Explore the process of making edits to the title block, adjusting parameters between sheets, and preparing a project for printing in the Revit MEP Mechanical course. This article provides a step-by-step guide to refining and finalizing your project before PDFing, including text resizing, checking shared parameters, and creating a sheet list.
Key Insights
- The article introduces how to address issues with the title block by making edits such as reducing text size to ensure everything fits perfectly, highlighting the importance of text size in delineating the hierarchy of the title block.
- It also explains the process of adjusting shared parameters across all sheets in a project, which can be a quicker alternative to making changes on individual sheets. This step includes adding your initials under 'drawn by' and checking shared parameters.
- Finally, the article guides the reader through the process of preparing a project for printing, including creating a sheet list, adjusting print settings, and saving the project as a PDF file.
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Welcome back to the VDCI video course content for Revit MEP Mechanical. In the previous video, we went ahead and finished up our tagging. If you'd like to go back and maybe make some more adjustments to your tags—those kinds of items—please feel free to take the time to do so.
But we've covered tagging quite a bit, and we're going to continue to move forward. So the last thing we really want to do before PDFing is double-check. We took a look at our set overall in the last video, and we looked at every sheet.
What I want to go ahead and do is make some edits to the Title Block because on this—specifically this Mechanical Roof Plan—make sure you save your project. On this Mechanical Roof Plan, our title didn't really fit. So what I'm going to do is select the Title Block and hit Edit Family. Now we have a couple of different things that we can do.
I can take this. Now I can see that it's already to the border, and this 3/8-inch text is pretty big. So what I'm actually going to end up doing is just make this a smaller text size.
We have 3/8-inch, 3/16-inch, and 1/4-inch. I'm going to go ahead and make this 1/4-inch, which makes it a little bit smaller text size. And that should be good.
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I'm going to go ahead and load that back in. Overwrite the existing version. There we go.
And you can see it kind of gives a hierarchy to the Title Block. Text size is very important in delineating that hierarchy. We kind of had the project name here—or the client name, project name, and then the sheet name.
And that would kind of want to be the hierarchy of that text. So what I want to go ahead and do now is start looking at PDFing this file. What I'd like you to do, though—sometimes there are other parameters that we need to check here.
And if I grab all of my sheets, if I check this box, and I click on the first sheet, hold Shift, click on the last sheet, shared parameters between these will be shown here. So what you can go ahead and do is put "Design By"—put in your, well actually, Design By is not a parameter here. So under "Drawn By, " check under "Drawn By, " and go ahead and put your initials.
So I'm putting my initials as TPG. And you'll notice it'll change on the sheet. Right? Go ahead and put "Checker" as VDCI.
There we go. And there we are. So you're able to edit some of these parameters between sheets.
And if I go to another sheet, you'll notice it says the same exact thing. So you could go to every single sheet—click, click, do your thing, click, click, do your thing—but sometimes it's a little faster to do that here.
If you recall how we edited the Marks in the schedule, I could also have a sheet index that shows that information, and I could edit it there. So what I'm going to go ahead and do—let's look at our Cover Sheet. You know, we could add a sheet index to this real quick.
Why don't we go ahead and do that? So I'm going to go here to View, I'm going to go to Schedules, and I'm going to go to Sheet List. A Sheet List is a different item. So you don't just do a Schedule on Quantities.
You do a Sheet List. I'm going to do a Sheet List. I'm going to go ahead and add Sheet Name, Number, and Sheet Name.
And that's what, really, for the most part—some firms may have other items that they want to throw on there. Maybe Current Revision Date, Current Revision Issued, or what Revision it is. We're just going to leave it Sheet Name and Sheet Number.
I'm going to go ahead and hit OK, or I can set up my sorting and filtering right now. So I'm going to go to my Sorting and Grouping. I want to sort by Sheet Number.
And that's really all I want to have here. I don't need to filter anything. I don't have any extra sheets.
We're good there. Formatting and appearance are fine. I'm going to go ahead, hit OK.
And we have our sheet. So I'm going to call this my Sheet Index. And there we go.
Let's go to my Cover Sheet. I'm just going to throw a Sheet Index on here real quick. Let's go ahead and space it out,
So that everything is nice. Perfect. And I'm going to go ahead and drop it about—oh, say—right here.
So again, I like to line these up on the edge of that Title Block so that when it prints, it all prints the same. OK, let's go ahead and save. And we're ready to print.
So I'm going to go ahead—let's see here. If I go to File, if I go Print, I can go here to Create PDFs, Create PDF Files.
I'm going to go ahead—I want to use the… I can use Current Window, Visible Portion of Current Window, or Selected Sheets. I'm going to create a new set. If you recall, I made a set for the midterm. So I'm going to call it "In Session—Final, " and then this will allow me to edit this.
So "In Session, " I'm going to go ahead and uncheck "Hide Unchecked Views and Sheets." I also want to Display Filter this to where I only see my sheets. I'm going to check my Cover Sheet and 401,501,601.
I'm also going to go ahead and create a new empty set here. Let's go ahead and name this "Final." And I'll need to recheck it.
Not a big deal. So I can go ahead and just check those sheets again. There we go.
I don't need to edit the print order. I'm going to save my current set so that this is now my set for the final. I'm going to select Export and set up the VDCI 30×42. That's going to tell us the page size.
I could set this to be 30×42, Arch E1, zoom to 100% of size. So you're always printing to your scale.
Everything there is good. It looks like everything here is good. I'm going to go ahead and browse.
I'm going to put this in my Documents folder, but I'm also going to put it in my VDCI File Downloads. So folder name is going to be there. That's fine.
I'm just going to put it in my File Downloads, open, and then go ahead and change the file name to be BIM 321-Final. And then go ahead and throw your initials at the end of that so that you know that one is your file. Everything here is good.
We're great. And we're going to go ahead and hit Export. Boom.
It's going to go through. It's going to take some time to do it. It's processing a lot of data.
So go ahead and let it take its time. Let it go through. And it's just telling me that raster processing has been used for views, which is shading and shadows.
And because I had some of those 3D views that have that, it's using some of the raster items. Great. I'm going to go ahead and pull up my… I'm going to go find that file really quickly.
Let me go ahead and pull this up so that we can see the final PDF. And I'm going to launch that. I've opened Adobe, and here we are.
Here's the file. Looks good. I'm going to go ahead and end the video here.
And I hope you learned a lot during this course. It's been a great time recording it. I enjoyed spending the time with you, and I look forward to seeing you in more courses.