jeffsmith7
2009-01-11, 08:01 PM
Hello AUGI,
I am a greenhorn Revit user :). I attended Thomas Weirs SE310-2 AU class and bought the book he co-authored.
I attached 2 images that show a structure that I started. It is made up of sloped angles and a wt for the zipper. The 4 columns are modeled as braces. The idea is that it is constructed like a power line pylon with sloped members that are parallel but offset by their flange thickness and gusset plates (not shown) for bolted connections.
Can braces have their cross-sections rotated by snapping to a reference plane. I could only do this in the element prop dialog by typing in to 3 dec places, ie 7.245 degress?
Can this be modeled accuratley, or is it common to do a work around to make it look right? I have not got into the analytical model aspects.
Can anyone give me some direction on the best way to approach this. I have created grids, levels and I made reference planes for the grids, level and the sloping columns. I started trying using the align and cut geometry tools but not sure if this is the right approach.
Thanks,
Jeff
I am a greenhorn Revit user :). I attended Thomas Weirs SE310-2 AU class and bought the book he co-authored.
I attached 2 images that show a structure that I started. It is made up of sloped angles and a wt for the zipper. The 4 columns are modeled as braces. The idea is that it is constructed like a power line pylon with sloped members that are parallel but offset by their flange thickness and gusset plates (not shown) for bolted connections.
Can braces have their cross-sections rotated by snapping to a reference plane. I could only do this in the element prop dialog by typing in to 3 dec places, ie 7.245 degress?
Can this be modeled accuratley, or is it common to do a work around to make it look right? I have not got into the analytical model aspects.
Can anyone give me some direction on the best way to approach this. I have created grids, levels and I made reference planes for the grids, level and the sloping columns. I started trying using the align and cut geometry tools but not sure if this is the right approach.
Thanks,
Jeff