topic Re: Copying Foundations in Revit Structure Forum

Copying Foundations

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 17:26:52 GMT

I created a pier/spread footing combination and reinforced it per our design. I now want to copy this foundation to other locations in the model but when I select everything and select move, give it a distance and direction, when the copy appears I get the error "Rebar is placed completely outside of its host." And I noticed that at least one side of the new pier is missing. What am I doing wrong? I tried grouping the concrete and rebar but got the error "A structural element will be detached from grid(s) due to inconsistent group membership." I have no idea what I need to do to copy this foundation without errors.

Again I'm new to Revit so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Re: Copying Foundations

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 03:08:14 GMT

Hello @Anonymous

Create them as an Assembly before copying.

Re: Copying Foundations

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 13:18:45 GMT

Just the reinforcing? Im thinking I should include the concrete structures along with the rebar.

At this point we are just learning to use the software on a completed project and when we do use it for a project we will probably only reinforce one foundation of each type to be used for detailing. At a later date we may try to reinforce all foundations so that we can get rebar quantities for estimating purposes.

Re: Copying Foundations

aleksei.tkachenko — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 13:41:38 GMT

What I did in my lates project was to group reinforcement only and then copy it to foundations that I copied separately in advance. It worked well and now when I have to change something in reinforcement, I'm editing the group and have all changes reflected to every foundation with reinforcement group.

Re: Copying Foundations

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 13:50:51 GMT

So you "GROUPED" them instead of making them an "ASSEMBLY"? I haven't been able to really tell the difference between the two and/or when to use one over the other. We do a lot of repetitive work (columns, foundations, trusses, etc...) so knowing which is appropriate for which situation would help a lot.

Re: Copying Foundations

aleksei.tkachenko — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 14:04:07 GMT

I haven't used assembly in my projects yet. That's why I can only say that grouping does it work well.