Efficiently Populating Wall, Slab, and Foundation Details in Revit Structure: A Step-by-Step Guide

Hello and welcome to Revit Structure. Let's get started. In our previous video, we completed placing hatching and rebar into our detail.

Let's continue. In this detail, we're going to show how to quickly populate this wall, slab, and foundation with existing information by bringing it into this detail. What we're going to do first is zoom out and go to our first detail where we had placed information.

Let's double-click it, and now it's active. What we can do is grab all the information that we had placed in this detail regarding annotations and reinforcement, and we'll copy them. Let's deactivate this detail.

Let's zoom in on our detail that we brought in from Revit. Let's go to Modify and Paste. Okay, you see it doesn't place it exactly, but since it's highlighted, it will move as a unit, and we can place it as closely as possible to where we want it.

Okay, there we have it. Let's click, and you see we've populated our Revit detail with the existing information we brought in from the AutoCAD detail. So let's finish.

Let's stretch this up. The difference between the Revit and AutoCAD detail is that the AutoCAD detail has attributes that we can use to create a good-looking detail. Regarding the break line, we can bring it to Front, and we can overextend our hatching and rebar to get a nice line on the finish. Let's move our note down and realign it here.

You see we have our dowels and our bottom bars in our footing. Let's just bring those up a little bit. Very good.

---

Now again, what we can do is extend our rebar by picking Trim/Extend Multiple, selecting the end of the rebar—or actually, the proper command would be Align. Let's pick it, and we can align the rebar to the top of this footing. Let's move our existing slab information down.

That looks good. Okay, now what we can do here is move this bar over to the left a little bit. Let's grab these bars and mirror them over.

Again, copy once and mirror over, and there we have our slab rebar. Let's extend it out here. Okay, and we'll finish up by grabbing our rebar and copying it into our sections. Let's drag it up one foot four inches.

Now you see we have rebar showing over our block outlines or break lines. Let's pick it. Let's right-click.

Let's Select All Instances > Visible in View, and it shows us our three break lines. Now what we can do is bring them all to Front at once, and it cleans up our detail. You see how quickly that went.

Let's pull this in. Let's realign this. And there you have a completed detail—just that quick.

---

The nice thing about Revit is you can develop Revit Libraries with typical details that you bring in, modify slightly, and bring efficiency to your project. Now you notice that we have extra hatching for our sand and our earth. Let's annotate this a little bit because annotations don't carry over very well.

Let's pick here, here, and here. Okay, let's pick here and here, and we're going to do the same thing. Since we're calling out our Footing on the plan, let's pick this and replace the text with “per plan.”

Very good. Let's escape out of that, and there you have a completed detail. You can add more information if you like such as rebar, rebar types, and continue from there. That's it for this video.

We'll continue on with detailing the structural framing next.