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

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Breaking a connection

Breaking a connection - Revit Structure Tutorial

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Breaking a connection

- [Instructor] I'm going to use a profanity that used to make me really anxious back in the good old AutoCAD days, explode. I'm sure the people working on this update made a conscious decision to avoid that word, but that's basically what we're doing. So let's do just that. Let's add a fitting, then break that sucker. In Revit, under Models, I'm going to go New. For the template file, I'll use Metric-Structural Template. Click OK. You know what we're going to do now, don't ya? Go to the Structure tab, click Beam. Let's draw a little T-shaped beam. Go to a 3D view. Set the detail level to Fine. Set your visual style to Realistic. Let's click on Connection Settings. Let's grab our favorite Clip angle. Add it. Click OK. Click Connection. Click the dropdown here. Let's select Clip angle. Select this beam. Hold down your Control key. Select this beam. Hit Enter. 'Kay, now I am going to do the unthinkable.…

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