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

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Adding area loads

Adding area loads

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

Start my 1-month free trial

Adding area loads

“

- [Interviewer] This is all pretty easy from here. We can place an area load a few different ways. One is to be physically hosted to an element the other is to sketch the area load. In this video I'd like to place a hosted area load. So jump into the model you've been working in. We can either be in an analytical model or we can be in a physical model. Both are basically the same thing just with our visibility graphics different. We're going to zoom in here we can now see our boundary conditions in 3D. So. I'm going to go to analytical model 'cause it just makes it all easier for me. On the analyze tab, go to the analytical model panel, click on loads. Now notice our forces we can change them right here. If we have avid Z one if it's a negative value it's going to be coming down if it's a positive value it's going to look at it as an uplift. It can be a reaction or not but the nature of this load is not going to be a…

Contents