From the course: Revit: Design a Multi-Trade Commercial Building
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Laying out the grid
From the course: Revit: Design a Multi-Trade Commercial Building
Laying out the grid
- [Narrator] This part is kind of boring, but it's one of the most important things you're going to do. The objective of this video is to add an entire structural grid to our structural model. Under models in Revit, let's go open. And grab three or four structural, click open. Under structural plans, let's make sure we're down on level one, we can set our visual style to hit in line if we want, we can set our detail level to fine. There we go. Let's start adding some grids. So on the structure tab, let's click on the grid button. On the draw panel, let's click on pick lines. I'm going to zoom right into this well, and I'm going to pick the center line right here. When I grab my grip, and I'm going to drag it up very similar to the levels that we did, notice on the bottom, need to do the same thing. So I'm going to grab this grip, drag it down, I'm going to turn on my bubble. Cool. Escape a couple…
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Finding the internal origin1m 50s
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Linking architecture internal origin to internal origin3m 12s
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Setting up levels4m 2s
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Laying out the grid5m 43s
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Adding foundation walls3m 25s
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Adding piers and pilasters3m 6s
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Adding steel columns2m 58s
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Adding perimeter framing3m 58s
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Adding beam systems4m 35s
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Adding roof joist systems5m 6s
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