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The following is a video tutorial, following up on one of my first posts regarding structural framing in Revit 2008. It covers the new Edit Beam Join tool in Revit Architecture 2009 and runs through a Beam System and Structural Framing Schedule briefly. Click below to view.

Video Tutorial - Beams Behaving OK

I'd like to point out that the SHS beam I was using was loaded from the standard Australian library under Structural > Framing > Steel.

This is my first screencast, I hope you find it useful. Please leave feedback in the forums or via a comment below.

All of these settings can be accessed by opening up the Rendering Dialogue, under the Rendering Tab. In this new Dialogue box click "Adjust Exposure..." near the bottom. Please note that you must be in a 3D or Camera view for the Rendering Dialogue to be available.

Intense Early Morning
Exposure Value: 13
Highlights: 0.6
Mid Tones: 0.3
Shadows: 1.5
White Point: 7500
Saturation: 0.7

Believe it or not, Revit will allow you to extend or contract selected wall layers above or below their base or top constraints!

This means that you can have one part of the wall assembly at a different height to the rest of the same wall. Let me demonstrate:

Keynotes seem to be a bit of an unused or mysterious tool to most new Revit users. It is, however, extremely useful.

Keynotes are a simple method of associating a number or code and a name to any object (sort of like your little black book). Names and numbers are specified in a plain text file with a single 'tab' between the Number and the Name.

To locate your default Keynotes text file, create a new project and select Settings -> Keynoting... and note the 'Full Path'. Once you have created your own Keynotes file you can specify it here by clicking Browse...

In this example we will be creating a new Keynotes file and using it within a new project. You may also want to check out the default Keynotes file for reference.

In this series of Tutorials, I will be going through, in detail, each element of the Revit Interface, and describing some common terms.

1. Menu Bar - This area will be familiar to you from the use of just about any software on a Windows system. These menus and submenus will provide access to every function available within Revit Architecture. I will obviously not list each and every function in depth here, instead list and summarise some interesting points.

Revit Architecture's built in structural beams can be a nightmare in some situations. The problem is that beams just don't seem to want to butt up against one another correctly, especially at a corner join. The default behaviour has the beams joining center to center and cut back so as to allow for a post/column at the corner.

The Problem:

If you try to schedule these beams, you will notice that the length of the horizontal beam will be taken from the blue dot, regardless of where the triangles (Start and End Extensions) are dragged to. You can try dragging this dot but it always seems to want to join to the adjacent beam and any amount of aligning will leave you blue in the face.

The Solution: