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Adding parametric cuts

Adding parametric cuts - Revit Structure Tutorial

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Adding parametric cuts

- [Instructor] When beams travel through other beams, what are we to do? Well, what we're going to do is this, we're going to model two intersecting beams, and look at how we can cut holes in them. In Revit, under Models let's go New. For the template file, we'll grab Metric-Structural Template and click OK. On the Structure tab, let's click on Beam. Let's make this a big one. I'll grab this UB406 by 178 by 60. Model like that. Let's put another one crossing through it. Let's make this a smaller one. 254. Cross through just like that. Hit Escape a few times. Let's go to a 3D view. Let's set our Detail Level to Fine, and let's set our Visual Style to Realistic. Big beam, little beam. I want to knock this beam down a little bit though, so let's select this beam here. Let's give it a Z Offset Value. Let's say minus 50. Hit Escape a couple times. Okay. Now, let's go to the Steel tab. Let's click Cut…

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