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Breaking a connection - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: Revit Structure Certified Professional
Breaking a connection
- [Instructor] I'm gonna use a profanity that used to make me really anxious back in the good ol' AutoCAD days, explode. I'm sure the people working on this update made a conscious decision to avoid that word, but that's basically what we're doing. 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. Slow to clip. Click OK. Select connection. Clip angle. By holding down the Control key, select both of these beams. Hit Enter. There it is. Now let's break it. Click the break button. That's a cool connection. Now what we see is that model Zs is all one part. But we'll see it essentially explodes it, but at least it keeps the intelligence of these items. These are still bolts and we can select them. We can still change them, but everything else has become detached and independent of one another. That was a…
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Configuring the connection settings2m 38s
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Adding a base plate3m 33s
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Adding a clip angle3m 31s
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Adding a column support3m 58s
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Customizing a connection3m 11s
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Breaking a connection1m 35s
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Adding a plate and bolts3m 41s
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Adding welds and symbols5m 24s
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Adding modifiers6m 7s
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Adding a miter3m 46s
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Adding parametric cuts2m 47s
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