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Adding isolated footings

Adding isolated footings - Revit Structure Tutorial

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Adding isolated footings

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- [Eric] Piers and pilasters need something to bear on as well. This is why Revit has isolated footings. Similar to the strip footing, this is a bearing element for other foundation systems. So let's go ahead and configure an isolated footing. I'm going to jump into structure 13. Let's go down to top of footing. On the Structure tab, let's grab Isolated. We'll use this big chunk here. Let's click Edit Type. Let's click Duplicate. And this will be 3 foot 6 inches by 3 foot 6 inches by 12 inches and get rid of the 2. Let's click OK. Foundation thickness will be 1. Width is 3 space 6. Length is 3 space 6. And then click OK. Now this is cool because we can just select At Structural Columns. Pick a window around everything. Click on Finish. It's too easy. So it's going to put that directly underneath these columns. If we move the column it's going to stay where it is unfortunately. But at least for placement it's going to put it right underneath it. So there you go. That's how you add…

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