Step Footing

[barathd]

What is the most efficent and versatile way of doing a step footing as attached.

Thanks in advance.

Dick Barath

[beegee]

There are a number of ways.

Here's two -

1. Make the footing as a wall and edit its profile.

2. Make the footing as a wall and attach its top and bottom to reference planes and /or levels.

[Scott D Davis]

Use a wall, edit the elevation profile into the stepped configuration.

[aaronrumple]

As an asside - why the slopped base? On bed rock? Around here footings like that tend to slide down the hill

[gravelin]

when you draw the sketch of the stair, you can drag the fist and last lines
as show in the pictures

Yves

[Steve_Stafford]

Now there is an interesting approach...just be sure to keep the railings so it will be safe for the concrete crew to pour...;)

[anthony.67953]

I think if you place stirrups in the footing you can ride it down the hill.

[BillyGrey]

Hey Dick, this thread shed some light on my darkness as well:

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=4454&highlight=foundation

off topic:

Dick, you don't know me, but about the time 2004 came out, before I gave up on ADT, I was lurking in the ADT NG seeking answers, and saw some of your legendary posts. I recall allot of the frustration you were experiencing, and I was having some of the same prob's. The point is, it was some of your posts, the "new-features" and the absurd work-throughs to solve simple problems that led me to this board (Zoog), and finally to purchase Revit.

No elitism or ignoring posts that have no/bad answers here partner. This is a great forum.

Good luck, keep learnin the proggy

Bill

[barathd]

Billy:

Great link on foundations. I was here 2 years ago - Revit I mean. At that time the forum was a great group of people and obviously still is. I left Revit with the Autodesk aquisition -I was lured back with a "reasonable" cross upgrade. Perhaps I was a bit snappy and to the point on some of the forums - hopefully as the frustation subsides I will mellow some ??? ??? Only real bur under my saddle is the lack of a good drafting engine in Revit - sure something is in the works at Autodesk. Incidently I for one have noticed that attitudes are slowly changing at Autodesk - hopefully this will continue.

Have a great day - thanks for the encouragement.

Regards

Dick Barath

[CCI Design]

The easiest way to do it is with an extrusion.

[gregcashen]

I would do as Scott suggests and edit the wall elevation.

[ita]

ditto!!!!!! - ditto with 2 !! was too short!!