Discover the detailed process of placing HVAC zoning plans and sheet views onto sheets in the BIM 322 course. Learn how to create new sheets, load title blocks, and organize sheet views on these sheets effectively.
Key Insights
- The article provides a detailed method for placing HVAC zoning plans and sheet views on new sheets in the document. This includes creating sheets, selecting the correct title blocks, and arranging sheet views on these sheets.
- The author also explains how to hide specific elements in the views and adjust the space between different views for better organization and visual presentation on the sheets.
- Renaming the titles on the sheets and in the project browser is also discussed, illustrating how to correctly label plans on the final sheets without altering the names on the browser. The author also shows how to rename the sheets themselves for easier navigation.
Welcome back to the CADteachers.vdci video course content for the BIM 322 course. In the previous videos, we finished both HVAC zoning plans, and we actually finished our sheet views for the mechanical ceiling plans by tagging and adjusting those tags. And so now what we want to go ahead and do is start placing all of this information on sheets.
So let's go ahead, and we want to go ahead and scroll down to create sheets. Currently, we have no sheets in this document. So let's go ahead, select that, do a right-click in our Project Browser, and go to New Sheet.
And as you can see, we have a title block loaded, but that's just the default Revit one. We want to go ahead and use the CADteacher one that you downloaded from the SIS. So I'm going to go ahead and go to Load.
I'm going to go to my C drive, my BIM 322 folder. I'm going to choose that BIM 321 E130-42 BDCI CADteacher, open, and this is the same title block that we used for Revit One or Revit MEP One, excuse me, hit OK. It's going to create our sheet for us.
Perfect. I want to go ahead and leave the name and everything right now. I want to go and get these sheets organized on here first.
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So I'm going to go ahead and expand this out. And what we're going to do is I'm going to have the HVAC Zoning Plan One and Plan Two on one sheet and then the sheet view for the upper and the lower on another sheet. So I want to go ahead, I want to start with the Sheet View One, select it, and I'm going to drag it over and place it on my sheet.
Perfect. I'm going to go ahead and grab my Sheet View Two, drag it over, and place it. Perfect.
That's really all we need to do. Now, obviously, I don't want to see the elevation tags in these views. So I want to go ahead, select this guy here.
I'm going to do a right-click and Activate View. I'm going to select one of those. I'm going to do a right-click, Hide in View, and I'm going to hide the Category.
So I'm going to go ahead and hide the Category. And it's going to turn all those off. Right-click, Deactivate View, and I'm going to do the same thing for the view here.
Select it, do a right-click, Activate View, select one of the elevation tags, right-click, Hide in View, and choose Category. And I'm just going to go ahead and Deactivate View. Perfect.
We've got that dialed, and we're good to go there. Those plans are currently at an eighth-inch, and that's where we're going to go ahead and leave them. What I can also do is, there's a lot of dead space in here between the different views.
So I'm going to go ahead and select my viewport here. I'm going to zoom in on the shape handles. I'm going to go ahead and drag this guy, make sure I get on that shape handle, and drag this guy a little bit closer.
I'm going to slide this guy over. I'm going to edit the shape handles on this view tag, bring this one back just a smidge. And again, I'm just zooming in and out, getting close so I can make sure I'm grabbing the correct shape handles.
And here we go. Slide it over just a little bit more. And there you go; that looks a little bit nicer, a little bit more organized.
Now, what's happening though, is that I have SheetView1-Mech and SheetView2-Mech. Obviously, these are not the actual names that we want to have on the actual sheets. So what we want to go ahead and do is let's go ahead and actually give these each individually a name on the sheet.
So I'm going to go ahead and select this, scroll down in the Properties palette, and I'm going to go to where it says Title on Sheet. And I'm going to go ahead and change that to be, in capitals, Mechanical Plan Level 1. Hit ENTER to lock it in. And as you can see, it changes the name on the sheet, but it does not change the name on my browser, which is what I want.
I'm going to go ahead and select here. Again, I'm going to find that Title on Sheet in the Properties palette and click. I'm going to go ahead and type in Mechanical Plan Level 2. I hit ENTER.
And then I drag it back into the space, and it's going to update there accordingly. I'm going to Zoom Extents, Control-S, and save the file. I also want to go ahead and rename some of these sheets.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go over where it says Sheets. I'm going to select it, do a right-click, do a Rename. I'm going to change the sheet number to M1.0. And then I'm going to go ahead under Name.
I'm going to change that to Mechanical Plans, just Mechanical Plans. Hit OK. And as you can see, it updates accordingly, and we're good to go.
I'm going to go ahead again, Zoom Extents, Control-S, save the file. The next sheet that we're going to go ahead and create is actually going to be our zoning plans on one sheet. We're going to go ahead and do that in the next video.
I'll see you there.