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Develop a material takeoff for steel
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Description
In this practice exercise, you will calculate the total weight of steel framing in tons. You will then
color in red any weight greater than 0.25 ton.
Exercise Solution
1. From the dataset, open the Revit model Practice Exercise 4b.rtf.
2. In the View ribbon, click Schedules and choose Schedule/Quantities to create a new schedule.
SOLUTION Practice Exercise 4b: Working with views and annotations Page | 1
Exercise Solution Page | 2
b. Add the following fields:
c. Filter out any beam that is not made of steel using the Filter tab.
d. In the Formatting tab, ensure that Weight is selected and the calculation option is set
to Calculated totals.
b. In the Conditional Formatting dialog, create a rule to color weights greater than 0.25
tons in red.