Embarking on a project, this article offers an overview of the process for creating a floor plan for a Habitat for Humanity house, including how to construct different annotations and family components such as a shower, toilet, sink, and kitchen elements in AutoCAD. It also provides guidance on the correct way to save and submit your Revit model for assessment.
Key Insights
- The project involves creating a floor plan of a Habitat for Humanity house, which includes dimensions and different family components. The final product will be created using AutoCAD and Revit.
- As part of the process, you will learn how to save and submit your work in the correct format. The common deliverable in the AEC industry, including for this project, is a PDF file.
- To avoid overriding the baseline, it's crucial to perform a 'Save As' and replace 'Start' with your first and last name. This ensures your work is correctly attributed when submitted.
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The time has come for us to start our first Project, and before we did so, I just wanted to give you an overview of what we're going to be doing over the next few videos here. So this is the Floor Plan of the Habitat for Humanity house that we'll be doing, and some of you who have taken the AutoCAD class are going to be familiar with this because it's pretty much the same thing, just with a few tweaks to help work with some of the components that we have in Revit already. We will be creating it exactly the way you see here.
We're going to create a Floor Plan with some dimensions and different Annotations and Family Components like the shower and the toilet and the sink and the kitchen elements in here, and we're going to put it on a Sheet just like you see here with all these different tags, and we'll create a Roof Plan with some basic Annotations and information, Building Elevations for our first Project. And so to start that, what we're going to want to do is we will jump back into Revit here, and I've closed all the files that we had open before, and it's up to you if you wanted to save that example that we were working on, but it's not really needed, so it won't be something that you'll need to turn in for the class. So our goal, just so that you have a good understanding of it, is we're going to create all of these elements in Revit, and then the deliverable, which is very common in any discipline within the AEC industry, is to deliver a PDF File.
We're going to want to be able to create our Building Model in a way that's going to be easy for us to print to PDF and be able to submit it as our assignment for the class. To get started, we're going to go ahead and we're going to open up a Revit model that we've set up that'll work well for this class, and it's called Project 1 start. So the first thing you'll want to do is open that up, and just like the one before, this was created in a previous version of Revit, so it's going to go through a Model Upgrade Process.
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The next thing we'll do, and this is really important so that we don't end up overriding this baseline point here, is we're going to do a Save as, so I'll do file, Save as, Project, and what we want to do is we're going to replace where it says Start here, and what you can do is you can go ahead and put your first name and then your last name, just like you see it here, and that way we'll know who created it when you submit it, if you do end up submitting your model for this. We'll hit Save, and now we're ready to get started on creating Project 1.
