Revit Concrete - Part 1 - Applying Cover to Concrete Elements in Revit

This article is an extract from here.

I was recently going through some of my old questions from customer and even some questions from myself and I thought I would document them in a blog post.

Revit has come a long way in regards to concrete functionality that is someone did not consider this for their Rebar place / annotation I think you would be stepping over dollars to pick up cents. When I look at 2017 to 2018 to 2019 to 2020…. hugh change.

Concrete Cover

Cover is the theoretical gap between concrete face and the edge of the rebar. The settings are broken down into two different components.

The Cover Settings themselves:

The application of the Cover to structural objects is as follows:

For a Structural Slab you can see you have settings for TOP FACE, BTM FACE and OTHER FACES which you can adjust based on values set above

For a Structural Column you can see you have settings for OTHER FACES which you can adjust based on values set above

If I want to adjust these values you can simply choose the drop down list, which gets populated by the Concrete Settings.

There is however one other method for applying specific cover to faces themselves. Its a bit more work, however if you require very specialised cover settings this is the way to do it.

Go to the Structures Ribbon

Then from the secondary ribbon / toolbar that appears below the main ribbon select the option to “Select by Faces”

2 examples below showing how I set 3 of the faces to 30mm and one face to 40mm. (You should able to see if visually too)

The other option as part of this toolbar is you can pick by elements too, same as when we change the cover in the properties toolbar.