Color-Coded Plans and Sections |
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| Color, when associated with a key, is an effective way to signify meaning. In the context of architec-tural expression, the use of color is often used to convey how space is used, or intended to be used. With Revit,you can use color to differentiate one object from another to communicate ideas about usage, size, importance, and cost—to name a few. By assigning parameter values to colors and pat-terns, you can quickly make views that show how a building is spatially organized (Figure 12.10). For example, you can create a department floor plan by assigning departments to all your rooms and then apply a color fill scheme to the view that changes the color of rooms based on what depart-ment they’re assigned to. |
Figure 12.10
Use color and parameters to generate color-fill plans. |
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| To make a color-coded plan, first duplicate an existing plan view. The colors are based on the room element, so you need to place rooms in the plan before you can create a room color scheme. You can also create new area plans, and use area separation lines to divide space at a more macro scale, and then assign values to each area that can then be colored with a color fill scheme. You can select any room and access its element properties. All of the properties in the Identity group can be color-coded. Using project parameters, you can also add custom parameters to rooms. In the View Properties dialog of the plan view, you can assign a color-fill scheme to the view. Clicking that parameter takes you to the Color Fill Schemes dialog, where you can set up various schemes. What-ever is selected in that dialog is applied to the view, and the rooms become colored. |
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