This article provides detailed steps to create a site plan and underground piping plan, demonstrating how to manipulate views to reveal hidden elements like underground piping and a backflow preventer. It also instructs on how to clear unwanted elements and adjust visibility settings to enhance the clarity of your plan.
Key Insights
- The article explains how to create a site plan and an underground piping plan, focusing on how to utilize the view range to reveal hidden elements, such as underground piping and backflow preventers.
- It highlights the importance of manipulating the crop region to adjust the perimeter of the view, enabling users to see elements like the city main and backflow preventer.
- The article also emphasizes on the use of visibility graphics to improve the clarity of the plan, offering tips on how to hide interior information of the building and display only essential elements like the floor and underground pipes.
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Okay, let's create our site plan and underground piping plan. We don't need any of these right here, so we can close them all out. Also, if you have multiple drawings open, you can go to this dropdown here and turn off any of the other ones you don't want.
We don't need the 3D or the 3D Fire Sprinkler System. Okay, so our Level 1 Piping Plan, let's go ahead and duplicate this. So right-click, Duplicate View, and first let's go ahead and rename this Site Plan – UG for underground.
Now, if you remember from looking at the 3D view, there was some underground piping and a backflow preventer, which we are not seeing here. The reason for this has to do with our view range. If we go to Properties and View Range, let's click Edit.
And the view depth is only at six inches, which we need to see a lot lower. If you recall, that was at minus seven feet. So let's change that to minus seven, click OK.
Now we can see a portion of the underground, but we're still not seeing the rest of the piping and that backflow preventer. Now this has to do with our crop region. So again, we'll go to Properties and find Crop Region Visible and check that.
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Now this is the perimeter of our view. If we click on this and drag it back a little more, we can now see the city main and our backflow preventer. We can go back to Crop Region Visible and turn that off.
Now we don't want to be looking at all of this pipe inside the building on Level 1 for our site plan and underground plans. So let's hide all of that. What we can do is hover and click our mouse and drag over all of this, being careful not to select any of this underground pipe.
You can hold Control and select more pipe. We'll do this for now. Right-click, Hide in View, Elements.
Okay, let's do this side of the building—hover over that selection and hold down Control and click, right-click, Hide in View, Elements. Now we can see the location of our riser, our underground piping, backflow preventer, and the location of the city main. We're still seeing some interior information of the building, however.
So the Visibility Graphics will help us clean this up a little bit. Before we went to View and Visibility Graphics, we can also use the keyboard shortcut VV. Okay, so let's go to our Revit Links.
Here Display Settings is currently set to Host View, so let's change that and set it to Custom. Okay, from there let's go to Model Categories. Let's change that Host View to Custom.
Now we can edit what we're looking at. Under the Model Categories, let's go ahead and select All and find one of the options that's already been checked and deselect it, and that will deselect everything. Let's go ahead and click None.
Now all we want to see is the Floors, so it'll give us a silhouette of the building. Okay, click OK and OK. Now we just see a silhouette of the building and the location of our pipes for underground.
Later when we do our construction documents in this course, we'll begin annotating and adding notes to this section of the plan.
