Explore the importance of section establishment, tagging, and sorting in building rendering, with specific focus on elements such as typical bathroom and classroom plumbing stacks, and toilet walls. Understand the practicalities of adjusting view cuts, creating templates, and implementing tags for a more detailed and accurate building representation.
Key Insights
- Establishing sections and assigning them to sub-disciplines can help build a comprehensive structure with detailed views of architectural elements like bathroom and classroom stacks, and toilet walls.
- Creating view templates based on one carefully adjusted view can expedite the process of designing other sections, ensuring consistency and saving time.
- Implementing tags on elements like hot and cold water lines, vents, and waste lines can further enhance the understanding of the building's plumbing system, providing essential information for both designers and end users.
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In the previous video, we went ahead and finished up kind of our enlarged views and our tagging there. What I want to go ahead and do now is—and we'll still have more tagging and things that we need to do—but what I want to go ahead and do is establish some sections.
We're going to have kind of a typical bathroom stack here. We'll also have kind of one of—or a typical classroom stack—and then we'll have one kind of at the toilet wall there. What I'm going to go ahead and do is go to my first Plumbing view.
I'm going to go up here to Section, and we're just going to drive through 1507 and 1506. So I'm just going to do a little section there. I'm also going to go ahead and drag that view cut back.
So it only captures two of the rooms—or two of the sinks, excuse me. I don’t want to go all the way through the building. This is going to be kind of my typical Plumbing section that I can use for that.
And then I'm also going to create another one showing kind of this toilet wall. We'll make this one a little longer. We'll also get a few other aspects in this, which is kind of nice.
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We'll take it to about there, but we’ll get some of the waste lines—those kinds of things—and then obviously where the verticality is happening. We're kind of showing the verticality of the vents and the waste lines, that kind of thing.
What I also want to do is sort these. Now, where these are going to pop up is here. I also need to assign the Sub-Discipline parameter. So what I can do is take these…
I'm going to go over here. I'm taking them. I'm selecting them in the Project Browser.
I'm going to go over here to Sub-Discipline and also select Plumbing so that they sort with all my other Plumbing views. Then what I want to do is—I don’t necessarily know exactly which ones are my right sections and which ones are my working sections—I could go through every single one, but here’s kind of a quick way to do that.
I'm going to select this guy. I'm going to change the name of this to be Typical Classroom Plumbing. And then on this view, I'm going to go with Water Closet Plumbing.
Just name it that for right now. Then I can see which ones are actually the views that I want to put on sheets. Everything that has a Section 1,2, or 3—that’s just going to be my working sections.
There are other ways of doing it through parameters and everything, but this is a quick and easy way to do it if we don’t have those parameters set up. So I'm going to do my Plumbing sections. Let's go to our Water Closet Plumbing and drag that onto our sheet.
Let's go to our Typical Classroom and drag it onto our sheet. I'm going to go ahead and take this. Let's change the scale to be a quarter of an inch.
It might be a little bit too big. We're going to take it down to an eighth of an inch. There we go.
That works nicely. We'll change this one to be an eighth of an inch. There we go.
We'll kind of stack them up here, and we've created a couple of sections. So you can kind of see the typical stack there if we wanted to. All right.
And these views—let's go ahead. I don’t necessarily want these to represent like a single line, so I'm actually going to make these a Fine detail level.
So you could select them and change them to Fine. There we go. And that's kind of how I want it to look.
So it's actually looking pretty good right about now. What I'm going to end up doing is take this as a View Template and create a View Template out of this so that I can go ahead and apply it to my other sections. So this is my Typical Classroom Plumbing.
I'm going to right-click, create View Template from View, and name this Plumbing Section – One Eighth Inch. There we go. Hit OK.
Now I've created that template, but I need to assign it. So I'm going to go here: View Template → Plumbing Section – One Eighth Inch → Apply here, and apply that View Template there. A lot of times when I'm creating my View Templates—if they’re not already created for me—what I really like to do is get one view dialed in how I want it, and then create my View Template based on that.
Now I could come in here and tag this up if I wanted to. If I wanted to give a little bit more information here—there we go, there we go.
Let's get my cold waters. We have our vents going to the roof. I need to tab-select.
If I have a pipe with insulation, I need to tab to actually get to the cold water line or the hot water line. Let’s see… do, do… let’s get some more here.
Cold water, hot water, to-do. We can also add some space tags to show which classrooms are in. If you don’t want them for the corridors, you could do that too.
Might need to adjust my tags a little bit. TG—let’s see. There’s my one-inch cold water.
I might do this with this guy just so I can stack those nicely. Nope. I don’t need to tag the Revit link.
You could also tag the sinks here—just another location to tag it—but you may not necessarily need to. This information is already represented on the plan.
We could get away with not having it tagged, theoretically. And there we go. We've added in some information there.
We can do the same thing up here. Tag this guy. Let’s get that one.
Oh, vertical there. So there's our vent. Vent.
Let’s see. Let me see. Can I get the hot? There's the hot water.
Sometimes, because we've stacked them—right?—because we've stacked them, they want to do something a little different. We’ll do this.
Do that. Can also drag that down if I wanted to. If you want to tag it here, you could do that too.
There we go. We can tag these bad boys. And this is kind of where the slope is really helpful—but there we go.
Nope. Let’s see if I can get that to be a little bit cleaner. There we go.
Tag that guy. Again, if I want it to be horizontal, I kind of have to do that—which is fine. There we go.
I'm going to come over here and start tagging some more stuff. If you want to tag—I’m not going to tag the toilet fixtures in here—but if you'd like to spend some time and tag those, go for it. We’ll do the four-inch waste down here.
It's wanting to give me the Revit link again, and we're just adding tags and documentation. Nope. There we go.
If you want to tag that, you could. I'm going to get these to line up a little bit nicer just so that it looks like we paid attention to it. There we go.
All right. We've got a lot of good information down here. I'm going to go ahead and get some space tags going just so I can orient people to the building itself.
Go around. Housekeeping. And if we need to drag these tags outside of these spaces just to make it a little cleaner, that's perfectly fine.
So what you could do is start to drag these out. And if you want to stack them, that's fine too. They could still be inside the building.
They don’t necessarily have to be outside the building—even though I will say outside the building's probably a little bit cleaner. I'm also going to drag this one so that it's not… Make sure you’re staying in the space, but I'm going to make it so that it's not over any of the plumbing fixtures or anything like that. Let's go Space Tag. I don't think I tagged this toilet.
So move that there, here, here, this one, here, here. I know that this section is not going to print. I'm hesitant to tell people to right-click → Hide Section on things.
You could. I could go right-click → Hide in View → Elements. I traditionally don’t like to do that, though.
I like to control everything through other means, but in some instances it's kind of unavoidable. That’s one of those instances. Let’s keep moving that around.
There we go. I'm going to move this Housekeeping out of here. Move it up here.
There we go. Same with this Housekeeping. Kind of line it up there.
Do that. I'm going to move it a little lower just to get that vertical—or that horizontal—away from there. And there we go.
Cool. We've got our sections put in there. I'm going to go ahead and Zoom Extents, Control + S, and save.
Save my model, and I'll see you in the next video.