Understanding the process of creating a zoning plan sheet in a BIM course can be integral to the successful completion of your project. This article provides a step-by-step guide to executing this task, with a focus on utilizing specific tools in the Project Browser and managing your view settings efficiently.
Key Insights
- The article demonstrates how to create a new sheet for zoning plans using the Project Browser, and the importance of following a numerical naming strategy for easy organization.
- The process of adjusting view settings for individual elements on the plan is shown, including hiding certain elements, manipulating line weights, and managing the appearance of grids.
- It is also emphasized how to effectively rename and save the sheet in the Project Browser, while also adjusting the title on the sheet itself to ensure consistency and clarity.
Welcome back to cadteachers.vdci's video course content for the BIM 322 course. What's going to happen now is we're going to go ahead and create a sheet for our zoning plans. So let's go ahead and let's go to Sheets under our Project Browser.
Select it, do a right click, New Sheet. Go ahead and choose that BIM 321, the title block that we used from our Revit BIM EP1 course. I'm going to go ahead and hit OK.
That's going to create the next one. That's going to become M1.1, which is exactly what we want it to be. Because that is because it's going to follow this numerical naming strategy we have here.
What I want to do is I'm going to drag up here, and I'm going to go to my HVAC Zoning Plan 1. I'm going to click and drag over. I'm going to go ahead and place it right here. I'm going to go to HVAC Zoning Plan MEC 2. Click and drag here.
And line it up with that guy. Now the reason why these are coming in slightly differently is because this one can see the elevation tag and this one can't. This has, the extents of this is larger than the extents of this, which is fine.
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So what we're going to do is I'm going to go ahead into here, I'm going to select it, right click, Activate View. I'm going to select the elevation tag, do a right click, Hide in View Category. Same exact thing that we did before with the previous plans.
And then one thing that's going on here though is do you notice how the actual grids are grayed? Not really wanting that. And so that is just something that maybe somebody set up in the central file and the boss man comes back and says, Hey, I don't want these grayed out. I want these to pop with the rest of our stuff because these are very important elements.
So what I'm going to do is if I go into VB, I'm going to go to my Annotation Categories. Scroll down and find Grids. And do you see over here where it says Halftone? I'm going to uncheck that.
I'm going to go ahead and hit Apply. Hit OK. And now those grids are the same line weight.
I'm going to do a right click, Deactivate View. I'm going to go ahead and adjust my view title a little bit. I'm going to select the drawing itself.
I'm going to grab this guy. Zoom in a little bit closer if you need to. Grab that shape handle, bring it over.
Grab that shape handle, bring it over. I'm going to go ahead and scoot this guy over like so to there. Grab this guy, scoot this guy over like so.
And there we go. Now the one thing that we do have going on again is this name on the sheet or the title on the sheet. Let's go ahead and select the Level 1. I'm going to scroll down.
Find Title on Sheet. I'm going to change that to Mechanical Zoning Plan Level 1. There's that. Select the other view.
Scroll down. View Title on Sheet. Mechanical Zoning Plan Level 2. And there we go.
That's perfect. That's exactly what we want. I'm going to go ahead and Zoom Extents.
Everything else looks good with those. Everything's fine. Zoom Extents.
Control-S, save the file. I'm going to actually go ahead and rename the sheet real quick. I'm going to go under here, under my Sheets in my Project Browser.
Select it. Do a right-click. Rename.
I'm going to change the name of the sheet to Mechanical Zoning Plans. And there we are. That information's populated there.
And we're good to go. I'm going to go ahead. Again, Control-S, save the file.
And we're there.