Set Structural Settings

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SIMON DICKINSON: Hello, let's now

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look at our structural settings and project units.

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In this video, we are going to concentrate

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on the symbolic load and analytical settings,

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and finally, our project units.

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Before we begin working on our structural project,

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it is always a good idea to check

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that our structural settings and project units are correct.

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Although Rivet is very flexible and we

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can change these settings later with very little issue.

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All settings and units are controlled by the template.

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And so, once configured and served to our template

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will be consistent across our projects.

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To check our structural settings,

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click either but diagonal arrow on the structures panel

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in the structures tab of a structural settings

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icon from the manage tab on the ribbon.

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This will open our structural settings dialog.

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The dialog box gives us access to various settings,

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such as our symbolic settings.

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Here we can set our cutbacks for beams and columns.

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And how our baselines are displayed in our cost plan

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reviews.

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We can choose which single-family we use.

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These can be customized for our own company standards.

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We also have access to our load settings and load combination

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settings.

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In most cases, these are correct in the default

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structural template.

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But we can have new one should we require them.

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We will look at this in more detail in a later video.

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From a structural analysis perspective,

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the analytical settings tab are some great productivity tools.

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Here we can find tools for auto checking our structural model

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to make sure that it is going to work.

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It will check that none of our connections

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are floating, that columns have foundations,

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and we have no issues with our analytical model.

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During our model production, we will

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be able to check and fix issues as they happen or later

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via the error dialog box.

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All soft errors meaning ones that

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can be ignored before moving on, are logged in the error dialog

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box for future review.

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Once fixed, they will be automatically removed.

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This is always a good place to start to error check our models

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before moving to robot.

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We also want to check that our units are

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correct from units dialog box located on the manuscript.

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As well as having the common units,

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we have discipline-specific units on the dropdown.

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Selected structure will give us access

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to our discipline-specific units.

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The default units are correct, but you

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may want to change the display of values, such as the number

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of decimal places.

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Please note this does not affect the calculation

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accuracy of Revit.

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Only the way in which the values are displayed.

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My favorite option here is to suppress trailing zeros.

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So you only see the decimal places needed.

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We have now configured our settings and units.

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Remember to save your changes.