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Adding beam systems

Adding beam systems - Revit Structure Tutorial

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Adding beam systems

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- [Instructor] With the perimeter frame in place, we can now fill in the gaps. At our filler beams, we can simply use what's called a beam system. Just specify the beam type and the spacing and you are off. Let's jump into structural 21. Let's go to level two. Zoom into this bay here. Go to structure, go to beam system, right here. Now the beam type, let's click the dropdown, let's grab W 12 by 26, justification, center works, layout rule, let's go maximum spacing, let's go five feet. The tag style, I want to do a system tag. Now, depending on the beam you select is going to dictate the span direction. All right, so if I click this W 14 by 30 here, it's going to add a bay of joists. They're beams but they're thin so Revit kind of analyses them as joists. Click here. We can just put one in here. Keep going. Keep going. Click here. I know this one here's going to be difficult so we're going to have to come up with somethin' else. That's okay, we can do it. Here. Let's click this one…

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