Challenge Assignment 1

Add a Parapet to a Floor

Learning Objectives within this challenge assignment are as follows:

• 1.1b Work with structural floors

• 1.1c Work with structural walls and wall types
• 2.3 Create family content
Video resources that may help with this challenge assignment are:

• 006 - Working with structural walls Part 1.mp4

• 008 - Working with structural floors Part 1.mp4
• 022 - Creating family content.mp4
In this challenge assignment, you use the wall or slab edge command to create a
parapet around the western 3rd floor slab. The parapet could be modeled using a
variety of differing methods. The parapet needs to have the following profile and
dimensions and must be joined and monolithic with the floor.

Before selecting a modeling process, you must consider the following

requirements:

• If the floor’s boundary sketch is changed will your parapet update?

• Can the parapet profile be easily edited, perhaps the height or thickness?
• Can the parapet host rebar?
• If the model is to be used for structural analysis, does your parapet have
an analytical model?
Challenge Assignment 1

Open Challenge Exercise 01.rvt

The parapet should be added to the third-floor slab as shown in the image below

Exercise time allowed: 45 minutes