Advanced Layout Creation and Documentation

Name: Advanced Layout Creation and Documentation
Author: Patrick Porter

In these lessons you will learn about more advanced methods to layout and document your Revit project models

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Hello. In this chapter, we're going to discuss advanced layout creation and documentation within Revit. And in this particular lesson, we're gonna take a look at duplicating views. Now, before we get started, I have Revit LT 2022 opened up on my screen, and I've opened up the art link model from the exercise files. So once you have this opened, I'd like for you to go ahead and follow along with me. Now, with Revit, there are many reasons why you may need to have duplicate views set up in your Revit model. For one, you can only have one Revit view assigned to a sheet within Revit. So on my screen here, I have the entry level view opened up from the browser. This view is pretty busy and it's already intended for a sheet to show all of the details and at the scale that it's currently at. Let's take a look at duplicating this view so that we can create a modified version of this view. To duplicate a view, we can come up to the View tab on the ribbon. On the Create panel, let's go to duplicate view. If I click the dropdown button here, I have three options for duplicating a view. Let's take a look at the first option. The first option is going to allow me to create a view that contains just the model geometry. So it would not contain any of the annotation elements within the view when I duplicate it. So with the entry level view active, let's go ahead and click on Duplicate View. This will create a copy of the view in our browser and it's given the name Copy 1 at the end because this is the first copy. Notice the model geometry was all brought over. Let's go back to the entry level view. See the room tags? They didn't come over. The door tags, they didn't come over. So just the model geometry. Notice that the model looks exactly as it did in the original view, but the view specific elements, like I said, the annotation content, did not come over when we copied the view this way. If we wanted an exact duplicate of the view with the annotation elements that we had with the entry level view, that's where we would choose the other options for duplicating the view. So let's go back over here to the View tab, under the Create panel, Duplicate View, and I'm on the entry level view again. This time we're gonna duplicate it with detailing. So if I hover my mouse over this, notice that in the info tip, it says it's gonna create a view that includes the model geometry and the view specific elements from the current view. So let's go ahead and click this. And now we have another copy of the entry level in our project browser, it's called Copy 2. It's also now the active view, and notice it brought over all the annotation elements. So this is an exact copy of entry level. This is an independent view though, so changes I make to this view will not appear in any of the other views. If at any time you wanted to adjust the names of the views, with the view being active, you can come over here in the project browser, you can right click on it and you can go to Rename, and you can rename the view here. Go ahead and hit Escape. You can also, with no elements selected in the view, notice the property browser showing that I'm in the floor plan, you can come down to the view name here, and under the identity data, under the view name, we can change the view name here. Now, there was a third method for duplicating views. So if I come over here back to the view, Create, Duplicate View, hover my mouse over here, this is the duplicate view as a dependent. This creates a view that is dependent upon the original view. This is gonna create a view that remains synchronized to the original parent view. So as you can see down here, it says that changes that are made to the view, such as the scale or view properties, are automatically going to occur in both views, the parent and the dependent view. So let's take a look at that. Let's go back to the entry one view, make that the active view. I know it's the active view because it's highlighted here and it's bold in the project browser. And this time we're going to right click on it in the project browser. and we're going to go up here to Duplicate View and duplicate as dependent. It does the exact same thing except you don't get the tool tips when you right click. If you want to see the tool tips because you're unsure of how to use a command, you can do that from the ribbon, View, Duplicate View, and duplicate as dependent. So I'm gonna go ahead and click on duplicate it as dependent. It creates another view, and you can see here in the project browser that it's created a branch off the parent view, which was the entry level view, and it's called it dependent. Now, again, we can rename the view if we want to, but this branch is gonna be an indicator that this view is dependent upon the changes that are made in the parent view. Also notice the active view now is this dependent view. And when you create a dependent view, Revit automatically turns on the crop region of the dependent view. You can see over here in the properties for this view that the crop region is now visible and enabled. So let's select the crop region. Let's drag the edges over a little bit. This direction, zoom out, let's drag it to show just this portion up here, and let's drag it to show this much over here. Let's zoom back in on this area. Notice that my view scale is set for 1/8 inch. I'm gonna go back to my entry level. Its view scale is set to 1/8 inch. If I was to change this view scale so that it's something different, let's say I change it to 3/16, the annotation objects move to the appropriate scale. And if I was to go to my dependent view, its view scale has changed as well, and its annotation objects have adjusted. The same whole truth for any other properties that I change in the parent, if I was to change the detail level or any of those other items. So that was a look at duplicating views within Revit. Thanks for watching this lesson. Join me the next lesson, where we will take more of a look at the view scale and levels of details within Revit.

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Course Description

In these Advanced Layout Creation and Documentation lessons, we’ll teach you how and why to duplicate views in Revit. You will learn the settings that control your view scales and level of details of newly created views, along with an explanation on view range and how to adjust your view ranges appropriately. We will then discuss how to set up underlays in your view and focus on how to control the visibility of all your graphical elements in your views with visibility graphics and overrides.

This course is geared to show you how to efficiently manage your views and layouts for optimal documenting purposes. We will introduce you to several tools and techniques to increase your efficiency and ensure that your visual standards are applied throughout your project. Also, you will learn to manipulate many of the visibility properties of your views to your advantage in a way that best organizes your view for your project teams.

What You'll Learn

Duplicate views in Revit and understand how and why to do so
Apply advanced uses of view scale and level of detail for newly created views
Adjust view ranges appropriately for your views
Add underlays to a view
Use Visibility Graphics and overrides to control the visibility of graphical elements

Key Takeaways

The course teaches how and why to duplicate views in Revit, along with the settings that control view scales and levels of detail for newly created views.
It explains view range and how to adjust your view ranges appropriately.
It covers setting up underlays in a view and controlling the visibility of graphical elements using Visibility Graphics and overrides.
The course is geared toward efficiently managing views and layouts for optimal documenting purposes, introducing tools and techniques to increase efficiency and apply consistent visual standards throughout a project.
Learners manipulate the visibility properties of views to best organize them for their project teams.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in this course?

You will learn how and why to duplicate views in Revit, advanced uses of view scale and levels of detail, how to adjust view ranges, how to add an underlay to a view, and how to use Visibility Graphics and overrides.

What topics do the lessons cover?

The lessons cover Duplicating Views; View Scale and Level of Detail; Introducing and Adjusting View Ranges; Creating View Underlays; and Visibility Graphics and Overrides.

What is the goal of this course?

It is geared to show you how to efficiently manage your views and layouts for optimal documenting purposes, introducing tools and techniques to increase efficiency and ensure your visual standards are applied throughout your project.

What skills does this course help build?

It helps build skills including Advanced Authoring Format, Auto Layout, Autodesk Revit, Create View, Design View, and Project Layout.