Mastering Revit Structure? This article provides an in-depth tutorial on creating interior frames, detailing how to utilize elevation markers, change the view name, clean up views, and isolate elements. These techniques are essential for creating professional-quality structural models in Revit.
Key Insights
- The article covers the process of creating interior frames in Revit Structure, including activating the view, using the elevation drop-down to obtain frame elevation, and highlighting grid lines to get an elevation view.
- It delves into managing elevation markers, changing the view name, and cleaning up views. It explains how to create an elevation of a line by picking a box, how to delete unnecessary views, and how to use viewports for cleaning up the visual presentation.
- The guide also details how to use the hide and view elements function for cleaning up and finalizing views, as well as how to reveal hidden elements and how to reset temporarily hidden items. These techniques help in creating a cleaner and more professional Revit model.
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Hello, and welcome to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've created the frame elevations for exterior frames, let's look at the interior frames.
Zoom in, then double-click to activate the view. There, we see it's activated. Let's get started on creating our interior frames.
What we're going to do is go to the View tab. We'll go to the Create panel and the Elevation drop-down. Now for this, we want the Frame Elevation.
What that's going to do is generate elevations of the interior frames. Okay, let's pick that. Let's get started.
Now, unlike the exterior elevations, for this one we'll need to go to the gridline where the frame exists. It will highlight, and here we see the Elevation Marker. Now notice when we select the gridline, it gives us the elevation view on one side. If we move slightly to the other side, it will shift the Elevation Marker to the other side.
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We want to be consistent and have our elevation at the top side. So let's pick this one. Press Escape to exit.
And again, what we want to do first is change the name. So let's select it. Go to our Properties, and in the View Name field, let's change it.
We're going to change this to BF-1 or Brace Frame 1. Very good. Okay. Let's go ahead and move it around a little bit to clean this up.
Let's move it up here a little bit. There you go. Okay, that clears the interference of the other text for our other information.
Okay, again, let's zoom in and select the Elevation Marker here. You see we again have the view area. What we want to do—if you notice—is that the line here is now attached to the gridline.
If you select it, it will not move—unlike the exterior elevations. So what we want to do is go ahead and stretch it in three directions: here, here, and here.
Very good. Now that we've done that, let's go back to our Elevation Marker. One interesting thing about the Elevation Marker is that it’s a separate entity which outlines the view box.
Now if we zoom in on this, select the marker that will display the sheet name when we place it on the sheet. Let's pick that. And you'll notice we have three other boxes.
What these are—these are also Elevation Markers—but they are inactive because they are unchecked here. This one is checked, so it is active. If we wanted to, we could create an elevation of this line simply by selecting this box.
You’ll notice it gives us Elevation 1D, Elevation 1C, and Elevation 1B. And if you noticed previously, this was marked Elevation 1A. These additional elevations would typically be used to create interior elevations of a room—elevating the walls, doors, and windows and identifying them in that view.
But we're not doing that here. We're elevating our Brace Frame that exists here. So let's go ahead and uncheck those boxes.
Click OK. Since we selected them, they were created—as you'll see in the Project Browser—but we don’t need them. So let's click OK and delete these views.
OK, now we're back to our regular elevation. OK, let's zoom out. Let's double-click the Elevation Marker, and that opens our view.
Now let's clean this view up. The first thing we want to do is set the scale to 1/4" = 1'-0", and change the Detail Level to Fine. Very good.
Now you can see the braces, columns, and beams. OK, let’s clean this up. Press VV to open the Visibility/Graphics dialog.
Let’s turn off the background of the Revit Link. Uncheck it. Click OK.
Very good. You now see only the Brace Frame, beams, and columns. OK, let’s go to our Viewport.
Let’s pull that down to help clean up a bit of the upper area. Very good. And we’ll bring the lower end of the crop region up.
We now have just the Brace Frame. Next, we want to perform a full selection of all elements. Let’s go to the Filter tool.
Select it. Now uncheck the categories you do not want visible in your next operation.
We want to retain the Grids and Levels. Scroll down.
Let’s see what we have. We also want to keep the Columns. We want the Girders.
You’ll notice categories such as Joists and Other. Structural Framing – Joists are the 2x framing and other components used to model the floor. Structural Framing – Other contains the elements that represent the Brace Frames.
We want to retain those, along with the Views category, which includes the Viewport. Click OK. You’ll see that the items we want are no longer selected.
OK, right-click anywhere in the view background. Select Hide in View > Elements. And there you have it.
They are now hidden. Let’s continue cleaning and finalizing the view. Select the Grids.
Hold CTRL, and open Temporary Hide/Isolate. Select Hide Elements.
Now select the Levels. Since we have more than one level, right-click. Choose Select All Instances > Visible in View.
Again, go to Temporary Hide/Isolate. Choose Hide Elements. Very good.
Now what we can do is click outside the frame area. Even though the elements are hidden, they are still selectable. This allows us to isolate the remaining parts without affecting the frame. Hold the CTRL key.
Repeat the selection on the opposite side. This will capture any extraneous elements we don’t want to display. Right-click again.
Hide in View > Elements. And they're gone. But you’ll notice we did hide our Viewport.
What we can do to get that back is type RH, which stands for Reveal Hidden Elements. You’ll see the box is highlighted in red. So pick it.
Right-click on it. Then go to Unhide in View > Elements. You’ll see now that it’s grayed out.
We can see it. You can use this feature to unhide elements that you may have accidentally hidden or elements you want to restore. Okay.
To turn it off, we can either click the lightbulb icon in the bar at the bottom or type RH again. That will exit Reveal Hidden Elements mode.
Okay, you can see we have just a couple of small extraneous items at the top. Hold your CTRL key down. There we go.
Let's right-click. Select All Instances > Visible in View. Okay, let's right-click again just to make sure we’ve selected them all.
Hide in View > Elements. Hide the elements. There you go.
We've cleaned up our Brace Frame. Now we can go ahead and turn the Viewport crop region off. Again, we can use the lightbulb icon down here.
Select Hide Crop Region. There you go. Let's Zoom All.
Let’s go back to Temporary Hide/Isolate. Select Reset Temporary Hide/Isolate. And there you have your Brace Frame.
All by itself. Very good. Now that we've created the Brace Frame, let's go ahead and finish this video.
In the next one, we’ll come back and start placing our other frames on sheets. So go ahead and complete Brace Frames 2,3, and 4. And I will see you in the next one.