From the course: Revit 2025 Essential Training for Structure (Imperial and Metric)

Creating column offsets - Revit Structure Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2025 Essential Training for Structure (Imperial and Metric)

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Creating column offsets

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- [Instructor] Just because we use the grid to basically lock in our columns, that doesn't mean we can't move a few columns around here and there. The objective of this video is to select a few columns and move them. Then we're going to go back and examine the properties of the column to see how Revit displays the offsets in the Properties. In Revit, under Models, go Open. Browse where you're keeping your exercise files. And in Chapter-02, let's grab Structural_02-03, Open. In the Project Browser, under Structural Plans, let's go down to Level 1. I'm not a huge fan of these columns sitting in the middle of my corridor here. So if I hold on my Control key, I'm going to select this column here and this column here. Now let's click Move. Let's make sure Constraint is turned on, but make sure Disjoint is not checked on. Now, if you run your cursor up and down this column grid line, we're going to pick a spot like right about here. Now move your cursor to the left. Let's come over four feet. Notice that it'll kind of snap to four feet, if you can see it. Pick that spot right there. The architect's going to have to close that in. Hit Escape a couple of times. Select this column, hold down the Control key, and select this column. Click Move. We're going to pick a point along this column grid, and we're going to move it to the right four feet. You can type in four feet as well. Hit Escape a few times. Now go ahead and select any one of these columns and notice what it does. It says Column Location C3 with an offset of -4 feet. Pretty cool, huh? When we do column schedules, that's going to play a real important role. Hit Escape a couple times. Go ahead and select this column here, click Move. Pick a base point here. We'll also move this one, four feet. There we go. Hit Escape a couple times. There we go. That those are the only columns we're going to move for the architect. The rest, they can frame in. So now that these are written here, let's look at creating a column schedule.

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