Exercise 4.2.1: Linking an Architectural Model and Copying Shared Elements

In this exercise, students will learn how to:

Figure 4.2.1 - Copying shared elements from a linked model

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Open the model for this exercise in Revit Structure software and link to the architectural model of the building.
Copy the north-south grids from the linked model into the Revit Structure host project.
Also create a new 3D view and name it 3D Structural Frame.

Figure 4.2.2 - 3D Structural Frame view

Exercise 4.2.2: Modeling Concrete Columns, Beams, and Floor Slabs

In this exercise, students will learn how to:

Adjust the grids and column locations to better serve the interior layout and structural integrity of building.
Specify and placing concrete columns and beams in plan views and with 3D snapping.
Specify the structure and materials for concrete floor slabs.

Figure 4.2.3 - Moving columns by adjusting the grid locations

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Place 10" (0.25 m) square concrete structural columns at interior grid intersections on level 1 and the lower level.
Create a new concrete structural framing type for 12" x 24" (0.30 m x 0.61 m) concrete beams and place these beams at the top of the structural columns on level 1 to support the level 2 floor slab.
Unhide the floor slab at level 2 and change its type to be a 6" (0.15 m) concrete slab.

Figure 4.2.4 - Concrete beams placed at the top of level 1 columns

In this exercise, students will learn how to:

Choose, place, and align wood columns relative to other model elements.
Specify the wood beam types and place them in plan views and with 3D snapping.
Create beam systems of regularly spaced beams and joists.
Specify the structure and materials for wood structural floors and place identical instances at many levels at once.

Figure 4.2.5 - Copying wood structural elements to a similar position on another level

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Place 6 x 6 (0.15 m x 0.15 m) wood columns at the grid intersections on the right side of level 2 (along grids C and D) and align edge columns to the outer boundary of the floor slab.
Place 5 x 22 (0.13 m x 0.57 m) Glulam beams of southern pine along grids C and D to support the floor level above. Use an offset -0.75" (-19 mm) to place these beams below the plywood subfloor at Level 2.
Create a beam system of 16" (0.40 m) TJL wood open web joists to span between the beams at grids C and D. Use an offset of -0.75" (-19 mm) to also place these joists below the plywood subfloor. The joists should be center justified and spaced at a fixed distance of 2’ (0.61 m).
Create a similar beam system using 14" (0.36 m) TJL wood open web joists to span between the beams at grids B and C.
Copy the wood structural elements that you created in this exercise to similar locations on levels 3 and 4.
Select the floor at level 4 and change it to the plywood floor type.

Figure 4.2.6 - Sketching the boundary for a beam system of open web joists

In this exercise, students will learn how to:

Create interior shear walls at the building core.
Place retaining walls below grade.
Add foundation elements—foundation slabs, wall foundations, and isolated foundations at columns—where necessary.

Figure 4.2.7 - Isolated and wall foundations merging with the foundation slab

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Create plywood interior shear walls directly above the locations of the concrete shear walls placed on the lower level and level 1.
Change the exterior walls on the lower level to 12" (0.30 m) concrete retaining walls.
Add 36" x 12" (0.91 m x 0.30 m) bearing tooting wall foundation elements to support these retaining walls.
Add 72" x 48" x 18" (1.82 m x 1.22 m x 0.46 m) isolated rectangular footing foundation elements to support the interior columns and the columns at grid D.

Figure 4.2.8 - Interior shear walls and all foundation elements placed in the structural model