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Adding foundation walls

Adding foundation walls - Revit Structure Tutorial

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Adding foundation walls

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- [Instructor] The walls need something to bear on. This is where bearing footings come in handy. Revit actually likes to call them wall footings, which, by looking at the button, makes you kind of think you're actually adding new wall, but that's not the case. You're adding a strip footing that is hosted to a foundation wall. Either way, let's jump into Structure 11. Let's go to our top of footing level down here. Let's go to the Structure tab. For foundation, let's click on Structural Foundation Wall. Right here we have a bearing footing, 36 by 12, we're going to fix that. Click Edit Type, Duplicate. I'm going to make this a bearing footing, two foot-six inches by 12 inches, get rid of the two. For the width, if you type in 2 6, Revit will know what to add the feet and inches. Click OK. Now all we can do is select the wall. So if I hover over this wall, don't select it, just hover over it, and hit your tab key,…

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