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Cleaning truss connections

Cleaning truss connections - Revit Tutorial

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Cleaning truss connections

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Revit does an awesome job placing trusses, then allowing you to form them to suit your immediate situation for the top cord and for the bottom cord. It completely ignores how we cut the framing to actually fit together however. What we'll be doing in this video is, first we're going to open up a section. Then we're going to go in and we're going to cope our framing members. Then we're going to unpin them and stretch them and cope them again. Then we're going to take a look at the coping settings within the framing member itself. So in our Revit Roofs file, let's go ahead and go down to O-3 Roof. I'm going to open up this section that I have looking at my truss. What I need to do is start coping up here. I'm going to go to my Modified tab, I'm going to click on my Cope button, uncheck Multiple Cut. Now, Revit's asking us to select the element to be coped first. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and select this member. Then I'm going to select this member here and it gets coped out. I'm going…

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