Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 No Experience Required - part 71 ppsx

Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 674 FIGURE 14.12 Stretching the crop region so you can see the entire view 8. In the View Control toolbar, select Hide Crop Region. un s i g h t l y Cr o p re g i o n s be go n e ! By selecting Hide Crop Region, as shown in this image, you are simply cleaning up the view. As we will explore in this chapter, you can keep the crop region on and tell Revit not to print it. 9. Right-click and select Deactivate View. 10. Right-click on the view to the left of the West Wing South Wall Section (it is the view called West Corridor Section), and select Activate View. 11. Stretch the crop region down so you can see the entire foundation. 12. Hide the crop region. 13. Right-click and deactivate the view. Modifying a Viewport 675 With the view widened, it is coming close to the actual title. You can move the viewport or the title independently of one another. The objective of the following procedure will involve moving the viewport up, then moving the view title down to provide some more room. 1. Select the West Wing South Wall Section viewport. 2. Hold down the pick button, and move the entire viewport up. As you move the viewport up, an alignment line will appear. This means that the views are physically aligned. When you see the alignment line, release the pick button. 3. Press Esc. 4. Select the view title, as shown in Figure 14.13. 5. Move it down. As you move the view title, it will snap in alignment to the view title to the left, as shown if Figure 14.13. FIGURE 14.13 You can select the view title independently of the actual viewport. NOTE You can also customize the view titles. This procedure, however, falls under the category of BIM management. Chapter 23, “BIM Management,” has a section dedicated to creating a view title. Now that we have some experience creating sheets and making adjustments to the views and viewports, we can easily create one more sheet that contains sections. The following procedure will focus on creating a detail sheet. If you feel as though you can create this sheet on your own, go ahead. The sheet will be sheet number A401, it will be named DETAILS, and the views to be added are Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 676 Corridor Entry Section, Callout of Corridor Entry Section, Roof Taper Section, and TYPICAL WALL TERMINATION. Your finished sheet should look like the figure at the end of the procedure. If you would rather have some assistance, follow along with this procedure: 1. In the Sheets category in the Project Browser, right-click on the Sheets title. 2. Select New Sheet. 3. Number it A401 and name it DETAILS. 4. In the Project Browser, drag the Sections (Wall Section) called Corridor Entry Section and place it in the sheet all the way to the right. 5. In the Project Browser, drag the Sections (Building Section) called Callout of Corridor Entry Section onto the sheet to the top left of the previous section (see Figure 14.14). 6. Drag the section called Roof Taper Section to the bottom left of the first view you added. 7. Drag the view called TYPICAL WALL TERMINATION to the sheet directly to the left of Callout of Corridor Entry Section (see Figure 14.14). 8. Zoom in on the view title for the Corridor Entry Section, as shown in Figure 14.15. 9. Select the Corridor Entry Section viewport. Notice there are blue grips on the view title. 10. Extend the line by stretching the grip on the right to the right, as shown in Figure 14.15. 11. Save the model. Pan and zoom around to investigate all of the reference markers. They are starting to fill themselves out based on the sheets where you placed the refer- ring views. NOTE You can place only one instance of a view on a sheet. You also cannot place a view on multiple sheets. This is Revit’s way of keeping track of what view is on a page and which page that view is on. The only type of view that you can place on more than one sheet is a Legend view. If you would like to place a view on a sheet more than once, you will need to dupli- cate the view in the Project Browser. Modifying a Viewport 677 FIGURE 14.14 Building the A401 DETAILS sheet FIGURE 14.15 Stretching the view title line to the right via the blue grip Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 678 Now that we know how to manipulate a viewport, it is time to take a look at the viewport’s properties. I think you will be glad to see how familiar these properties are. Viewport Properties Just like anything else in Revit, viewports have associated properties. You just select the viewport and click the Properties button on the Ribbon if the Properties dialog isn’t already open. The objective of the following procedure is to look through the viewport’s properties and to make some minor modifications. 1. Open the view A401 - DETAILS (if it is not already). 2. Select the Corridor Entry Section view (the tall section to the right of the sheet). NOTE Notice that the properties for the viewport are exactly the same as those for a typical view. When you change the properties of a viewport, you are actually changing the properties of the corresponding view. 3. In the Properties dialog, scroll down the list until you arrive at the Title On Sheet, as shown in Figure 14.16. 4. Change the Title On Sheet to SECTION AT ENTRY CORRIDOR. 5. Click Edit Type. 6. In the Type Parameters, you can choose which view title you will be using, or if you want any view title at all. We will address creating custom view titles in Chapter 23, so for now just click OK. 7. Zoom in on the detail and notice that the name has changed. Now that we have pretty much exhausted creating and manipulating sheets, it is time to explore another sheet function: adding revisions. Adding Revisions to a Sheet An unfortunate reality in producing construction documents is that you must eventually make revisions. In CAD, you normally create a duplicate of the file, save that file into your project directory, and then create the revisions. The only way to keep track of them is to add a revision cloud and change the attribute Modifying a Viewport 679 FIGURE 14.16 You can make the title on the sheet different from the view name. O Notice that when you select the viewport, the name and detail number turn blue. This means that you can change the values right on the sheet. information in the title block. In Revit, however, you are given a revision sched- ule and the means to keep track of your revisions. The objective of the next procedure is to add a revision cloud and to populate a schedule that is already built into the sheet. 1. In the Project Browser, open Sheet A101. 2. On the Annotate tab, click the Revision Cloud button, as shown in Figure 14.17. Notice you are now in Sketch Mode. FIGURE 14.17 The Revision Cloud button on the Annotate tab Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 680 3. Place a revision cloud around the plan, as shown in Figure 14.18. TIP To get the revision cloud drawn accurately, you must work in a clockwise manner. Unfortunately, if you err in getting the cloud on the sheet, you should probably undo and start over. FIGURE 14.18 Placing a revision cloud 4. On the Modify | Create Revision Cloud Sketch tab, click Finish Edit Mode. 5. On the Annotate tab, click Tag By Category, as shown in Figure 14.19. 6. Pick the revision cloud. 7. You will probably get a dialog stating that you do not have a tag loaded for this category. If you see this dialog, click Yes to load one. 8. Select Annotations ➢ Revision Tag.rfa. 9. Pick the revision cloud. You now have a tagged revision cloud, as shown in Figure 14.19. Zoom closer to the title block. You will also notice that the revision schedule has the first revision added to it. Revit is now keeping track of your revisions. Adding Revisions to a Sheet 681 FIGURE 14.19 The revision tag has been added to the cloud. Also, notice the title block has Revision 1 added to it. The next procedure will focus on making modifications to the revision scheme so we can better keep track of the revision schedule. 1. On the View tab, click the Revisions button on the Sheet Composition panel, as shown in Figure 14.20. 2. In the Sheet Issues/Revisions dialog, change the date to today’s date. 3. For the description, type First Floor Revisions. 4. Click the Add button, as shown in Figure 14.20. 5. Give the new revision a date in the future. 6. For the description, enter Revised Sections (see Figure 14.20). Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 682 7. For the Numbering, click the Per Project radio button. 8. Click OK. 9. In the Project Browser, open the sheet A301 - BUILDING SECTIONS. 10. On the Annotate tab, click the Revision Cloud button. FIGURE 14.20 The Sheet Issues/Revisions dialog 11. Place a cloud around the upper-right detail. 12. On the Mode panel, click Finish Edit Mode. 13. Select the cloud you just added. 14. On the Options bar, make sure you have Seq. 2 - Revised Sections selected, as shown in Figure 14.21. 15. On the Annotate tab, select Tag By Category. 16. Place the revision tag on the cloud. You may also notice that the schedule in the title block is filled with only the appropriate revision relevant to this sheet. Addressing Project Parameters 683 FIGURE 14.21 By selecting the revision cloud, you can specify the sequence from the Options bar. Now that we have experience with the concept of how sheets and revisions come together, we need to explore one more avenue with populating sheet information. You may have noticed that the title blocks are not yet complete. The empty fields relate to project information that needs to be included on each sheet. This is where project parameters come in. Addressing Project Parameters Since Revit is built upon a database, it makes sense that items like Project Name and Project Number will be added to the design in a different manner than that in CAD. In CAD, you fill out attributes sheet by sheet, or you simply externally refer- ence a title block with the sheet information. In Revit, you fill out the project infor- mation in one place. The information you add to the database propagates down to the sheets. When, or if, this information changes, it is done quickly and accurately. The objective of the next procedure is to locate the project parameters and populate the model with the job information. 1. On the Manage tab, click Project Information, as shown in Figure 14.22. 2. Click the Edit button next to Energy Settings, as shown to the right in Figure 14.22. The resulting dialog allows you to add the project’s geographical information as well as energy data. This will allow you to export the information to GBXML as well as provide information so your architectural model can be imported into Revit MEP. . make some minor modifications. 1. Open the view A401 - DETAILS (if it is not already). 2. Select the Corridor Entry Section view (the tall section to the right of the sheet). NOTE Notice that. sheets where you placed the refer- ring views. NOTE You can place only one instance of a view on a sheet. You also cannot place a view on multiple sheets. This is Revit s way of keeping track. in this chapter, you can keep the crop region on and tell Revit not to print it. 9. Right-click and select Deactivate View. 10. Right-click on the view to the left of the West Wing South Wall