In this article, we delve into the final touches needed for preparing our building model for print, focusing on cleaning up the graphics in our floor plans, elevations, and 3D views. It covers a wide range of final QC (Quality Control) steps including adjusting section views, hiding elevations, and managing annotation graphics to ensure clarity and consistency across all views before the final print.
Key Insights
- The article highlights the importance of adjusting the graphics in a building model, specifically focusing on adjusting section views and hiding elevations to ensure clarity in large building models.
- The process of managing annotation graphics is also discussed in depth. This involves adjusting the location of tags to sit outside of the building or room and checking that all graphics are consistent across all plan views.
- Finally, the article mentions the significance of final Quality Control (QC) before printing. This involves going through the model to check for any graphic inconsistencies, adjusting view titles and section tags, and hiding crop regions for a clearer view of the model.
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Now we're going to go in and put some finishing touches on our model and our files so that we can get it ready to print to PDF. So the first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to go to my floor plan sheets and I want to make sure that these are all set up in a way that work for the view that we're trying to create. So the first thing I want to do is take a look at how my sections are showing.
And so I can see that the line goes all the way through continuously. And that works pretty well on smaller buildings. But when you have a larger building like this, this line kind of starts to get lost down the entire face of it.
And it's hard to tell if that's an object line or if it's an annotation line. So I'm going to go ahead and click on it. And then I'll hit this break here.
And then I can adjust where this shows up in my view, which will then give me the ability to essentially clean up the space within the floor plan here and clear up a lot of these graphic kind of inconsistencies that we don't like to have. And so I'll just do that for all four of those section views. And then if there's anything else that I'm noticing, like how this tag is showing here, what I could do is I can go ahead and make that adjustment to have the tags sitting outside of the building or out of the room there.
And that just helps clean up some of the graphics that we're showing in here. And I'll do the same thing for my level two plan, double-checking the graphics. And this is kind of a weird anomaly here how both of these sections followed suit, but these two didn't.
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Not really sure why it did that. But sometimes things work one way and then they work another. So it's something you get used to when you start working in Revit quite a bit.
Here we have the elevation tags turned on in this view. And on this floor plan view, it's not something that I want to see. So I'm going to go to my visibility graphic overrides, annotation categories, and I'm going to turn off elevations in this view.
The reason I'm turning it off in this view is because we already have it shown on level one and it's clearly communicated where those elevations are occurring. The next thing that I'm going to do here is I'm going to change my detail level from coarse to medium, and then I'm going to go ahead and turn off my crop region so it's not showing. And that gives me a better idea of what this view is going to look like on the sheet.
And I should do that for my first floor plan as well. So the first time for level two, we activated the view by double-clicking into it. And we can also go to our properties here and you can see we have crop view, crop region visible, and annotation crop here.
I can actually turn off the crop region without activating the view. And it'll do the same thing. Last but not least, we're going to go to our roof plan.
And we'll do a lot of the same steps here. Detail level is fine. Sections look good.
I'm going to go ahead and hide my elevation views in here. And so I could right-click, hide in view by category, just another way to hide an element by category. And so when I look at the visibility graphic overrides, annotation categories for elevations, you can see it's unchecked because we hid that element in view by category.
So it turned off the category in the view. Just like the other plan views, I can go ahead and turn off the crop region. And now the view looks pretty good.
And so I'll just go through and do the same thing with all of my other views. So my building elevations, I could clip the section so that it shows only at the top and bottom. We have that same option here.
And we would only do this if we really wanted to just make a clear shot at the elevation and not have a lot of things in the way. When you run into a case like this, if you're really bothered by these two touching each other, you can select your grid and you've got the same type of break. But what this will do is it'll bump it off to one side or the other, and that'll help you avoid those types of collisions.
If it goes the other way, like it did here, you can grab this dot and you can move it over to the other side. And that just helps kind of clean up the plan a little bit so you don't have a lot of overlapping graphics. Just like with the floor plans, I can go in and I can turn off my crop region.
And that's not required to do because I don't have to necessarily worry about the crop region printing or anything like that. But it does give you a clearer view of what your elevation view is going to look like. So I'll do the same thing here, turn off that crop region and modify my sections and then just check for any other graphic inconsistencies in here.
One of the things that I will do is I'm going to pull this view in a little bit, so I'll turn that crop region back on. And then if I need to, I can turn off the scope box for this view so that I can kind of shrink it a little bit. And you'll see why in a second why we want to do that.
And it's because we've gotten too tight with our keynote legend here. And so I need to move both of these views since they're already lined up. I want to move them both at the same time.
I just want to nudge them over so that this is a clear path for my keynotes. And so I'll just have to make a couple adjustments here to the view title and to my level lines. And then I can turn off my crop region.
And the last thing I would do here is since I moved my view title, you can see the tail on it is kind of way off into space. And so then I can go in and now you can see we've got the view properly cleaned up. And so we'll do the same thing on 402 and the same thing on 501 and 502.
And so we didn't add any keynotes to this sheet, but we do know that it is probably sticking out a little too far just because of where the legend is located. And so I'll do the same thing for this view to clean it up. Essentially what we're doing is the day of printing type of work that you would be doing, going in and doing that last-minute QC to make sure everything looks correct before you do your final print to send it off to print or to be distributed to your client.
And so just again, those same processes that we were going through, adjusting the sections as needed. And it seems like we're missing one here. If you do have that same situation where you're missing one, that means we probably hid it in view in one of the previous videos.
And so you can reveal hidden elements here by clicking the light bulb. And there it is. And so then I can select it.
I can unhide the element and then I can bring it back and then we can have it shown in this view again. And I'll turn off my crop region and then adjust my view title here. I'm seeing these sections kind of hanging low, so I definitely want to fix that.
Just like with the other elevations, we can correct the grid/section overlap here. And then I'll just do the same process we did with the other ones, wanting to move these up a bit since they should not be touching my view title there. And then just adjusting my annotation graphics here, which are my section tags.
And those are some of the steps that we'd go through to kind of do the final QC of our drawings. The next thing we're going to do is we're going to take a look at some of the graphic options that we have to make some of these views look a little bit better. And part of that is some of the things that we did with our elevation views and also diving in to create some cool-looking 3D views.
