topic Re: Structural Deck Profile in Revit Structure Forum

Structural Deck Profile

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 17:13:29 GMT

hello,i have a question

i'm trying to model a kind of structural deck profile and then load it in revit to be used in floor 'Structural Deck',but the thing is that i can not see the profile inside the drop down list in floor settings!!!

would you please help me how i can do this, and how i can model a structural deck inside revit?

i will post the structure i am actually trying to model(as a deck), which is called block joist!!!

thanks in advance.

Re: Structural Deck Profile

ToanDN — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 21:04:25 GMT

Did you set the profile family to Structural deck usage?

Re: Structural Deck Profile

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 07:34:22 GMT

yes i did,that's why i was surprised by this.

i have defined the usage to structural deck and loaded the profile but it doesn't appear in the list.

and the other way i wanted to know how to model sch structure in revit?

Re: Structural Deck Profile

Tom_Kunsman — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:19:15 GMT

can you post the profile so we can look at it? As for modeling this, I am not sure doing this as a deck is the right way. It might be the easiest though. It all depends on what you are trying to do with this exercise. Based on the photos it looks more like a rebar truss floor system and not really a deck.

How much detail are you trying to put into the model?

Re: Structural Deck Profile

ToanDN — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:44:23 GMT

Can you share that profile family (zip and attach)?
Using a structural deck profile is mainly to model floor with fluted decking. What you show is maybe better be done using beam systems.

Re: Structural Deck Profile

shefypattambi — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:40:38 GMT

Hi @Anonymous ,

Hope this article might be helpful for you.

https://blogs.autodesk.com/revit/2019/08/22/autodesk-structural-precast-extension-for-revit-2020-1-the-fifth-element-has-arrived/

Re: Structural Deck Profile

mmcintosh-ral — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:25:21 GMT

<<Never Mind, I've started repeating my steps and am figuring out the problem>>

Hi ToanDN-

I'm having a similar problem today (trying to show custom fluted decking in section) so I thought I'd send you my profile family to see if my mistake jumps out at you.

When I load this profile family into my project, it shows up in the Project Browser>Families>Profile list, but does not show up in the Structural Deck Properties> Deck Profile drop down list. The structural deck was created using Architecture>Floor:Structural in Revit 2018.3.

This profile was created by "saving as" from the OOB "FormDeck_Non-Composite.rfa" and I've modified a few things that I'm guessing might be causing problems.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Re: Structural Deck Profile

mmcintosh-ral — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:26:32 GMT

I was going to try to delete this post, but can't figure out how.

Re: Structural Deck Profile

mmcintosh-ral — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 21:49:07 GMT

The reason my profile wasn't showing up in the dropdown was I had added a closed loop within the profile lines.

This was my first attempt at a custom roof deck, and I was trying to make the shape for an EPIC Metals WideckWP fluted system that includes a continuous piece of metal ceiling on the underside of the deck flutes. I was trying to include this in the metal structure profile, but realized that I needed to add it as a second structural deck item within the core boundaries of the structural floor family.

this discussion thread helped me figure it out.

thanks-