topic Re: How to disable beam auto join? in Revit Structure Forum

How to disable beam auto join?

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 00:56:55 GMT

Is there any way to prevent/disable Revit to do automatic joining of structural elements?

I have two base frames in my example the first one is done (1) and I'm struggling to join the two joists of the base frame next to it (2) and (3) and I'm getting a really funny result.

The joist (2) is displacing within the adjacent base frame, the joist (3) is extended up to the next bsae frame, and the most funny of all the joist from the first base frame is getting disconnected and extended with no reason.

Re: How to disable beam auto join?

Joe.Charpentier — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:47:01 GMT

You cannot specifically disjoin a beam in Revit without dragging the end control that defines the beam away from another member.

However, it appears that you are using steel beams, and therefore you should be able to control the way the end joins occur using the beam join editor. This tool is available in the “Geometry” panel on the “Modify” tab, and then you should be able to use the in-canvas arrow controls to modify the way the beams join together, including the miter you appear to be trying to create.

Joe

Re: How to disable beam auto join?

roosa.heiskanenPUF4D — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:05:05 GMT

Hi,

I'm having the exact same problem as in the first post. The beam joins don't seem to work when there are 2 miter joins next to each other. Has this been solved somehow?

Re: How to disable beam auto join?

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 03:36:52 GMT

So good ol' autodesk. here we are 6.5 years later and still no way to globally disable auto beam joining. I am repeatedly having to move beams because of this retarded inbuilt feature. Costing my time and my employers time.

Re: How to disable beam auto join?

AntDrt — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:23:27 GMT

Hello everyone,

to disable multiple join for multiple beams, you can use Dynamo.

and use package called "StructuralFraming.DisallowJoins"

i use it and works pretty well.

But you have to modelize first your beams, there is currently no way to disallow by default.

Re: How to disable beam auto join?

WEC17 — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:43:04 GMT

click on the beam or the element and on the blue dot right click and disallow joint.

Re: How to disable beam auto join?

Jason.P — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:37:01 GMT

The disallow join trick might be your best bet. I would be leary of doing the Dynamo thing and disallowing all your joins. This maybe a case of less is more. See jpgs below for what to look for.

Re: How to disable beam auto join?

dbrownG4VN3 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 21:22:56 GMT

Thank you so much! That solved a problem I've been having for a long time!

Re: How to disable beam auto join?

rsMR267 — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:08:57 GMT

Hey,

Just wondering if you have found a package to allowjoins, not 100% re autojoining will be a good idea or not tbh, but certainly in some cases it will be.

Thanks

Re: How to disable beam auto join?

mirjan — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 09:02:20 GMT

That causes my whole beam to unjoin from the material he is in. I want him to join the material, but disallow at the ends

Re: How to disable beam auto join?

a.henry.rose — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 15:04:07 GMT

This "feature" causes me nothing but trouble. My expectation is that the default should be unjoined. If you want to lock the elements together, you toggle the join. It's such a mess, for me at least. Maybe I'm not the target user of the software, though. Furthermore, the behavior seems so inconsistent. I find it hard to work with groups in which one a structural member from one group auto-joins a structural member from another group. I find myself constantly running around the model and chasing beams that have changed length.

Re: How to disable beam auto join?

jihedtaw — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 18:53:50 GMT

Thanx man !!! @WEC17

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zach__young — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 18:54:11 GMT

I realize this is a rather specific gripe, but while I'm glad that we have a Disallow Beam Join command available after right-clicking the blue dot/node of a Beam, why has the Allow/Disallow Join Configuration option not been implemented the same way as it was for Wall Joins? The command is somewhat buried, no?

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Karol_Piroska — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:44:41 GMT

a simple answer - that's just the way Revit is. Instead of having the toggle switch at each end of a wall or a beam available for every element, most of the time you have to isolate the element, select it, right click on that tiny little blue grip, select disallow join. And then you have the toggle switch available to allow or disallow joint for that end of the element all the time. But why would you make life simple and work faster?

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zach__young — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:34:01 GMT

sheesh

Re: How to disable beam auto join?

martin7915 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:40:46 GMT

Very time consuming if you have lots of beams or in my case bar joists

Re: How to disable beam auto join?

Szymonlip — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 07:32:39 GMT

I've given up on modeling steel in REVIT. I model it in Advance Steel and synchronize it. In the synchronization options, there's an option to disable automatic beam connection for all imported elements.