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Cantelivering slab edges - Revit Tutorial

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Cantelivering slab edges

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- Since we picked framing instead of lines for our slab, we're gonna actually need to cantilever the edges. This allows us to stop the decking to allow for a thicker slab at the edges of our framing. And since we picked the centerline of our beams we're gonna have to set our detail level to find and look at where the edge of the beam is. Let's get started. Let's jump into Level 2 Structural plan. I'm gonna zoom in over here. I'm gonna click my Detail Level, but I'm gonna set that to Fine. Notice that our slab only comes to the middle of our beam, which is fine, we can fix that. Go ahead and select your concrete slab. Now let's click on Edit, Boundary. Now go ahead and select this magenta line. We can cantilever concrete and we can cantilever steel. So let's cantilever our concrete -86. And what this does is this cantilevers over. It's either gonna be 86 or negative 86. Select this one, cantilevers concrete -86. Let's go right around the perimeter, and do this to each line. If it goes in the wrong direction, just get rid of the negative. And down here. I keep going with that cantilever. My guess is as good as yours, if it's negative or positive. I've been getting lucky so far. So once we see that black line we know that we're good. Once you have that, click on Finish Edit Mode. Let's change our Detail Level back to Coarse. And I want to zoom in here and I want to cut a section. I'm gonna click on the Section button, I want to pick a point right here, to right here. I'm gonna double click on this section, I'm gonna set my Detail Level to Fine. Now let's zoom in and see what that did. That actually cantilevered our concrete just a little bit. Let's go back to Level 2. Let's click on Close Hidden Windows. Now we see our slab edges doing the right thing.

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