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

Adding steel columns to the model - Revit Structure Tutorial

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

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Adding steel columns to the model

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- [Instructor] Just because we use the grid to basically lock in our columns, that doesn't mean we can't move a few columns around here and there. The objective of this video is to select a couple of columns and move them. Then we're going to go back and examine the properties of the column to see how Revit displays the offsets in the properties. Open Structure_08. Under Structural Plans, let's go to level one. These columns are kind of floating in the middle of this hallway here, so I want to move these two this way four feet. I want to move these two this way four feet. So I'm going to pick a window around these two columns. Again, remember I'm picking a window from the left to the right, ensuring that I'm only getting the two columns. Once I select them, you can verify that. If you look down here, there's a little filter that says the effect, that we have two items selected, cool! Zoom into these columns. Click Move. Select the midpoint of that column. Go in this direction. Type "4'." Hit enter. And they're where we want them. Hit escape a couple of times. Pick a window around these two columns. Click the Move button. Set the midpoint here. Now let's come this way four feet. That there... Hit escape a couple times. We've got them buried in the wall. So now if I select this column... It's column line C3, but three is minus four feet. So it gives us our column mark location because we put it on the column intersection to begin with. Then we moved it. It's able to say, "Okay. I'm on column line C3. However, I now have a four-foot offset." Hit escape a couple times. That's how you offset a column.

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