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Editing the truss bottom chord

Editing the truss bottom chord - Revit Structure Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2022: Essential Training for Structure (Imperial)

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Editing the truss bottom chord

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- [Instructor] Since we were able to modify the top cord so easily. I'd like to look at how we can modify the bottom cords. Since we don't have anything to attach it to, we're going to have to physically edit the profile of one of these trusses. Let's do it. Let's jump into Trusses-03. Let's go to our roof level. I'm going to cut a section through this one. Click on the Section button. I'm going to pick a point right here and I'm going to come down to here. I'm going to pull this back. Hit Escape a couple times. Double click on your section to open it up. Set your detail level to Fine. You know what? I want to set my visual style to Realistic just because it's pretty. Now, if you hover over the middle of your truss, you can select it. See where all the dotted lines are? Now, what we want to do is we want to Edit Profile. A truss and/or our top bottom chord is ignored. What's going to happen? It's going to…

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