Learn how to create building sections and clean up a fire protection project in this detailed guide. The article outlines the process of developing templates for sections, adjusting details, and annotating for clarity.
Key Insights
- The guide provides an in-depth explanation of constructing three sections of a building in a fire protection project, including detailed steps on creating and adjusting a fire protection view template.
- An essential part of the process is eliminating unnecessary elements such as plumbing equipment and fixtures, and specific Revit files, to ensure the focus remains on fire protection components only.
- The article also explains the importance of proper annotation, exemplified by labeling elements like city mains, pipe types, and points of connection, contributing to a clearer understanding of the building sections.
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We've created most of our sheets. All that’s left is to create our building sections and do a bit of cleanup, and our fire protection project will be complete. So let’s go to the Level 1 Piping Plan.
We’re going to create three sections of the building to help the reviewer understand what’s happening in specific areas. So let’s go to the Section tool. For the first one, drag from here to the other end of the building.
Let’s flip this in the opposite direction, and pull it to somewhere around the middle—past the main, into the classroom and corridor areas. That should be good.
Now, we deleted all of our previous building sections and are starting fresh from here. So let’s go to View. This doesn’t look very clean.
Just like we did with our reflected ceiling plans, we’re going to create a template for our section so we only need to do this process once. Let’s go to View Template. Currently, there’s no Fire Protection view template, so we’ll make our own.
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Select the Mechanical Section, and go ahead and duplicate it. Call it FP-Section.
We’ll keep the scale at 1 inch. Set the Detail Level to Fine, and then go to Overrides > Model.
Let’s turn off all the plumbing equipment so we don’t see any sinks or toilets. Turn off Plumbing Equipment and Plumbing Fixtures under Model Categories. Then go to Revit Links.
Turn off the Mechanical Revit link. Click OK and review how it looks. Zoom out and pan over.
That’s pretty good. I think there’s one more thing I want to do—let’s place this section under the Fire Protection subdiscipline.
Go back into the template and scroll down. Under Subdiscipline, instead of HVAC (since we duplicated this from a Mechanical elevation), choose Fire Protection. Okay, that looks pretty good.
Let’s go back to the Level 1 Piping Plan and create another section. We’ll start up here and drag to about here. Pull it in to define the section range.
Right-click and choose Go to View. Now, rather than starting over, just go to View Template and choose FP-Section. That looks much better.
Now, because of our copy/monitor setup, we have some duplicated elements. Just click the element and deselect the box to hide it. There we go.
Okay, let's go back to our Level 1 Piping Plan and create one more building section. Let’s start the section—from the bottom up to here—and pull it back slightly through the gym area.
Something like that should be okay. Right-click and choose Go to View. Then go ahead and set our view template to FP-Section.
That’s pretty good. In this case, I want to make the section view a bit larger. So I’ll drag the boundary over and pull it downward.
Okay, let’s annotate these views before placing them on the sheet. Go to Section 2 and begin annotating. Choose the Text tool with a leader.
Let’s go ahead and start here. Type in ALL CAPS: TO CITY MAIN. There we go.
Let’s call this out—let’s make a copy. Point to the pipe here and label it 6-inch PVC.
In parentheses, note: (For hydraulic reference only). Next, call out this pipe as 6-inch ductile iron pipe coming up into the riser. Double-click to edit it.
Label it 6-inch DI. Let’s call out our Riser and Point of Connection. Copy the annotation upward.
At this flange, label it: VDCI Point of Connection at Flange. You may want to reposition that label slightly. Okay, now we have our riser. Let’s copy this one as well.
All right.
