From the course: Revit 2020: Essential Training for Structure (Imperial)

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Adding a miter

Adding a miter - Revit Structure Tutorial

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Adding a miter

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- [Instructor] We could do this before, but now it actually works. So under projects, let's go to models and let's start a new project. For the template file, let's hit the drop down and go to structural template. Let's click okay. Let's do my favorite exercise and draw a couple beams. Let's draw a beam, here. Let's draw a beam here. And we'll draw one maybe here, another one here. Let's set our detail level to fine. Let's start up here. On the steel tab, click the miter drop down and let's just go miter. Select this beam, hold down the control key and select this beam, hit enter, and it miters it up. Go to a 3D view. Set your detail level to fine. Let's go to hidden lines. It's a pretty fancy miter. But what's cool is, if we hover over the perimeter of it, we can select that box and we can click on modify parameters. It's not too much here, unless we want to put a gap in it. Let's put a half inch gap up in there. We can make a bisecting line, create a weld, close out. And there it…

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