Customize sections

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Here's a hint. Sections are Elevations. Elevations are Sections.

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The only difference is where our Cut Plane is.

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What I'd like to do here, similar to Elevations, is create some Sections and Callouts,

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with graphics ranging from Hidden Line production to Realistic.

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Let's jump into Revit. I'm going to open my Workshared Architectural model, and I'm going to override.

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Okay, let's do this. In our project browser under "Floor Plans", let's go to "Presentation First Floor".

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Let's zoom in on our Pharmacy 1502. I'm going to create a Callout.

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Problem is I think I have Callouts turned off.

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Okay, under "Visibility Graphic Overrides", let's click the "Edit" button right here or type in "VG".

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That's how all the cool kids do it. Go to "Annotation Categories", ha-ha.

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Find "Callouts" and turn them on. Click "Apply", then click “OK”.

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On the View tab, click "Callout". Pick a window around this area.

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Over into about here, that's fine. Hit "ESC" a few times.

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Select your Callout box. Notice that it highlights all of these grips, just like this grip right here.

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Pick it and drag it over to about here. Zoom into here.

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I'm gonna put a little elbow on it. So, pick this and click the elbow.

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What's annoying is it's hard to get it perfect. So, zoom in on it even further, now we can pull that down, it's going to straighten it out.

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Okay, I'm not gonna lie. I can't stand having these shadows turned on.

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Let's turn our shadows off in this view. And we're gonna turn them on in our enlarged pharmacy plan.

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But even before we do that, I don't like the graphics of this. Let's go to the Manage tab.

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Let's go to Object Styles. Now globally, this is how all of our elements are gonna look in our model.

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I want to go to Annotation Categories and find Callout Boundary.

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Notice that we can drill into that and even have Callout leader line.

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I don't mind Dash Dot but, boy, I want that boundary to be like 5, very thick.

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Callout Leader Line, let's go with a 2. And Callout Head, let's go with a 2.

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This is how we make our plans look better aesthetically. Click Apply. Click “OK”.

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That's a lot better. Let's double click on our Callout bubble. I don't want to see these two items.

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So, let's go back to Visibility Graphics for this view.

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Now, remember, if you go to Manage Objects Styles, these are global for your entire model.

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If we go to Visibility Graphic Overrides, this is simply overriding the view we're in.

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So, click Edit, scroll down to Site and just turn it off completely.

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By doing that, I'm gonna turn off my Project Base Point and my Survey Point.

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Click Apply, click "OK". Here we go. I'll keep the shadows on here.

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Set my scale. The 1/4" equals a foot.

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Excellent. Now, what I'd like to do is take a Section right through here. So, I'm going to click on Section.

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I'm gonna cut a Section right through here. Notice that we can't see it.

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Sections are turned off. That's okay.

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Type VG, let's go to Annotation Categories, find Sections and turn those back on. I'm going back and forth on purpose.

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In the next video, we're gonna actually save these settings somewhere. Click Apply, click "OK".

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There's a Section here already. Fine. I'm going to create another Section right here.

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Perfect. Before I open that up, I'm gonna rename my presentation First Floor.

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I'm gonna click into here, I'm gonna call it – PHARMACY, all caps.

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Then hit Enter. I'm gonna double click on my Section Marker.

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My scale is 1/4" equals a foot. I'm going to change that to 1/2" equals a foot.

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Now I'm gonna type VG for Visibility Graphics, Annotation Categories.

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I'm gonna turn my Levels off completely. Click Apply, click "OK".

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Now I am going to select my crop region. I'm going to drag that down to about here.

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I can drag my bottom one up a little bit.

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Notice I have a Building Pad, I can turn that off individually.

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So, I'm gonna select my Building Pad, right click, Hide in View, Elements.

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The floor is in our model, we have a structural floor. I'm gonna turn our floor off.

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I'm going to right click on that floor, Hide in View, Elements. Perfect.

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Change your Detail Level to Fine. That way we see door knobs, we see details and walls.

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Notice what's nice though, is when we cut another Section or Elevation, we can see other Sections and Elevations.

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That's the coordination I'm talking about. Okay, this is perfect.

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I don't like the name of it, though. Section 1 is no good.

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Let's scroll down to View Name, let's call it PHARMACY SECTION.

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We're facing East. Perfect. Click Apply. Okay, we've got it.

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Now, it would be nice if we weren't just willy-nilly turning on and off elements in each view.

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In the next video, we'll learn how to become more efficient with that workflow.