From the course: Revit: Structural Families
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Using the truss template
- [Instructor] Traditional trusses come with a template. While there are a couple truss templates available in Revit really only one does anything special. Of course that's the one we're going to use for this video. To create a truss with the parameters we'll need, we'll start using the structural truss template. We'll then add a radial top and bottom and test it in a project. So under Families let's go new. Go to your region and scroll down until I find structural trusses. Let's click open. I'm going to grab my dimensions and maybe move them up a bit 'cause I know they might get in the way. Go to the create tab, notice we have a few different options here for trusses. First thing I want to do is select the top chord. So click on top chord. Let's make it be a radius. So let's go start and radius arc. It's going to be an arc. We're going to click a point here, click an end point here, and I don't know, resolve it…
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