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Detailing trusses

Detailing trusses - Revit Tutorial

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Detailing trusses

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- Like I mentioned before, this thing needs some cleaning up. By unpinning the individual members of our truss, we can dive in and start coping the joints to come together a little cleaner. So to get started, let's jump into our trusses model. I'm gonna zoom in on this area here, 'cause it's pretty bad. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna hover over this guy, tab, select it, and then I'm gonna unpin it right here. Hit Escape. Now, let's do the same over here. I'm gonna tab, I'm gonna select this, and I'm gonna unpin it. Hit Escape a couple times. Tab again, select it. Now I'm just gonna drag it up into this area here. Then I'm gonna hit Escape. On my Modify tab, I'm gonna click this button here, Beam/Column Joins. It already knows which way I wanna go, I'm just gonna pick this arrow right here, and it's gonna give me a nice, clean join. I'm gonna lock that so I don't lose it. Now I'm gonna hit Escape a couple times. Now, I'm gonna cut this one out a little bit, so I'm gonna tab over my…

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