Uncover a unique approach to detailing and Revit architecture using the hybrid method, which combines live views from the building model with two-dimensional overlays to convey design intent. This method offers an efficient way to work with detailed building models while controlling their size and complexity.
Key Insights
- The hybrid approach to detailing combines live views generated from the building model with two-dimensional embellishments and notes to effectively communicate the design's intent, offering an efficient alternative to fully detailed building models.
- Existing CAD details can be imported into the project file and modified within the Revit project file, allowing professionals to leverage previously used details in their current projects.
- The class also introduces the concept of creating a detail library in Revit, providing insights into importing these details into current project files, and exploring the use of three-dimensional views and exploded axonometric drawings from the Revit project to enhance details.
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Welcome to the CAD Teacher VDCI video series for BIM 303, Detailing and Revit Architecture. In this class, we'll look at two approaches to detailing and Revit Architecture. One is what most CAD users are familiar with, which is creating 2D drafted drawings for a detail.
The other is what we'll call a hybrid approach to detailing. In this method of detailing, one creates live views generated from the building model and overlays 2D embellishments and notes to convey the design intent. We'll focus more of our time on this hybrid approach.
Theoretically, a fully embellished and detailed building model capable of generating all large-scale views and details is seen by some as the ultimate goal. But you'd end up with a model that's just too big, and this isn't really an efficient way to work. To keep the size of our models reasonable and avoid spending too much time modeling, we're going to use this hybrid approach.
This is an example of a CAD detail that we're actually going to import into our project file so you can leverage your existing details that you've used in CAD before and either use them as is or explode them in the Revit project file and make modifications as you see necessary. This is a detail view showing an enlarged elevation of a part of the curtain wall in this project, and this is using the hybrid approach where we have live objects such as this corner mullion and glazing. They're taken directly from our Revit model, but then we're also embellishing it with these dashed lines indicating the floor slab, keynotes, dimensions, and these center lines.
This is another detail using this hybrid approach where we've started off with a plan view of a jamb detail, and we've overlaid these detail components, for instance, representing gypsum board, insulation, the metal stud framing, and we even took a manufacturer's detail for the storefront jamb and added that to our detail. We'll also look at some of the concepts of creating a detail library in Revit and how to take those details and import them into your current project file. And at the end of the class, we'll look at some 3D views that you can create to also add to your details, whether it is a section perspective shown here or a new feature where you can actually create exploded axonometric drawings from your Revit project.
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So let's start taking a look at developing detail callouts. What we're going to do in the next video is create an enlarged plan view, an enlarged section view, and then an enlarged elevation view.