Here's a neat little trick that we poor sufferers with Revit Structure can add to their "bag of tricks" since Revit Structure was written by people who NEVER ACTUALLY USED IT TO DETAIL STEEL WITH.
Lets say like me you need to put a bolt hole in the bottom flange only of a W-Beam, Oh, I don't know why, maybe to bolt the beam to the top plate of a vertical column or something...
1) Design Bar / Modeling Tab / Opening / Opening by Face. Select (or create) a plane on the bottom of the beam and draw the (void extrusion) hole as required. This hole will pass through the top and bottom flanges of the beam. (This flaw is yet another reason to look for a better steel detailing program than Revit)
2) Create a new family (I like to call it "Plugs for holes") and plug the top holes in the beam which should never have been created in the first place but there you have it. We have to learn how to work around Revit's many and terrible steel detailing faults.
Good luck
Add on.
It seems that if you plug the hole and try to "Join Material" between the hole and the plug that Revit has some sort of seizure and you can no longer create openings by face at all. I scrapped that beam and shut down the computer. I hope "Openings by face" works again after I restart.
Edited by: Frustrated_Revit_User on Dec 28, 2008 2:48 PM
