Use the sketch tools on the.
Floor slabs revit.
Precast floors or slabs as you might call them are widely used in buildings.
The floor will automatically segment into an assembly of hollowcore planks which will form naturally around openings etc.
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.
They vary in shape structural capacity and construction methods.
Floors architectural structural and foundation slabs are system families very similar to walls roofs and compound ceilings.
A quick note whilst you could model the decking so you can see the profile in 3d this is generally thought of as.
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.
We can either use one of our different drawing tools such as just draw lines or draw a rectangular shape.
And not being able to slope a variable thickness floor.
Today i want to focus on creating floor types.
The architectural floor the arch structural floor and the concrete slab.
So in this article i will overview a few examples of how you can apply our revit add ons in our.
Create a foundation slab by sketching or selecting the walls of the first level of the model.
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.
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.
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.