AU 2010 - Revit Structure: Workflows, Methods, & Flexing Structural system

[darickb]

Hello all,
My name is Darick Brokaw. I am a Structural Designer for an A&E firm in Orlando FL. I am looking forward to sharing some of what I know with you all. The session I will call “Watch Me Flex” is intended to share the methods & workflows of a single story retail structure and how to build it so it will flex with changes. It can be benifitcial to have a Revit model move & adjust in a predictable way when changes are made. I am looking for questions, ideas, & tips to cover in the class. Below is a list of some of the main headings to spawn ideas. I will review all relevant posts for their inclusion into this session prior to May 1st. Thank you for your support..

1. Location
........a. Positive coordinates (benift: structural analysis)
........b. Mirror Project (benift: prototype reuse)
................i. Project Basepoint
........c. Other disiplines existing model location

2. Column Grid
........a. Constraints
................i. Dimension (lock)
........................1. Designate view where constraints are not Hidden in view,
............................Temporarily Hidden or Isolated, or Visiblity/Graphics display is off
................ii. Pin (eliminate unwanted movment)
........b. Host
................i. Use additional GridTypes soley for hosting elements (benift: visiblity control
...................thru V/G Filters & or Worksets)
........................1. Prefix non printable reference Grids (i.e. R1 = Refernece one)
........................2. Change color of reference Grids
........................3. Change Grid Graphics Symbol to be different (i.e. Grid bubble)
........................4. Designate views for reference Grid host use only

3. Levels
........a. Refrence above 2. Column Grid

4. Walls
........a. Hosted to Grid
................i. Align, lock
........b. Level

5. Floors
........a. Hosted to Walls (i.e. perimeter)
................i. Pick walls tool
........b. Level

6. Columns
........a. Levels
................i. Offsets
........b. Move with grids

7. Footings
........a. Move with Nearby Elements (i.e. Grids)

8. Framing
........a. Non-sloping (i.e. tie joist or beam)
................i. Beam tool
........................1. Host to a level
.................................1.1 non printable reference Level may be needed,
.......................................refrence above 2. Column Grid
........b. Sloping
................i. Beam system
........................1. Pick Supports (i.e. tie joist or beam)
........................2. single sloping aligned beams with only columns for a support
........C. Supports at a masonry or conc. wall
................i. Place The supporting bond beam or tie beam in the wall
...................(i.e. model it like it will be built)
................i. Place The supporting masonry or conc. column in the wall

[darickb]

Section 8. - c. disscusses using mas. /conc. beams & columns in mas./conc. walls. I have struggled to get columns & beams to cut the walls. I have tried many things with no sucsess, to make a long story short. Currently I use the wall opening tool to manualy place an opening at each beam column loaction. How else might I do this? The utopia would be to place a single family that did it all untill Autodesk makes it an option. This also aids in identification of the wall columns and beams for the contractor. I like to add an overall 3D reference view in the construction documents showing this. Ref: attached

[darickb]

Experience Levels
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[darickb]

Would you like to see this class be a 1 hr., 2 hr. or 3hr. class? The class will cover both Strcutural and Architectural. I'm thinking 2 hr.

[darickb]

Hello All,
Last night I polled the Orlando Revit Users Group about this class. A few common questions came out.

1. How much more time am I going to spend constraining things?
2. What is the Return on investment?
3. How do i avoid all the error and warnings?
4. I was always told not to use constraints to much because it will over constraint the model and create problems.
5. will the constraints slow down the model?

I also found that Enginners ten to use the constraints more than Architechtes. I am interested in any questions or comments you may have. Thanks.

[darickb]

Bump .