inch concrete slab.
Here we have a directional span of the slab. We don't really need this at this point since it's a continuous slab. Let's just go ahead and hide it, we may need it at some point in time.
Okay. The one other thing we need to do is we need to create blockouts or lines for our slab when it cracks. At this slab on grade we don't have to because it was poured after the concrete columns.
So, that should finish this video and we'll see you in the next one.