Explore how to work with the BIM 322 course plumbing details in our current project in Revit, including creating views, managing sheets, and adjusting the location of details. Learn the critical step of how to move a detail from one sheet to another, which involves removing it from the original sheet first before placing it on the desired sheet.
Key Insights
- In the BIM 322 course, the next steps after importing Revit information from another project and assigning detail callouts to drawings are to organize and manage the plumbing details.
- Creating a view for the plumbing plans involves creating a new sheet, and details such as the domestic water heater detail, the reduced pressure black flow detail, and the water hammer arrester detail are then transferred to this sheet.
- Adjusting the location of details can be a complex process, as a detail cannot exist on two sheets at once; it must be removed from its original sheet before being placed on a new one. Modifying these details also includes renumbering the drawings and organizing them in a specific way.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 322 course. In the previous video, we talked about how to import Revit information from another Revit project into our current project, and then how we assign detail callouts to each of those specific drawings. So what we're going to go ahead and do now is work on the plumbing real quick.
So what I'm going to go ahead and do is, for the plumbing, we already have our domestic water heater detail, our reduced pressure backflow detail, and our water hammer arrester detail. So what I want to go ahead and do is, let’s go ahead and create a sheet for these plumbing details. And one thing that we may need to do—excuse me, a sheet for these plumbing details.
So I'm going to go up to Sheets, I'm going to do a right-click, New Sheet, my BIM 321, hit OK, and there we are. I'm going to go ahead and pop in here—this will become P1.1, and the name will become Plumbing Details. Hit Escape, zoom extents, and Control + S to save the file.
I'm going to go ahead and bring over my reduced pressure backflow detail and my water hammer arrester assembly detail. And these are really the only two details that we have right now, other than our domestic water heater detail. Now let’s say that I did not want this detail on this view anymore—I actually wanted it on my other sheet.
Now what happens with that is, if I go back to my plumbing detail sheet and try to bring over that domestic water heater detail, it tells me that this is already placed on sheet P1.0. So what I need to do is go back to my plumbing plans, select this detail, and remove it from that sheet. Okay, I’m going to come back up here and go ahead and place it here.
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So I'm going to grab that domestic water heater detail again, drag it over, and place it. Now one of the things that can happen from time to time is that you may need to adjust the location of your details. And what will happen is that if you want to move one detail from one sheet to another, you can't have it on two sheets at once.
So I'm going to go ahead and organize these just a little bit. Move this detail up, move this one up. It needs to go a little bit higher, so I'm going to select both of them and drag both of them up.
I'm going to go ahead and bring this one underneath, and then align the specific view titles. There we go.
One thing I'm also going to do is make sure that my view titles go all the way across. Select here, grab that shape handle, and drag it out to there. Select here, drag the shape handle, and bring it all the way out to there.
And there we are. Go ahead, Control + S, save the file. And that’s all we’re going to go ahead and do for these details here.
Very simple, very easy. The one last thing that we need to do is adjust these numbers. Because we've organized these in a different way, this is drawing 3,1, 2. So I'm
Going to go ahead and change the 1 to 4, change the 3 to 1, and change this to 3 up here.
And I'm going to change this to 2. Hit Escape, zoom extents, Control + S, save the file. Very simple, very easy—and once we already have these drawings in our Revit project, it's very simple to create our actual detail sheets. In the next video, we're going to go ahead and create some title sheets from the information we pulled in, and we'll be good to go.
See you then.