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Changing truss materials

Changing truss materials - Revit Structure Tutorial

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Changing truss materials

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- With our trusses in, they're actually pretty sloppy. The first thing I notice is the actual material that we're using. Not a big fan of the W shapes. So what I want to do is configure these trusses to be wood members. Let's open truss 02. Let's insert some wood. Click on insert. Click on load family. Scroll out of this directory. We're in US imperial. Let's scroll down to structural framing. Let's go to wood. Let's grab some dimension lumber. Got some choices here. Let's scroll down. I'm going to grab a 4x8, 4x10, 4x12. Let's click OK. I'm going to pan around till I can grab any one of my trusses and select it. Let's click edit type. Now, we can change the structural framing type right here. Instead of set framing type, I'm going to grab 4x10s up there. For my vertical webs, we use 4x8s for this. For my diagonal webs, I'll grab 4x8s for that. Scroll down at the bottom chord. Framing type,…

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