Structural Connections

Use the Connection tool to add a structural connection to elements in your structural model.

Topics in this section

About Structural Connections
When you design a structural model, the structural connections for elements depend on many factors beyond their purpose of joining elements.
About Add-in Structural Connection Elements
The Revit API platform can be leveraged by customers and third-party developers to create their own connections and integrate them into Revit.
About the Generic Connection
The generic connection is a symbolic representation of a steel connection designed with full geometry.
Change the Order of Connected Elements
Understand the priority of steel elements in a connection and learn how to change their order.
About Standard Structural Steel Framing Families
Learn the difference between standard and custom steel framing families.
Place a Structural Connection
Add a structural connection to a framing join of two or more columns, beams, and braces.
Load a Structural Connection
Load structural connections from add-in databases.
Specify Approval Status Options
Define project specific approval statuses to connectors in a model.
Modify Add-in Structural Connections
Change parameters, geometry, analysis information, and other modifications specific to connections generated from add-ins.
Structural Connection Instance Properties
Modify connection handler instance properties to change level identity data, phasing data, or user-defined project parameters.
Structural Connection Type Properties
View and modify the parameters that define the type properties of structural connections.

Parent topic: Structural Framing