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

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Managing materials

Managing materials

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

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Managing materials

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- [Instructor] This short video will explore the analysis properties of materials. Materials are a pretty picture, literally. They also drive both drafting standards, as well as physical properties, so let's take a look. Jump into your structural model or any model really. I'd like to select my foundation wall. Click Edit Type. For the structure, let's click Edit. Let's find our materials here, concrete cast in place gray. Click on your browser button. I'll expand my dialogue just a little bit. Of course, we know about identity, we know about graphics and appearance. But when we jump over to Physical and we drill into, say, Concrete we know what our concrete compression is, 3.5 ksi. We can click on lightweight, this stuff matters 'cause when we send this stuff over to Robot or any other structural application it's going to read these materials, if that application is able to do so. Thermal behavior, all of this stuff…

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