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Structural Wood Decking

While setting up an engineering firms template this week I had a brainstorm while working on creating the Composite Metal Decks.

Typical Composite Deck

While I was setting up their structural metal deck and loading in the profile for “Slab Metal Deck” it dawned on me, these profiles could also be used for other things besides metal deck. Often we want to see floors with 2×6 or tongue and groove decking. Yet we may not want the overhead of modeling these elements (Yes I have modeled them as beam systems in the past).

Wood Decking

With that thought I tried to create a simple Structural Deck Profile that was simply an “L” shape. I only needed the vertical line to represent the 2x members but knowing their would have to be a horizontal line that would represent the width of the the 2x member.

Broken Profile

However I realized that when these profile families are loaded into the project and assigned to a floor Revit attempts to connect the ends of the lines in the profile, Thus creating undesired results

Results from Broken Profile

This means the profiles have to have lines on the left and right end in the same location so Revit can connect them without adjusting the profile.

Correct Profile

With that in mind I haven’t found a way to get a tongue and groove to work properly. I am on the fence if I like the line between the groove and tongue but I think it may be worth it. The profile in conjunction with a drafting cut pattern returns a pretty good result.

Revit 2020 BIM360 Synch with Shared Coordinates .dwg files

When Autodesk introduced their cloud platform BIM360 Docs for Revit (formerly BIM360 Team, formerly A360, formerly Skyscraper). There was an issue where if a linked file using shared coordinates was moved (mostly .dwg files), thus modifying the shared coordinates, the file would fail to synchronize. The user had to use the save command first telling Revit to ether save the “current” position, do not save or disable shared positioning. This was a bug where this dialog box was not allowed not come up during a synchronize process and only during a save process. Well in 2020.2 I can say this is no longer the case. Today I added several .dwg files using shared coordinates and when I went to synch the dialog box popped up. Thus saving me from yelling at Revit and having to go back and save the file first.