Adding Rebar Shapes (2:49)

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ERIC WING: Yes, Revit does have predefined Rebar shapes.

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It's just a matter of finding them and making sure they're

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loaded into our project.

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I'm not going to actually add anything

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to our model in this video.

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I just want to show you how Revit looks at Rebar

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and how it's loaded into our project.

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To start, let's go to the Structure tab.

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We see the reinforcement drop down.

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We see we have our reinforcement cover settings.

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We looked at our settings and our reinforcement numbers.

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Now that doesn't tell us what the Rebar actually is, right?

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So we're not going to see our shapes until we actually

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try to apply them to an object.

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So if I select this column here, now we'll

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see our Rebar tab here.

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Let's go ahead and click on Rebar.

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Now we have our Rebar shape browser.

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Remember when we made this little Rebar shape,

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we added one to it.

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Actually, it didn't, because that's a common shape.

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It just duplicated the shape that we could have used.

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But if we look over here, we'll see we have Rebar shape double

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Now if we scroll down here, we have a bunch

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of different Rebar shapes.

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What are those?

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If we click on this little button here,

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it's going to simply just toggle our Rebar shape browser.

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Now our Rebar shapes are loaded into our project.

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So if we scroll down to our families,

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scroll all the way down to Rebar shape, here they are.

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Now if we double click on one of these,

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it's going to open up our type properties,

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but there's not a lot of properties

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that we can look at other than one, allowable Rebar types,

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right?

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So some shapes like type number three here it's pretty small.

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So if we click Edit, we can disallow a certain type

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of Rebar to use a shape.

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So we can uncheck whatever we want here.

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So click Cancel.

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There's not too many other variables we can change.

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Hit Cancel here.

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If you don't have any of these reinforcements in our project,

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what we can do is we can go to the Insert tab,

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we can load family.

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Now if we scroll down, we can find structural Rebar shapes.

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So if we double click on structural Rebar shapes,

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here they are.

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Here's our Rebar shapes.

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We could load those into our project as we see fit.

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Notice we have that 17A here.

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We thought we were being clever by creating a new Rebar shape,

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but it already was in there.

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Hit Cancel here, and skip a couple of times.

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There you go.

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That's how Revit deals with Rebar families and Rebar

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shapes.