Revit 2018: Essential Training for Structure

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Setting Up the Project

• Linking architecture
• Creating levels
• Copy monitor
• Adding and setting up structural views
• Creating view templates
• Transferring project standards

2. Grids and Columns

• Adding grids to the model
• Adding steel columns to the model
• Creating column offsets
• Creating a column schedule
• Adding slanted columns
• Attaching columns to steel

3. Foundations

• Adding foundation walls
• Adding wall footings
• Adding piers and pilasters
• Adding isolated footings
• Creating a CMU elevator shaft
• Shaft openings
• Foundation slabs
• Adding step footings
• Tagging a step footing
• Adding a step footing family
• Retaining walls and footings

4. Steel Framing

• Adding perimeter beams
• Adding beam systems
• Modifying beam systems
• Copy Paste Aligned
• Altering beam elevations
• Adding joist systems
• Tagging framing
• Configuring beam joins

5. Floors and Slabs

• Creating a slab on grade
• Adding a concrete floor with steel decking
• Cantelivering slab edges
• Creating thickened slabs
• Creating slab depressions
• Creating custom decking

6. Reinforcing

• Parallel to face
• Perpendicular to face
• Sketching rebar
• Adding area reinforcing
• View Settings
• Adding a rebar coupling

7. Steel Brace Frames

• Adding a brace frame elevation
• Adding a brace frame
• Modifying plan view symbology
• Adding brace frame gussets
• Creating a brace frame sheet

8. Stairs, Ramps, and Slopes

• Adding C shapes to stringers
• Creating stairs
• Creating ramps
• Sloping slabs
• Sloping framing
• Pitching floors to structure

9. Detailing and Annotating

• Sections and callouts
• Coping
• Adding detail components
• Inserting AutoCAD
• Adding text
• Adding dimensions

10. Schedules and Tagging

• Footing schedules
• Pier schedules
• Creating a pier tag
• Creating a material takeoff

11. Trusses

• Adding Howe trusses
• Attaching trusses to roofs
• Changing truss materials
• Editing the truss bottom chord
• Detailing trusses

12. Project Management

• Phasing
• Keynoting
• Revisions
• Plotting
• File sharing

13. Steel Connections

• Installing the plugin and content
• Adding a clip angle connection
• Adding a gusset place connection
• Adding a steel to concrete anchor
• Adding a base plate

Conclusion

• Next steps