Changing the Reinforcing Graphics (2:47)

00:06

ERIC WING: OK, I don't know about you,

00:07

but I don't show Rebar this way.

00:09

In reality, I don't know anyone that shows Rebar this way.

00:12

If you do, I'm not shaming you.

00:14

I would just like to look at how we can show

00:16

this stuff in a different way.

00:18

So let's jump into Revit.

00:20

I'm going to go to my Section Footing 13.

00:23

OK, a couple of things here.

00:25

I had you turn your detail level to find and reverse that.

00:30

For a detail level, let's click our flyout.

00:33

And let's go back to Coarse This is how I show Rebar.

00:38

Of course, my Rebar is a lot thicker than that.

00:42

One problem, though, with the Coarse

00:43

is sometimes with our floor.

00:46

It's going to show up a little funny.

00:47

It's all right, select your floor.

00:52

Click Edit Type.

00:54

So our 4-inch concrete floor, there's

00:57

no reason that it doesn't have a Coarse Scale Fill Pattern.

01:01

So, floors get overridden by our graphics.

01:03

So we have to remember that.

01:05

So for Coarse SCALE Fill pattern, click into here.

01:09

Click your Browse button.

01:12

Select concrete Click OK.

01:18

Click Apply.

01:21

Then click OK.

01:23

Hit escape a couple of times.

01:24

You'll like it.

01:25

That looks a lot better.

01:27

OK, now let's deal with this flimsy reinforcing.

01:32

Go to the Manage tab.

01:36

Go to Object styles.

01:41

Scroll down to structural reinforcing.

01:44

Sometimes you have to widen your category here

01:46

to see it clearly.

01:48

Or I should say structural Rebar.

01:52

For projection, let's go with six.

01:56

For cut, let's go with six.

02:01

Click apply.

02:03

Click OK.

02:04

That immediately looks better.

02:07

Right, so now we can make our adjustments.

02:08

I can select this bar here, slide it over.

02:15

And I can slide this one over a little bit just

02:17

to make it start to look good.

02:23

Let me slide this bar up just a hair.

02:31

There we go.

02:32

I know we didn't do much, but I see

02:34

people don't use Revit Rebar just because they don't like

02:38

the way it looks as a default. You

02:40

don't have to accept the defaults.

02:42

You can make Revit look any way you want it to look.