Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011: No Experience Required
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Contents at a Glance
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Revit World
The Revit Architecture Interface
The Project Browser
File Types and Families
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 2: Creating a Model
Placing Walls
Using Reference Planes
Adding Interior Walls
Editing Wall Joins
Placing Doors and Windows
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 3: Creating Views
Creating Levels
Creating Building Sections
Adding Wall Sections
Creating Detail Sections
Creating Callouts
Creating a Camera View
Creating an Elevation
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 4: Working with the Revit Tools
The Basic Edit Commands
The Array Command
The Mirror Command
The Align Tool
The Split Element Command
The Trim Command
The Offset Command
Copy/Paste
Creating the Plans
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 5: Dimensioning and Annotating
Dimensioning
Using Dimensions as a Layout Tool
Placing Text and Annotations
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 6: Floors
Placing a Floor Slab
Building a Floor by Layers
Splitting the Floor’s Materials
Pitching a Floor to a Floor Drain
Creating Shaft Openings
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 7: Roofs
Placing Roofs by Footprint
Creating a Sloping Roof
Roofs by Extrusion
Adding a Roof Dormer
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 8: Structural Items
Structural Grids
Adding Structural Columns
Structural Framing
Foundation Systems
Adding Structural Footings
Structural Views
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 9: Ceilings and Interiors
Creating Ceilings
Creating Ceiling Openings and Soffits
Interior Design
Adding Alternate Floor Materials
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 10: Stairs, Ramps, and Railings
Creating Stairs Using the Rise/Run Function
Creating a Winding Staircase
Creating a Custom Railing System
Creating Custom Stairs
Adding Ramps
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 11: Schedules and Tags
Creating Schedules
Creating Material Takeoffs
Creating Key Legends and Importing CAD Legends
Adding Tags
Creating Custom Tags
Keynoting
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 12: Detailing
Working with Line Weights
Drafting on Top of the Detail
Adding Notes
Creating Blank Drafting Views
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 13: Creating Specific Views and Match Lines
Duplicating Views
Creating Dependent Views
Adding Match Lines
Using View Templates
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 14: Creating Sheets and Printing
Creating and Populating Sheets
Modifying a Viewport
Adding Revisions to a Sheet
Addressing Project Parameters
Generating a Cover Sheet
Printing from Revit Architecture
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 15: Creating Rooms and Area Plans
Creating Rooms
Adding a Room Schedule
Adding a Color Fill Plan
Adding Room Separators
Creating an Area Plan
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 16: Advanced Wall Topics
Creating Compound Walls
Adding Wall Sweeps
Creating Stacked Walls
Creating Curtain Walls
Adding a Wall to a Massing Object
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 17: Creating Families
Creating a Basic Family
Using a Complex Family to Create an Arched Door
Creating an In-Place Family
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 18: Site and Topography
Adding a Site within Revit
Splitting the Surface
Creating Subregions
Adding Site Components
Adding Building Pads to Displace Earth
Adding a Property Line
Creating a Toposurface by Instance
Creating a Graded Region
Orienting a Site
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 19: Rendering and Presentation
Creating an Exterior Rendering
Interior Rendering
Creating Walkthroughs
Creating a Solar Study
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 20: Importing and Coordinating Revit Models
Linking a Revit Structure Model
Activating Copy Monitor
Running Interference Detection
Importing and Exporting CAD Formats
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 21: Phasing and Design Options
Managing Project Phasing
Creating an Existing Phasing Plan
Demolishing Components
Examining Phase Filters
Creating Design Options
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 22: Project Collaboration
Enabling and Utilizing Worksharing
Working in the Revit Shared Environment
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 23: BIM Management
Setting Up the Template
Managing Settings
Creating and Understanding Shared Parameters
Are You Experienced?
Index
Nội dung
Chapter 8 • Structural Items 374 4. In the Properties panel, click Edit Type. 5. Click Duplicate. 6. Call the new slab 12 ″ Elevator Slab. 7. Click OK. 8. Click the Edit button in the Structure row. 9. In the Layers field, change Thickness to 1′–0″ , as shown in Figure 8.60. FIGURE 8.60 Changing the structure thickness 10. Click OK twice to get back to the model. 11. On the Draw panel, click the Pick Walls button. 12. On the Options bar, set Offset to 1 ′–0″. 13. Pick the three elevator shaft walls, as shown by the numbers in Figure 8.61. 14. Set Offset back to 0. 15. Pick the elevator shaft walls, as shown in Figure 8.61. FIGURE 8.61 When picking the elevator shaft walls, be sure to include the 1 ′–0″ offset. Adding Structural Footings 375 16. Set the Offset value back to 0 in the Options bar if it is not already. 17. Pick the Exterior foundation wall. Now that the perimeter is set, it is time to start trimming the edges to make sure you have a continuous, closed loop: 1. On the Modify panel, click the Trim/Extend Single Element button. 2. Trim any overlapping corners, as shown in Figure 8.62. 3. On the Floor panel to the right of the Create Floor Boundary tab, click Finish Edit Mode. 4. Repeat the process for the south elevator. FIGURE 8.62 Trimming up all the corners Your plan should look like Figure 8.63. FIGURE 8.63 The finished elevator pads Chapter 8 • Structural Items 376 Now that the footings are mostly in place, it is time to think about placing piers and spread footings in the foundation. Luckily, as you are soon to discover, you already know how to do this. Piers and Spread Footings Piers and pilasters, simply put, are concrete columns. This is how Revit sees these items, and this is the easiest placement method. A nice thing about this method is the fact that the grids are in place as well as the steel columns that bear upon them. The only real trick is deciding which plan to put them in. The objective of the next procedure is to add footings to the bottoms of the structural walls: 1. Remain in the T.O. Footing plan. 2. On the Structure panel of the Structure tab, click the Column ➢ Structural Column button. 3. On the Insert tab, click the Load Family button, as shown at the top of Figure 8.64. 4. Browse to Structural ➢ Columns ➢ Concrete. 5. Pick the file called Concrete-Square-Column.rfa. 6. Click Open. 7. At the top of the Properties dialog, select the 24 ″ × 24″ column. 8. Start placing the columns at the grid intersections, as shown in Figure 8.64. 9. Press Esc, and then go to Level 1. 10. Zoom into the corridor. 11. Move the piers under the columns. 12. Do the same for the pier under the doorway, as shown in Figure 8.65. Adding Structural Footings 377 FIGURE 8.64 Start placing piers. FIGURE 8.65 Making the necessary adjustments Chapter 8 • Structural Items 378 Now it’s time to add the spread footings under the piers. This process will be almost identical to the process we just went through: 1. Go back to the T.O. Footing floor plan. 2. On the Foundation panel of the Structure tab, select the Isolated Foundation button, as shown at the top of Figure 8.66. 3. No structural foundations are loaded into the project, so click Yes. 4. Browse to Structural ➢ Foundations. 5. Select the file called Footing-Rectangular.rfa. 6. Click Open. 7. In the Properties dialog, click the Edit Type button. 8. Click Duplicate. 9. Call the new footing 36 ″ x 36″ x 12″z. 10. Click OK. 11. Change Width to 36 ″. 12. Change Length to 36 ″. 13. Change Thickness to 12 ″. 14. Click OK. 15. Add these footings to each pier. 16. Your foundation plan should resemble Figure 8.66. FIGURE 8.66 The completed foundation Structural Views 379 Having a foundation in place in an architectural plan can be good and bad. It can be bad because structural items will start showing up in places you may not want to see them. The last procedure of the chapter will involve isolating the structure from the architecture. Structural Views By creating a structural view, you are essentially duplicating an architectural view and hiding the structural items in that view. Sound easy? That is because it is! Just follow these steps: 1. In the Project Browser, right-click on Level 1 and select Duplicate View ➢ Duplicate With Detailing, as shown in Figure 8.67. FIGURE 8.67 Selecting Duplicate View ➢ Duplicate With Detailing 2. Rename the view called Copy of Level 1 to Level 1 Structural Plan. 3. In the Discipline category of the Properties dialog, select Structural from the list, as shown in Figure 8.68. 4. In the Project Browser, right-click on Views (All), as shown in Figure 8.69. 5. Click Properties. 6. Change Type to Discipline, as shown in Figure 8.70, and then click OK. Chapter 8 • Structural Items 380 FIGURE 8.68 Changing Discipline to Structural FIGURE 8.69 Right-clicking in the Project Browser FIGURE 8.70 Changing Type to Discipline Now the Project Browser is broken down into categories. This will be helpful for large projects with a mix of structure and architecture. Let’s add the T.O. Footing plan to the Structural category: 1. In the Project Browser, right-click on the T.O. Footing floor plan. 2. Click Properties. 3. Change Discipline to Structural. Are You Experienced? 381 This is getting easy! The T.O. Footing plan is now categorized with its struc- tural brethren. Let’s go make the Level 1 Architectural plan truly architectural: 1. Open the Level 1 Floor plan (Architectural). 2. Scroll down to View Range. 3. Click the Edit button in the View Range row. 4. Change both –1 ′–0″- increments to 0. 4. Change both –1 ′–0″- increments to 0. 5. Click OK. The foundation information is no longer displayed in the Level 1 floor plan. Although the last part of this chapter was short, it is a nice look into the Project Browser and shows how you can start to get organized. If you would like more practice, go into the Project Browser on your own and start organizing it the way you think you would like. NOTE If you need more structural tools than those provided within Revit Architecture, or you are, in fact, a structural engineer or designer, you may want to consider purchasing Revit Structure. Are You Experienced? Now you can… place a structural grid in your model using the architectural walls as a reference add additional grids at a radius or by sketch where needed add columns to the grid lines add columns at an offset, keeping the relationship to the grid inter- section intact add structural beams to the model Chapter 8 • Structural Items 382 add structural beam systems, which can follow on centering rules or equal distance spacing using the Brace command, create brace framing to be used for both architectural appointments and for actual structural bracing create entire foundation systems complete with foundation walls, piers strip, and spread footings organize the Project Browser to show your model broken down into discipline change a view’s discipline to Structural CHAPTER 9 Ceilings and Interiors Now that the exterior shell is up and the rooms are basically laid out, it is time to start considering the interiors. As it stands, we have a bunch of rooms with the same wall finish, the same floor finish, and no ceilings to speak of. The restrooms don’t have any fixtures, and the rooms are going to be useless without furniture. Another issue is that we don’t have any separate views such as furniture plans or finish plans. This chapter will dive into all of these items—and then some! Creating ceilings Creating ceiling openings and soffits Interior design Adding alternate floor materials . both –1 ′–0 - increments to 0. 4. Change both –1 ′–0 - increments to 0. 5. Click OK. The foundation information is no longer displayed in the Level 1 floor plan. Although the last part of this. like. NOTE If you need more structural tools than those provided within Revit Architecture, or you are, in fact, a structural engineer or designer, you may want to consider purchasing Revit. Properties. 3. Change Discipline to Structural. Are You Experienced? 381 This is getting easy! The T.O. Footing plan is now categorized with its struc- tural brethren. Let’s go make the Level 1 Architectural