Very useful!! 🙌 🎉

Damn mate, that is a nice looking model (and great little tip). Would love to see more of the model though and a quick snap shot of how you created it

Thanks! This bus going to save me so much time doing annotation lines in my sections.

Your drawing is beautiful, never had a project entirely in wood, sorry for my bad english

Quick, Efficient and very helpful! thx man, you've earned a thumbs up!

@TheRevitKid

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers! Glad it helped!

thanks! great video's as always

liking the quick tricks, hi to you from indonesia!

Great video - just to add a couple bits... you can do this for columns as well. Start in the plan view (no need for a new section). Set the reference plane to the lower reference level. I found it handy to also add a visibility parameter to the symbolic lines 'by instance' to control the visibility of each column's cut mark.

@TheRevitKid

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for tuning in jP and the additional tip!!

Amazing. Thanks man.

Great video Jeff! I do this as well for my dimensional lumber framing families. The thing i question is the need to cut a section in the family. You can just go to left or right view, set the workplace to center L/R, draw the ‘x’ and call it a day. Otherwise, nice job.

@TheRevitKid

3 жыл бұрын

True, you may not need to... but I prefer it. As long as you check the right visibility boxes. If you go left/right sometimes you will see it in your elevation views (depending on the model)

Thank you for this, so helpful! Wish this was just standard to the default families.

@TheRevitKid

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! For real!

Thanks for another great tip! draw my X...😁😁

great video, as always. Curious, when your mouse was coming close the the exterior wall with wood shake siding, I noticed the tool tip said part. I was wondering if you could elaborate on how you model siding, and use the parts command I assume. This would trigger the next question of openings, etc. Or is that siding simply just part of the actual wall. I guess I'm assuming if it's a part, you are doing that for the siding. Also I noticed that your rafters aren't mitered up at the ridge beam, I've contemplated many ways of making that connection, either cutting by a reference plane, or using the opening in face command. I ended up deciding opening in face command was the best option because when you copy a beam that has the ends cut, and copy the beam over in a plan view, it copies along the opening, so that makes the framing then "perfect".

@TheRevitKid

3 жыл бұрын

Woah... Lot's to answer here... First, the reason my siding is in "Parts" is because I had to demolish portions of the existing siding. Instead of making it two walls, I simply convert to parts and split/demo that layer of the wall... Second, I have not cut the rafter tails yet... Ideally, I will cut them at some point... For right now these are helping me figure out material counts, construction details, etc... The rafter tails being cut isn't super important... To your point, there isn't a very easy way to do this... I could make a new family type, use a void/cut profile, etc...

@dondimster6615

3 жыл бұрын

Perfect answers, thanks!

Did you actually model sill plate & double top plates in each stud wall? I saw them in your live sections. Any addin or trick to actually model a stud wall with all studs & plates? Thanks for the trick with the beam. However, I created a beam/joist family that has the option to model 2-2x or 3-2x,...Not sure how I apply this trick to get symbolic X in all individual 2x section in the bundle.

Wow, you modeled wall stud framing and roof framing and all the joists..wonder what is the purpose for doing that in architectural? Is this for costing estimating?

@TheRevitKid

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, in residential architecture you find yourself having to drawing framing plans as well... It is also very helpful for figuring out the details.... On a side note, it is very helpful when estimating and procuring materials, also!

@steedlei1

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRevitKid that will be massive work involved. I do it in stage after construction documenting (in Australia called building permit - architectural) stage, and set new phase in revit as "COE" and will charge big fee for detailed bill of quantity, of course all items in 3d..and by the way most roof framing will be done by roof framing manufacturer. It will be very difficult to make complex roof framing. There are some plugin like AgaCAD but it is quite expensive. I am trying to use dynamo to do full roof framing.

@TheRevitKid

3 жыл бұрын

@@steedlei1 Sure, but its not more than a structural engineer would do... And Revit makes it pretty easy!

@jonathanludwig4725

3 жыл бұрын

@lei. it’s really not as bad as you’d think. I model joists as well. If modeled with structural beam systems, you can generate fast building or wall sections without having to fuss with repeating detail components (rdc). Honestly, it hardly takes any more time than the RDC, and appears anywhere you cut sections. Makes for great 2D and 3D sections.

@jonathanludwig4725

3 жыл бұрын

TheRevitKid I’ve yet to find a strl engineer that will actually model wood framing other than GLBs or headers. I wish they would model the framing though.

Thanks for the vid! Would making the rectangular member family out of four triangular forms allow the X to appear even if cut at an angle? I guess then there is the issue of hiding it on the ends; chasing my tail.

@TheRevitKid

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, that is a very clever approach and I do think it would work with the angled cuts... but, yes, you'd need to model in an end cap or something... I like where your heads at!

which software do you recommend for screen recording?

@TheRevitKid

3 жыл бұрын

I sue camtasia studio.

also is there a framing app for revit you recommend?

@TheRevitKid

3 жыл бұрын

There are framing apps, but I use out of the box Revit tools for this.

Hi. With software it's used to calculate the structures?

@TheRevitKid

3 жыл бұрын

Technically, yes, Revit's structural elements have analytical aspects that let you calculate structural loads... I did not do it for this project, though.

The real question: how you do it with sloped framing that is cut at a bias

Wow, what a faff! There should be a much simpler way. In the ArchCAD Essentials library you just use the framing objects and it all just happens automatically

@TheRevitKid

3 жыл бұрын

Chris, I am not sure what a faff is... But, I am glad to hear ArchiCAD's library has the "X" built in. To be fair, the takes 3 minutes to and you would only need to do it once to your Revit families and never have to do it again....

none of this you will come across at the firm...........