Discover the process of loading components into your Revit project, with a specific focus on designing a simple kitchenette. This article offers a step-by-step guide to selecting, inserting, and adjusting elements within Revit's Imperial library, enhancing the precision and functionality of your architectural projects.
Key Insights
- This guide outlines the method to delete unnecessary dimensions from your Revit project before introducing new components, maintaining a clear workspace for your design.
- Revit's Imperial library, particularly the U.S. Imperial subset, contains a comprehensive selection of specialty equipment for domestic designs, including a medium-sized kitchenette with all essential appliances.
- The article highlights Revit's convenient adjustment options, which allow for the careful alignment and rotation of components to fit your project's specific needs, ensuring the accurate placement of kitchen appliances within your design.
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Now we're going to load in the components needed for our kitchen. We're going to keep it pretty simple here, but we're going to go through the same process we did before. So the first thing I'm going to do is delete this dimension because it's not going to remain as part of our final project, and it's just going to be in the way for this exercise.
We're going to go to Insert, Load Family, and since we used our BIM 101 folder the last time, we've lost the automatic link to our Imperial library. But not to worry, Revit automatically loads these in for us. So you can see here as I scroll down, there are a few folders that will pop up.
So I'll go to Imperial Library, and it's always going to be U.S. Imperial that we're looking for. From here, we're going to look for specialty equipment, domestic, and the kitchenette medium, because it's got everything we're looking for. You can see a range, sink, and a refrigerator.
I'll click Open, and this will upgrade quickly here. Then I'll go through the same process. So I'll go to Architecture, Component, and you can see we have our kitchenette ready to go.
I'll just hit the spacebar a couple of times, and that'll rotate it, but it's still not quite in the orientation I want. When I click to place it, I'll hit Escape a couple of times, and now I have the option to make another adjustment. You can see this toggle will allow me to flip it to one side or the other.
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I want the refrigerator, which is this piece here, to sit on the right side. Now I can just drag this piece over, and by pressing and dragging, I'm able to lock it into that corner in the exact location that we're looking for. Now we have our components for our restroom and kitchen ready to go.
In the next video, we're going to add our dimensions and room tags to finalize our annotation portions of the project before we put all these views on a sheet.
