topic Re: Heavy Timber Beam Connections in Revit Architecture Forum

Heavy Timber Beam Connections

leahmbell — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:57:10 GMT

Is there a way to clean up the joins between the beams I highlighted? They are actual structural beams and columns.

Re: Heavy Timber Beam Connections

ToanDN — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:58:58 GMT

Yes. Use Cope tool and set Coping Distance to 0 from properties.

Re: Heavy Timber Beam Connections

leahmbell — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:33:18 GMT

I think I am missing something. When I cope the beams it cuts like this. When I adjust the coping to 0" I get an error saying it can't cut the beams. I am looking to get a simple vertical miter between the 2 beams.

Re: Heavy Timber Beam Connections

barthbradley — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 20:07:33 GMT

Draw a Ref. Plane at the apex, stretch the Beams to overlap and then use Cut Geometry tool to cut each Beam against the Ref. Plane.

Before Cut:

Re: Heavy Timber Beam Connections

ToanDN — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:45:05 GMT

@leahmbell wrote:

I think I am missing something. When I cope the beams it cuts like this. When I adjust the coping to 0" I get an error saying it can't cut the beams. I am looking to get a simple vertical miter between the 2 beams.

You can play with the coping arrows to get the final result.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/00e97217-5857-46f3-840e-38f3419f5425

Re: Heavy Timber Beam Connections

samuelzergling — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:45:32 GMT

I usually just use the join tool and those lines will disappear. If it doesn't look good in section then I use the fill region tool and hide the model.

Re: Heavy Timber Beam Connections

ToanDN — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:05:00 GMT

@leahmbell wrote:

I think I am missing something. When I cope the beams it cuts like this. When I adjust the coping to 0" I get an error saying it can't cut the beams. I am looking to get a simple vertical miter between the 2 beams.

Is this not what you are after?

Re: Heavy Timber Beam Connections

leahmbell — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:09:52 GMT

That is exactly what I am after, but I am not getting that result/ options when I do it. I think it's because the person who created this created those beams as a part of a beam system. I have disassociated the beams with the system but it still isn't working. I am going to try to recreate it as just a beam and see if I can get it to work that way.

Re: Heavy Timber Beam Connections

barthbradley — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:43:19 GMT

Beams have to be co-planar to do what @ToanDN did.

Re: Heavy Timber Beam Connections

leahmbell — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 03:52:16 GMT

So the issue was because the beam was created as apart of a beam system. As soon as I recreated the beam as a single member it mitered as expected. Thanks for the help!

Re: Heavy Timber Beam Connections

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