Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 664 Creating and Populating Sheets The first part of the chapter will focus on the creation of a sheet, and how to populate it with views. Although you have completed this task back in Chapter 11, “Schedules and Tags,” it is time to drill into the ins and outs of sheet creation. Luckily, when we create and populate sheets, Revit holds true to form—that is, we still don’t have to start setting up different drawings or models to simply reference them together. We will create sheets much as we created most other views, because that is all a sheet is: a view. But a sheet goes one step further. Look at a sheet as a view that collects other views for the purpose of printing. The objective of the following procedure is to create a new sheet. To get started, open the model you have been working on. If you missed the previous chapter, go to the book’s web page at www.sybex.com/go/revit2011ner. From there you can browse to Chapter 14 and find the file called NER-31.rvt. 1. In the Project Browser, scroll down until you see a category called Sheets, as shown in Figure 14.1. 2. Right-click on Sheets and select New Sheet (see Figure 14.1). 3. In the Select Titleblocks area of the New Sheet dialog box, select the E1 30 × 42 : Horizontal title block. (It is probably the only one available.) 4. Click OK. FIGURE 14.1 Selecting a new sheet Creating and Populating Sheets 665 NOTE The title block we are using is a standard Autodesk-supplied title block. Later in the chapter, we will look at how to make custom title blocks. Also, your new sheet may be numbered differently from the example in the book. This is OK; we are going to change the numbering in a moment. Congratulations! You now have a blank sheet. The next procedure will involve adding views to the sheet by the click-and-drag method. 1. On the View tab, click Guide Grid, as shown in Figure 14.2. 2. In the Guide Grid Name dialog, call the guide Grid 30x42, and click OK. 3. Select the guide grid, and drag it into place by using the blue grips, as shown in Figure 14.2. 4. With the guide grid still selected, change Guide Spacing to 3” in the Properties dialog, as shown in Figure 14.2. NOTE Note that you do not have to add a guide grid. The guide grid keeps your plans in the same spot from sheet to sheet, and can be a good idea. FIGURE 14.2 New to Revit 2011, you can add a guide grid to a sheet. Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 666 5. In the Project Browser, find the dependent view called Level 1 West, as shown in Figure 14.3. 6. Pick the view, and hold down the pick button. 7. Drag the view onto the sheet, as shown in Figure 14.3. FIGURE 14.3 Dragging the view onto the sheet 8. When the view is centered in the sheet, let go of the pick button. You will now see the view following your cursor. Try to align the lower- left corner of the viewport with a guide grid, and then click. This will place the view onto the sheet. This is how you populate a sheet using Revit—quite the departure from CAD. One nice detail is that the title is filled out, and the scale will never be incorrect. The next step is to start renumbering sheets so we can create a logical order. Sheet Organization If you have been following along with the book, you will already have a sheet numbered A101. It would be nice if we could give this sheet a new number and start our sequence over again. Revit lets you do just that. Creating and Populating Sheets 667 The objective of the next procedure is to change the sheet numbering and to add more sheets, allowing Revit to sequentially number the sheets as they are created. 1. In the Project Browser, find the sheet A101 - Unnamed and right-click. 2. Select Rename, as shown in Figure 14.4. FIGURE 14.4 Renaming the sheet 3. Change the sheet number to A601. 4. Change the name to SCHEDULES AND GENERAL NOTES. 5. Click OK. 6. Right-click on sheet A103 (if it is not named A103, it is the only other sheet other than A601, the sheet you just created). 7. Select Rename. 8. Change the number to A101. 9. Change the name to WEST WING FIRST FLOOR PLAN. 10. Click OK. Your Project Browser should now resemble Figure 14.5. With the sheets organized, we can now proceed to create more. As we do, we will see that not only do the sheets number themselves, but all of the sections, elevations, and callouts will start reading the appropriate sheet designations. Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 668 FIGURE 14.5 The reorganized Project Browser The objective of the next procedure is to create more sheets and to add views to them. 1. Right-click on Sheets (All) in the Project Browser. 2. Select New Sheet. 3. Click OK to add the title block. 4. At the bottom of the Properties dialog, select 30x42 as the guide grid, as shown in Figure 14.6. 5. In the Project Browser, find the dependent view called Level 1 East and drag it onto the new sheet. 6. Pick a point on the sheet to place the view aligned with the guide grid, as shown in Figure 14.6. 7. In the Project Browser, double-click on the A101 sheet, opening the view. Notice that the view reference next to the match line is filled out with the appropriate designation. 8. Double-click on A102 to open the view again. You may also notice a plus sign (+) next to A101. If you expand the tree by clicking on the +, you can see the views that are included on this view. This can prove to be immensely useful because you cannot add a view to another sheet (or the same sheet for that mat- ter) if it is already included in a sheet. Creating and Populating Sheets 669 FIGURE 14.6 Adding another sheet You may notice in the Project Browser that sheet A102 is still unnamed. The next procedure will describe a different way to rename and renumber a sheet. 1. With Sheet A102 opened, zoom into the right side of the view, as shown in Figure 14.7. 2. Select the title block. Notice that a few items turn blue. If you remember, any item that turns blue can be modified. 3. Click into the text that says Project Name and type NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED. 4. Click into the text that says Unnamed and type EAST WING FIRST FLOOR PLAN (see Figure 14.7). 5. Create another sheet using the 30x42 Horizontal title block. 6. Number it A201. 7. Name it ENLARGED PLANS. 8. Add the 30x42 grid guide. Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 670 9. Drag the following views onto the sheet: Typical Elevator Shaft Typical Men’s Lavatory Typical Women’s Lavatory 10. Arrange them so they are in a row, as shown in Figure 14.8. FIGURE 14.7 Changing the title block information FIGURE 14.8 Creating a sheet and adding views in a row across the bottom of the page Creating and Populating Sheets 671 NOTE Also notice that the title block is filled out. The page number and the sheet name are filled out because we edited these names when we made the sheet, but the project name will appear on every new sheet that we create. Now that the first floor plans and typical enlarged plans are placed on a sheet, it is time to move on to adding the details that we created. If you feel as though you have enough experience creating a sheet and adding views, go ahead and proceed on your own. Your new sheet will be numbered A301 and called Building Sections, and you will add the views East Corridor Section, West Corridor Section, Section at West Training, and West Wing South Wall Section. Your sheet should look like the figure at the end of the procedure. If you would like some assistance in putting the section sheet together, follow along with this procedure: 1. In the Project Browser, right-click on the Sheets category. 2. Select New Sheet. 3. Select the E1 30 ×42 Horizontal title block, and click OK. 4. In the Project Browser, right-click on the new sheet and select Rename. 5. Give the new sheet a number of A301 and a name of BUILDING SECTIONS. 6. In the Properties dialog, add the 30x42 grid guide. 7. In the Project Browser, find the Sections (Building Sections) category. 8. Drag the section called East Corridor Section onto the lower-left cor- ner of the sheet. 9. Drag the section called Section at East Training onto the sheet to the right of the East Corridor Section. 10. Drag the section called West Corridor Section onto the sheet and place it into the upper-left corner. Be sure you align it directly above the East Corridor Section. 11. Drag the section called East Wing South Wall Section to the right of the West Corridor Section and directly above the Section of West Training. Notice the alignment lines will allow you to accurately place the section. After you have these four sections in place, your sheet A301 should look like Figure 14.9. Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 672 FIGURE 14.9 The completed sheet A301 Now that we have created a few sheets, you may want to make some adjustments to the view without leaving the sheet. The next section of this chapter will focus on the properties of a viewport and how to make it live on the sheet so we can make modifications. Modifying a Viewport Wait a second. Isn’t a viewport AutoCAD vernacular? Yes, it is. But a viewport in AutoCAD and a viewport in Revit are two different things altogether. In Revit, when you drag a view onto a sheet, a linked copy of that view becomes a viewport. This is what you see on the sheet. Any modification you make to the original view will immediately be reflected in the viewport, and vice versa. See Figure 14.10 for a graphical representation. The objective of the next procedure is to activate a viewport to make modifica- tions on the sheet, and also to explore the Element Properties of the viewport. 1. Open the sheet A301 (if it is not open already). 2. Zoom in on the viewport West Wing South Wall Section, as shown in Figure 14.11. Modifying a Viewport 673 FIGURE 14.10 The relationship between the original view and the viewport 3. Select the view. 4. Right-click and select Activate View, as shown in Figure 14.11. 5. With the view activated, you can work on it just as if you had opened it from the Project Browser. Select the crop region, as shown in Figure 14.12. 6. Stretch the top of the crop region up so you can see the entire view. 7. Stretch the bottom of the crop region down to expose the bottom of the section. FIGURE 14.11 Activating a view NOTE By activating the view in this manner, you are essentially open- ing that view. The only difference between physically opening the view in the Project Browser and activating the view on the sheet is that by activating the view, you can now see the title block, which will help in terms of layout. . Figure 14.2. NOTE Note that you do not have to add a guide grid. The guide grid keeps your plans in the same spot from sheet to sheet, and can be a good idea. FIGURE 14.2 New to Revit 2011, you. cannot add a view to another sheet (or the same sheet for that mat- ter) if it is already included in a sheet. Creating and Populating Sheets 669 FIGURE 14.6 Adding another sheet You may notice. title block. Notice that a few items turn blue. If you remember, any item that turns blue can be modified. 3. Click into the text that says Project Name and type NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED. 4.