From the course: Revit 2021: Essential Training for Structure (Metric)

Adding perimeter beams - Revit Structure Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2021: Essential Training for Structure (Metric)

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Adding perimeter beams

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- [Instructor] Let's start adding some steel beams for our model. The first type of beams I'd like to add are the larger perimeter beams that surround the smaller beam systems or the filler beams. I am going to click open for my models. I'm going to browse to where I'm keeping my exercise files. Now grab Structural-17. Then I'll click Open. Under structural plans, let's jump up to level two. In our properties, I want to scroll down to view template for floor plan coordination. Click on that. I'm going to click on None and click OK. Now zoom in over here. Let's go to the structure tab. Let's click Beam. click our drop down here. Let's grab UB356 x 171 x 51. For tag, let's make sure we click Tag on Placement. I'm going to pick a point here, pick a point here, hit escape a couple times. I don't want to see the entire beam. So, for our detail level, let's set it to course. Let's click beam again. Now, let's go from two to three. From three to four, we can use a smaller one. Let's grab 254 here to here. Hit escape a couple times. Click beam again. We'll go back to the larger one. 356. And, I'm going to start framing everything in. If you click the chain button, it makes it easier. I'm going to frame from here to here, and to here. And, I'll come down to here. For the smaller one, I'll hit Escape once, go to 254. Now, I've got a few and I can start copying beams around. If I select this beam and its text, hold down the Ctrl key and select the rest of them. You'll see that we can copy these down. So let's click the Copy button, Multiple works. I'm going to go here to here. Then the here, it's going to be messed up here, but we'll fix it. Here to here, down to here, to here, down to here. Hit escape a couple times. Now, I'm going to zoom in on this beam, select it, grab the grip, and drag it back to that offset. Do the same over here. Hit escape a few times, do the same for this one. As well as this one. Hit escape, grab this beam, drag it over. Drag that over. Select it. Drag that over. Drag that over. Hit escape a few times. Go to beam again. Do the same for here to here. To here. Grab the smaller one. Here to here. Grab the larger one. Here, here, and here. Hit escape a few times. Oops, I forgot the copy this one down. Select this beam, select that text. Click Copy. Here to here, here, to here. Excellent. Now, select these while holding down your control key. Click copy. Make sure you're hittin' the center of that column, and then copy to this one. Hit escape a few times. Zoom out, go to a 3D view. And there we go. What we can do if we go back down to level two, these beams could be on the grid line if we wanted 'em to be. So if you just select your beam, and click move, Revit doesn't like that, so, we can unjoin the elements. We can do the same for this one. Click move. Unjoin elements. You can move 'em in. I'd rather have them on the column lines though. So, if you hit the undo button, we hit the drop down here, notice that we can undo both of those moves. So, undo both of the moves. Go to a 3d view. I know that we missed all these. This is going to be wide open. There you go. That's how you add perimeter beams to a model.

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