From the course: Revit: Structural Analysis Tools

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Configuring materials

Configuring materials

- [Instructor] This short video will explore the analysis properties of materials. Materials are a pretty picture, literally. They also drive both drafting standards as well as physical properties, so let's take a look. Jump into your structural model or any model really. I'd like to select my foundation wall. Click edit type. For the structure let's click edit. Let's find our materials here. Concrete, cast in place, gray. Click on your Browser button. I'll expand my dialogue just a little bit. Of course we know about identity, we know about graphics and appearance, but when we jump over to physical, and we drill into say, concrete, we know what our concrete compression is, 3.5 KSI. We can click on lightweight. This stuff matters, 'cause when we send this stuff over to Robot or any other structural application, it's going to read these materials if that application's able to do so. Thermal behavior. All of the…

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