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danielacm

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here is attached  the start of the first floor of my project, this first floor is half suspended, that´s why it has a beam on the low part....

1-I want to know how to convert this lower and upper beams made of  conceptual mass  in "real" beams (that revit can recognize them as structural components, assingn a meterial etc..)once I've exported it to a revit project.

I really need to now if I can do this in order to decide if it worths to continue or not..

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2-is that I need to asign a glass floor to on it, this conceptual model is nly the structural part... how can I put right on this structural floor that "epidermis" ? 

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1.  You can assign "Material" to those elements BUT you can't convert that to other category, in this case structural, like you can see in my image. I don't think this is a good idea to create this kind of beams in a "Mass" family.

2.  Just create a floor with the thickness you want and change the material to Glass.

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I know this post is really old but I've been having a really hard time as a new Revit user creating certain items. I've probably spent 3 hours trying to learn how to mass a special roof joist / rafter / beam (get these terms in for seach purposes). The problem was I could easily build the model but it would get locked to the plane I built the rafter on and I couldn't array it down the ridge of the roof. Simple fix, make it a wall!!! Viola!!

THANKS!!

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