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Chapter 12 • Detailing 644 FIGURE 12.82 The Set Work Plane button on the Work Plane panel of the Home tab FIGURE 12.83 Click the Set button. 4. Click OK. 5. Pick the roof, as shown in Figure 12.84. 6. On the Model panel of the Home tab, click the Model Line button. FIGURE 12.84 Picking the roof. Your work plane is now set to slope with the roof. Anything you draw will be on this sloping plane. Creating Blank Drafting Views 645 7. In the Properties dialog under Line Style, click the Medium Lines line type, as shown in Figure 12.85. FIGURE 12.85 Click the Medium Lines button under Line Style in the Properties dialog. 8. On the Draw panel, click the Start-End-Radius Arc button, as shown in Figure 12.86. 9. Draw an arc from the two endpoints shown in Figure 12.86. Make the radius 80 ′–0″. 10. Go to a 3D view. You can still see the arc. 11. Save the model. FIGURE 12.86 Drawing an 80′–0″ radius arc Chapter 12 • Detailing 646 It is a good idea to keep this feature in mind. This drafting tool will become quite useful when it comes to sketching in 3D. There are going to be many situ- ations when you use this little nugget! Are You Experienced? Now you can… modify and add line weights to be used in both the 3D and 2D  environment add linework in a drafting view as well as a 2D and 3D view create both masking regions and filled regions to provide hatching to  a model mask an area so you can draft over it add detail components to the model and create repeating details modify detail families to suit your needs create a group to be used in multiple drafting views and change the  group and update each copy in each view create a new Drafting view to draft from scratch and import a CAD  file into a drafting view CHAPTER 13 Creating Specific Views and Match Lines As you can see, Revit is all about the views. In fact, by using Revit, not only are you replacing the application you use for drafting, but you are also replacing your existing file storage system as well. This is largely because we are now using one model, and we are simply using views of that model for our project navigation. Duplicating views  Creating dependent views  Adding match lines  Using view templates  Chapter 13 • Creating Specific Views and Match Lines 648 Duplicating Views That being said, I wanted to dedicate an entire chapter to project navigation. Although you have steadily gained experience in this area, we can expand on much more to round out your Revit expertise. The first item we will tackle in this chapter is the process of duplicating a view to create another. Although it is a straightforward procedure, a lot is riding on the hope that you proceed with this function correctly. As you are about to find out, this command is not a simple copy-and-paste operation. Revit will change how you organize a project. You will no longer open a file and save it as another file so you can make changes without affecting the original. As you know, Revit is all-inclusive in terms of files. Well, there is only one. From that one file, there are views that reside within the Project Browser. Of course I am not telling you anything you have not learned. If you have gone through the book from page 1, you have already gained experience in cre- ating views (especially in Chapter 3, “Creating Views”). If you are just jumping to this chapter, you most certainly have had some exposure to view creation. The reason this topic is broken into two chapters is to help you gain a more in- depth understanding of how you can manipulate and organize views. Now let’s duplicate some views! To begin, open the file you have been follow- ing along with. If you did not complete the previous chapter, go to the book’s web page at www.sybex.com/go/revit2011ner. From there you can browse to Chapter 13 and find the file called NER-30.rvt. The objective of the following procedure is to create a furniture plan of Level 1, then turn off the furniture on the original Level 1. 1. In the Project Browser, find the Level 1 floor plan and right-click. 2. Select Duplicate View ➢ Duplicate With Detailing, as shown in Figure 13.1. 3. You now have a view called Copy of Level 1. Right-click on it in the Project Browser. 4. Rename it to Level 1 Furniture Plan. 5. Make sure you are still in Level 1. In the Level 1 view window, type VG. This will bring up the Visibility/Graphics Overrides window. 6. In the Visibility column, deselect Casework, Furniture, and Furniture Systems. 7. Click OK. Creating Dependent Views 649 FIGURE 13.1 Right-clicking on the Level 1 Floor Plan in the Project Browser Now any time you add furniture or casework, it will only show up in the furni- ture plan. You do not need to deal with a layer or display configuration. The ability to create a copy of a view and then modify its visibility graphics to display certain items is a critical function within Revit. Another similar task is also available: creating coordinated match line divisions in a model by creating dependent views. Creating Dependent Views You create a dependent view in much the same way you duplicate a view. In fact, you are duplicating a view. The function of a dependent view is to “nest” a dupli- cate of a view within the host view (or the view you are making the duplicate of). This nested view is dependent on the host view in terms of visibility graphics and View Properties. You can have multiple dependent views categorized under the host view. The reason we create dependent views is to add match lines. Yes, you could simply duplicate a view and move its crop region, but when you have dependent views—as you will see in Chapter 14, “Creating Sheets and Printing” —you can tag those views in a specific way for Revit to keep track of the sheets they are on. Dependent views also give the advantage of making your Project Browser much less cluttered, without unnecessary floor plans. O The difference between choos- ing Duplicate With Detailing and Duplicate is that Duplicate With Detailing will also copy all the tags and annotations you have in the original view. Duplicate will only copy the geometry. Chapter 13 • Creating Specific Views and Match Lines 650 The objective of the next procedure is to make a dependent view of the Level 1 Floor Plan. 1. In the Project Browser, right-click on the Level 1 floor plan. 2. Select Duplicate View ➢ Duplicate As A Dependent. You now have a view that is nested under Level 1. As you can see, Level 1 is now expanded to show its dependencies. 3. Right-click on Level 1 again. 4. Select Duplicate View ➢ Duplicate As A Dependent. You now have two views nested under Level 1 (see Figure 13.2). 5. Right-click on the Dependent (2) on Level 1 dependent view. 6. Rename it to Level 1 East. 7. Rename the other dependent view to Level 1 West (see Figure 13.2). FIGURE 13.2 Creating the two views dependent on Level 1 Now that the views are duplicated and nested within the host view, it is time to divide the Level 1 floor plan. We will do this by adjusting the crop region. Adjusting the Crop Regions Every view in Revit has a crop region. Crop regions play an important role when your plan is too large to fit on a sheet. All we need to do at this point is to slide the east and the west crop regions to display the correct views. The objective of the next procedure is to adjust the crop regions to display the appropriate parts of the plan based on the name of the views. 1. Open the Level 1 West dependent view. 2. Select the crop region, as shown in Figure 13.3. Creating Dependent Views 651 3. Drag the right side of the crop region to the position shown in Figure 13.3. FIGURE 13.3 Dragging the crop region in the Level 1 West view 4. Open the Level 1 East view. 5. Select the crop region. 6. Drag the left side of the region to the right, as shown in Figure 13.4. st r e t C h th a t vi e W You will notice that there are two stretch grips. One is for the actual crop region, and the other is for the annotation crop region. We will cover what the annotation crop region means in a moment. For now, pick the stretch grip to the inside as shown in this image: Chapter 13 • Creating Specific Views and Match Lines 652 FIGURE 13.4 Dragging the crop region to the right 7. Select the crop region again if it is not selected already and right-click. 8. Choose Go To Primary View to open the Level 1 floor plan. 9. When you are in the Level 1 floor plan, turn on the crop region by clicking the Display Crop Region button on the View Control toolbar, as shown in Figure 13.5. FIGURE 13.5 Turning on the crop region from the View Control toolbar Now you can see the area where you need to draw the match line. The crop region should overlap in the corridor. If not, drag the crop regions so that they match Figure 13.6. NOTE If you would like to turn a dependent view back to an inde- pendent view, you can simply right-click on the dependent view and select Convert To Independent View. This will break the link to the host view. Unfortunately, if you have a match line situation in your project, you must fol- low this procedure with each floor plan separately. For multifloor projects, this can become time-consuming. Or you can right-click on a view that has depen- dencies, and select Apply Dependent Views. From there you can select which views the dependent views will be added to. Creating Dependent Views 653 FIGURE 13.6 Adjusting the crop regions to overlap in the corridor As you can see, adjusting the crop region is how you specify which part of the plan is going to show up on your sheet. This poses one issue. If you have text that you would like to lie outside of the crop region—that is, if you have a leadered note pointing to an item within the cropped boundary—you may not see the note. This is where we can adjust the annotation crop region. Adjusting the Annotation Crop Region Since the crop region cuts off the model at a specified perimeter, what is to become of our text that needs to lie outside of this boundary? This is where the annotation crop region comes in handy. You will always have the situation where leadered text must be outside of the geometry it is labeling. We can make adjustments to ensure this can happen. The objective of the next procedure is to adjust an annotation crop region to clean up a plan. 1. In the Project Browser, find the Level 1 West dependent view and open it. 2. Select the crop region, as shown in Figure 13.7. Notice the two perim- eters: one is a solid line type and the other is a dashed line type. 3. In the corridor, there is a dimension that seems to be floating. This is because the crop region allows this dimension to show. With the crop region still selected, pick the outside stretch grip (as shown in Figure 13.8) and stretch the annotation crop region in until the dimen- sion disappears. . to find out, this command is not a simple copy-and-paste operation. Revit will change how you organize a project. You will no longer open a file and save it as another file so you can make changes. original. As you know, Revit is all-inclusive in terms of files. Well, there is only one. From that one file, there are views that reside within the Project Browser. Of course I am not telling you. a more in- depth understanding of how you can manipulate and organize views. Now let’s duplicate some views! To begin, open the file you have been follow- ing along with. If you did not complete