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Changing truss materials

Changing truss materials - Revit Structure Tutorial

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Changing truss materials

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- [Instructor] You know what? That wide flange shape that these tresses are using aren't really doing it for me. I want to change these to a lumber truss. By loading some nominal-sized lumber, we can go into a truss setting and force the truss to actually look better. So let's do it. In Revit, I'm going to open my model Trusses-03. Not a huge fan of the wide flange, so that's okay. Let's go to the insert tab. Let's click load family. I'm going to scroll out of my structural trusses directory, scroll down til you find structural framing. Let's go to wood. Let's go to M dimensional lumber. I can expand this dialogue by pulling it down a little bit. I can drag my type over. So I'm going to grab 64x235. Let's click okay. Now select any one of your trusses. Remember, if we hover over it and you see that blue dotted line, that's mean you're going to select the actual truss, which is what we want. I'm going to select…

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