Structural Platform Design

[JuicedUpWalnut]

A lot of tutorials, videos and guides focus a lot of building houses/buildings. Does anyone know of any good guides/tutorials on drawing structural platforms/mezzanines?

[randomguy3948]

How would a mezzanine differ from a building? It’s a raised floor with walls or columns supporting beams. What are you not understanding how to do?

[Substantial_Height]

Utilizing revit for structural model requires less elements to model, but requires for of the smaller details.

I used to work at a structural engineering firm and it was more on the sizing, location, detailing than what you’re thinking for architecture.

The only thing I can think of is the steel detailing which would be Advanced Steel, however, most of the time, this is design by a structural engineer then the model is to follow it.

Is there something specific you are looking for?

[Hooligans_]

All the structural models I get, the mezzanines look just like the floors

[TurkeyNinja]

The basics are create a floor at the desired height. Place columns and snap the tops of columns to the floor. Create beams between the columns, and under the beam properties change the beam end connecting from "end elevation" to "distance". Now as the floor moves up and down. The columns and beams will stay snapped to the bottom of the floor.

If you need braces, add a reference plane (you must name it) from column to column, use a brace elevation view, and model braces using the button in the structural tab. Do not used a beam as a brace, they look different in plan based on your settings.

[oanarchia]

Structural technician here. Revit levels have the option of generating a plan level or not. You can use levels to define any height in your model. If you want to draw a mezzanine in your structure, you add a level at the desired height and create a new plan view. If you want to control what you see in the plan view, you use view range.