Chapter 3 • Creating Views 124 10. Now, draw the line straight up the wall to the top. Make sure you do not snap to the top of the parapet. The point you want is to the top of the brick, as shown in Figure 3.45. (All you are doing here is sketch- ing the profile of the wall.) FIGURE 3.45 Drawing another line from Level 3 to the bottom of the parapet 11. Continue drawing the line from the right to the left across the top of the wall. Snap to the endpoint of the wall to the left, as shown in Figure 3.46. FIGURE 3.46 Drawing the line across the top 12. Press the Esc key, or click the Modify button on the Select panel. 13. Pick the vertical line to the left that goes from the bottom of the wall to the top. 14. Pick the top blue grip, and stretch the line down to Level 3. Creating Building Sections 125 15. You now have a closed loop, as shown in Figure 3.47. FIGURE 3.47 Closing the wall by stretching the line using grips WARNING If you do not have a perfectly closed, continuous loop with your magenta lines, Revit will not allow you to proceed with finishing altering the prole of this wall. Make sure you have no gaps, overlaps, or extra line segments aside from the six lines you need to form the wall’s outline. 16. On the Wall panel of the Modify | Walls ➢ Edit Profile tab, click Finish Edit Mode, as shown in Figure 3.48. Your finished wall profile should look like Figure 3.49. FIGURE 3.48 Clicking Finish Edit Mode Chapter 3 • Creating Views 126 FIGURE 3.49 The finished wall profile There is one thing left to do before we leave this section: select the 2 hr fire rated partition wall that is only constrained to Level 2. Now that we have opened up this area, the wall can now go up to Level 3. To constrain the top of this wall to Level 3, follow along: 1. Select the wall, as shown earlier in Figure 3.49. 2. In the Properties dialog, change Top Constraint to Up To Level: Level 3, as shown in Figure 3.50. FIGURE 3.50 Choosing the properties to change a wall’s constraints is becoming old hat! 3. The wall now meets the brick exterior. 4. In the Project Browser, double-click on Level 3. Adding Wall Sections 127 5. Change the detail level to Fine (remember this is in the View Control bar at the bottom of the screen). 6. On the View tab, select the Section button. 7. Place a section as shown in Figure 3.51. Make sure the extents are similar to the figure. FIGURE 3.51 Adding another section to modify another wall 8. In the Project Browser, right-click on the new section and rename it to West Wing South Wall Section. We will use this section in Chapter 4. Adding entire building sections is a great way to quickly break down the model into large segments so you can work. Another type of section, a wall section, how- ever, allows you to view smaller portions of the item being detailed. Adding Wall Sections A wall section is basically the same as a building section. The only difference is that, when you place a wall section, Revit will hold the extents to a much smaller area. When you add a building section, Revit will want to extend to the farthest geometry. That being said, a wall section is usually placed to show only the item being cut, not allowing the geometry beyond to be seen. Start by opening your model, or go to www.sybex.com/go/revit2011ner and browse to Chapter 3. Open the file called NER-07.rvt. If you wish, you can use a project you are working on and replace any names and specific dimensions with ones that are applicable to your project. To place a wall section, follow this procedure: 1. Double-click Level 1 in the Project Browser. 2. On the View tab, pick the Section button (the same one you picked for the building section). 3. In the Properties dialog box, select Wall Section, as shown in Figure 3.52. Chapter 3 • Creating Views 128 WARNING If you are directed to go to a specific floor plan and your view looks nothing like the one shown in the book, you need to make sure you are not in a ceiling plan. Notice in the Project Browser that you have floor plans and ceiling plans. The two are quite different. Make sure you are in a floor plan. 4. Also on the Options bar, change the scale to 1/2”=1’–0”. 5. Add the section through the corridor wall that was modified in the previous section of this chapter, as shown in Figure 3.53. FIGURE 3.52 Changing the type of section from Building Section to Wall Section and adding it to the model 6. Right-click on the new section in the Project Browser. It will be in a category called Sections (Wall Section). 7. Select Rename. 8. Call the new section Corridor Entry Section. Click OK. 9. Open the Corridor Entry Section. 10. Change the detail level to Fine. Your section should look like Figure 3.53. 11. Save the model. Creating Detail Sections 129 FIGURE 3.53 The wall section at 1/2″ = 1′– 0″ Now that we are narrowing down the types of sections we can use, it’s time to venture into a specific type of section that can allow you to do a plan section detail. Creating Detail Sections There is a third type of section we need to discuss: the detail section. Revit refers to this type of section as a detail view, so that’s how we will start addressing it. To create a detail view, open your model, or go to www.sybex.com/go/revit 2011ner and browse to Chapter 3. Open the file called NER-08.rvt. If you wish, you can use a project you are working on and replace any names and specific dimensions with ones that are applicable to your project. Perform the following steps: 1. Open the view called Corridor Entry Section (if you do not have it opened already). 2. On the View tab, select Section (yes, the same section we have been using all along). 3. In the Properties dialog box, select Detail View: Detail. 4. On the Options bar, change the scale to 1 1/2” = 1’–0”. Chapter 3 • Creating Views 130 5. Place a section horizontally, as shown in Figure 3.54. Make sure the section is flipped so it is looking downward. FIGURE 3.54 Creating a plan section detail 6. In the Project Browser, you will see a new category called Detail Views (Detail). Expand the tree, and you will see your new detail. It is usually called Detail 0, depending on how many details have been added to the model previously. 7. Right-click Detail 0 and select Rename. 8. Rename the detail to Plan Detail at Corridor Opening and click OK. 9. Open the Plan Detail at Corridor Opening view. With the detail open, you may only be able to see two dashed lines. This is because the crop region needs to be expanded, as explained in the next section. Creating Detail Sections 131 Crop Regions The border that surrounds the detail is called a crop region. It dictates the extents of the specific view you are in. We can adjust this crop region and use it to our advantage. To learn how to make adjustments to the crop region, follow these steps: 1. Select the window surrounding the detail, as shown in Figure 3.55. 2. You will now see four blue stretch arrows at the midpoint of each line. Pick the top stretch arrows, and stretch the top region up until you can see the opening jamb, as shown in Figure 3.55. FIGURE 3.55 Stretching the crop region to view the detail 3. Repeat the process for the bottom so you can see the entire opening. 4. With the crop region still selected, notice there are break icons simi- lar to the make elbow icons in the level markers. Pick the break icon, as shown in Figure 3.56. You can now slice part of the section away, resulting in two separate cropped regions. 5. Within the cropped regions, you will see blue move icons. If you do not see blue icons as shown in Figure 3.57, you need to select the crop region again. 6. Slide the sections closer together by clicking the top icon and moving the section down. 7. Save the model. Chapter 3 • Creating Views 132 FIGURE 3.56 Splitting the section FIGURE 3.57 Sliding the view regions tighter together Now that we have some nice control over how the details are being shown, we can go back and learn how to make the actual section marker more aes- thetically pleasing. Creating Detail Sections 133 Splitting a Section Segment One more section item, and then we are done! Sometimes, it is necessary to split (or jog) a section. You do this when you need to show items that are not neces- sarily in line with one another. You can accomplish this in Revit Architecture as follows: 1. Open the Level 1 floor plan. 2. On the View tab, select the Section button. 3. In the Properties dialog box, select Building Section. 4. This time, pick a point above the corridor that connects to the east wing of the building for the section head, and then pick a point well below the bottom of the corridor, as shown in Figure 3.58. FIGURE 3.58 Adding another section to the model . section. You do this when you need to show items that are not neces- sarily in line with one another. You can accomplish this in Revit Architecture as follows: 1. Open the Level 1 floor plan. . region still selected, notice there are break icons simi- lar to the make elbow icons in the level markers. Pick the break icon, as shown in Figure 3.56. You can now slice part of the section away,. item being cut, not allowing the geometry beyond to be seen. Start by opening your model, or go to www.sybex.com/go /revit2 011ner and browse to Chapter 3. Open the file called NER-07.rvt. If you