Managing Rebar Numbers and Partitions

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PRESENTER: So let's let Revit do the grunt work, shall we?

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What I mean by that is if we're going to add Rebar to a model,

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we might as well assign an automatic number and location

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of where we're placing that reinforcing.

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What I'd do in this video is add some path

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reinforcing to a slab.

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From there, we'll assign a number

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to the reinforcing and also a location

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that Revit likes to call a partition.

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Let's jump into it.

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I'd like to open my medical center parking garage.

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Of course, you can open any project

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that you're working on to follow along.

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In the project browser, let's make

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sure we're under Structural Plans.

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I'm going to go down to level two.

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Go to the Structure tab.

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Under the Reinforcement panel, click the Path button.

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Next, we want to select the slab that we're going

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to put the path reinforcing in.

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Rebar shape definitions will include hooks

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and will ignore end treatments.

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That's OK.

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Click OK.

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On the Draw panel, click Pick Lines.

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Let's pick this line right here.

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Of course, we had a 50/50% chance of that going

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the right way and I failed.

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So click on the little flip path reinforcement button.

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Now, notice on the Draw panel, the Pick Lines button

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is still selected.

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So I'll pick this line here, this line here, this line here.

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So what we want to do before we click Finish,

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we need to make sure we have a partition name.

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So what we're doing is saying, OK, this group of Rebar

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is in this one specific spot in our project.

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For lack of a better name, I think

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I'll call it West Edge Level Two.

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I'll set my layout for maximum spacing.

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We don't need an additional offset.

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View visibility states, let's click edit here.

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And maybe we'll show it unobscured and solid

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in our 3D view.

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Click OK.

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Scroll down.

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I'm going to take the defaults for the rest of it.

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We use Rebar shape one as our primary bar.

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We'll make them five feet and they're number fours.

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Everything else looks pretty good here.

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So I'm going to click on Finish Edit Mode.

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Hit Escape keep a couple of times.

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Now, I have a section here but I'm going to delete it.

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We'll draw our section in together.

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That way, if you don't have a section,

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you'll be on the same page literally.

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On the Quick Access toolbar, click the Section button.

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Click a section right through here to about there.

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Hit escape a couple of times.

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Let's open our section up.

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Let's scroll down to this area here.

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We'll keep this section at 1/8 of an inch

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but let's create a callout here.

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On the View tab, click Call Out.

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Let's pick a box right around this area here.

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Now, if we select our call out bubble,

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we can grab our grip and kind of slide it over like that.

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Hit Escape a few times.

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Let's open our call out.

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Let's change our view to 3/4 of an inch equals a foot.

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Let's change our detail level to fine.

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Go in this little Rebar hook.

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Hover over the Rebar, just select it.

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Notice what we have here.

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We have a partition, it's West Edge Level Two,

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Rebar number is no one.

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I don't see that often.

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And for a schedule mark, we can always change that too.

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What we're going to do in a future video

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is we're going to make a schedule

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and that schedule is going to have

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our partition and our Rebar number built into it.

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Hit Escape a couple of times.

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The last thing I want to do is just

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go ahead and rename this call out.

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We're going to put this on a sheet eventually.

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So the view name instead of Section One Call-out One.

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All caps, we'll call it Enlarged Slab Edge.

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Click Apply.

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Let's go to section one.

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For the view name, we'll call it Section At Level Two.

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Click Apply.

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There you go.

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Save your model.

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You're all set.

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That's how you add a partition and a Rebar number to a Rebar.