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Adding Howe trusses

Adding Howe trusses - Revit Structure Tutorial

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Adding Howe trusses

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- [Voiceover] There's a whole bunch of different types of trusses that we have to choose from. I like the basic, simple Howe truss because of the fact that it's basic and simple. The thing is we can put a truss in that's flat and then go back and attach it to a roof member, a floor member, a slab member, whatever we want. We can attach the top or the bottom and we can also edit the shape of the truss. So what I want to do is bring in a Howe truss. I'm gonna go to Roof Floorplan. On my structure tab, I'm gonna click my Truss button. There are no structural trusses loaded, so would you like to load one now? Yes. I wanna scroll down til we find Structural Trusses. And I wanna find Howe Flat Truss. A Pratt does the same thing, only it's going to the other side. Howe kinda goes to the inside. I'm gonna grab Howe Flat Truss. I'm gonna click Open. Now what I'm gonna do is start drawing them in. The first one I put in, I'm gonna go from this endpoint right here. I'm gonna go all the way down.…

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