Adding Structural Grids

Revit has entire books on this subject alone, so this book addresses only the structural items available to people using Revit Architecture. If you are a structural engineer or structural designer, I recommend that you use Revit Structure. That application is just as powerful as Revit Architecture but is geared toward structural engineering. That being said, the two applications share the same file extension (.rvt), which you can open and modify directly from either Revit Architecture, Revit Structure, or Revit MEP with absolutely no issues.

This chapter delves into the structural world by presenting available functions that have been blended in with the architectural tools. The first item you will tackle is usually the ...

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