Floor Slabs Revit

It s something i work with a lot when modelling and detailing in revit in this blog post i will share how i do it as well as a tip about cantilevers that i picked up recently from a colleague.

Floor slabs revit.

As you work in revit and need to prepare layouts of slabs insert cuts and details sort them and prepare drawings it might burn a lot of your time. Click structure tabfoundation panel slab specify a foundation slab type from the type selector. This video compares and contrasts the differences between 3 floor types. We can either use one of our different drawing tools such as just draw lines or draw a rectangular shape.

I m just going to use a 6 inch foundation slab next we need to draw out the perimeter of our slab or our concrete floor that is going to be inside of this area so in order to do that we can come over here and we have a choice. Floors architectural structural and foundation slabs are system families very similar to walls roofs and compound ceilings. Create a foundation slab by sketching or selecting the walls of the first level of the model. They vary in shape structural capacity and construction methods.

And not being able to slope a variable thickness floor. Click modify create floor boundary tabdraw panelboundary line and then click pick walls to select the walls in your model. Most of the information is coming from the autodesk revit 2017 bim management training guide. Composite steel decking is a common floor system used in multi storey buildings.

A quick note whilst you could model the decking so you can see the profile in 3d this is generally thought of as. The floor will automatically segment into an assembly of hollowcore planks which will form naturally around openings etc. So now that we loosely know the process for creating precast hollowcore floor slabs in revit let s do a deep dive into the workflow so that you can become a master at creating hollowcore floors in revit. Optionally you can sketch a foundation slab.

Issues related to sloping of floors slabs varying the thickness of floors limits to sloping floors and the shortcoming of adding a slab edge to a sloped floor slab. Today i want to focus on creating floor types. So in this article i will overview a few examples of how you can apply our revit add ons in our.