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
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Chapter 2: Creating a Model
Placing Walls
Using Reference Planes
Adding Interior Walls
Editing Wall Joins
Placing Doors and Windows
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Chapter 3: Creating Views
Creating Levels
Creating Building Sections
Adding Wall Sections
Creating Detail Sections
Creating Callouts
Creating a Camera View
Creating an Elevation
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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
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Chapter 5: Dimensioning and Annotating
Dimensioning
Using Dimensions as a Layout Tool
Placing Text and Annotations
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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
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Chapter 7: Roofs
Placing Roofs by Footprint
Creating a Sloping Roof
Roofs by Extrusion
Adding a Roof Dormer
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Chapter 8: Structural Items
Structural Grids
Adding Structural Columns
Structural Framing
Foundation Systems
Adding Structural Footings
Structural Views
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Chapter 9: Ceilings and Interiors
Creating Ceilings
Creating Ceiling Openings and Soffits
Interior Design
Adding Alternate Floor Materials
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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
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Chapter 11: Schedules and Tags
Creating Schedules
Creating Material Takeoffs
Creating Key Legends and Importing CAD Legends
Adding Tags
Creating Custom Tags
Keynoting
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Chapter 12: Detailing
Working with Line Weights
Drafting on Top of the Detail
Adding Notes
Creating Blank Drafting Views
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Chapter 13: Creating Specific Views and Match Lines
Duplicating Views
Creating Dependent Views
Adding Match Lines
Using View Templates
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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
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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
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Chapter 16: Advanced Wall Topics
Creating Compound Walls
Adding Wall Sweeps
Creating Stacked Walls
Creating Curtain Walls
Adding a Wall to a Massing Object
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Chapter 17: Creating Families
Creating a Basic Family
Using a Complex Family to Create an Arched Door
Creating an In-Place Family
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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
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Chapter 19: Rendering and Presentation
Creating an Exterior Rendering
Interior Rendering
Creating Walkthroughs
Creating a Solar Study
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Chapter 20: Importing and Coordinating Revit Models
Linking a Revit Structure Model
Activating Copy Monitor
Running Interference Detection
Importing and Exporting CAD Formats
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Chapter 21: Phasing and Design Options
Managing Project Phasing
Creating an Existing Phasing Plan
Demolishing Components
Examining Phase Filters
Creating Design Options
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Chapter 22: Project Collaboration
Enabling and Utilizing Worksharing
Working in the Revit Shared Environment
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Chapter 23: BIM Management
Setting Up the Template
Managing Settings
Creating and Understanding Shared Parameters
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Index
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Chapter 9 • Ceilings and Interiors 404 FIGURE 9.29 Creating one cool soffit! 7. Click the Edit button in the Structure row. 8. Click in the bottom layer, and click the […] button to change the material, as shown in Figure 9.30. FIGURE 9.30 Click the […] button to change the material. 9. In the Materials dialog, find Wood - Mahogany. Revit will allow you to add the wall only as a 180° arc. You will need to pick each side of the circle to accomplish a full 360° soffit. Creating Ceiling Openings and Soffits 405 ne v e r as s u M e an y t h i n g ! They say you should never assume anything, and in this case “they” are right! Let’s add a section through this entire row of rooms to gain a perspec- tive on what is going on here. 1. On the View tab, click the Section button. 2. Cut a horizontal section through the entire side of the building, as shown here: 3. Select the section. 4. In the Properties dialog, change Detail Level to Fine. 5. Change the name to Section at West Training. (Yes, these are eventu- ally going to be training rooms.) 6. Open the new section. You now have a clear perspective of what is going on with this area. 10. Change Surface Pattern to Wood 2. 11. Change Cut Pattern to Plywood, as shown in Figure 9.31. 12. Click OK twice. 13. Click OK one more time to get back to the model. 14. In the Properties dialog, change Height Offset From Level to 14’–1”. 15. Place the ceiling inside the soffit. Chapter 9 • Ceilings and Interiors 406 FIGURE 9.31 Altering the mahogany You need to adjust your plan region; it has to be set so the cut plane is either below or equal to 14 ′–1″ so you can see the lower ceiling: 1. Pick the dotted rectangle surrounding the rooms. This is the plan region. 2. On the Modify | Plan Region tab, click the View Range button. 3. Change the Offset value for the cut plane to 14’–1”, as shown in Figure 9.32. 4. Click OK. FIGURE 9.32 Changing the cut plane to 14′–1″ You won’t be able to see the ceiling at the lower elevation, so stop picking in the middle of the circle! As a matter of fact, if you picked inside the circle more than once, undo back to the point before you started picking in the circle. Creating Ceiling Openings and Soffits 407 Your ceiling plan should look like Figure 9.33. FIGURE 9.33 The completed ceiling We are getting there with this ceiling, that’s for sure! The only task left is to add some light fixtures. Adding Light Fixtures to Ceilings Adding lighting fixtures to a Revit Architecture model is not a difficult task, but you must follow a few guidelines to achieve success in installing lighting. For example, you must work with the Ribbon to find a face in which to insert the component: 1. Go to the Level 1 ceiling plan where you have been adding the wood ceilings. 2. On the Home tab, click Component ➢ Place Component, as shown in Figure 9.34. 3. In the Mode panel of Modify | Place Component, click Load Family, and then browse to Imperial Library ➢ Lighting Fixtures. 4. Open the file Pendant Light - Disk.rfa. 5. Place the light approximately as shown in Figure 9.35. NOTE There are no snaps when you are trying to place most com- ponents. You will have to place the fixture and then move it into position. Needless to say, this is an extra step. Chapter 9 • Ceilings and Interiors 408 FIGURE 9.34 Click Place Component on the Home tab 6. Move the light to the center of the radial soffit. This time, you can use snaps (see Figure 9.35). FIGURE 9.35 Moving the fixture to the correct location 7. Open the section at the West Training building section. Notice the light fixture is in the exact location you expected it to be. NOTE If you have directly skipped to this part of the chapter, open the file called NER-26.rfa. You will have to delete the fixtures that are in place, but you will still have the views you need. Creating Ceiling Openings and Soffits 409 8. Select the fixture. 9. Click the Copy button on the Modify Lighting Fixtures tab, as shown in Figure 9.36. 10. On the Options bar, be sure the Multiple button is checked. 11. Copy the fixture 3′–0″ to the right and 3′–0″ to the left (see Figure 9.36). FIGURE 9.36 Copying the fixtures in the section yi k e s , th i s is n ’t t o ou r sta n d a r d s ! Yes, the default line thicknesses are hideous. In Chapter 23, “BIM Management,” we will deal with line thickness. For now, you can click the Thin Lines icon to scale back the thickness of the lines, as shown here: Chapter 9 • Ceilings and Interiors 410 The main point of having you open a section to copy the fixtures is to illus- trate that you are now in a fully modeling environment. When you switch back to plan, you will see that the fixtures have been moved. In later chapters, you will learn that this will also add line items to schedules. Now, let’s make some more fixtures: 1. In the Project Browser, go to the Level 1 ceiling plan. 2. Zoom in on the radial soffit. You will see the two new fixtures. 3. Select the right and left fixtures. 4. Click the Rotate command on the Modify | Lighting Fixtures tab. 5. On the Options bar, make sure Copy is checked. 6. Rotate the fixtures 90° to create a total of five fixtures, as shown in Figure 9.37. FIGURE 9.37 You are now copying and rotating as if you were in flat, 2D AutoCAD. Interior Design 411 NOTE Notice that the fixtures overlap the gypsum soffit. This is because you are actually standing on Level 1 looking up. Revit Architecture has finally taken the confusion out of the reflected ceiling plan mystery. Now that you have experience dealing with ceilings, it is time to start working on some interior design. Ceilings are a part of this, but what about wall treatments, trims, and architectural millwork? These items will be covered in the next section. Interior Design Congratulations! You have arrived at possibly the most difficult subject when it comes to 3D modeling. Why is that? Well, for starters, this is the area where nothing is easy in terms of shape and configuration. For example, suppose you want a crown molding at the ceiling where it intersects the walls. And suppose you need the same crown at the radial soffit. Of course the floors and walls are not the same material, and you need to add furniture as well. I can go on and on listing the complications we will face here, so let’s just jump in. The first part of the process will be adding plumbing fixtures and furniture. Adding Plumbing Fixtures and Furniture Adding a desk follows the same procedure as adding a light fixture. Notice, though, when you added the light fixture it just “knew” that it was supposed to be hosted by the ceiling. It is important to note that most furniture is not hosted by a floor; it is actually hosted by a level. This becomes very important if you have a floor sys- tem offset from a level. Your furniture will ignore the floor and stick to the level it is associated with. To begin, we will have to knock off the less glamorous but all-too-important task of adding bathroom fixtures: 1. In the Project Browser, go to the Level 1 floor plan (floor plan, not ceiling plan). 2. Zoom in on the lavatory area, as shown in Figure 9.38. 3. As you can see, there is a callout of this area. Double-click on the call- out bubble to open the view called Typical Men’s Lavatory. NOTE Now that you are more experienced with Revit, you can see the benefit of having named this view to something understandable at this stage in the game. Chapter 9 • Ceilings and Interiors 412 4. With the Typical Men’s Lavatory view opened, we can start adding some fixtures. In the Insert tab, click the Load Family button. 5. In the Imperial Library directory, browse to the Plumbing Fixtures folder. 6. Select the file called Toilet-Commercial-Wall-3D.rfa and click Open. FIGURE 9.38 The lavatory area 7. In the Type Selector, make sure the 19″ Seat Height-Type toilet is selected. 8. Place it along the north wall approximately 6 ″ from the west wall, as shown in Figure 9.39. Because we’re not creating a military barracks from the 1960s, we need some stalls. Unfortunately Revit does not provide any stalls out of the box, but this book you bought does! To add some toilet stalls to the model, go to the book’s web page at www.sybex.com/go/revit2011ner. From there you can browse to Chapter 9 and find these files: Toilet Stall-Accessible-Front-3D.rfa Toilet Stall-Accessible-Side-3D.rfa Toilet Stall-Braced-3D.rfa Interior Design 413 FIGURE 9.39 Placing the 19″ Seat Height toilet 6″ from the west wall, along the north wall Grab Bar.rfa Double Sink - Round.rfa Once you locate the files, download them to the location where you keep all of your Revit families. Then follow along with the procedure: 1. On the Insert tab, click Load Family. 2. Browse to the location where the new families are kept and select the new files; then click Open. They are now loaded into your project. 3. On the Home tab, click the Place A Component button. 4. Select Toilet-Stall-Accessible-Front-3D-60″ × 60″ Clear. 5. Pick the corner of the bathroom, as shown in Figure 9.40. TIP If you are having difficulties placing the stall directly in the cor- ner, place it at any location along the north wall, and then move it to the corner so it looks like Figure 9.40. . www.sybex.com/go /revit2 011ner. From there you can browse to Chapter 9 and find these files: Toilet Stall-Accessible-Front-3D.rfa Toilet Stall-Accessible-Side-3D.rfa Toilet Stall-Braced-3D.rfa Interior. files; then click Open. They are now loaded into your project. 3. On the Home tab, click the Place A Component button. 4. Select Toilet-Stall-Accessible-Front-3D-60″ × 60″ Clear. 5. Pick the. floor sys- tem offset from a level. Your furniture will ignore the floor and stick to the level it is associated with. To begin, we will have to knock off the less glamorous but all-too-important