Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 No Experience Required - part 72 ppsx

Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 684 sa v e th a t Mo d e l ! You may have noticed that a save reminder keeps popping up (see the fol- lowing graphic). Revit likes to ask you if you want to save the model before you execute a command. This process has greatly reduced the amount of crashes as compared to AutoCAD. 3. Click OK. 4. You can fill out the rest of the information as follows (see Figure 14.22): Project Issue Date: 1/30/10  Project Status: 100%  Project Name: NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED  Project Number: 20090342  NOTE Notice the NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED text has already been entered. This is because you added it to the appropriate field in the title block. Remember, when you are dealing with Revit, and databases in gen- eral, it is a two-way flow of information. 5. Click OK. 6. Open any sheet and examine the title block. All of the information should be filled out. Now that we can populate the information in a sheet, there is one more item to cover quickly before we jump into printing: adding a drawing list. Generating a Cover Sheet 685 FIGURE 14.22 Filling out the project data Generating a Cover Sheet It goes without saying that this ingenious method of creating and managing sheets would not be quite perfect unless you could generate a sheet list and put it on a cover sheet. Well, this is Revit. Of course you can! The best part is you already have the experience necessary to carry out this procedure. The objective of the next procedure is to create a sheet list and add it to a cover sheet. 1. On the View tab, click Schedules ➢ Sheet List, as shown in Figure 14.23. 2. In the Sheet List Properties dialog, add Sheet Number and Sheet Name, as shown in Figure 14.24. Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 686 FIGURE 14.23 The Sheet List button on the View tab 3. Click the Sorting/Grouping tab. 4. Sort by Sheet Number. 5. Select Ascending. 6. Click OK. FIGURE 14.24 Adding Sheet Number and Sheet Name (in that order) Wow! Creating a schedule is so easy, you will probably be doing this on your lunch break instead of playing Internet games! While you are still in the sched- ule, you can add a new row. This row will constitute a filler sheet that we can add to the Project Browser at a later date. To add a filler sheet, follow along. 1. Make sure you are in the Sheet List schedule. Generating a Cover Sheet 687 2. On the Rows panel, click the New button, as shown in Figure 14.25. 3. Call the new row COVER SHEET A001, as shown in Figure 14.25. FIGURE 14.25 New to Revit 2011, you can add a placeholder row. For now, let’s keep this schedule in the Project Browser and create a cover sheet that we can drag it onto. The objective of the next procedure is to create a new title block family, add it to the project, and then drag the drawing list onto the cover. 1. Click the Application button and choose New ➢ Title Block, as shown in Figure 14.26. 2. Select E1 - 42 x 30.rft. 3. Click Open. 4. On the Text panel of the Home tab, click Label, as shown in Figure 14.27. 5. In the Properties dialog, click Edit Type. 6. Click Duplicate. 7. Call the new tag TITLE and click OK. 8. Make sure the Text Font is Arial. 9. Change Text Size to 1”. 10. Click Bold. 11. Click OK. Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 688 12. On the Format panel, click the Center Middle button. 13. Pick a point in the upper center of the sheet. FIGURE 14.26 Creating a new title block FIGURE 14.27 Selecting Label from the Create tab After you place the tag, you will immediately see the Edit Label dialog. This dialog will allow you to add the label you wish. When you load this cover sheet into the project and add it to a new sheet, the project information will become populated automatically. The objective of the next procedure is to add the correct tags to the sheet. 1. Select Project Name, and click the Add Parameter(s) to Label button, as shown in Figure 14.28. Generating a Cover Sheet 689 FIGURE 14.28 Adding the project name to the label 2. Click OK. 3. Click the label and widen the grips. You may have to adjust the label so it is centered in the sheet, as shown in Figure 14.29. 4. Click the Application button and then click Save As ➢ Family. 5. Save the file somewhere that makes sense to you. Call it Title Sheet. 6. Click Load Into Project. If you have more than one project opened, you will see a dialog allow- ing you to choose which project to load the sheet into. If this is the case, choose the No Experience Required project you are working on. FIGURE 14.29 Adjusting the label so it is centered in the sheet Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 690 7. In the Project Browser, right-click on Sheets and select New Sheet. 8. In the New Sheet dialog, select Title Sheet. 9. Also in the New Sheet dialog, you will see that placeholder sheet you added to the schedule. Select it, as shown in Figure 14.30. FIGURE 14.30 Adding the new sheet 10. Click OK. You will see your tag is now populated with the project information. 11. In the Project Browser, find the Sheet List (it is in the Schedules/ Quantities category) and drag it onto the sheet. 12. Select the schedule and adjust it so the text is readable. Your title sheet, although not very glorious, should look like Figure 14.31. FIGURE 14.31 The completed title sheet Printing from Revit Architecture 691 In most cases, we don’t want the actual cover sheet to be an item in the sched- ule. We can fix this. While still in the cover sheet, uncheck Appears In Sheet List in the Properties dialog, as shown in Figure 14.32. FIGURE 14.32 Deselect the Appears In Sheet List option. Perfect! We have a handful of sheets. The beauty is that you do not have to leave the model to see how these sheets are shaping up. In Revit, they are always just a click away! Since we have these sheets, it is time to explore how we send them to the plot- ter. After all, it is paper construction documents that we are producing. Printing from Revit Architecture Luckily, printing is one of the easiest things you will be confronted with in Revit. There are, however, some dangerous defaults that you must consider when print- ing. I can go out on a limb and say that printing from Revit is too easy in some cases. The objective of the next procedure is to print a set of drawings. Pay special attention to the warnings, though—they will steer you clear of danger. 1. Click the Application button and select Print. 2. For the printer name, select the printer you wish to print to. 3. If printing to a file, you can choose to combine all files into one or create separate files. Choose to combine into one file. If you are not printing to a file, ignore this choice. Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 692 4. For Print Range, you can print the current window or the visible por- tion of the current window, or you can choose Selected Views/Sheets. Choose Selected Views/Sheets. TIP When you choose to print the current window, you are printing the current view. When you choose to print the visible portion of the current window, you are printing the area that you are currently zoomed into. In Revit, you do not pick a window like you do in CAD. 5. Click the Select button, as shown at the bottom left in Figure 14.33. 6. At the bottom of the View/Sheet Set dialog, uncheck Views. 7. Now only the sheets are listed. Click on all of the sheets. 8. Click OK. 9. Revit will ask you if you want to save the settings for a future print. Click No. 10. In the lower-right corner, you will see a Settings area. Click the Setup button, as shown in Figure 14.34. FIGURE 14.33 Choosing the options to print the drawings Printing from Revit Architecture 693 TIP Printing from Revit is similar to an AutoCAD paper space model space environment where you can simply print a specific view or print an entire sheet. The only difference is you are not bothered by scale. The sheets and views are printed at the scale specified in Revit. FIGURE 14.34 Clicking the Setup button WARNING Make a habit of selecting the Setup button before you print. There are some crucial settings in the resulting dialog that need to be verified. 11. For Paper, choose the correct paper size you wish to print to. 12. For Paper Placement, choose Center. 13. For Zoom, select Zoom: 100% Of Size. WARNING The Fit To Page radio button should never be selected unless you know that you are not plotting to scale. If you would like a reduced set of drawings, you can specify Zoom and then move to a smaller percentage (50% is a half size set). 14. For the options, check Hide Ref/Work Planes. 15. Check Hide Unreferenced View Tags. 16. Hide Scope Boxes. 17. Hide Crop Boundaries. 18. Click OK. . Date: 1/30/10  Project Status: 100%  Project Name: NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED  Project Number: 20090342  NOTE Notice the NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED text has already been entered. This is because. dealing with Revit, and databases in gen- eral, it is a two-way flow of information. 5. Click OK. 6. Open any sheet and examine the title block. All of the information should be filled out. Now that. sheets would not be quite perfect unless you could generate a sheet list and put it on a cover sheet. Well, this is Revit. Of course you can! The best part is you already have the experience