Revit Architecture 2008

Autodesk Revit Tutorials, Revit Families, BIM Revit

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Home CHAPTER 1 Intrduction What to expect from BIM Where can you go from here The bottom ine CHAPTER 2 Introduction Working with Revit Parametric Elements The Revit User Interface Using the Project Browser The Bottom Line CHAPTER 3 Introduction Selecting, Changing, and Replacing Elements Editing Elements Interactively Other Useful Tools The Bottom Line CHAPTER 4 Introduction Starting a Project with a Custom Template Settings for Graphic Consistency Creating Custom Annotation Tags Creating Custom Title Blocks Creating a Custom Title Block with the Family Editor The Bottom Line CHAPTER 5 Introduction Wall Types Floor and Roof Types Ceiling Types Door and Window Types Stair Types Types and Type Catalogs Graphic Overrides of Host Objects with Complex Structure Additional Global Project Settings The Bottom Line CHAPTER 6 Introduction Modeling with Revit Principles of Modeling in Revit Where Can You Go From Here? The Bottom Line CHAPTER 7 Introduction Massing Studies The Bottom Line CHAPTER 8 Introduction Conceptual Design and Early Studies The Bottom Line CHAPTER 9 Introduction Revit Design Options The Bottom Line CHAPTER 10 Introduction Modeling Parametric 3D Families Choosing the Right Family Template Types of Families Smart Workflow: Nesting One Family into Another Parametric Arrays in the Family Editor Encoding Design Rules Building a Parametric 3D Family The Bottom Line CHAPTER 11 Introduction Basic Walls: Advanced Modeling Techniques Curtain Walls: Advanced Design Techniques Roofs Roofs and Slabs: Advanced Shape Editing Railings and Fences The Bottom Line CHAPTER 12 Introduction Drawings with Shadows Color-Coded Plans and Sections Elevations That Convey Depth Working with Perspective Views Rendering Creating Animated Walkthroughs Exporting to Other Formats The Bottom Line CHAPTER 13 Introduction Preliminary Design Tools Calculating Areas Schedules Using Schedules for Preliminary Cost Estimates The Bottom Line CHAPTER 14 Introduction Sustainability in Architecture Preliminary Design Tools Tracking Recycled Materials Window Surface Percentage vs. Room Area Energy Analysis The Bottom Line CHAPTER 15 Introduction Annotating Your Views Displaying Information about Rooms Schedule Keys Tags Shared Parameters Text and Keynotes The Bottom Line

Creating Custom Title Block

While you’re building a rich BIM model and adding more detail and intelligence in each phase of the project, you also have to document each phase and deliver drawings (sheets) for others. No matter whether you share this information digitally (DWF, PDF) or via printed documents, you need to place information that is company specific (logo and contact information), project specific, and sheet specific on those sheets. Consistency between the sheets is essential. Sheets in Revit can be created in the project environment. Their creation starts with the selection of a title block that can have any shape, graphic layout, and size. Figure 4.40 shows a couple of examples; you’ll create the second in this section’s exercise. Title blocks are external families—you can create any kind of a title block in the Family Editor and add project-, sheet-, or company-specific information on it, both textual and images. (You can include your logo, an image of your project, and any other graphic.) Companies have different title block styles for document-sharing with different parties
Figure 4.40 Different title blocks: left for presentations, right for construction documents
To use the title block families you’ve created in the Family Editor on a sheet, they need to be loaded in the project. If you’ve created office standards, the project templates are the best place to store title block families you created on your own. There is no need to create final sheets in the template file—loading the title block families is sufficient. However, different offices have different strategies