Hello, welcome. In this particular lesson, we're going to talk about creating levels. Before we get started, I have Revit LT 2022 opened up. I've also opened up the first project from our exercise files in module four which you have that opened up. Let's go ahead and follow along. So when starting new projects in Revit, one of the first things that you need to establish outside of your project units and settings is the datum elements that frame the project. First among of those datum elements we're gonna discuss is the levels. So your levels represent the floors of your buildings. They run parallel to the ground and are basically defined a height in your project. If you had a multi storied building or a floor your levels would represent a story or a floor for that building. Additionally levels can be used to show the grading, tops of foundations and steels. Any vertical location in your project can be marked by a level. And let's take a look at that. So in this project template that we had opened up and started our first project from, it has some levels already created for us. Let's take a look at one of those. Now you can't see levels in a planned view. So to edit them, you have to open up an elevation view or a section view. In this case, we're gonna open up an elevation view. So you can get to an elevation view, either by coming down here in the project browser, and we can open up an elevation view here, but I'm going to open up an elevation view by clicking on the elevation symbol, we're gonna click on the arrow portion of the south elevation. Zoom in here to make sure we get close enough to it. And just double click on this arrow here to open up the south elevation view. I see I'm in the south elevation view because I see the south tab at the top and in the project browser under elevations south is what's bolded. So in this view, our levels are the dash lines that are running horizontal across this view. Let's zoom in over here on the right. I have a roof elevation, a second floor, first floor, and then I have our foundation basement, your bottom and top footings. To adjust any one of these levels, I can select it and simply edit the dimension. So if this was a dimension that I wanted to modify, let's say I wanted to make this 12 foot three, 12 space three, press enter and that adjustment for that level has just occurred. If I wanted to change the name of the level, click in the name where it says second floor and instead of second floor I'm gonna call this main. Press space and press enter and notice I get a dialogue box asking me would I like to rename a corresponding view? That is because every level typically has a view that's created for that. So the second floor level had a view that was named second floor. With me renaming it is asking, do I want to rename that view? I'm gonna say yes here, and now when I come over into project browser and scroll up. I see my level called main floor. So that was a look at adjusting levels that are already existing in my project. But what if I wanted to draw new levels altogether? Well, to do this, let's zoom out a little bit. You can draw levels in one of two ways. You can use the keyboard shortcut LL. So I click in here, anywhere and type out LL for the keyboard shortcut and that puts me in the level drawing tool. I know this because in the properties type selector level is selected and now I can pick two points to draw a level. And as I pick a point and drag out as I get close to the edge of where these other levels are, it snaps to it automatically. So that's one way to create a level. I'm gonna press the Escape key. Let's look at a new way of creating levels. Let's go to the architecture tab and over here under the datum panel, let's click on level and that's the other way to create levels. And instead of picking two points, let's click on the Modify Place Level tab and over here under the draw area, there's this button for pick lines that allows us to create levels from the edges of other geometry that we currently have drawn. So I'm gonna pick a line that I want to be my next level. So if I pick this edge of this wall here, it's gonna generate a level based on those settings. Let's undo that, let's come over to the quick access to a bar, press Undo, and then undoes that. I'm still in the create level tool. Let's go back here to pick lines and I can give an offset as well. So if I do an offset of eight feet, in any line, as I hover over it, if I was to come back over here, it's going to offset and create a new level eight feet from this pick point. If I was to click here for this point, this new level has been created based off of this level, eight feet above it. If I hover to the bottom of that, notice that it's creating a new level at the bottom eight feet. Let's say it escaped twice to get out of the level creation. Let's create another level one more time, let's type out LL at the keyboard to start the level command again, let's go back over here to pick points or pick lines. And over here in the options bar we haven't discussed this yet. This is the options bar and this contextual options bar will change depending upon the tool that you're drawing with. So for the levels, it has a checkbox next to make a plan view. So as I create new levels, it's going to create a new plan view based on that level name. Click in this area for the plan view types. When I create a level, I want it to only create a floor plan. I don't need a ceiling plan to recreate it. So I'm only going to have floor plans, select in, and say, OK. And then I can give it an offset again through this offset of four feet. And I'm going to come over here to this line and I'm just gonna click once. And then it creates another level, level nine, four feet above from there. Now we have one too many levels created in this drawing. So let's hit the Escape key. Let's select these two levels, all these extra levels that we just created press the Delete key to remove them. And note, Revit is telling me that these additional views are going to be deleted as well. So levels are tied to the views as well. When I delete the levels, the views are gone. I'm gonna say OK here to remove the views and the levels. Thanks for watching this lesson. Join me in the next lesson. We will take a look at horizontal grids. Elements.
