From the course: Revit 2022: Essential Training for Structure (Metric)

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Adding Howe trusses

Adding Howe trusses

From the course: Revit 2022: Essential Training for Structure (Metric)

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Adding Howe trusses

- [Instructor] Adding trusses is as simple as drawing lines. The trick is choosing the right truss for the job. What I'd like to do here is go find a Howe truss and lay it out in our model. Of course there's going to be some settings that always need to be tweaked. So I'm going to get started by jumping into my trusses model. The first thing I'd like to do is let's go down to our Floor Plan Roof level in our Project Browser. Now I'm pretty sure we're not going to be able to see our truss as we draw it in. So on the view control toolbar, click on the visual style button and go to Wireframe. Now let's go to our Structure tab. Let's click on the Truss button. No Structural Trusses are loaded. Yes, let's load one. I'm going to go to where my families are mapped to. Let's scroll down to Structural Trusses. Now I'd like to grab M Howe Flat Truss. Let's click Open. Let's zoom into this area here, but before we place the…

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