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Adding Howe trusses

Adding Howe trusses - Revit Structure Tutorial

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Adding Howe trusses

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There's a lot of different types of trusses that we can choose from in the Revit library and we can make our own from scratch actually but let's start with the basic simple How truss because of the fact that it's basic and simple and can be attached to other elements In Revit under Models, let's click Open Browse to your exercise files and in Chapter 11, we'll grab Trusses 11-01 click open. Let's go to the roof level. Let's go to insert. Let's click on load Autodesk family. In the browse category let's go to all results. Let's scroll down until we find structural trusses. Let's grab how flat truss. Click load. Go to the structure tab and click the truss button. I'm going to pick a spot right here. I'm gonna come straight down. I'm gonna pick a spot right here. Make sure that it's perpendicular though. These take a little while to model in because of their size. I'm gonna grab this end point here and it's gonna make this truss probably crooked but it's okay and I'm going to pick a spot…

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