Discover the steps to configure appropriate views in preparation for creating a new edition of a building plan using Revit. Learn how to duplicate existing views, rename them, set the scope box, and adjust the phase and phase filter settings for better project management.
Key Insights
- The process begins by duplicating the existing level one, level two, and roof plan views. These duplicates are then renamed accordingly, typically using an N to signify they are part of the new project phase.
- Next, the scope box is set to define the area of the building plan. Adjustments are made to its location to ensure it does not clip the plan, and the scope box is then assigned to all three duplicated views.
- Finally, the phase and phase filter settings are adjusted for the new views. The phase is set to New Construction and the phase filter is set to Previous + New, ensuring that all new elements will be categorized accordingly and anything demolished will not be displayed.
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The first thing that we're going to want to do is make sure that we have the appropriate views to work with for when we create our new edition. And to do that, I'm going to start with these level one, level two and roof plan views, and I'm going to make duplicates of them and then set the right phase and phase filter for each one of them. So the first thing is going to be to take level one, right-click Duplicate View and select Duplicate.
'Cause again, there's nothing really on there that we're trying to keep, and then I can rename it. And we'll call this just like the other ones, except for we'll use an N instead of a D or an E. So new level one, and I'll do the same thing with level two and the roof. Right-click Duplicate and then rename it.
And so what you saw was when I went to rename it, it asked if I wanted to rename the corresponding views or levels in this case. And what it did is it was asking if we wanted to rename this guy here. So notice that says roof and this one says roof, but this says new roof.
And being new roof means that it's just another view that's associated with that particular level, but it's not the one that's actually assigning it. So what I try to do is the ones that are actually levels, I try to leave those preserved here. And that gives me less of a chance of accidentally renaming it.
And then ending up with a crazy name for this guy here. Okay. So the next thing we'll do is we'll set the scope box, which is this guy here.
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And you can see it's pretty close to the building, and what we're doing is — I'll just kind of test it out. We're actually going to have a wall that's 10 and a half feet from that grid line. And so you can see it is pretty far out there, so I might as well just take it now and extend it a little ways just so that we do have the room.
And I'll do the same thing on the south side as well, because we don't want our view to clip our plan in any way. And so just knowing that I'm going to be 10 and a half feet or so, I can make that adjustment pretty easily. And then I can go ahead and assign the scope box to all three of these views.
If I select one and hold down Shift, it'll allow me to select all of them. Then I can go into my properties until I find Scope Box, and you can see it says None. I can set that to Scope Box 1. And now it's been set to all three of those views.
So that work we did originally to get them all that way is now paying off because we don't have to try to do the crop region and all that stuff like we did before. Another thing I can do with them all selected — you can see they're still selected — is go in and change my phase and phase filter.
I clicked on this, so I had to redo the selection, and I know that for sure because it says Views and there's three right there. That means I have three selected. So I can change the phase to New Construction and the phase filter to Previous Plus New.
So "previous" means the existing phase, and "new" means all of the new work. So anything that's demolished is going to go away. As we discussed before, when we look at the phases again from the Manage tab > Phases, using the Previous Plus New filter means all the new elements will display by category, which is exactly what we want.
Existing elements will be overridden, based on these settings here. Demolished elements will not be displayed because they're gone now. So what I'll do is I'll just hit OK.
Okay. Now, when we look at, say, our new level one, just as a test, if I draw a wall — anything but a curtain wall, really — you can see the difference.
You can see here the new one is based on the by-category settings, meaning these object style settings, which can be overridden, and also by the visibility/graphic overrides per view. But by the time we get to this class, we're all experts at that, so we know those things. And the existing is overridden, as we discussed in a previous lesson, based on what we see here in the graphic overrides.
Okay. Now that we've got everything set up, we're just about ready to start building the model.
