CONTENTS
Titlepage
Copyright
Credits
Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Who Should Read This Book
What Is Covered in This Book
Contacting the Author
Chapter 1: The Autodesk Revit World
The Revit Interface
The Project Browser
File Types and Families
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 2: Creating a Model
Placing Walls
Using Reference Planes
Adding Interior Walls
Editing Wall Joins
Placing Doors and Windows
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 3: Creating Views
Creating Levels
Creating and Modifying Building Sections
Adding Wall Sections
Creating Detail Sections
Creating Callouts
Creating and Modifying a Camera View
Creating an Elevation
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 4: Working with the Autodesk 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
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 5: Dimensioning and Annotating
Dimensioning
Using Dimensions as a Layout Tool
Placing Text and Annotations
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 6: Floors
Placing a Floor Slab
Building a Floor by Layers
Splitting the Floor Materials
Pitching a Floor to a Floor Drain
Creating Shaft Openings
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 7: Roofs
Placing Roofs by Footprint
Creating a Sloping Roof
Creating Roofs by Extrusion
Adding a Roof Dormer
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 8: Structural Items
Adding Structural Grids
Adding Structural Columns
Using Structural Framing
Understanding Foundation Systems
Adding Structural Footings
Using Structural Views
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 9: Ceilings and Interiors
Creating Ceilings
Creating Ceiling Openings and Soffits
Adding Interior Design
Adding Alternate Floor Materials
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 10: Stairs, Ramps, and Railings
Creating Stairs by Using the Rise/Run Function
Creating a Winding Staircase
Creating a Custom Railing System
Creating Custom Stairs
Adding Ramps
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 11: Detailing
Working with Line Weights
Drafting on Top of the Detail
Adding Notes
Creating Blank Drafting Views
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 12: Creating Specific Views and Match Lines
Duplicating Views
Creating Dependent Views
Adding Match Lines
Using View Templates
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Chapter 13: 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
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 14: Creating Rooms and Area Plans
Creating Rooms
Adding a Room Schedule
Adding a Color-Fill Plan
Adding Room Separators
Creating an Area Plan
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 15: Advanced Wall Topics
Creating Compound Walls
Adding Wall Sweeps
Creating Stacked Walls
Creating Curtain Walls
Adding a Wall to a Massing Object
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 16: Creating Families
Creating a Basic Family
Using a Complex Family to Create an Arched Door
Creating an In-Place Family
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 17: Site and Topography
Adding a Site in 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
Are You Experienced?
Chapter 18: Rendering and Presentation
Creating an Exterior Rendering
Creating an Interior Rendering
Creating Walkthroughs
Creating a Solar Study
Are You Experienced?
End-User License Agreement
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Figure 1-1: You can launch Revit Architecture from the desktop icon.
Figure 1-2: The Recent Files window lists any recent projects or families on which you’ve worked.
Figure 1-3: The New Project dialog allows you to start a new project using a preexisting template file, or you can create a new template file.
Figure 1-4: The Ribbon is the backbone of Revit.
Figure 1-5: The Options bar allows you to have additional choices for the current command.
Figure 1-6: The Ribbon breakdown showing the panels
Figure 1-7: Click the Properties button to display the Properties dialog. Typically, the dialog is shown by default.
Figure 1-8: The Properties dialog gives you access to many variables associated with the item you’re adding to the model.
Figure 1-9: Dragging the Properties dialog onto the Project Browser
Figure 1-11: The type properties, when modified, alter every occurrence of this specific wall in the entire model.
Figure 1-12: The Edit Type button allows you to access the type properties.
Figure 1-13: The type properties modify the wall system’s global settings. Click the Preview button at the bottom of the dialog to see the image that is displayed.
Figure 1-14: By selecting Finish Face: Exterior, you know the wall will be dimensioned from the outside finish.
Figure 1-15: You can draw any shape you need.
Figure 1-16: The view window collects the results of your actions.
Figure 1-17: The procedure for drawing a wall in Revit Architecture
Figure 1-18: How Revit Architecture works is evident in this procedure.
Figure 1-19: Working with Revit starts with the ability to work with the view window and learn the quirks and feel of the interface.
Figure 1-20: Using a crossing window to select two walls
Figure 1-21: To select only objects that are surrounded by the window, use a box. This will leave out any item that may be partially within the box.
Figure 1-22: The Ribbon adds the appropriate commands.
Figure 1-23: There are options you must choose for every command in Revit.
Figure 1-24: Revit has snaps similar to most CAD applications. In Revit, you’ll get snaps only if you choose the Draw icon from the Options bar during a command.
Figure 1-25: Mirroring these walls involves (1) picking the midpoint of the vertical wall and (2) picking a horizontal point along the plane.
Figure 1-26: Your building should look like this illustration.
Figure 1-27: You can select any item in Revit and create a similar object by right-clicking and selecting Create Similar.
Figure 1-28: Just because you started the command from the view window doesn’t mean you can ignore your options.
Figure 1-29: Select the top corner of the wall to start your new radial wall.
Figure 1-30: The completed exterior walls should look like this illustration.
Figure 1-31: The View Control bar controls the graphical view of your model.
Figure 1-32: The Scale menu allows you to change the scale of your view.
Figure 1-33: The Detail Level control allows you to set different view levels for the current view.
Figure 1-34: The View tab allows you to turn on and off the Navigation bar.
Figure 1-35: You can use the steering wheel to navigate through a view.
Figure 1-36: Because Revit doesn’t include zoom commands in the Undo function, you can rewind to find previous views.
Figure 1-37: The standard zoom commands
Figure 1-38: Clicking the Thin Lines icon lets you operate on the finer items in a model.
Figure 1-39: The 3D View icon will be used heavily.
Figure 1-40: The Visual Style button enables you to view your model in color. This is typical for a 3D view.
Figure 1-41: Shadows create a nice effect, but at the expense of RAM.
Figure 1-42: The ViewCube lets you look freely at different sides of the building.
Figure 1-43: The model with shadows turned on
Figure 1-44: The Project Browser is your new BIM Windows Explorer.
Figure 1-45: Symbols for elevation markers in the plan. If you need to move them, you must do so by picking a window. There are two items in an elevation marker.
Figure 1-46: You can close a view by clicking the X for the view. This doesn’t close Revit—or an actual file for that matter—it simply closes that view.
Figure 1-47: The Switch Windows menu lists all the current views that are open.
Figure 1-48: The traditional Save icon brings up the Save As dialog if the file has never been saved.
Figure 1-49: The Options button in the Save As dialog lets you choose how the file is saved.
Figure 1-50: The options in the File Save Options dialog box let you specify the number of backups and the view for the preview.
Figure 1-51: You can load an
.rfa
file during the placement of a hosted family.
Figure 1-52: Each family
.rfa
file contains multiple types associated with that family.
Figure 1-53: Inserting a hosted family (
.rfa
)
Figure 1-54: All the families are listed in the Project Browser.
Figure 1-55: A new Revit model is based on an
.rte
template file.
Figure 1-56: The creation of a family starts with templates.
Figure 2-1: The footprint of your completed building
Figure 2-2: The Ref Plane command is on the Architecture tab’s Work Plane panel on the Ribbon.
Figure 2-3: You can grip-edit reference planes to the required length.
Figure 2-4: Offsetting a reference plane
Figure 2-5: Reference planes are used here to aid in the placement of walls.
Figure 2-6: Drawing a single wall from a defined starting point
Figure 2-7: The two walls drawn here are 30′ (9000 mm) from inside finish face to inside finish face.
Figure 2-8: Allow Revit to guide you in the placement of walls.
Figure 2-9: Draw a radial wall using the Start-End-Radius Arc method.
Figure 2-10: The building up to this point
Figure 2-11: The Pick Lines icon lets you add a wall by using an offset from another object.
Figure 2-12: Adding a wall using the built-in offset function may take a few tries to get the method down.
Figure 2-13: Creating the bottom of the corridor
Figure 2-14: The Trim command is your new best friend.
Figure 2-15: Using the Trim command to join the corners
Figure 2-16: The walls are now clean.
Figure 2-17: Sometimes, setting the graphic display to Coarse can make the placement of other walls easier.
Figure 2-18: Adding the new walls requires picking the midpoint of this wall. Make sure Offset is set to 15′–0″ (4500 mm) on the Options bar.
Figure 2-19: By using the Offset command as you draw walls, you can use one common centerline.
Figure 2-20: The completed walls for the south side of the building
Figure 2-21: Start drawing the 8″ (200 mm) CMU elevator shaft in the corner indicated here. Turn on Thin Lines if you need to.
Figure 2-22: The elevator shaft begins to take shape.
Figure 2-23: Temporary dimensions can be adjusted to measure from different wall faces by picking the witness-line grip.
Figure 2-24: The selected wall is the wall that will move when you type the new dimension.
Figure 2-25: The Temporary Dimensions function lets you control where Revit measures the temporary dimensions.
Figure 2-26: The most popular configuration for temporary dimensions
Figure 2-27: You can make temporary dimensions permanent.
Figure 2-28: The shaft wall
Figure 2-29: The Mirror ⇒ Pick Axis command is activated when you have objects selected.
Figure 2-30: The elevator shaft is now mirrored.
Figure 2-31: The east side of the building with egress and lavatories
Figure 2-32: Choosing options should be old hat by now! The Start-End-Radius Arc button is at the upper right on the Ribbon.
Figure 2-33: Drawing an arched radial wall requires a three-point method. It’s similar to the Start-End-Direction command in AutoCAD.
Figure 2-34: Drawing corridor walls using an offset can be a great timesaver.
Figure 2-35: Completing the main corridor. You’ll still have to drag the walls together to join them.
Figure 2-36: Getting a grip on the grips
Figure 2-37: The lavatories at the west side of the building
Figure 2-38: Both the men’s and women’s lavatories
Figure 2-39: This is the finished corridor layout.
Figure 2-40: The corridor with the 45° walls added
Figure 2-41: Adding yet another reference plane to the model. You’ll delete this one.
Figure 2-42: Adding the 45° wall
Figure 2-43: Using the Mirror command in conjunction with a reference plane is a good example of thinking ahead.
Figure 2-44: Stuck inside these four walls
Figure 2-45: Using the Split Element command
Figure 2-46: Split the wall at two points. If you’ve selected Delete Inner Segment, the result is to eliminate the wall between the two points.
Figure 2-47: The open corridor
Figure 2-48: The northeast corner
Figure 2-49: Adding to the mess in the corner
Figure 2-50: The wall and the resulting intersection
Figure 2-51: Click the Thin Lines icon to see how the walls are joining together.
Figure 2-52: You’ll find the Wall Joins button on the Modify tab.
Figure 2-53: Choosing the intersection you wish to edit
Figure 2-54: Adding a mitered join
Figure 2-55: Choosing a display option
Figure 2-56: Choosing a Wall Join Display option in the view’s properties
Figure 2-57: By right-clicking the wall’s end grip, you can tell Revit to disallow that wall’s join function.
Figure 2-58: Slide the wall back to abut the adjacent wall.
Figure 2-59: Allowing the walls to join back up again
Figure 2-60: Pull the CMU out of the wall, disallow the join, and then drag it back into the face of the stud.
Figure 2-61: Click the Cut Profile button, and select the gypsum.
Figure 2-62: This line indicates where the wallboard will be cut. The blue arrow indicates the side of the material that will remain.
Figure 2-63: Clicking Finish Edit Mode finalizes the session and completes the command.
Figure 2-64: The finished wall with the drywall deducted from the core of the chase
Figure 2-65: Adding a door
Figure 2-66: Placing a door always requires a host. Remember, you can press the spacebar to change the orientation and move your cursor up and down to flip the direction.
Figure 2-67: Select Additional Settings ⇒ Temporary Dimensions.
Figure 2-68: Moving the witness line to a more appropriate location
Figure 2-69: Changing the temporary dimension
Figure 2-70: Click Load Family on the Mode panel.
Figure 2-71: Placing the double doors
Figure 2-72: Adding lavatory doors. You’ll have to renumber the tags.
Figure 2-73: Adding a new corridor door. If this door isn’t loaded into your model, you have to click the Load Family button on the Mode panel of the Modify | Place Door tab.
Figure 2-74: Clicking Component on the Architecture tab
Figure 2-75: The new opening
Figure 2-76: Two new corridor doors
Figure 2-77: Adding a window is the same as adding a door.
Figure 2-78: Depending on which side of the wall your cursor is on, you can add a window to the correct orientation.
Figure 2-79: Placing the windows in the corner of the building and mirroring them
Figure 2-80: The Edit Type button in the Properties dialog
Figure 2-81: Changing a type parameter changes every window of that type.
Figure 3-1: Finding an elevation in the Project Browser
Figure 3-2: When dealing with levels, it’s a good idea to zoom in close so you can manipulate them.
Figure 3-3: Picking the grip to drag the level out of the way
Figure 3-4: Adding a level from the Datum panel on the Architecture tab
Figure 3-5: Choosing the options for the Level command
Figure 3-6: Waiting for the alignment to appear
Figure 3-7: The completed Level 3. Remember, you’re still in the Level command until you tell Revit to stop.
Figure 3-8: Levels 1 through 7 are complete.
Figure 3-9: The selected level
Figure 3-10: Renaming the level
Figure 3-11: Click Yes to rename corresponding views.
Figure 3-12: The renamed level
Figure 3-13: You can add an elbow to the elevation marker.
Figure 3-14: Dragging the level to a new position by using the grips provided
Figure 3-15: Making the final adjustments to the level
Figure 3-16: The Roof and Parapet levels
Figure 3-17: You can click the box that appears to turn on the level information at the other end of the building.
Figure 3-18: Controlling the visibility of the levels at the other end
Figure 3-19: Clicking the Default 3D View icon
Figure 3-20: Selecting the walls that extend to the Parapet level
Figure 3-21: Setting the top constraint to Up To Level: Parapet
Figure 3-22: The walls on the east side of the building are now constrained to the Parapet level.
Figure 3-23: Adding two new levels for the west side of the building
Figure 3-24: Using the display bubble toggles to switch the display to the appropriate side of the building
Figure 3-25: Turn off the 3D extents so you can drag the level end freely and without disturbing any other view.
Figure 3-26: The little blue grip enables you to drag the entire level.
Figure 3-27: You can drag the 2D level ends wherever you want them.
Figure 3-28: All the levels are in place for now.
Figure 3-29: Selecting the west part of the building
Figure 3-30: The final walls are constrained to the Corridor Parapet level.
Figure 3-31: The final look of the building
Figure 3-32: The Section command is found on the Create panel of the View tab.
Figure 3-33: Placing the section into the model
Figure 3-34: After you select the section, you’ll see the flip grip.
Figure 3-35: You can control how deep into the building you want the section to appear.
Figure 3-36: Adding a gap in the section. You can move your grips to be the same as the figure.
Figure 3-37: Cycling through the display choices
Figure 3-38: The Project Browser with the new section
Figure 3-39: You can rename the view by right-clicking in the Project Browser.
Figure 3-40: By choosing Maximize 3D Extents, you can control the visibility of the levels in other views.
Figure 3-41: On the View Control bar, set Fine as the detail level.
Figure 3-42: Selecting the wall to be modified and clicking Edit Profile
Figure 3-43: Adding additional lines to alter the wall’s profile
Figure 3-44: Revit aligns your cursor to levels, enabling you to sketch a new profile accurately.
Figure 3-45: Drawing the line from the left wall to the right
Figure 3-46: Drawing another line from Level 3 to the bottom of the Corridor Parapet level
Figure 3-47: Drawing the line across the top
Figure 3-48: Closing the wall by using grips to stretch the line
Figure 3-49: Clicking Finish Edit Mode
Figure 3-50: The finished wall profile
Figure 3-51: Choosing the properties to change a wall’s constraints is becoming old hat!
Figure 3-52: Adding another section to modify another wall
Figure 3-53: Changing the type of section from Building Section to Wall Section
Figure 3-54: The wall section in the plan
Figure 3-55: The finished wall section
Figure 3-56: Creating a plan section detail
Figure 3-57: Stretching the crop region to view the detail
Figure 3-58: Splitting the section
Figure 3-59: Sliding the view regions tighter together
Figure 3-60: Adding another section to the model
Figure 3-61: Jogging a section calls for splitting the segment.
Figure 3-62: The Callout button is located on the View tab.
Figure 3-63: The callout area is directly related to the view it’s calling out.
Figure 3-64: Adjusting callouts will be a common task.
Figure 3-65: Selecting the crop region
Figure 3-66: Modify the crop region by selecting it and stretching the grip.
Figure 3-67: Creating a plan callout
Figure 3-68: The plan showing the three typical callouts
Figure 3-69: Adding a camera view
Figure 3-70: Placing the camera view in the main corridor
Figure 3-71: The perspective view down the east wing corridor
Figure 3-72: By finding the view in the Project Browser, you can tell Revit to show the camera in the plan.
Figure 3-73: The perspective view
Figure 3-74: The elevation marker is right in the way!
Figure 3-75: The elevation marker is broken down into two pieces. You need to move both together by picking a window around the entire symbol.
Figure 3-76: You can drag the elevation marker when the entire item is selected.
Figure 3-77: The Elevation button on the View tab
Figure 3-78: The elevation is placed. You can select the view arrow and move the extents of the elevation into the building.
Figure 3-79: Adding an interior elevation and making the adjustments
Figure 3-80: Stretching the grip down to crop the view
Figure 3-81: Add the elevation marker as shown here, and then move it to a new location.
Figure 3-82: Turn on all four views in the lobby.
Figure 3-83: Changing the View Name setting to East Wing Entry North Elevation
Figure 3-84: Making the adjustments to bring the view back into a reasonable range
Figure 3-85: Modifying the properties for the elevation markers
Figure 3-86: The revised, less-obtrusive elevation markers
Figure 4-1: Select the wall to be moved. The Move button now appears on the Ribbon.
Figure 4-2: Choices on the Options bar. The first point has been picked, and the wall is being moved up.
Figure 4-3: Moving the wall 2′–6″ (750 mm) also means that any adjoining walls will be adjusted along with it.
Figure 4-4: Creating a copy of the corridor wall
Figure 4-5: The two walls copied, segmenting the spaces north and south of the corridor
Figure 4-6: The radial portion of the west wing
Figure 4-7: Establishing a reference plane
Figure 4-8: The Rotate command is active for the specific item you’ve selected.
Figure 4-9: Relocate the origin point for the rotation.
Figure 4-10: To rotate an item, you must specify two points.
Figure 4-11: Select the item to be arrayed first, and then click the Array button on the Modify | Reference Planes tab.
Figure 4-12: Setting the options for the Radial array
Figure 4-13: Place the pivot icon on the endpoint of the item being arrayed.
Figure 4-14: Specifying the two angles for the radial array
Figure 4-15: After the array is created, select one of the arrayed members. Notice that you can change the count.
Figure 4-16: You can control the number of items in an array group after you create the array.
Figure 4-17: Creating the reference plane
Figure 4-18: The two reference planes are established.
Figure 4-19: Adding the window to be arrayed
Figure 4-20: Moving the window into position
Figure 4-21: Choosing the linear array options
Figure 4-22: “Moving” the window to the top reference plane
Figure 4-23: Changing the number of items in the array. You can always come back to the arrayed group and change this value at any time.
Figure 4-24: Selecting the items to be mirrored. Make sure you don’t select the wall in which the windows reside.
Figure 4-25: The Mirror buttons appear when you select an item.
Figure 4-26: The line you’re going to pick is the reference plane shown here.
Figure 4-27: The finished west wall
Figure 4-28: Place the window approximately in the area shown here.
Figure 4-29: Click the Align button on the Modify | Place Window tab.
Figure 4-30: Choosing the items for alignment. Remember that you must first choose the item you want to align to.
Figure 4-31: The window is now in alignment with the reference plane.
Figure 4-32: Adding a double door to the east wing corridor
Figure 4-33: The door is now aligned and locked.
Figure 4-34: You can create a locked constraint by using the Align command even if the items were in alignment to begin with.
Figure 4-35: Open the section called West Wing South Wall Section.
Figure 4-36: Select the wall beyond, and click the Edit Profile button on the Modify | Walls tab.
Figure 4-37: Select the Split Element button on the Modify | Walls ⇒ Edit Profile tab.
Figure 4-38: To remove a segment of a line, you must use the Split Element command and select Delete Inner Segment from the Options bar.
Figure 4-39: Tracing the walls to form a notch. This is done by selecting the Pick Lines icon and picking the walls.
Figure 4-40: Offsetting the Corridor Parapet level down 1′-0″ (300 mm)
Figure 4-41: Modifying the sketch lines by stretching the grips to form a continuous loop
Figure 4-42: Click Finish Edit Mode to get back to the model.
Figure 4-43: The building in 3D up to this point
Figure 4-44: Click the Trim/Extend Single Element button on the Modify tab.
Figure 4-45: Zoom into this area to start trimming the walls.
Figure 4-46: Pick a point along the wall you want to keep.
Figure 4-47: The finished walls
Figure 4-48: Choosing your options and picking the wall to be offset
Figure 4-49: Completing the floor plan by using the Offset command will be a common procedure.
Figure 4-50: Selecting the items to be copied to the Clipboard
Figure 4-51: The Select Levels dialog box enables you to choose the levels to which you’re pasting the information.
Figure 4-52: The east wing is starting to come together.
Figure 4-53: The first-floor layout for the east wing
Figure 4-54: Switch Underlay from Level 1 to None.
Figure 4-55: The layout for Level 2. Try to make the dimensions as even as possible, consistent with what is shown here.
Figure 4-56: Using Copy/Paste, align the windows to the higher floors. This will influence your floor layout for each level.
Figure 4-57: Level 3: This floor plan was mostly copied from Level 1, with the exception of the northwest corner.
Figure 5-1: Starting the Aligned Dimension command from the Annotate tab
Figure 5-2: The Options bar for the Dimension command. Notice the Options button.
Figure 5-3: The Auto Dimension Options dialog box
Figure 5-4: By choosing the Intersecting Walls option, you can add an entire string of dimensions in one click.
Figure 5-5: Adding a major dimension by turning off the Intersecting Walls choice in the Auto Dimension Options dialog box
Figure 5-6: Placing the dimension by picking two objects
Figure 5-7: Adding a dimension string manually
Figure 5-8: You can use the dimension string to move the door by clicking the EQ button.
Figure 5-9: Toggle off the EQ Display option.
Figure 5-10: Press the Tab key to select the point shown.
Figure 5-11: Picking the second point along the wall and placing the dimension
Figure 5-12: Dragging the witness line’s grip
Figure 5-13: Clicking the Edit Type button to begin creating a new dimension style
Figure 5-14: Select the button in the Text category to access the dimension’s precision.
Figure 5-15: Changing the dimension’s precision. Note some of the other available choices.
Figure 5-16: Select the finished exterior corner of the brick. You’ll see a small blue dot appear, indicating that you can pick the start of the dimension.
Figure 5-17: When you add a linear dimension to an angled wall, you get a straight dimension.
Figure 5-18: Placing an angular dimension involves picking two walls and then a point to place the dimension.
Figure 5-19: Finish placing the corridor dimensions.
Figure 5-20: Adding a radial dimension is about as straightforward as it gets.
Figure 5-21: Adding a diameter dimension
Figure 5-22: Placing an arc length dimension involves four separate picks.
Figure 5-23: Adding a second arc length dimension
Figure 5-24: Adding two corridor walls
Figure 5-25: Place these walls as quickly as possible, and don’t worry about their spacing.
Figure 5-26: Changing the options for the dimension
Figure 5-27: Press the Tab key to filter to the desired reference of the wall.
Figure 5-28: Adding a string of dimensions to the interior walls
Figure 5-29: Press Tab to locate the inside face of the wall.
Figure 5-30: Pick a point away from the last dimension to place the string.
Figure 5-31: Before and after the EQ icon is selected
Figure 5-32: A Revit warning pertaining to the constraint of the walls
Figure 5-33: Unconstraining the walls
Figure 5-34: You can add a dimension and lock the distance between two items.
Figure 5-35: Click the Undo button.
Figure 5-36: Adding doors and windows to the floor plan
Figure 5-37: When you type a different value, the temporary dimension moves the object.
Figure 5-38: Placing a dimension
Figure 5-39: Making adjustments with the actual dimension
Figure 5-40: By grip-editing the text, you can slide it to a cleaner location. Revit automatically places a leader from the text to the dimension line.
Figure 5-41: The Dimension Text dialog box
Figure 5-42: Any numeric value triggers a warning in Revit. You simply can’t type a value over a dimension.
Figure 5-43: Under Dimension Value, choose Use Actual Value, and type TYP. as the suffix.
Figure 5-44: The dimensional layout for the north part of the west wing
Figure 5-45: The dimensional layout for the south part of the west wing
Figure 5-46: The radial entry
Figure 5-47: Click the Text button on the Text panel of the Annotate tab.
Figure 5-48: Placing text
Figure 5-49: Adding and stretching a leader
Figure 5-50: Adding a piece of leader text
Figure 5-51: Accessing the Type Properties
Figure 5-52: Changing that ugly arrow
Figure 5-53: Configuring the arrowhead
Figure 5-54: Changing the text values in the Type Properties dialog box
Figure 6-1: The Floor button on the Architecture tab
Figure 6-2: Changing the focus of the properties
Figure 6-3: Clicking the Edit Type button to begin creating a new floor slab type
Figure 6-4: Renaming the current floor type. You’ll never have a Generic 12″ (300 mm) floor in your model, so it’s a good idea not to keep this floor type around.
Figure 6-5: Clicking the Edit button to access the structure of the floor
Figure 6-6: By clicking in the Material cell within the Structure row, you can access the Material Browser.
Figure 6-7: The Material Browser
Figure 6-8: Picking walls ensures that that edge of your slab will move if the wall moves.
Figure 6-9: Picking the inside face of the first wall
Figure 6-10: Selecting the walls
Figure 6-11: Clicking Finish Edit Mode to finalize the floor sketch
Figure 6-12: Picking the north walls of the corridor
Figure 6-13: Sometimes you’ll need to click the Pick Lines button to select the edge of the slab. If you have to resort to this, however, the slab edge won’t move if the wall does.
Figure 6-14: Picking the face of the east wall. The line will run past the corridor. That’s OK; you’ll trim it in a moment.
Figure 6-15: Adding the slab edge to the left side of the west corridor wall
Figure 6-16: Pick the magenta lines in the numbered order illustrated in the figure.
Figure 6-17: The two slabs under the west wing and the corridor
Figure 6-18: Adding a slab to the east wing
Figure 6-19: Duplicating the existing floor
Figure 6-20: Clicking the Edit button in the Structure row
Figure 6-21: Inserting a new layer for the Terrazzo
Figure 6-22: Choosing a layer function
Figure 6-23: Selecting a material and adding it to the project
Figure 6-24: The completed layers for the floor system
Figure 6-25: You can see a preview of the floor section as it’s being built.
Figure 6-26: Picking the core centerline of the exterior walls, except the radial east wall
Figure 6-27: Sketching a line for the east portion of the entry slab
Figure 6-28: Click Yes to attach the walls to the floor’s bottom.
Figure 6-29: Click Yes if you want to cut overlapping volumes out of the exterior walls.
Figure 6-30: Clicking the Copy To Clipboard button
Figure 6-31: The walls on the floors above
Figure 6-32: Selecting the levels where you want the slab to be copied
Figure 6-33: The completed floor placement
Figure 6-34: The fifth floor is now cutting the walls.
Figure 6-35: To select the slab, you’ll find it easier to pick an entire area and filter the floor.
Figure 6-36: Deselect all the elements, and then select Floors.
Figure 6-37: Editing the structure of the slab
Figure 6-38: Adding a new layer
Figure 6-39: Adding the new material
Figure 6-40: The Split Face button is located on the Geometry panel of the Modify tab.
Figure 6-41: Finding the edge of the floor
Figure 6-42: Placing the three split lines around the perimeter of the lavatory
Figure 6-43: The Paint button on the Geometry panel
Figure 6-44: Finding the correct material
Figure 6-45: Filling the region with the new material
Figure 6-46: The completed lavatory
Figure 6-47: Drawing a split frame around the inside of the lavatory
Figure 6-48: Drawing a line to establish the point to where the floor will slope
Figure 6-49: Picking the endpoint of the line
Figure 6-50: Dropping the elevation of the drain down 1″ (25 mm) from the surface of the floor
Figure 6-51: The final slab in the restroom
Figure 6-52: Both lavatories are pitched and ready to have fixtures added.
Figure 6-53: Adding a new Top of Footing level
Figure 6-54: In the Properties dialog box, change Base Constraint to T.O. Footing.
Figure 6-55: Clicking the Shaft button on the Architecture tab
Figure 6-56: Adding the magenta lines to form the shaft opening to the outside of the CMU walls
Figure 6-57: Setting the properties of the shaft opening
Figure 6-58: You can add any “drafting” symbolic lines you deem necessary.
Figure 6-59: The completed shafts as seen in 3D
Figure 7-1: Changing the view’s Underlay to None
Figure 7-2: Clicking Roof By Footprint on the Architecture tab of the Design bar
Figure 7-3: Adding a sketch line to the perimeter of the building by picking walls
Figure 7-4: The roof has been added. You still have a lot of work to do, though.
Figure 7-5: Changing the material and adding a layer
Figure 7-6: The completed roof system
Figure 7-7: Start splitting the radial portion of the roof.
Figure 7-8: Click the Add Point button, and add the two points.
Figure 7-9: Drawing a new ridge between the two points
Figure 7-10: Add a dimension string to the reference planes shown here.
Figure 7-11: The ridges are in. All that is left is to create some points and start tapering the roof.
Figure 7-12: Adding a temporary line
Figure 7-13: Click the Modify Sub Elements button to gain access to the points on the roof.
Figure 7-14: Click here to taper the roof to this point.
Figure 7-15: The taper is in place.
Figure 7-16: The completed roof
Figure 7-17: Adding a section through the roof at this point
Figure 7-18: Changing the properties of the section
Figure 7-19: By adding the points to the roof, you now have an almost perfect section.
Figure 7-20: Select the six walls to be modified.
Figure 7-21: Without the Preview button selected and set to Section, you can’t modify the parapet sweep.
Figure 7-22: Deleting the Parapet Cap sweep
Figure 7-23: Pick these walls for the roof’s footprint.
Figure 7-24: You must pick lines to trace the terminating walls of the roof.
Figure 7-25: Using the Trim command in conjunction with the roof sketch
Figure 7-26: Selecting the roof and clicking the Edit Footprint button
Figure 7-27: Keep these three lines.
Figure 7-28: Draw a diagonal line as shown.
Figure 7-29: The new outline of the second roof
Figure 7-30: The corridor roof in 3D
Figure 7-31: Modifying the walls’ corners
Figure 7-32: Attaching the top or the base
Figure 7-33: The completed corridor roof
Figure 7-34: Using a plan region enables you to alter the view range in a specified area of a plan.
Figure 7-35: Creating the rectangle that forms the perimeter of the plan region
Figure 7-36: Setting the View Range for the plan region
Figure 7-37: The finished roof plan
Figure 7-38: Changing the walls to Exterior - Brick And CMU On MTL. Stud (No Parapet)
Figure 7-39: The perimeter of the roof is set.
Figure 7-40: Clicking the Slope Arrow button on the Draw panel
Figure 7-41: Adding the slope arrow
Figure 7-42: Changing the Slope Arrow properties
Figure 7-43: Setting the view range
Figure 7-44: The sloping roof
Figure 7-45: Attaching the tops of the walls to the sloping roof
Figure 7-46: Changing the wall types as you have been doing all along
Figure 7-47: Adjusting the view
Figure 7-48: Adding a reference plane
Figure 7-49: The Roof ⇒ Roof By Extrusion command
Figure 7-50: Selecting the South Entry Overhang reference plane
Figure 7-51: Adding reference planes to use as construction lines
Figure 7-52: Changing the thickness of the canopy roof
Figure 7-53: Drawing an arc, which will define the outside face of the roof
Figure 7-54: Setting Extrusion End
Figure 7-55: The almost completed canopy roof
Figure 7-56: Picking the roof and the wall to join the two together
Figure 7-57: The completed canopy
Figure 7-58: The walls are now attached to the roof.
Figure 7-59: Selecting the roof to be modified
Figure 7-60: Splitting the line into three pieces
Figure 7-61: Adding the first slope arrow
Figure 7-62: Adding a second slope arrow
Figure 7-63: Changing the values of the slope arrows
Figure 7-64: The completed roof dormer
Figure 8-1: The Grid button on the Datum panel of the Structure tab
Figure 8-2: Your first column grid
Figure 8-3: Examining the column grid grips
Figure 8-4: Dragging the column bubble to the right
Figure 8-5: Adding the second grid line
Figure 8-6: Adding grid 3 at the center of the building
Figure 8-7: The completed horizontal grids
Figure 8-8: Adding two additional grids and renumbering them
Figure 8-9: Adding a column line to the north corridor wall
Figure 8-10: Dragging the line and turning on the bubble so you can rename the grid 2.10
Figure 8-11: Adding the grids along the corridor walls
Figure 8-12: Clicking the Add Elbow grip after selecting the grid
Figure 8-13: The cleaned-up grid bubbles
Figure 8-14: Adding the first vertical grid by picking the centerline of the exterior wall
Figure 8-15: Dragging the new bubble out of the wall
Figure 8-16: The grid is now named A.
Figure 8-17: Copying the grid line to the other walls
Figure 8-18: Adding grid F
Figure 8-19: Adding a grid line offset from the finish inside face
Figure 8-20: Adding bubbles to the radial grid line and adjusting their placements with elbows
Figure 8-21: Column ⇒ Structural Column on the Structure tab of the Ribbon
Figure 8-22: You can click the Load Family button to add additional columns to your project.
Figure 8-23: Select
HSS-Hollow Structural Section-Column.rfa
, and choose the HSS6×6×5/8 (HSS152.4×152.4×12.7) type.
Figure 8-24: Placing the column at grid intersection F-1
Figure 8-25: Placing the two additional columns
Figure 8-26: Setting the column’s top level to extend to the roof
Figure 8-27: Placing and rotating a column
Figure 8-28: Extend the grids, and turn on the bubbles at each end.
Figure 8-29: Using the Place Column At Grids function
Figure 8-30: Picking a window where the columns will be placed
Figure 8-31: Moving the columns to the left 4′–0″ (1200 mm)
Figure 8-32: Adjustments such as moving a column will be necessary quite often.
Figure 8-33: Setting the view range so you can see below the level
Figure 8-34: The Beam button on the Structure panel of the Structure tab
Figure 8-35: Adding the beam requires picking two columns.
Figure 8-36: Adding the second beam
Figure 8-37: Adding a beam 6″ (150 mm) off the face of the wall to column line 2
Figure 8-38: Completing the framing for the canopy
Figure 8-39: The Beam System button
Figure 8-40: Selecting the Automatic Beam System and Tag On Placement options
Figure 8-41: Setting the maximum spacing and the tag style on the Options bar
Figure 8-42: Getting ready to place the framing system
Figure 8-43: The framing of the canopy
Figure 8-44: The Brace button on the Structure tab
Figure 8-45: Specifying Grid : 1 as the work plane for the bracing
Figure 8-46: Adding the rod at an angle
Figure 8-47: Cutting a section through the framing
Figure 8-48: Finding the points along the column and beam to attach the rod
Figure 8-49: Isometric of the bracing
Figure 8-50: Adding a structural wall
Figure 8-51: Changing the Material and Thickness settings
Figure 8-52: Picking the centerline of every exterior wall in the model. This includes the corridor and both wings.
Figure 8-53: The foundation walls
Figure 8-54: The walls aren’t behaving as you would like them to.
Figure 8-55: Joining the walls so the foundation walls terminate as expected
Figure 8-56: Splitting the foundation wall to follow the profile of the wall above
Figure 8-57: Again with the view range!
Figure 8-58: Adding a wall foundation
Figure 8-59: Changing the width
Figure 8-60: Doing a 3D investigation to see whether the footings are all in place
Figure 8-61: Choosing Structural Foundation: Slab
Figure 8-62: Changing the structure thickness
Figure 8-63: When picking the elevator shaft walls, be sure to include the 1′–0″ (300 mm) offset.
Figure 8-64: Trimming all the corners
Figure 8-65: Selecting the elevator shafts to remove the base offset in the Properties dialog
Figure 8-66: The finished elevator pads
Figure 8-67: Starting to place piers
Figure 8-68: Making the necessary adjustments
Figure 8-69: The completed foundation
Figure 8-70: Selecting Duplicate View ⇒ Duplicate With Detailing
Figure 8-71: Changing Discipline to Structural
Figure 8-72: Right-clicking in the Project Browser
Figure 8-73: Selecting Discipline
Figure 9-1: The Ceiling Plans category
Figure 9-2: The available ceiling types listed in the Type Selector
Figure 9-3: The Ceiling command finds bounding items such as walls.
Figure 9-4: Placing the 2 × 4 tiled ceiling
Figure 9-5: Adding 2 × 4 ACT ceilings to the specified rooms
Figure 9-6: Select one of the grids, and click the Rotate button.
Figure 9-7: The rotate process
Figure 9-8: The ceiling at a 45° angle
Figure 9-9: Selecting the roof and right-clicking
Figure 9-10: The View-Specific Element Graphics dialog box
Figure 9-11: Attaching the wall to the roof
Figure 9-12: Selecting the partitions
Figure 9-13: Defining the limits of the plan region by drawing a rectangle around a specific area
Figure 9-14: Configuring the view range for the crop region
Figure 9-15: Clicking the Edit button in the Structure row to gain access to the ceiling’s structural composition
Figure 9-16: Clicking the button in the Material cell
Figure 9-17: Selecting and configuring the material for the ceiling
Figure 9-18: The cherry-veneered plywood ceiling
Figure 9-19: The north row of rooms will receive cherry ceilings.
Figure 9-20: Clicking the Edit Boundary button on the Modify | Ceilings tab
Figure 9-21: Drawing two reference planes to create a center intersection
Figure 9-22: Sketching a 4′–0″ (1200 mm) radius circle
Figure 9-23: There’s a hole in my ceiling!
Figure 9-24: Basic Wall : Interior - 3 1/8″ Partition (1-hr) (79 mm)
Figure 9-25: Setting Top Constraint and Base Offset
Figure 9-26: Creating one cool soffit
Figure 9-27: Click the button to change the material.
Figure 9-28: Adding a new material to the project
Figure 9-29: Making mahogany
Figure 9-30: The completed ceiling
Figure 9-31: Click the Component button on the Architecture tab.
Figure 9-32: Moving the fixture to the correct location
Figure 9-33: Copying the fixture in the section
Figure 9-34: You’re now copying and rotating as if you were in flat, 2D Autodesk® AutoCAD
®
software.