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The next step after creating rebars for several beams and columns – connect rebars of different hosts in Revit. In order to find hosts, which rebars can be connected, we use intersection filters, such as BoundingBoxIntersectsFilter. However, depending on host type (Beam or Column) approach is slightly different.

Developing complex plugins for Revit is impossible without saving important for correct working information. There are multiple approaches depending on plugin type, requirements, information and so on to save and load this information.

Revit built-in commands to place rebars are very limited, especially when we talking about placing straight rebars by specific pattern. Also, there is no built-in features to apply rebars to multiple hosts at the same time.

Using Revit Smart Rebar System Hooks can be applied either to Column Rebars or Beam Rebars. Although applying logic for Beams and Columns very similar, there are also some differences between approaches for each case. Let’s begin introduction into Hook Manager with Beams first.

Constraints system is a powerful Revit instrument, that allows user adding important dependencies between elements and create special behavior on changing one of them.

Unreal Engine apart from being a powerful engine for game development, can be used as a powerful tool for creating realistic scenes thanks to its own built-in Render Engine.