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Hello me again - the Revit newbie. I am trying to place beams around the perimeter of my walls. That is okay I can do that, however I want to mitre them, and there seems to be no way to do it. Help aint much help.
Anyone know how to deal with this?
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I find working with beams to be a bit annoying at times... why don't you create a profile for your beam and just use sweep to go around the building?
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Beams are hard to work with I asked this question to a revit tech person when I was trying to myter a couple of steel beams together. He said you will have to go and create an in place family. Go to your Modelling tab and click on create and then you can create it right their in the drawing.
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I am finding the Revit Help, unlike Autocad, quite inadequate for the newbie in telling you where to go to do things, and how to do them. I have downloaded everything written on 'sweeps 'and nothing appears to be what it seems... It is not clear how to access the initial commands. It seems to me beams should either be included on the Design bart/host sweep / command, or that the beams themselves should have a joining/mitreing option.
Perhaps some experienced could come on chat and talk to me about it if they have time.. I am keeping it open during the day.
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the sweep has nothing to do with the structural beams, this just a work around.
first create the profile of your beam: file-new-family-metric profile. save and load to your project.
under the "Modelling" tab choose "create..." make it a structural framing type, the tabs will change on the left, pick: "solid form-solid sweep" draw your 2D path in the plan where you want it toi go and for the profile use the one you created earlier...
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Thanks very much for your clear concise reply, El.
You must be working in Revit 7 because the commands you talk about dont appear to be there. Ihave the PFC loaded that I want to wrap around the perimeter already so that is no problem.
I can go into STRUCTURAL and BEAM - but there appears to be no - solid form, nor solid sweep.
Under MODELLING there is HOST SWEEP, and it opens up into wall, roof, floor. I understand from HELP that I could possibly pull the PFC into there and then sweep it around the building, but I cannot see any way to link it there.
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Ah, I should add that I am using Revit 8
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mate,
under the modelling tab on the left the bottom one says :"create..." click and follow been there since forever
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Thanks for the help - I was looking at the design tabs, not the dropdown menus - and of course there it was. While you put it very simply, and on the whole it was easy to do, there were still problems.
When I had finished the sweep it only offerred me a choice of gutters and handrails that I could use, and I didn't see where I could pick up my imported beam. I hit the LOAD PROFILES button and pulled in a steel beam, but it merely told me that that was from the wrong category and wouldn't do it. Meanwhile I can see my original beam famil y in the project browser, but there seems to be no way to select it.
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Audrie,
you will need to sketch the profile yourself in a new profile family, and upload to your project...
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