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Accurate beam placement

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dgizzim0
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Accurate beam placement

I've been screwing around with beams in Revit for years and still have issues with the gaps at the connections. There is a shape handle and a structural component end. Either way, the beam decides where it wants to end. If I put two precast beams end to end, resting on an inverted tee girder that needs to have the 9" tee portion extend between the two joists, Revit doesn't like that and does its own thing. I move one, the other follows. I move both far enough away from eachother, then drag one end to where it needs to be, cool, then when I drag the other...boom...they snap together. Yes, I'm aware of the "start and end extension" in the properties window, this is incredibly time consuming and if one of the beams are switched around, I need to remember if this end was the start or end. In addition, the structural component end will go initially where it wants to, so there's no guarantee that if the parameters are correct, the beam/joist will be.

 

Can I remove all "rules" that beams have so I can place these correctly?

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Chris.Aquino
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The following blog posts have steps you can take which can sometimes prevent beams from automatically joining to columns:

Tips for Beam Cutbacks in Coarse/Symbolic Detail

Removing beam cutbacks in Medium/Fine

 



Chris Aquino
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