Customizing elevations

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Similar to creating Plans, we need to create Elevations.

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What's awesome about the BIM Revit approach is,

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we don't need to toil with a bunch of convoluted layers just to change the visibility of a couple random 2D lines.

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What I'd like to do here is create some elevations with graphics ranging from hidden line production to realistic.

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So, I'm gonna jump into Revit.

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Of course, I'm gonna open my model.

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It's a local model, so I'm gonna click "OK". And I will override that copy.

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Perfect. Go to your Presentation First Floor Plan in your project browser under Floor Plans.

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I'm gonna zoom in here. I'm not sure what the exact name of this room is, so I'm just gonna tag this one room.

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Click "Tag Room". Aha, it's the pharmacy. I'm gonna put my little tag right here.

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Hit "ESC" a couple of times. Now I want to create some elevations of my pharmacy.

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To do that, go to the "View" tab, go to "Elevation".

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Elevation is Interior Elevation.

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I'm not a huge fan of how that looks, so I'm going to click "Edit Type".

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I'll click into where it says "1/2" Square". I'm gonna click this Browse button right here.

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I don't like 1/2" Square. I'm gonna go 1/2" Circle. Elevation Marked Body Circle Filled Arrow.

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Notice I can click the drop-down here and select whatever family is loaded into my project.

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If you work at a firm with specific CAD standards, they'll have your firm's CAD standard elevation markers loaded in.

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In this case, I'll just grab this one, though. Click “OK”. Oh, that looks so much better.

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Now, notice that when we come near a wall, it will point itself to that wall, which is pretty cool. Let's just point it upward.

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Now hit "ESC" a few times, select the arrow or what they call the Target. Click that.

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I like that it stops it at the wall, but I do like to see sections through the wall.

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So, I'm going to click on here, I'm just gonna drag this over,

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so I can see the section of that wall essentially to the outside of the wall.

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We might as well show this. It's looking all the way back.

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It's not going to really change the view when we drag this one.

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But by doing that, it's going to speed up the view a little bit within reason.

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Let's drag this down till we hit the back of that wall.

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Hit Escape a few times. Let's double click on it, open it up. Not a big fan of the scale.

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Don't like all the levels that are in there. Let's increase our scale, instead of 3/16", let's go to 1/2" equals a foot.

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The Structural model's kind of showing up. So, type VG for Visibility Graphics.

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Go to Revit Links, uncheck Structural.

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Click Apply, click "OK". I love Revit.

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I had no idea the ground floor was so much higher than this level here. Pretty cool, huh.

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Okay, so I'm gonna select Lower Level. I'm going to click Show Bubble here.

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I'm gonna click this bubble. But first I'm going to click on 2D.

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The reason I'm doing that is I don't want this to affect the level in any other view.

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Once I click 2D and drag this over,

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I know that it's only going to show up like this in this view.

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I'm gonna drag these two over a little bit.

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Now I'm going to select Lower Level again, and I'm going uncheck that.

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Perfect. Let's set our Detail Level to Fine. I'm gonna select this wall and it's a basic wall.

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So, whoever modeled that wall didn't put a lot of detail in it. But that's fine.

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Notice that if we select our crop region, we can drag this up.

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I like to do that just to make sure we can see that there's a ceiling in there,

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and we can actually drag these over a little bit more just to make sure we can see everything.

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Ah ha! That's why we can't see it. Let's grab this crap region and drag it down.

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See if they put some kind of floor in there.

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Okay, Kind of generic looking, but that's pretty cool.

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Now, let's go back down to Presentation First Floor.

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Notice that that says Elevation 1A. Not a fan.

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So, let's go back to Elevation 1A and let's just rename this. So let's scroll down till we find View Name.

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All caps, it's called FIRST FLOOR PHARMACY NORTH.

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Now we can close out of this, and what I want to do is I want to make three more views.

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Notice that when we select this round bubble,

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we can turn on this one, we can turn on this elevation, we can turn on this elevation.

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Perfect. Now I'm gonna open the West Elevation by double clicking here.

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Let's rename this to FIRST FLOOR PHARMACY WEST.

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I'm not going to change any settings here, though. I'm just gonna keep it like this.

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Put that here, double click on this. This will be FIRST FLOOR PHARMACY SOUTH.

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And let's go to our East. Call this FIRST FLOOR PHARMACY EAST, Apply.

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Perfect. Now I want to go back to my FIRST FLOOR PHARMACY NORTH.

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I can do that too by going down to Elevations, Interior Elevations and drilling into that. Perfect.

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First Floor Pharmacy North. I want to change my Visual Style to Realistic.

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I just want to turn my shadows on. It's kind of funky looking, but that's okay.

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Now, if we go to South, we've got this view here. Since this is 1/2" equals a foot, let's set our Detail Level to Fine.

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Let's grab our crop region, let's pull it over.

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Let's pull it up and pull it down to see that funky floor.

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Well, a little different. We can see our Structural model in here now.

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In this view, I just want to turn off my levels in the Structural model. But I want to show the Structural foundation.

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So, I'm gonna go toe Visibility Graphics by typing VG.

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I'm gonna go to Revit Links, keep Structural on.

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But I'm gonna go to Host View, in my Basics tab, I'm gonna click on Custom.

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Now go to Annotation Categories. Instead of by Host View, we'll go Custom.

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Let's go to Levels and turn those off.

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So, there we go. That's how we make specific elevations with different levels of detail.

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And also remember, this is Revit. When we alter elements in our model, these views are automatically updated.