Learn how to add and modify parking spaces using Revit elements in a campus site plan. This guide gives insight into the process of updating CAD and adding Revit parking spaces to create a site layout that meets your requirements.
Key Insights
- The addition and modification of parking spaces are done through Revit elements in the campus site plan. They can be adjusted based on the specific parking layout of the site.
- Revit has a variety of components that can be used in the layout. These components include different sizes of parking spaces that can be selected and modified accordingly.
- To ensure an accurate count of all parking spaces, it's essential to hit all stalls when adding them. Using tools like the mirror tool can aid in this process.
Note: These materials offer prospective students a preview of how our classes are structured. Students enrolled in this course will receive access to the full set of materials, including video lectures, project-based assignments, and instructor feedback.
Moving back to our campus site plan, we're going to add some parking spaces. And the parking spaces are just Revit elements that we can place in here. We can go ahead and start from down here and then work our way around.
Essentially, what we'll do is modify how this is laid out based on the Revit parking spaces we add. It's a back-and-forth process between updating the CAD file and adding the Revit parking spaces to make it work the way you want. If we go to the Architecture tab and then Component, we have a whole bunch of different components in here.
And you can see one of them is many different parking spaces. If I were to grab, say, the nine-foot-by-18-foot space, and if I go to one of my edges here, say like right here and hit spacebar a few times, you can see that it'll lock it in. And clearly this is the right depth, but it's not the right width.
If I were to just draw a dimension quickly here and see what these spaces actually are, you can see they're eight-foot-six. That's not a problem, because we can go in and make as many types as we need. If I go in and choose Edit Type, Duplicate on the parking space here, I can change this from nine feet to eight-foot-six, and I'll delete that "2" at the end there.
But this is my new parking stall type. And then I just need to update the dimensions here. So the parking width is going to be eight-foot-six.
%20(1).png)
Learn Revit
- Nationally accredited
- Create your own portfolio
- Free student software
- Learn at your convenience
- Authorized Autodesk training center
And then I always change this PW one as well, just to make sure we're consistent. So hit okay. And now I have a parking stall that I could use.
There are areas where we want striping and areas where we don't. If I were to take this one here and copy it over, you can see we've got our stall and I could do the same thing and just kind of fill out the rest of the parking here. I'm just snapping endpoint to endpoint.
And when I get to this point here, I want to make sure that I have the stripe on this side. And even if that means I have two stripes on top of each other, that's going to be fine because I don't want to have the parking stripe along this edge because that doesn't actually exist. Now I can go in and I can see these are eight-foot-six as well.
You can see that one's nine feet and that one's nine feet. So there's definitely different parking stalls within here. So I can add this one in. You can see I'm hovering over the line and then hitting the spacebar.
And what that does is it'll actually allow me to rotate to the right rotation there. And that's a big time saver when you're adding all of these parking stalls. And so what I did is I added this one facing that direction, and then I'll take this guy here.
I'm actually going to delete it, and then create another one, but I'll change my type from the eight-foot-six to the nine-foot, because that's what these stalls were listed as.
And then I can put one here and then I can put one here as well. That one wasn't snapping correctly. So I'll go ahead, just use Create Similar, and put another one in. But you can see the linework looks good.
Do you see that I don't have a space here? It's something you really want to be careful about. Using the mirror tool is a great way to get those spaces placed accurately.
And this is important that we hit every single one of these stalls because we want to make sure that we are able to accurately count all of our parking spaces.
