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The Basics of Autodesk® Revit® Building 8

New to Autodesk Revit Building and not sure where to begin? This session will get you started on the right foot. Come discover how to begin a project and be productive right away. Whether you are starting with existing design data or from scratch, you can leverage Revit's power to help you achieve success. In this session, we will explore the basics of the Revit Building interface, the Project Browser, working with and setting up various views of our building model. Change an item in one view and see the results in all views! We'll explore basic presentation techniques, managing data, and setting up views and sheets. Revit Building 8 is a powerful and mature Building Information Modeling solution. See what it has to offer.

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About the Speaker:

Paul Aubin - Paul F. Aubin Consulting Services

Paul is the author of several books on Autodesk Architectural Desktop including Mastering Autodesk Architectural Desktop, and the recently published Mastering VIZ Render: a Resource for Autodesk ADT Users coauthored with James D. Smell. Paul's background in architecture spans 18+ years. He is an independent consultant offering training and implementation services to architectural firms. He also serves as the moderator for CADalyst magazine's online "CAD Questions Forum" and has spoken at AU for many years. The combination of his experiences in architectural practice, as a CAD manager, and an instructor gives his writing and instruction a fresh and credible [email protected]

BD13-2—The Basics of Autodesk® Revit® Building 8.1 by Paul F. Aubin

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Autodesk Revit Building Overview

This Quick Start provides a simple tutorial designed to give you a quick tour of some of the most common elements and features of Autodesk Revit Building. You should be able to complete the entire exercise in 30 minutes or fewer. At the completion of this tutorial, you will have experienced a first-hand look at what Revit Building has to offer.

Install the CD Files and Open a Project

To follow along in the tutorial, download the dataset from the Autodesk University web site. (A completed version is also provided).

1. Launch Autodesk Revit Building from the icon on your desktop or from the Autodesk group in All Programs on the Windows Start menu.

o From the File menu, choose Close. This closes the empty new project that Revit Building creates automatically upon launch.

2. On the Standard toolbar, click the Open icon.

o In the “Open” dialog box, browse to the location where you downloaded the dataset.

3. Double-click BD13-2-Pavilion.rvt. (You can also select it and then click the Open button). The project will open in Revit Building with the last opened View visible on screen. In this case that is the Level 1 floor plan View. This project has been started already and contains a Property Line object (dashed square in the middle of the screen). There is also a Toposurface terrain model element in this file that represents the site for the building. Let’s start by displaying this so we know where to place the Walls of our building.

BEGIN A NEW MODEL

To get started, we need to begin with the basics: Walls, Doors and Windows. These elements are the basic building blocks of any architectural model. Adding these elements in Revit Building is simple and straight forward.

Create an Underlay

On the left side of the screen running vertically is a panel named: Project Browser. In it are listed several representations of our project including drawings, schedules and sheets. Four floor plans are provided here: Level 1, Level 2, Site and Roof. The first floor plan View Level 1 is bold indicating that it is currently active and open on screen.

1. On the Project Browser, double-click to open the Site plan View. Notice that the Site Plan includes contours and a shape in the middle of the plan representing the building footprint and its entrance patio.

o On the Project Browser, double-click to return to the Level 1 floor plan View. We can display any of the other floor plan Views (such as the Site View) as an underlay to this View to help us coordinate elements at different levels.

2. On the Project Browser, right-click on the Level 1 Floor Plan View and choose Properties (see Figure 1).

Figure 1 Edit the Properties of the Level 1 Floor Plan View

Figure 2 Assign the Underlay as the Site plan View

3. In the “Element Properties” dialog, beneath the “Graphics” grouping (near the bottom) click the word None next to “Underlay.”

o Open the pop-up menu that appears and then choose Site (see Figure 2).

o Click OK to dismiss the dialog and see the results. Notice that only the patio and building footprint outline appeared. This is because they are the only parts of the Site that intersect the current level height (more on this later). Notice that they appear in 50% halftone gray as well. This reinforces visually that this is simply an underlay.

Create Walls

We begin our building model with some simple Walls.

Locate the Design Bar on the left side of the screen. The “Basics” tab should currently be active. 4. On the Design Bar, click the Basics tab and then click the Wall tool.

Several options will appear across the bar at the top of the screen just beneath the toolbar icons. This is the Options Bar.

5. From the drop-down list on the left (know as the Type Selector) choose Basic Wall : Generic - 8".

o From the “Loc Line” list, choose Finish Face:Exterior. o On the right side of the Options Bar, click the rectangle icon (see Figure 3).

Figure 3 Pick the Wall tool and set it to draw Basic 8" Walls in a rectangular shape

6. With the mouse pointer (now shaped like a small pencil) click the lower right corner of the gray shape on screen (see the left side of Figure 4).

Figure 4 Click the start of the Walls

o Pick the Endpoint of the short horizontal edge indicated on the right side of Figure 4. You will now have four Walls on screen. However, the “room” they define is very narrow. We can easily adjust this. Before we can manipulate the Walls however, we must cancel the current Wall creation command.


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7. On the Design Bar, click the Modify tool or press the ESC key twice.

Either method can be used anytime in Revit Building to cancel the current command and return to the Modify (selection pointer) tool.

8. Click on the vertical Wall on the left to select it. In Revit Building objects turn red on screen when they are selected. 9. Click the mouse directly on the blue text of the dimension that appears between the selected Wall and the

other vertical one (see Figure 5).

Figure 5 Click the text of a temporary dimension to edit it

Figure 6 Draw a Wall in random location in the space

10. In the text field that appears, type 20 and then press ENTER. Notice that the Wall moved to the new location as indicated by the value we input and that the two horizontal Walls stretched with it to remain attached. Please note that when you edit this way, the selected Wall moves. The dimensions that we used for this edit are referred to as “temporary dimensions.”

11. On the Design Bar, click the Wall tool again.

o From the Type Selector choose Basic Wall : Generic - 5". o From the “Loc Line” list, choose Wall Centerline. o Draw a vertical wall from top to bottom of the room approximately one third the width (see Figure 6).

Note: The exact dimensions are unimportant at this point, we will move the Wall next.

o Beneath the temporary dimension, click the small icon (indicated in Figure 6) to make the dimension permanent.

o On the Design Bar, click the Modify tool or press the ESC key twice. Now that the dimension is permanent, notice that it remains on screen when the Wall is no longer selected.

12. Click to select the dimension.

o Click the small “EQ” icon beneath the dimension (see Figure 7).

Figure 7 Toggle the Dimension Equality for the indicated Walls

13. From the File menu, choose Save. It is important to remember to save every so often to preserve your work. Autodesk Revit Building is configured by default to remind you to save at regular intervals. You can edit the interval, but if the message asking you to save appears, you should always perform the save.


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Insert Doors and Windows

Next we’ll add some opening to our Walls.

14. On the Design Bar, click the Basics tab and then click the Door tool.

o Accept all of the defaults on the Options Bar. o Move the pointer near the top horizontal Wall to begin placing the Door.

Move the mouse around without clicking it yet. Notice how the Door follows the cursor and also stays attached to the Wall as it does. Also notice that moving the mouse from one side of the Wall to the other will flip the Door in or out relative to the Wall. The gray underlay we added above indicates a patio shape to the left of the plan and wrapping around the top. Our first door will be out to that passageway along the top.

15. Position the mouse on the top Wall near the right side of the passageway so it swings out and then click (see Figure 8).

Figure 8 Place a Door to the outside near the passageway

Figure 9 Use the flip controls to change the Door orientation

16. Place another near the top of the interior vertical Wall. Notice that Door tags have automatically appeared and the numbers have filled in sequentially. Sometimes you place a Door and it is not positioned or oriented the way you like. Just like the Walls above, we can select a Door, and then edit its temporary dimensions to move it to the desired location. There are also small flip control icons on the Door to control its orientation.

17. Click the Flip control to change one of the Doors orientations (see Figure 9). Repeat if desired on the other Door.

Adding Windows works the same way as adding Doors.

18. On the Design Bar, click the Basics tab and then click the Window tool.

o Accept all of the defaults on the Options Bar. o Move the pointer near the top horizontal Wall and move up then down.

Again notice how this controls the placement orientation of the Window. As with the Door, you can always flip it later if you make an error.

19. Place Windows in the two horizontal Walls only (see Figure 10).

Figure 10 Place Windows

Figure 11 Place a double entry Door

Let’s place one more Door in the Wall at the left. This one we will load from an external library however.

20. On the Design Bar, click the Basics tab and then click the Door tool.


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o On the Options Bar, click the Load button. o Navigate to the Autodesk Web Library\Doors sub-folder of the folder where you installed the

Mastering Autodesk Revit Building CD ROM files. o Select Double-Glass 2.rfa and then click Open. o Place the Door in the center of the left Wall swinging out. Use the temporary dimensions to assist you

in placement (see Figure 11 – previous page). o On the Design Bar, click the Modify tool or press the ESC key twice.

21. Save the project.

WORKING IN OTHER VIEWS

We can work in many types of Views in Revit Building; not just floor plans. Our project includes elevation Views and ceiling plan Views already. We can also add section Views and 3D Views. Many other View types are also available and discussed in future chapters.

View the Model in 3D

Opening a three-dimensional View will reveal that our Wall height could use adjustment.

1. On the Project Browser, double-click to open the West elevation View.

o On the Project Browser, double-click to open the {3D} 3D View. This is the default three-dimensional View in Revit Building. You can modify it as you like or create others from it. We will use this one in this tutorial, but make some simple adjustments to its vantage point. Notice that the {3D} View is an isometric view of our building model. We can see the Walls, Doors and Windows we added from a bird’s eye vantage point. We also see the Toposurface terrain model that was included in this project from CD. You can change the vantage point of a 3D View interactively on screen.

2. On the View toolbar, click the Dynamically Modify View icon. (You can also press F8 instead). A “Dynamic View” toolbox will appear in the lower left corner of the screen.

o Click the Spin button. o Drag the mouse in the View window to spin the model around interactively.

Drag side to side to move around the building. Drag up or down to change height of the vantage point.

o Spin the model around so that the front double Door is visible (see Figure 12 – next page). There are two other buttons on the “Dynamic View” toolbox, one to zoom (move closer or farther away from the model) the other to scroll which would slide the model View around on screen without changing the viewing angle like Spin does.

o Close the “Dynamic View” toolbox.

Create a Section View

Let’s open one more View of the model before we proceed. This will allow us to understand the relationships built into our Revit Building model very clearly as we make some simple edits. The View that we want to study does not exist yet. We are going to cut a section through the model and look at that View next.

3. On the Project Browser, double-click to open the Level 1 floor plan View.

4. On the Design Bar, click the Basics tab and then click the Section tool.

o Click to the left of the double Door.

Move through the model to the right keeping the section line horizontal.

o Click outside the model to the right (see Figure 13 – next page).

Figure 12 Dynamically Modify the {3D} View window

Figure 13 Cut a section through the model

A section line, with section head and tail will appear. A section box with drag handles will also appear. The Section Head will currently be red indicating that it is selected.

5. Click next to the section line be careful not to click on any geometry. This is a quick way to deselect the selected element(s). You can also just press ESC twice. Notice that the Section Head now turns blue. This indicates that it has a linked View associated to it. Take notice of the Project Browser. There will now be a Sections category included in the list. Revit Building creates nodes in the Project Browser like this one as required.

o Double-click the blue Section Head to open the associated View. You should now see the Section 1 View on screen. We now have four Views open. If you click on the Window menu, you will see all open Views listed near the bottom of the menu. You can choose them off this list to bring them to the front of the pile, or you can simple double-click the View name in Project Browser again to display them. You can also tile them all on screen at once. Let’s do that now.

6. From the Window menu, choose Tile (see Figure 14).

Figure 14 Tile the Views on screen to view them all at once

Edit in any View

Take a look at the elevation and section Views in particular. This project has been set up to have two stories plus a roof. Currently our Walls only go up one story and in fact they do not coincide with the second floor level at all. Let’s fix both problems.

7. Click in the floor plan View, Level 1 to make it active.

8. Place your mouse pointer (the Modify tool) over one of the exterior Walls. Notice the way that it highlights under the cursor. If you move the mouse without clicking, it will no longer highlight. This is called “pre-highlight” and is a useful aid to proper selection.

o Pre-highlight one exterior Wall—do not click yet. o Press the TAB key.

Notice how all of the exterior Walls now pre-highlight.


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o Click the left mouse button to select the pre-highlighted elements. Notice how all four exterior Walls are now shaded red in all open Views.

9. On the Options Bar, click the Properties icon (see Figure 15).

Figure 15 Click the Properties icon to access the “Element

Properties” dialog Figure 16 Move the Level line with the temporary dimension

o In the “Element Properties” dialog, from the “Top Constraint” list, choose Up to level: Roof and then click OK.

Notice how the Walls project up to the Roof Level line in all Views. The Walls are now set relative to this Level in the project. If we were to change the height of the Roof Level, the Walls would also adjust accordingly. Let’s try that now.

Note: The section will likely not show the top of the Walls as it is currently cropped to the first floor. You can adjust this with the round drag control at the top of the section box. Click the rectangular box surrounding the section. Click and drag upward the small blue circle at the top edge of the box. The Walls should show.

10. Click anywhere in the West elevation View. Zoom In Region to get a better look if you need to (right-click to access Zoom In Region).

o Click to select the second floor Level line. Notice the temporary dimensions that appear. Like the Walls and other elements drawn so far, we can edit the blue dimension value to move the Level lines to a new location. We will move both Level 2 and the Roof level; starting with Level 2.

o Click the blue text of the temporary dimension between Level 1 and Level 2, type 10 and press ENTER (see Figure 16).

o Repeat for the Roof—select the Roof Level line. o Click the blue text of the temporary dimension between Level 2 and Roof, type 10 and press ENTER.

Notice that not only does the Roof Level line move, but since we constrained the Walls to the Roof Level, the top edge of the Walls adjusts as well!

Move a Window

When you make an edit in a Revit Building model, the edit can be made in any View that you find convenient. The edit will automatically be applied to all Views. This is the power of Autodesk Revit Building! You are describing a single virtual building model. You can “view” it in an unlimited number of ways. Regardless of where you make the edit—plan, section, elevation or 3D, all Views are completely coordinated.

11. Spin the 3D model View to show the Windows on the north Wall. 12. Select the Window on the north Wall.

o Click on the titlebar of the plan View, then the section View. Not only is the Window highlighted red in all Views, but in each of these orthographic Views where it is visible, the temporary dimensions appear.

o Edit the temporary dimension values to move the Window. Notice how it moves instantly in all Views. You will never have to worry about chasing down a change in several different drawings to be certain that it has been coordinated. This will boost productivity and help reduce costly change orders.

Align a Window


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At this point you may wish to line up the Window on the North Wall with the one on the South. You can do this and have Revit Building maintain the relationship with the Align tool.

13. Click the Align tool on the Tools toolbar. You first indicate the point of reference. We’ll use the Window we just moved.

Click near the center of the Window you just moved to set the point of alignment. Click near the center of the opposite Window to align it to the reference point (see Figure 17). Click the lock icon to constrain the alignment of the two Windows together. On the Design Bar, click the Modify tool or press the ESC key twice.

If you now move either Window, they will move together.

Move and align additional Windows in the same way if you wish.

Add Openings on the Second Floor

Now that our Walls project up the height of both floors, we should add some fenestration on the second floor.


o Following the procedures above, add Windows and a Door to Level 2 as shown in Figure 18. Tip: You can select Windows on Level 1, choose Copy to Clipboard from the Edit menu, and

then Paste Aligned > Select Levels by Name and choose Level 2 from the dialog that appears. This will paste copies of the Windows in the same relative spots on Level 2. You can then move them if desired.

Figure 17 Align the Windows

Figure 18 Add Doors and Windows to Level 2

ROUND OUT THE PROJECT

Our project needs more than just Walls, Doors and Windows. Let’s enclose it with a Floor and Roof and look at how to extract data from our model with Schedules.

Add a Floor

The second floor will have a balcony on the right overlooking the space on the left.

15. On the Design Bar, click the Basics tab and then click the Floor tool. When you click the Floor tool, the floor plan will turn gray. The Design Bar will also change to include a series of “Sketch mode” tools. Sketch mode is a special mode in Revit Building used when the element that you are creating has a shape that Revit Building cannot easily “guess.” In this case, it would not be possible for Revit Building to assume the size and shape of the Floor that we want, so instead, we sketch it. This is easy to do, given that we already have several Walls.

On the Design Bars, the “Pick Walls” mode will be enabled as indicated my this button’s being selected.

o Click one of the horizontal Walls, then the other. o Click the vertical exterior Wall on the right.


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Notice that with each Wall you click a magenta sketch line will appear to the inside of the Wall. The Floor will only cover the right half of the plan, so for the last Wall, we will use the vertical one in the center rather than the exterior one on the left.

o Click on the vertical Wall in the center (see Figure 19).

16. On the Tools toolbar click the Trim/Extend tool.

o Click the vertical sketch line in the center of the plan, and then click the right side of the horizontal one at the top.

o Repeat by clicking the vertical again, then the right side of the horizontal one on the bottom (see Figure 20).

Figure 19 Create Floor sketch lines from the existing Walls

(Sketch lines in the figure enhanced for clarity)

Figure 20 Use the Trim/Extend tool to close the sketch

o On the Design Bar, click the Finish Sketch button. o In the dialog that appears, click Yes.

17. On the Project Browser, double-click to open the {3D} View. Note: If you are still working with four tiled View windows, simply click the titlebar of

the {3D} View to make it active.

o Spin the model around to see the new Floor.

You can also study it in the section View (see Figure 21).

Figure 21 Study the Floor in the {3D} and Section 1 Views

Note: You can find more information and tutorials on working with Floors in Chapter 5.

Add a Roof

We can sketch a roof similarly to how we sketched the Floor. There are a few types of Roofs available. For this exercise, we will make a Roof by Extrusion.

18. On the Project Browser, double-click to open the West elevation View.


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Note: If you are still working with four tiled View windows, simply click the titlebar of the West elevation View to make it active.

19. On the Design Bar, click the Roof tool. From the flyout that appears, choose Roof by Extrusion. Revit Building will allow us to sketch a simple 2D shape that will become the shape of the Roof’s section. The Roof will extrude this shape along its length. To do this, it needs us to establish the plane in which we wish to work.

o In the “Work Plane” dialog, accept the defaults and click OK. If you pause your mouse for a moment, a tool tip will appear that reads: “Pick a vertical plane.” The same message will appear in the Status Bar at the bottom of your screen.

o Click the Wall facing us (see Figure 22).

Figure 22 Click the Wall to set a Reference Plane

Figure 23 Create a three-point arc shape for the Roof

Extrusion

o In the “Roof Reference Level and Offset” dialog that appears, accept the defaults and click OK. We are returned to sketch mode: this time to sketch the section shape of the Roof. We will create a curved shape for the Roof.

On the Design Bar, Lines should be active.

o On the Options Bar, click the “Arc passing through three points” icon. o Click the first point of the arc at the top left corner of the Wall. o Set the next point about 6° below the right top corner (see Figure 23 – above). o Set the final point approximately where indicated in the figure. o On the Design Bar, click the Finish Sketch button. o On the Project Browser, double-click to open the {3D} View.

Note: If you are still working with four tiled View windows, simply click the titlebar of the {3D} View to make it active.

The Roof automatically spanned over the entire building model. However, its eaves are flush with the Walls and the Walls did not attach to the Roof. Let’s add some overhang to the Roof, then we will fix the Walls.

20. Select the Roof in the {3D} View. Notice the small arrow handles pointing away from the Roof on two ends of the extrusion.

o Click and drag each of these handles slightly away from the Walls to create an overhang (see Figure 24).

Figure 24 Stretch Roof Extrusion to make overhangs

Figure 25 Edit the sketch line to re-shape the Roof to include

overhangs To add overhangs in the other direction, we can edit the sketch again.

o On the Options Bar, click the Edit button. The sketch line will reappear and the Roof will temporarily disappear. You can switch back to the elevation View or edit the sketch directly in 3D. Remember, you can edit in any View and the change will occur in all Views.

o Drag the ends of the line away from the Walls slightly as shown in Figure 25 (previous page). o On the Design Bar, click the Finish Sketch button.

21. Use the TAB select method above to chain select all the exterior Walls.

o On the Options Bar, click the Attach button. o Click the Roof (see Figure 26).

Note: If you edit the shape of the Roof, the Walls will remain attached. Try it out if you like. Select the Roof, and on the Options bar click the Edit button.

Figure 26 Attach the Walls to the Roof

Figure 27 Create half the risers

o Save the model.

Add a Stair

We have not given any way to reach our second floor balcony. Let’s add a Stair.


23. On the Design Bar, click the Modeling tab and then click the Stair tool. The Stair will go to the north (top) side of the plan on the right of the building. There is a little bump out on the patio for this purpose.

o Click near the middle of the patio bump out and drag up (see Figure 27 – above). A small label will appear on screen indicating how many risers have been created and how many remain.

o Drag straight up until the gray label reads “9 Risers created, 9 remaining” and then click. o Click a point next to the first run of stairs at the location indicated in Figure 29.

Figure 28 Create the remaining Risers

Figure 29 Split the Stringer Lines to make a landing

o Drag straight down until the message indicates that zero risers remain and then click. This will give us the basic Stair but it will not “hook up” with the second floor. We need to extend the top riser to make it a landing at the top.

24. Select the riser line at the bottom right (the last riser of the Stair).

o Drag it down until it snaps to the building. o On the Tools toolbar, click the Split tool. o Click on each of the green lines to split them where indicated in Figure 29 (previous page).

The green lines represent the stringers of the Stair. It is necessary to split them (break them into two segments) so that the top part in this case can slope with the Stair and the bottom part can be flat and follow the landing. However, we also need to make one other adjustment to them. We need to change the slope of the these lines so that they know they are a landing and not additional stringers.

o Select one of the stringer lines (the ones we just split) and on the Options Bar; choose Flat from the Slope list.

o Repeat for the other side (see Figure 30). o On the Design Bar, click the Finish Sketch button.

25. On the Project Browser, double-click to open the {3D} View.

o Spin the model around to see the Stair (see Figure 31).

Figure 30 Set the slope of the sketch lines to Flat

Figure 31 Study the results in the {3D} View

That completes the basic geometry of the model. We could add plenty more embellishments but let’s finish this quick start by creating some construction documentation items like a Door and Window Schedule and some Sheets for printing.

Create a Schedule

We can create automated schedules of anything in Revit Building. All we need to do is generate a Schedule View which while not graphical like the plan, section and elevation Views looked at so far, are just like the other Views in Revit Building. You can view information related to the model and even edit it directly from a schedule View.

26. On the Design Bar, click the View tab and then click the Schedules/Quantities tool. The “New Schedule” dialog will appear.

o . From the “Category” list, choose Doors and then click OK.

The “Schedule Properties” dialog will appear.

o In the “Schedule Properties” dialog, on the “Fields” tab, click Mark in the “Available Fields” list and


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then click the Add button. o Repeat for the following Fields: Level, Width, Height, Frame Type, Frame Material, Family and Type

and Comments (see Figure 32 – next page).

Figure 32 Add Fields to the Door Schedule

Figure 33 Selected elements highlight in graphical Views and

Schedules

o Click OK to create the Schedule. A Schedule View will appear on screen. The Schedule View appears much like an Excel spreadsheet. Let’s look at the Schedule tiled next to one of the floor plans like we did above. However, before we tile, let’s close some of the other Views.

27. From the Window menu, choose Close Hidden Windows. Note: If this command is not available, you must maximize the current window first. To do

this, double-click the titlebar of the current window.

o On the Project Browser, double-click to open the Level 1 floor plan View. o From the Window menu, choose Tile.

You should now have just the Level 1 floor plan View and the Door Schedule View open on screen side by side.

28. In the Door Schedule View, click on Door number 3. The Door number will highlight in the Schedule and the Door itself will highlight in the plan (see Figure 33).

o Highlight the value in the Width field, type 5 and then press ENTER. o In the message that appears, click OK.

Notice that the size of the Door changes in both the Schedule and the floor plan. The only problem with that change is that we actually edited a “Type” parameter (as indicated in the warning message). This means that all Doors of this Type would be affected. Since there is only one of these currently in the model, it was not obvious. However, if you performed the same edit on the other Door Type, you would see this more clearly. Undo this change and choose a different Type from the Family and Type column of the schedule instead. Experiment with other changes if you wish.

29. Create another Schedule View (Design Bar, click the Schedule/Quantities tool).

o . In the “New Schedule” dialog, from the “Category” list, choose Windows and then click OK. o In the “Schedule Properties” dialog, on the “Fields” tab, add the Mark, Level, Width, Height, Count

and Comments fields. o Click OK to create the Schedule.

30. In the Level 1 floor plan View, add Windows to the right Wall. Notice that the new Windows appear immediately in the Schedule.

31. Save the model.

PREPARING OUTPUT

At some point in every architectural project, you will need to output your designs and produce some form of deliverable. The most common format for this is a collection of printed drawings. In Revit Building you use special “Sheet” Views for this purpose. These Views emulate the final paper output and allow us to compose the completed Sheets in any way we wish complete with titleblocks.


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Add a Sheet

Before we can print out documents from our project, we need to create one or more Sheets. Sheets are basically pieces of paper upon which we drag and drop the various Views for printing.

1. On the Design Bar, click the View tab and then click the Sheet tool.

o In the “Select a Titleblock” dialog click OK. o Double click the titlebar of the new window that appears to maximize it. o From the View menu, choose Zoom > Zoom To Fit.

A blank titleblock sheet appears and is ready to receive Views. There are two ways to do this. Right-click a Sheet and choose Add View to receive a dialog listing all available Views, or simply drag and drop them from Project Browser. We’ll use drag and drop here.

2. From the Project Browser, drag the Level 1 floor plan View and drop it on the Sheet. An outline of the View will appear attached to the cursor. You can use this to place it on the sheet where desired.

o Position the View in the upper left corner of the Sheet and then click. o Repeat the drag and drop process for each of the remaining floor plans (see Figure 34). o Drag each of the Schedules to the Sheet as well.

Figure 34 Drag all the plans to the Sheet and position them

If you need to re-position a View after you drag it, you can click on it directly on the Sheet , and then drag it again to move it or use the arrow keys on your keyboard to nudge it slightly. When you drag the Site plan in, notice that it is a little smaller than the others. Each View has its own scale setting that is used when it is added to a Sheet.

3. Repeat the entire process to create another Sheet and add the elevations and section Views. Suppose that you wish to change the scale of a View after it is added. For instance after adding all of the elevations and the section View to this new Sheet, you may wish to enlarge the Section View.

4. Select the Section View on the Sheet, right-click and choose Activate View. This makes the View editable as if you had opened it from the Project Browser.

5. Right-click in the Section View and choose View Properties.

o In the “Element Properties” dialog, beneath the “graphics” grouping, change the “View Scale” to 1/4"=1'-0" and then click OK.

o Right click in the View again and choose Deactivate View. o Reposition the View as required.

Notice that the change in scale only affected the graphics of the View. The section graphics enlarged but the text and annotations remained the same size.

6. Perform any other edits and explorations you wish. 7. Save and close the project.


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Going Further Feel free to print your two Sheets out to your printer or plotter. If you have installed the Autodesk DWF Writer, you can plot to a DWF file instead. You can further edit and refine this model if you wish to add additional elements and annotations. Everything will remain coordinated and the Sheets will automatically receive all the updates. Congratulations! You have completed your first Autodesk Revit Building project! Read on in the coming chapters to continue your journey into Revit Building and the promise of Building Information Modeling.

Summary Getting started with Revit Building is easy—click a tool on the Design Bar and place the item in the

View window.

Walls, Doors and other elements interact with each other as you place them in the model.

Relationships and Constraints are maintained automatically as you work.

Build or edit your model from any View and it remains fully coordinated in all Views.

Views include graphical representations like plans and sections and non-graphical representations like Schedules.

Drag Views to Sheets for printing.

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