Aligning Sheets and Details in Revit: Final Adjustment Guide

In this video, let's just make some final alignment adjustments on our sheet before we print to PDF. So let's go ahead and start at our FP-0 Site Plan. Now, there is a way we can set up a grid and align everything using that method.

I’ll show you two options—one using the guide grid, and another that I personally prefer using detail lines. First, let’s go ahead and find the View tab. You should see Guide Grid.

Let’s use Guide Grid 1. You’ll see this overlay where you can set distances between grid lines to align elements and adjust as needed. This works well.

To turn it off, just go to the Properties of your sheet and select None under guide grid. Okay, what I like to do instead is use a Detail Line. Let’s start with aligning our sheet titles.

I’m going to type DL, and let’s say this spot right here is where the title location will be on all of my sheets. I’ll zoom in and find the center of the circle—it’s approximate, but close enough.

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Then I’ll draw a detail line from that point outward. As we’ve done before, I’ll go to Copy to Clipboard. Now, we don’t have this on our FP-2 sheet with all of our details.

So I’ll skip to FP-3 and choose Align to Current View, then go to FP-4, Align to Current View, FP-5, Align to Current View, and FP-6, Align to Current View. Now it’s just a matter of moving the views to align with the end of that detail line using the arrow keys. That looks good.

Zoom out. Okay, let’s go to FP-5, and I’ll do the same. If you hold Shift with the arrow keys, you’ll move in larger increments.

Alternate between holding Shift and not, as needed. You might need to zoom in. Okay.

Once we’re done, we can go ahead and delete the detail line. Back to FP-4, FP-3, and FP-1—delete the lines there as well. Okay.

Now let’s do the same for our piping and reflected ceiling plans. Let’s go back to FP-3 – Level 1 Piping Plan, and I’ll say this is a good spot. I’ll find the corner of the gym area and draw a detail line, eyeballing it to about there.

Let me move that down just a bit. Okay, now we’ll do the same process.

Select the detail line and Copy to Clipboard. Then go to FP-4, zoom out a bit, and Align to Current View, then FP-5, Align to Current View, and finally FP-6, Align to Current View.

Now the corner should align right there. Click into your plan view and use the arrow keys—holding Shift as needed—to make adjustments.

That looks good. When done, go ahead and delete the detail line. Now let’s perform a Zoom Extents.

Double-click your middle mouse button. You’ll see at the end of this process why that’s helpful. Let’s go ahead and go to FP-5. All right.

Looks good. Zoom Extents, double-click middle mouse button on FP-4. All right.

And one more sheet—FP-3 was done earlier. Zoom Extents on FP-4, and again on each sheet. Now if I start at FP-3 and continue to FP-4, FP-5, and FP-6, you’ll see that corner is in the same location across all sheets.

This provides a consistent base point across our plans and sheets. Okay. We’ve cleaned up our plans.

We’ve cleaned up our sheets. We’ve added extra detail and aligned everything. All that’s left is to print to PDF.

I’ll see you in the final video coming up next.