Chapter 14: Floors, Ceilings, and Roofs

Understand floor modeling methods. Floors are one of the most fundamental, sketch-based system families used in a Revit model. You can customize them to accommodate a variety of assumptions at various stages of design.

Master It How can you create a structural floor with integrated metal decking?

Solution You can create a structural floor by going to the Home tab of the ribbon and clicking Floor image Structural Floor. This tool activates the Structural parameter in a floor's instance properties. Once this is activated, edit the floor's type properties to add a Structural Deck layer and assign a deck profile. ...

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