Get a detailed walk-through on arranging and adjusting building elevations in a project using professional software. This guide provides a step-by-step method of fixing scales, managing level lines, adjusting extents, modifying crop regions, and effectively placing views on project sheets.
Key Insights
- The process begins with adjusting the scale of all views to ensure uniformity, followed by managing the extents of the level lines to make it fit perfectly on project sheets.
- To avoid a cluttered view, the crop region feature can be turned on, which auto-sets based on the level's location, and then turned off after adjustments.
- After setting up the views, they are ready to be placed on project sheets by clicking, dragging, and positioning them for ease of access and visibility.
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Now we're going to move on to our building elevations. And part of this template that we used included all four of the building elevations. And so all we have to do is go in and tighten them up, make sure they're on the right scale, and then put them on a Sheet in an order that allows us to show each side of the building.
I'm going to start with the East Elevation. So I'll just double click on East Elevation here in my Project Browser. And then you can see that my level lines are pretty out of control.
We obviously can't put it on a Sheet like this, because that's pretty much what you would see, right? It'd be so small that we couldn't even see the building itself. So what I'll do is I'll zoom in. First thing I'm going to do is I'm going to change my scale from eighth inch to quarter inch, because that's the scale of all my other views.
Then I'm going to go in and I'm going to adjust the extents of my level lines by clicking and dragging that endpoint. And it's okay to get these a little close, because we are going to put two views per Sheet. We want to make sure that everything will fit in there.
And then after I've adjusted the level lines, what I'll do is I'll turn on my Crop Region, take a look at it. That looks good to me. We don't have a lot going on in this view, so we don't have to worry about having too many things show up.
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And we'll just repeat that process as we go through. So same thing for the North Elevation. I'm just going to go through and I'm going to adjust the extents and then change my scale.
And you can do that in any order, it doesn't matter so much. But it is recommended that you adjust the levels before you turn on the Crop Region, because it'll automatically set this region based on those levels locations. Notice also I'm turning off the crop after I turn it on just so I can see where it's at, just to make sure we're good to go.
And I'll repeat that process through the rest of these. I want you to notice though, we've done the North and now we're on the South Elevation, but the level lines are already adjusted. And that's because we adjusted them on the parallel elevation or the South Elevation.
And so we should be good to go on the South Elevation and then also the West Elevation after we change our scale to where we need it to be. Now that we have everything set up, these views are ready to be put on a Sheet. So I'll go to my Sheet A201 for my elevations.
And I'm going to grab my North Elevation using that same process of clicking and dragging. I'll go ahead and place this on the Sheet. And I like to push this over to the right a little bit so that it's in a location that we can see it pretty easily.
And then I'll do the same thing with my View Title that we did before, where I move it over to the side and then adjust the extents. And I'll try to have it line up relatively close to the edge here. And so that's our North Elevation.
Next, we're going to grab the East Elevation. And I'll just place that. What I'll do here is I want to have these pretty close, so I'll kind of move them around so that it's lined up.
Might even use the Directional Pad here. We'll go over some processes to make this a little bit more precise in future lessons. But for our purposes here, just to get the hang of adding views to Sheets, we'll keep it as is.
So I'll just move this one over. And you can see as I move the View Title over, it's going to want to lock into place. And the same thing you'll notice is with this end point as well.
It'll do the same thing. So this view has the Crop Region visible. And instead of activating the view like I showed you before, we also have the option to select the Viewport.
And then you can see here we have these different options here. Crop view, which we always want to have turned on. And then Crop Region visible, which I can uncheck, which is the second option.
And you can see it goes away. So that's the first Sheet. And let's just do the same thing on A202.
And so we've already placed North and East Elevations. We're looking for South Elevation first. And we'll do the same thing.
We kind of nudge it over, grab the View Title, shift it across here, and just adjust the length so that it's pretty close to what we had on the other Sheet. And I believe West Elevation is the other one we want. And just going through that same process where we place it, adjust a little bit, and then move it so that we can line some of these things up.
You can see as you get the hang of it, it's a pretty quick process. It shouldn't take too long once you get the hang of it, which is why it's good to do these exercises where we're just putting them on the Sheets. Because this is something that you generally want to be very familiar with, because you're going to be doing a whole lot of it as you start developing projects within Revit.
So at this point, we've got all of our views on Sheets, and we're ready to print the PDF. So I'm going to go ahead and save because that's a good milestone. And the next video, we'll take a look at how we can print this to a PDF.
