REVIT CUSTOM SLAB EDGE

[@stevecooper3010]

That was a great explanation, the additional tip of the drop-down for the brick-to-slab edge is a great tip thanks

[@hugoedelarosa]

Thanks for the tutorial. This was not covered in the class my company provided, and I will pretty much use this in every building I design.

[@Bee-d4b]

very useful video, thanks man

[@RanveerSingh-sv9co]

very good tutorial. learn lot of things. thanks for the help. keep up more tutorial on families.

[@jonathanboyle6691]

Fantastic tutorial on Slab Edges. You should keep up the tutorials on families, Thanks for the help!!!

[@revithowto5996]

Glad I could help Jonathan, thanks for the feedback.

[@Jester123ish]

Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for!

[@btheonekh]

Thank you, very well explained! way to go!

[@josedomingo3048]

great tutorial. this exactly what im looking for for very long time. thanks mate. any chance you can do a work out on set down on slab? thanks again.

[@revithowto5996]

Yes, soon

[@johnwallace5284]

This is really helpful exactly what im looking for thanks. FYI im a builder from Perth are you from Perth?

[@revithowto5996]

Hi John, I'm glad it helped you out. I'm in brisbane.

[@vanessatsai3931]

thank you for sharing~

[@johnwallace5284]

Hey mate did exactly what you said to do here i created a custom edge and used joined geometry to join it to the slab. Problem is now i want to change one side of my slab with a different custom slab edge but i cant because revit wont allow me to use unjoin geometry so i can delete one side of the slab edge? Do you know how i can do this? At the moment the entire custom edge are one huge element and i cant split them up? Thanks

[@benjaminjewell769]

why not make slab edge profiles with fillets included?!?

[@revithowto5996]

HI Benjamin, thanks for your comment, You may want to change the size or angle of the fillet.

[@benjaminjewell769]

@@revithowto5996 Fair enough. I have it setup with fillet width / height parameter included in slab edge family. I always draw it at 45° and haven't ever needed to change the angle. But obviously everyone is different!

[@JavierOropeza08]

My first thought exactly. This should have been all 1 profile, made parametric as needed. Making changes to the model after joining all of this would be a mess, and not fun.

[@josedomingo3048]

ok, this must be dumb question. i'm a newbie revit user, but how do you setup a wall with "base extension offset" parameter?

[@revithowto5996]

Hi Jose, to be able to use the Base Extension Distance parameter follow the steps below - select walls from the architecture tab - select the wall that you want to extend and click the Edit Type button - in the type properties dialogue box select the Edit button next to the Structure heading - in the edit assembly dialogue box select the preview button at the bottom to show a preview of the wall and change the preview view from floor plan to section. this now allows you to click the modify button. - click modify and then zoom into the base of the wall. - hover over the base line of the part of the you wish to be able to extend and click. You should see a lock, click the lock to unlock it and then press OK to exit the dialogue boxes. Now the base extension parameter should be active when you select that type of wall from now on. Remember to give it a negative number if you want it to go down. Hope this helps.

[@josedomingo3048]

@@revithowto5996 thanks so much mate, really appreciate your time explaining it. looking forward for more great videos.

[@robstatetx]

If my template is construction in revit 2020 and I am using imperial there is no "profile hosted". Tried to save the slab edge and had ZERO CLUE where that folder was and couldn't find it. Performed 2 family types and I saw both before exiting and saved them in the 'Structural Foundation' folder, which doesn't help when you need a slab edge, but it was at least somewhere I could find it, look in that folder and there is only 1 family type. Saved and exited to model and clicked on slab edge, edit type and no slab edge found because it isn't in the 'slab edge' family folder. Searched for a slab edge family folder, which has 4 standard edges in it based on what I can see in the model screen and find the 'slab edge' folder with ZERO types in it, so I grabbed the one I created out of the 'structural foundations' folder and the 'slab edge family' thing still doesn't see what I created. 3 FREAKING HOURS to create a 30 second profile that cannot be found. I don't see how companies pay money for this crap of a program. 23 years of working with CAD and I can't make a freaking slab edge. I have spent over $1,000 in training, 16 classroom sessions of 4 hours each (the instructor was worthless for production CAD just play around with the software class), paid for the software, watched over 40 hours of training videos, taken 45 pages of notes, watched at least 50 youtube videos and I can't make a slab edge, change details in a wall, make a custom titleblock, draw a detailed roof eave to gable detail, or generate a section cut on a sheet to make a set of working drawings. I graduated college with a very good GPA, I have used ACAD forever, produced working drawings for $100,000,000 worth of projects, built 3D models in Microstation back in the 1990's, but I am worthless at Revit. (It took me 2 hours to see the slab I made because the software was toggled to not show the floor. Why on earth would it be set to not show a person the floor?) Spent 4 hours to find a overhead coiling concessions door that I had to find from an online BIM model supplier because there is no concessions window in the provided software and no easy way to make one.

[@revithowto5996]

Hi robstatetx If the imperial family template library doesn't have the 'Profile Hosted' option, you could also use the standard 'Profile' family template . The Reason i used the Profile Hosted is because it shows you where the insertion point and the host face are. When i saved the slab edge profile in the video, I saved it to my own library that i created, which is not the standard out of the box library that comes with Revit, so that is why you may not be able to find the slab edge folder to save your profile in. You could always add a new folder to the standard AutoDesk library within the profiles folder named slab edges at the same time as you save you new profile to keep all you new families located in the same library if that makes sense. I hope this has helped.