From the course: Revit: Structural Analysis Tools
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Adding floors - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Revit: Structural Analysis Tools
Adding floors
- [Instructor] Okay, this should be easy. Here, I'd like to add a second floor, as well as roof decking. We're going to cantilever the concrete eight inches beyond the framing center line, then we need to snap the roof deck to our framing. In Revit, let's open our structural model. This time, let's go to Level 2 in the Project Browser. On the Structure tab, click the Floor button. Floor is three inch lightweight concrete on two inch metal deck, which is exactly what I want. On the Draw panel, let's click Pick Supports. Now, I like to pick each one individually just to make sure we're in the right spot, and we're picking all of our supports. You don't always have to do this, but I'm paranoid and I just do. Okay. Hit Escape a few times. Now, each of these lines has their own properties, so if we pick a window from the left to the right, notice that we can cantilever the concrete. So, let's cantilever, I think…
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