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

Color-Coded Plans and Sections

Color Fill Schemes Creating Presentation Plans and Sections
Color Fill Schemes
Color fill schemes are applied to views on a per-view basis, and are exposed as an instance property of plan and area plan views. To access and create color fill schemes, choose Settings Color Fill Schemes (Figure 12.11), or you can get to the same dialog from the View Properties dialog. In the resulting dialog, you see a list of schemes on the left and all the rules and colors for those schemes on the right. Each scheme colors one parameter and all its values. For each unique value, a unique color and/or hatch pattern can be assigned. For example, if you choose to color by name, the table fills with all the room names in the project and assigns a color to each. Clicking the button in the Color column allows you to choose your own colors. While Revit will create new colors for you automatically with each new value, you are free to define your own colors, and can even save these into a template for use in other projects.
Figure 12.11 The Edit Color Scheme dialog
Information in this dialog is also used to fill out color-fill legends, which are essentially graph-ical tags of the color scheme and are placed next to the plans to explain the color coding. The legend shows the title, values, and color swatches for the scheme applied to a view. To place a legend in a view, use the Color Scheme Legend command in the Drafting tab of the Design bar. The color-scheme legend allows you to edit its type properties to control the visibility of the title, swatch size, fonts, and color (Figure 12.12).
Figure 12.12 Color-scheme legend properties
Note that the order of the values in the legend coincides with the order set up in the Edit Color Scheme dialog. The default behavior lists each entry alphabetically, but you’re free to change that by using the Move Up/Move Down buttons when a row is selected. Doing so simultaneously updates the color-scheme legend: Another important graphical control of the legend is the Values Displayed parameter. This gives you the option to show only values in the legend that are also in the view (By View). In a project where the number of departments and room names can be large, and they aren’t used in all floor plans, this is a great way to focus the legend on what is important to that view. Many designers do not want to display all the color swatches, but this is ultimately up to your own personal taste, and what the drawings are intended to convey. Choosing the All option shows all values used in the project, whether used in the view or not. Creating Predefined Color Schemes If you’ve created a list of room names, departments, and a carefully chosen color palette of colors that are likely to be reused in future projects, you can transfer the color scheme from project to project and into your office template. This transfers all the values and colors, even if the project you’re transferring to doesn’t contain that value.
Transferring Color Fill Schemes between Projects In an existing project, you can add room names and departments and assign them colors in the Color Fill Schemedialog. To reuse the same values and colors from the project in other projects, use the following strategy: 1. Open the source project, and then open the project into which you want to transfer. 2.Choose File Transfer Project Standards. Select Color Fill Schemes in the Select Items To Copy dialog: 3. Values are transferred into the project. You can then access the list of values from the room’sElement Properties dialog: This saves you from having to manually retype all these commonly used values, and the colors will beconsistent from project to project.
Colored Sections In architectural practice, section views are often color-coded as well, showing the stacking of various functional zones (Figure 12.13). In Revit, you can’t get automated coloring of the rooms in section as you can in plan, so you need to use more traditional, methods to manually draw colored filled regions and assign color to each region. Follow these steps: 1. Open a section view. 2.From the Drafting tab, choose the Filled Region tool (Revit’s definition for Hatch), and click the Region Properties button on the Design bar. Select Edit/New, and then duplicate the type—give it a name like Transparent Fill. Change the Fill Pattern setting to Solid Fill and Background to Transparent, and choose a color. 3. In the view, create the filled region boundary by tracing model elements. 4.Finish the sketch. 5.Continue adding filled regions to the view. If you don’t want to make a new type of region for each and every color you use, you can use element overrides to change the color of each region: