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Editing the truss bottom chord

Editing the truss bottom chord - Revit Structure Tutorial

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Editing the truss bottom chord

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- [Instructor] Since we're able to modify the top chords so easily, I'd like to look at how we can modify the bottom chords. 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 roofs 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 then I'm going to come down to here. I'm going to pull this back. Hit escape a couple of 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 a top bottom chord is ignored. What's going to happen, it's going to ignore that slope temporarily as we're editing it. Click okay. Now, I'm…

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