Aligning Beams for Crawl Space

[BigPicture045]

I am attempting to model a footer/conc. block column/support beam for a crawl space on residential construction.

Working with the beams has been a pain. I cannot align them with AL tool and I can't bump move them with arrow keys. Tried in 3D view and a section view. 

Any pointers on working with beams?

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[barthbradley]

Change the beam's "z" offset value -- or don't use beams. Sounds like the beam's intelligence is counter-productive do what you want to do/how you want to do it.  

...looks like all you want to do is change the "z" justification. No?

 

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2020/EN...

[BigPicture045]

@barthbradley  

What would you use in place of a beam? 

[barthbradley]

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@BigPicture045 wrote:

@barthbradley  

What would you use in place of a beam? 

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There's several approaches. Heck, you could just use a Floor. 

[barthbradley]

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