From the course: Revit 2020: Essential Training for Structure (Imperial)

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Adding piers and pilasters

Adding piers and pilasters - Revit Structure Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2020: Essential Training for Structure (Imperial)

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Adding piers and pilasters

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- [Instructor] Now that we have columns and foundation walls we can start inserting piers and pilasters. Piers and pilasters are actually columns. This is the best way to add this type of element to a Revit model. So, the objective of this video is to use an existing concrete column and modify it to become a pier. Let's open structure 12. Let's go down to top of footing under Structural Plans. Let's go to Structure, let's go to Column. Click the drop down here and let's grab 12 by 18 structural rectangular column, 12 by 18. Click Edit Type. Click Duplicate. We will call this two foot six, two foot dash six inches by two foot slash six inches. Click Okay. B and H, two space six, two space six. Hit Okay. The height is going to be level one, perfect. So the first one I'll do, you can't see it now but when we put it in we'll be able to. If I select this intersection we'll see that it's going to put it in, it's going to trim everything out. Pretty cool. Let's cheat, let's click At Grids…

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