Learn how to create title sheets for mechanical and plumbing details in BIM 322 using CAD Teacher's instructional content. This guide will teach you how to insert legends and hide view titles to make your sheet clean and professional.
Key Insights:
- Within sheets, one can create a new sheet and select the title block for mechanical and plumbing details. This is achieved by selecting the desired sheet, right-clicking to find 'new sheet', and choosing the previously used title block.
- Legends can be pulled onto the title sheets to provide necessary information. However, for a cleaner view, the legend view title can be removed by duplicating the view port and setting 'show title' to 'no'.
- The guide encourages the creation of a base file for regular use in projects. This prepared file with generic information saves time and makes the process of creating mechanical and plumbing sheets more efficient.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 322 course. In the previous video, we went ahead and got our plumbing details onto sheets, and we're going to go ahead now and create some title sheets for both mechanical and plumbing. So what I want to go ahead and do is under sheets, I'm going to select it, do a right-click, new sheet, choose that title block that we've been using the entire time, okay, and there it is.
This will become P0.1, and then this will also here become plumbing title sheet, and there we are. We're going to zoom extents, and here we go. The only real thing that we're going to be pulling over onto these are the actual legends.
So I'm going to grab the plumbing legend here, grab it and drag it over, and here we go. Now, obviously, this sheet would have a lot more information, but this is a majority of the basis of the information that we're going to be putting here. Now, we don't really necessarily need this plumbing legend view title here.
So what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to go ahead and select the plumbing legend and abbreviations. I'm going to scroll down here. It's not in this area.
I'm going to go to edit type, and see how it says show title, yes? Well, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and duplicate view port one so I can create a view title that is not shown. So I'm going to go duplicate. I'm going to change it view port dash no title, and okay.
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I'm going to go to the show title, and just hit no. Hit apply, okay, and there we are. We've effectively created that information.
I want to go ahead and do the same thing for the mechanical drawings. So I'm going to go sheet, new sheet. I'm going to choose that BIM 321.
Hit okay. I'm going to go ahead and zoom in over here. I'm going to change the name to M0.1, and change it to mechanical title sheet, and there we are, zoom extents.
There we go, and I'm going to go ahead and scroll up. Choose the mechanical legend, drag it over. Here we go, and place it where I want it, and we've now just pulled over all that general information that we need to be able to use.
Again, I do not want this actual drawing title down here, so I'm going to select the view port. I pull this down here, and I'm going to choose view port no title. There we go.
Zoom extents, control S, save the file, and there we go. So that was fairly easy and straightforward to do. It makes it a lot easier to do these kind of things when you have that Revit file already populated with all this information.
We could have gone through and drawn all this information, but it would have taken us a lot of time, and this kind of stuff is generic information that is going to be on every single project. So I highly recommend that, you know, whenever you're doing projects or whenever you're doing this kind of stuff, make a base file for yourself to make your life easier.