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kbrown

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As a Desgin Firm we want maximum flexiblity when we design buildings and we use Revit and Sketchup widely in our office, we also use exposed steel members in many of our designs. I am always being asked by people in our office about the Structural Families in Revit. We have both Revit Architecture 2009 and Revit Structure 2009 in our office and here is my question. Has anyone made a family of structrual shapes that can be used as both framing (beams) and columns. Revit makes the distinction and therefore has them split into each category, but sometimes we use Angles, Channels and Tees as column members or tied to tubes in column construction. We want the flexibilty to load a family, place the family and rotate it in any position we want. We are not structural emgineers and we want them to do that work, but they can replace a simple structural family with the proper Revit Structural family in their model. We have tried making our own profile based families to leverage the sizing text file, but to no avail. If anyone has done this, has any hints on acheiving this, we welcome the input. The contstraints in the Structural families seems to be the culprit. Can we get rid of the constraints and still have the pick of different sizes?

Thanks in advance.

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emgeeo

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Are you assigning your column extrusion parameters within the profile sketch mode?

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