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Adding a brace frame

Adding a brace frame - Revit Structure Tutorial

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Adding a brace frame

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- [Instructor] Now that we have elevation set that we can put brace frames in, let's go ahead and add some brace frames. Let's jump into Structure_38. Let's make sure we're in our frame and elevation, Brace Frame Elevation. Let's zoom into here. Notice that Revit was smart enough to cut it off right at the midpoint of those column lines. Let's keep it here. If it becomes problematic, what we can do is we can grab our crop region and drag it out, but I think we'll be good. Let's zoom back in here, hit Escape a couple times. Go to the Structure tab. Now click on Brace, Structural Framing Brace. It'd be silly, we don't want to use that. Let's hit the drop-down. Let's grab a HSS six by six by 1/2. Now, here's what we want to do. We want to start drawing this brace frame from the analytical endpoint of this beam. So if I hover over this and type s + e, make sure that you're hitting the endpoint of this, okay. So s + e, we're going to pick that point. Now we're going to come straight up…

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