Setting Up Interior Elevations in Revit: A Step-by-Step Guide

Now that we have the plans situated the way that we want them set up, we're going to make a couple of housekeeping changes here. So first off, I want to make sure that my Level 2 plan has the same view template setting. So I'm going to jump in here and go ahead and set that to Enlarge Floor Plan so that the Level 2 plan has it assigned.

And then as you noticed before, our wall sections weren't necessarily assigned that view template. And so I want to make sure that all four of these views have the view template assigned. So I can select them all using Shift, and then I can set it to Wall Sections.

And now when we look through, these are all set to the Wall Section view. So it's a minor thing, but I think it's important for us to be doing that so that we are keeping track of who's on a view template and who's not. And also, if we are making changes to that view template, it's automatically being applied to those other views.

Now with that out of the way, what we can do is we can go ahead and actually create our interior elevations for our lobby plans. And so if I were to double-click into my First Floor view, what I want to do is have an interior elevation for each one of these. And I can do that by going to the View tab, clicking on Elevation, and just simply changing the type here from Building Elevation to Interior Elevation.

And so what it'll do is it'll try to find the best way to create elevations for us. You can see it's really just trying to find what it wants to point at. And I'll start here with our Men's Room and just place the Interior Elevation tag.

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And what you can see is now we have the tag that also has the view name in there. And so I'm going to go ahead and apply all four elevations to this view. And so I'll click on the checkmark.

And to get to that, I just clicked on this circle here, and I can go ahead and pick each one of those objects. And when I look at it, it's quite a bit of information. And so we're going to want to change that so it doesn't show the title, but instead we'd rather it show the view number.

To modify that, what we need to do is pick our elevation. If you didn't have anything selected or you deselected, just pick one of these tags. And really, it's just a type parameter that's assigned to our Interior Elevation.

So you can see I went to Edit Type on Interior Elevation, and now the Elevation Tag is set to the Half Inch Circle, which is great. But I'll click on that, and now you can see I'm one layer deeper into the parameters for the Half Inch Circle type. And you can see it's set to Elevation Mark Body Circle Filled Arrow and View Name.

But if we change that from Filled Arrow and View Name to Mark Body Circle Filled Arrow, and then you've got Mark Body Circle Detail Number and View Name or Mark Body Circle Detail Number. And so we have a couple of these different options, and you might want to take a look at a couple of them and see which one you like. I'm going to go with the Filled Arrow option and hit OK.

And then we get all the way out of it, and you can see we're just left with a much cleaner setup in here. But as you develop your own standards for the work that you're going to do, it's worth taking a look at these and picking the one that you want to use. So there are a couple of things that we're going to look at here.

First off is I picked this, which would be our North Elevation within this room here. And you can see that this is the line that represents the elevation. So anything that is within that is going to be cut.

So our partition will be shown as kind of like a vertical piece here. And then it's looking out to this point here. So I always bring these in just by habit.

But we can go through and kind of do the same thing. So this is a good elevation here. This was actually the one I was going to be worried about because I thought it might be back here for some reason.

But it seems like it came in at a good spot. We'll just kind of tidy it up. If you were to do something like this, keep in mind that you won't see this back wall, which sort of defeats the purpose, right? We want to be able to see the back wall here.

And then I'm just going to work my way around and tidy up these elevations, making sure that we still see our back walls on these. And then the last one here, I'll just bring it in to that point. And that's the elevations that we want to see here.

And so now when I go into my Project Browser, you can see under Elevations, we have another one that's been added for Interior Elevations. And we have Elevation A, B, C, and D that have been included as part of our model now because we added that Elevation Tag and in turn created those views. So what we can do is just start putting these on a sheet.

So I'm going to put the first one on first and just double-check that it is set to the right scale, which is good. And it looks relatively decent, and that's fine. So I can just start putting the rest of them.

This one here is going to be our Men's North Elevation. So I'll go ahead and rename them as we go just so we can keep track. And then I'll put B on.

And just like we did with the wall sections, we want to be lining them up based on the view, not the view title. And then because we are good Revit users, we'll line up the view title and then place the views in a way that makes them look nice on the sheet. And so remember, I mentioned we might need to tidy things up a little bit because we are going to have two rows of elevations—one for the Men's Room and one for the Women's Room.

So that's just something to keep in mind as we progress here. So this one we're going to rename to be the Men's East Elevation. So I'll go ahead and rename that one Men's East.

And you can see here those numbers are automatically popping in, which is nothing new to us because we've been using software for a little while now. But still, the next one here is going to be the elevation for the South, which is this guy right here—View Number 5. And doing the same thing, just getting it lined up, adjusting that view title, and making sure everything's nicely placed on the sheet.

And then I'll rename it. And then our last view is going to be the West Elevation for the Men's Room, and I'll adjust that view title and rename it.

And we've been renaming in the Project Browser, but as you know, we can do that here as well. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and save here. And then I'm going to pause the video and do the Women's Restroom, which is something I'd like you to do as an exercise on your own.

And we're going for the same setup. When I'm back here, you'll see all of the Women's Restroom elevations ready for you. All right, so I've got the views placed here and I just need to go through and rename them.

But there are a couple of things that we're going to take a look at that we need to do. You can see the section tags are showing, so that'll be a view template item. And there are probably a few other view template things that we're going to want to do.

We're going to need to take a look at that. But I'll just go through and rename these and get them all set up and ready to go. So with the names set up all correctly—and I noticed I had one out of order—so I kind of flipped them around because I wanted the numbers to go 7,8, 9,10 like that.

Just like we have 3,4, 5,6. And so I swapped them around, and now we can jump into one and adjust some of the view template items. Then I'll show you a tip and a trick on how we can make the elevations look nice with the thick black border around them. And then we can get into the process of starting to do the annotations and dimensions and all the other tags.