display framing member end connection forces

[andy.harvey779479]

Hi all,
still exploring Revit (learning new tricks every day), but I'm stumped how to display a framing members analytical information (beam end connections), which i know from the palette that are in the model.

I've tried making a new family member of a structural framing tag, which seems okay, but then when i use the beam annotation button and try to add the tag at the beam ends, it wont load in.

surely manually entering the forces is a giant leap backwards......

any help greatly appreciated.

thanks

Andy

[chris.spenski]

Did you attempt modifying and existing tag and just create a new type that displays the desired information?

[dmahan]

There should be two tags in annotations structural library, named
Structural Framing Tag-Start Reactions.rfa
and
Structural Framing Tag-End Reactions.rfa
Load both of these tags then use the Beam Annotations tool.

[lzaras]

There should be two tags in annotations structural library, named
Structural Framing Tag-Start Reactions.rfa
and
Structural Framing Tag-End Reactions.rfa
Load both of these tags then use the Beam Annotations tool.

Along with dmahan's procedure, I've also edited my tags; Structural Framing Tag-Start Reactions.rfa, I've made to be a dark green text and Structural Framing Tag-End Reactions.rfa, I've made to be a dark red text. This way, when I'm looking at a plan view, I can automatically see which end of the beam is the start end and which end is the end end. (Unfortunately will not be helpful for color-blind folks.)

As far as inputting all the reactions... If you brought the model in from an analysis program like RAM, the reactions will be associated with the beams. If you placed the beams yourself, you'll need to make sure the reactions are available to you through the Project Parameters (I've added a pic below of a project that had the reactions come in from RAM) and you will need to manually give all the beams their start and end reactions. Though if you have a bay of beams with the same start/end reactions, you can choose several beams at a time to give them all the same values (in the properties palette.)

[tpark]

The framing reactions that come in from the tag usually round down if the value is less than .5. Is there a way to have all values round up? Typically we never round down for reactions.