Master the nuances of architectural design with our detailed guide on establishing level lines and drawing walls to the correct elevations. Learn how to adjust and modify level markers for a more efficient and accurate rendering of your building project.
Key Insights
- The article shares step-by-step guidelines on how to effectively establish level lines for drawing walls to the correct heights. This includes moving elevation tags to a location that is optimal for the building project.
- One of the techniques highlighted is the ability to create new elevations while working on the project. However, adjusting and modifying the existing levels to suit the project's requirements is also an efficient method.
- Lastly, the article underscores the importance of accurate level specification for different sections of the building, such as the roof and parapets. These levels are critical for the completion of the architectural project.
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Our next step is to establish the level line so that we can draw our walls to the correct elevations. So the first thing you want to do is if you look at the plan now, we've got elevations all over the place. So I'm going to go ahead and grab these, and I'm grabbing the triangle and the square at the same time here, and I'm going to move it over to where it's going to make more sense for our building.
And when I check, I can click on it, and I want this blue line to make its way into a location that works for our project. And so I'll grab the triangle, hold down CTRL, grab the square, and now that I have both of those elements together, in that order, it's going to go ahead and move the whole elevation tag with it. So I'll go ahead and do the same thing for the rest of them here.
This is a small, seemingly minor step, but it's something that, by doing it now, will help us out in the long run. So I'll just do that with all four. Alternatively, if you think that's too much work, you could create new elevations as you go as well; that'll get the job done too.
Now that we've got good elevations that we can work with here, I'm going to grab this south one and take a look at the levels we have created. What you see here are the levels from our linked model. If I didn't want to see that in this view, I could go to Visibility Graphic Overrides, Revit Links, and uncheck the box here to remove it.
That's going to take it out of our view. Now we can look at the levels we have, and I can add to and modify them as we see fit. If I look at, say, Level 2, we don't want it to be 10 feet; we're going to go with 14 feet.
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Next, I need to create a roof and a top-of-parapet elevation. So I'm going to do the same thing we've done in previous courses, where we go in and pick Level. I like to line them up on the ends in case we need to make any adjustments.
They're all going to be synced on that endpoint. Then I'll bring it across, and this one will be called Roof—just hitting Escape a couple of times.
Getting back into it here, I'll just type in Roof, and I'll definitely let it rename that. Then we'll create one more.
We'll call that one Top of Parapet, and I'll just throw this one up way high because we need to make some adjustments here. The same process applies.
Now I can adjust the roof one: instead of 25.6, which is what I arbitrarily drew there, I can make it 28 feet. Then my parapet—I'm going to put it at 32 feet.
These are the levels that we'll use for this project.
