Revit Structural Bracing Connections

[advandes]

Does anyone know how to actually apply connecting plates to braces with the many so called bracing connections? Every single type of bracing situation I try and create, I always get errors as shown in the attachments. I am starting to wonder if they actually work. Help with this would be appreciated. Thanks.

[catalin_lang]

The beams/bracing you are trying to connect seems not to be supported by the detailed steel modeling functionality.

More info about the supported structural steel shapes can be found here.

What families are those bracings?

[advandes]

Catalin,

I am using the LL-Double Angle family inserted from the supplied structural steel family folder. So these types of objects have to be manually created for the connection details to work? I would love to see a video of how this is done.

Thanks, Aaron

[catalin_lang]

No, not even manually you cannot add steel elements for the double families. 

The workaround is to create two beams. See attached video.

[advandes]

Thanks, but the video would not play; "Windows Media Player encountered a problem..."

[catalin_lang · Accepted solution]

try this one...

[nabil.munla]

If your issue is similar to what I had, then I have the solution for you. Basically when drawing bracings, DO NOT click on the Bracing button in REVIT. instead, use the Beam Button and then change it to the desired family. This way all built in steel connections will work. For some reason if the same family was placed through the use if BRACING tool it will not connect to anything except with generic connection. at least that was my experience.

[michael.holtgrave5WZHN]

I am doing a similar thing to what the other guy was doing. What version of Autodesk Revit is he using? I watched the video and I do not have the filter button in the Modify tab. I am using Autodesk Revit 2020

[michael.holtgrave5WZHN]

I tried inputting the braces as beams with the same family selected, but the connection still failed when I tried to add it.

[josue.gutierrez97UDK]

Still an issue with Revit 2023. They added AISC v15 libraries but no fixes for back to back members.

[AK_souilmi]

yes, thank you very much.