It is good practice to first add grids and columns before creating beams.
When adding a beam to a plan view, you must set the bottom clip plane below the current level; otherwise, the beam is not visible in the view. If you use a structural template, however, the view range and visibility settings will display beams accordingly.
Elements of each beam are defined through the type properties of the specific beam family. In addition, various instance properties can be modified to define the functionality of the beam.