Explore the nuances of creating a 3D model using Revit, with attention to detail like ensuring all walls are of the same height and all windows and doors are correctly positioned. Discover useful features such as 'Create Similar' which can be used to replicate existing elements within a model, saving time and maintaining consistency.
Key Insights
- Ensuring consistency in a 3D model, such as maintaining the same height for all walls and other elements, is crucial for accurate representation.
- The 'Create Similar' feature in Revit allows for easier replication of existing elements within a model, eliminating the need to draw each element from scratch.
- Plan Region is a unique tool in Revit that allows users to create a sketch around an area of a floor plan where a different view range is required. This can be particularly useful when working with elements that are not all at the same level.
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Before we draw that last window, I think it's about time that we take a look at this model and see what it looks like in 3D. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to jump into the Default 3D View and take a look at what we've created. So you can see we've got all of our windows and doors that we've created showing up and it's nice.
They're all at the same head height, so we know we've done that correctly. And then we can see the same window on this side. The other thing I'm looking at here is all my walls are at the same height.
If you're looking at your model and your walls aren't all at the same height, then we want to make sure that that is correct. And so that setting we're looking for here is going to be up to that level roof that we created or a total height of eight feet. And so just kind of take a look at this to make sure you're lined up, have a lot of the same settings and everything's looking good.
And then we can draw in this last window. So this last window is no different from any of the other ones. And I'm going to show you a trick that will open up a lot of the different tools in Revit, especially if you're working in a model that's already been created.
But essentially I can go to this window here and I could right click on it and I can go to create similar. And what that does is it's going to create another window of that type. So you really don't even need to know how to draw anything in Revit if you have an existing model, because you can essentially use create similar for everything.
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But it's good to have the fundamentals, of course. So here we're looking for a 24 × 24 and we've got it. And so I'll set that.
And then the one thing I want to do here is the head height. I'm going to change that to 6'8". And notice it changed the sill height.
And then I'll go ahead and place the window in its proper location, which eventually is going to be one foot from that outside face of wall. So that means that dimension, that temporary dimension here, should be six inches from the edge, which we can't quite get to here. So one foot six.
And you'll notice I've placed that window, but it's disappeared. If I look at it in 3D View, you can see our windows there. But in our Floor Plan view, it doesn't show up.
And that's a function of our view range. If I were to change the view range in this view to be instead of four feet, say five feet, then it'll show the window. And for this project, that's not a bad option, but not every project that's going to work out.
Or you might even have it where the window is even higher up above the floor level. So you might have to look at using a different process. And for this project, what we'll do is we're going to use what's called a Plan Region.
If I were to go to my View Tab and find plan views, what I can do is I can create what's called a Plan Region. And this Plan Region is essentially a Sketch that I will draw around the area of a Floor Plan that I want to have a different view range than the rest of the Floor Plan view. If I were to go to the Rectangle Tool, because that's the one that's going to make the most sense for us here, and just draw a Rectangle over this area, what I could do is for that specific area, I could edit the Plan Region to have an offset of five feet or five foot six.
Let's do five foot six, and hit OK. And when I finish that Sketch, which is this green Check Mark here, it'll actually show me that window in that location. And so what's crazy about this, if I were to take it across, you can see it's going to start to show everything a little differently.
Because this is no longer part of the view. When you use a Plan Region, you have to make sure that the entire window is captured, or it starts to get really weird. You can see that as I'm going through and dragging it through.
And that's how the Plan Region works. Now we have all of our windows set up, and we learned a new trick about using Plan Regions here. What we can do is we can start Modeling the rest of our building elements.
So things like the floor and the roof can get added to this project. So I'm going to save because that's a good milestone there. And then we'll continue on in the next video.
