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archie456

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Hi,

I have a steel framed building which supports concrete floor slabs. All beams and columns are to be cased in plasterboard.

I'm wondering what the best way to represent this in Revit - I would like to represent these items as we will be able to clash them in Navis.

For columns I have placed an Architectural column over the steel 'I' section - this works OK, but it means that we have to create a new type for each column size and so its a little laborious.

I'm unsure how to case the beams, I could create some wall types and draw them over the beams (or around the beams).

Am I going about this the right way?

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mbsteve

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more or less, if you have the time to create a family, that is if you have many of these to do. You could create a linear family. with the appropriate drywall or other type of covering, assuming you want to place wood on the bottom of beam and perhaps some sort of nailer attached to top flange (underside).

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jterrell

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I created a column family (generic model modified to column) to represent an 'architectural beam'

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Manny

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archie456

this will make your life a lot easier.  what i did in my company i made a copy of wide flange column from my Imperial library together with its txt file which includes all the sizes into my project folder and rename both the family and txt file to (in my case) fire proof Wx column.  then i opened any size and added an extrution to it with some parameter as needed and save and loaded to my project but dont change existing parameters.  it is very important that you name both the same (e.g. column.rvt, column.txt) and ever time you need a different size of same type loaded from where you save this column.  this should work with beams to. also dont forget to lock top and bottom to the column.

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archie456

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Thanks for your help chaps.

I'll try the family method first - this seems fairly easy, I guess the only problem is that where several beams join the casing won't join properly - but I guess that wouldn't matter and would be somethign that would be resolved at detail level.

I'm also interested in Manny's method - Are you basically saying that you 'convert' the existing columns into boxing? i.e. take a copy of the structural model, convert the beams into a box shape and then link it back into the current model??

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Manny

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THAT'S NO WHAT I SAID. PLEASE RE-READ.

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