Discover how to rename views, place them on detail sheets, adjust their positioning and title, and modify their properties for better readability and organization in Revit Architecture. Learn how to adjust the scale, crop region, and the appearance of view titles for a clean and professional layout.
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- The article provides a step-by-step guide on how to rename views, place them on detail sheets, adjust their positioning, and modify their properties in Revit Architecture, ensuring a well-organized and readable detail sheet.
- Techniques such as adjusting the scale, crop region, and the appearance of view titles are discussed, enabling a clean presentation of all details on a single sheet.
- The article concludes with instructions on how to print PDFs of the completed sheets, offering tips on efficient settings such as combining multiple selected views into sheets and saving settings for future sessions.
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Before we finish this exercise, let's rename this view Exploded Axon. So in the project browser, where it says copy of 3D, let's rename the view Exploded Axon. Click OK.
In this video, we're going to take all of the views that we've created and place them on our detail sheet, A7.1. So let's go to our A7.1 detail sheet and go ahead and start placing our views onto the sheet. So the first one we're going to put on here is the gypsum board ceiling detail under Drafting Views. So drag gypsum board ceiling detail onto our view.
And let's just place it directly under our ceiling soffit detail above. And you'll notice when you move your view title, it'll want to align with other view titles. And remember to move it independent of the view, you have to select the view title itself.
If you select the view and then try to move the title, you either select it or you move both the title and the view together. So just remember to select it independently of the view and you can move it separately. Okay, now let's add the enlarged elevation view.
Let's go to Elevations, Enlarged Elevation Southwest Window. Drag and drop that view onto the sheet and let's place it underneath the two views above. And again, let's adjust the location of our view title and also adjust the line underneath our title so that it aligns with the view titles above.
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And then let's just adjust the spacing so there's a little bit of a gap in between the details so it's easier to read. Next, let's add the jamb detail, which is an enlarged plan detail. Window jamb, let's just place it off to the left.
And you'll notice it's larger relative to the other details because it's at a scale three inches equals a foot. And let's just move our view title a bit. And then let's add our section detail.
Under Sections, Building Wall Sections, Section Detail, Windowsill. Place that onto our sheet. And again, adjust our view title so that it aligns with the view title above.
And adjust the spacing as you see fit to kind of make everything read clearly. Now let's add the 3D detail views that we created. So let's first add the exploded axon view under 3D views.
And place that to the left of our window jamb detail. And let's just adjust our view title and make it a little bit smaller and pull it a little bit closer to the view. And let's make a little bit more room for our perspective below.
Next, let's add the section perspective. And when we place it, you can see it's too big for this view. So let's change the size of our section perspective.
Double-click section perspective, select the crop region, and change the crop size by selecting size crop. And let's change the width to 12 inches. And remember, let's change the scale of this and then the height changes automatically to 9 inches to keep that same ratio.
Click OK. Let's close this view. And now you can see it's scaled down, our section perspective view.
And the next thing you want to do is change, or I should say turn off. The crop region. So another way to edit this is select the view, right-click, activate view.
And everything else grays out. And the only thing that's active is the section perspective view. And I'm just going to turn off our crop region.
So just using that show or hide crop region toggle button. And then right-click again, deactivate view. And that takes us back to our sheet.
- Let's move our view title so that it aligns with the exploded axon above and then change the bar along our view title or that line along the view title. I'm going to kind of adjust the spacing a bit.
And the position and feel free to take some liberties with this. So whatever you think looks good so that all of our details that we've created during this class are neatly laid out on a sheet. And the last thing I want to do here is let's change the way our view titles look.
We have all in caps on some of our details and others are upper and lower case. So let's just change it all to caps. And the way we can do this is just go through the project browser and go view by view.
So plan detail view. We can keep our view names the same, but just change the way it looks on our sheet by changing the title on sheet parameter. And let's just change this to window jamb detail.
Make sure your caps lock is on. And you can see window jamb detail has been updated as the view name for this detail. And we'll change the enlarged elevation title to enlarged elevation.
Just keep it simple. You can see it updated it here. And we'll do the same for windowsill detail.
Rename the title on sheet to windowsill detail and updates. And then finally, let's change our 3D views. So exploded axon will become exploded axonometric view.
And our section perspective, let's rename that all in caps section perspective view. This concludes this lesson and BIM 303 Detailing in Revit Architecture. Please print PDFs of the following sheets A2.1, A3.1, A4.1, A5.2, A7.0, and then finally A7.1. And print those all to a single PDF file.
Let's just go over how to do that one more time. So control P to print. Use your PDF driver.
Make sure to select combine multiple selected views into sheets. And then we'll select for print range selected view and sheets. Let's go ahead and make sure we check none.
Uncheck views. And then the sheets again are A2.1, A3.1, A4.1, A5.2, A7.0, and A7.1. Select OK. And if you want to save these settings for a future session, you can say yes.
And just say whatever you want to call it. We can just call this one BIM 303 Final. And what that does is it allows you to select BIM 303 Final as the set.
And it'll select all of these sheet views. Select paper size D, a D size sheet. And we'll center the view.
So for paper placement, select center. For Zoom, make sure you select Zoom 100%. And you can keep this on vector, raster quality high, colors.
You can just do grayscale. Make sure it's landscape orientation. Select OK.
Don't need to save these settings. And then click OK. And this will vary based on your PDF printer driver.
And I'm just going to select the location. And let's name this BIM 303-Final. PDF. Save. Click OK.
It'll take a moment to plot. And depending on your software, the PDF will open. And you can see it has all of our views.
But we specified in one single PDF. So that concludes BIM 303 Detailing in Revit Architecture. Thank you for taking this course.
And I hope it was beneficial and educational.