Hi dmaxwellE7VF9
Looks like you’re new to the Forum. Welcome. Lots of awesome Revit users herein.
Seems you have two posts on the same topic, with the other post here.
Looks like you’ve got a lot of good responses. I agree with the post above,... if this is a construction project, seems like more of a design/engineering question than a software or drafting question. Square or rectangular structural bays are usually much more cost effective. So it may be a matter of using the maximum spacing perimeters and just quickly layout some various options/scenerios for your customer with different approaches to the building shape in question – bays ignoring the angle of walls and remaining orthogonal to an x/y; bays/grids aligned primarily to the West wall; bays/grids aligned primarily to the East wall.
Even done manually, this would be a quick exercise for preliminary design and column counts.
The easiest Revit steps are probably to
- get the exterior walls into a plan view.
- Make some duplicates of the plan view.
- Using reference planes, pick lines, and offset different grids – doing a few scenarios similar to the above ideas.
- Then just do a quick manual count of the intersections (columns)
Looks like between the two posts, you’ve received some good Revit how-to suggestions, but again...seems this is more a design/engineering question than a drafting question.
So does this and the other replies answer your question? Please let us know. And again, welcome to the Forum.
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Martin Stewart
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