From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for Structure (Imperial)

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Breaking a connection

Breaking a connection - Revit Structure Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for Structure (Imperial)

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Breaking a connection

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- [Instructor] I'm gonna use a profanity that used to make me really anxious back in the good old AutoCAD days, explode. I'm sure the people workin' on this update made a conscious decision to avoid that word. But that's basically what we're doin'. So let's do just that. Let's add a fitting then break that sucker. In Revit, let's start a new model using the structural template. Let's model a couple beams like we've been doing. Set your detail level to fine. Change it to hidden line. Let's load a clip. Click OK. Select connection, clip angle. By holding down the Control key, select both of these beams. Hit enter. There it is. And now, let's break it. Click the break button. That's a cool connection. Now what we see is it models these as all one part. But we'll see it essentially explodes it, but at least it keeps the intelligence of these items. So these are still bolts and we can select 'em, and we can still change 'em. But everything else has become detached and independent of one…

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