From the course: Revit Structure 2016 Essential Training
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Editing the truss bottom chord - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Revit Structure 2016 Essential Training
Editing the truss bottom chord
- We were able to attach the top chord to a roof. That was pretty easy but what if we wanted to modify a Truss chord by sketch, well we can do that too. What I'd like to do is find a Truss to alter. We'll find a section than go into the edit profile mode and add kind of a radio bottom chord. So let's open up our Trusses model. In the project browser, let's go to Section 1. Let's zoom in on this Truss here. Let's select the Truss. Let's click on edit profile. Truss - Ignore top, that's fine, it's just saying it's gonna reset the top temporarily when we're editing it. Click Ok. Now what I want to do is I want to edit the bottom chord, so we have to tell Revit that's what were doing. So click Bottom Chord. Now on the draw panel let's use our line button. I'm gonna come over here about 4800mm. At 4800 I'm gonna pick the bottom chord. I'm gonna come straight down about 800. I'm gonna hit escape. I'm gonna do the same on the other side. 4800, I'm gonna come down 800mm, pick a point. Now I'm…
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