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

Schedules

Making a Simple Schedule (Rentable Area) Placing the Schedule on a Sheet Additional Schedule Capabilities
Placing the Schedule on a Sheet
Now that we’ve created the schedule for our program, we need to put it on a sheet. As we’ve men-tioned, schedules work like any other view. To place the schedule on a sheet, simply drag and drop it from the Project Browser onto the sheet you wish to place it on. One of the nice things about schedules is that you can actually place them on multiple sheets and they will always provide the most current information. What we want to create is a set of sheets we can provide to our client that demonstrate our program for each floor graphically and in list form. When we are finished, we will have an 11 ×17 presen-tation sheet that looks like Figure 13.24, with a floor plan and schedule for each floor.
Sorting Your Drawing List The drawing list can also be used as a sheet index to the documents. Because Revit sorts sheets alpha-betically, it’s typically not desirable to prepare the sheet index in the traditional fashion, with civilsheets first, then architectural, and so on. One way to customize sheet sorting is to add a field tothe schedule and number the sheets so civil is 1, architectural 2, and so on. You can then sort by thatnumbered column.
Figure 13.24 Finished presentation sheet with area plan and schedule on it
Expand the sheets in the Project Browser and find the sheet 01 – First Floor Program. Expand the rentable area plans and drag and drop the Level 1 Plan onto the sheet. You will notice that the plan will be much larger than the sheet since we made the area plan at 1/8 scale originally. Right-click on the plan and choose Activate View from the context menu. In this view, you want to do two things: Change the scale, and turn off some of the unnecessary annotations. So, first, adjust the scale of the drawing to be 1/16. = 1´-0. (1:200). Second, open the Visibility Graphics dialog (by typing VG on the keyboard or choosing View Visibility/Graphics). On the Annotations tab, turn off visibility for the following categories:. 1. Elevation tags 2.Grids. 3. Reference planes. 4. Section tags Once the view is resized and the display reconfigured, place the plan at the upper portion of the sheet. Drag and drop the rentable area schedule onto the same sheet. When it first appears, it will look something like Figure 13.25. We will need to do a bit of rearranging to get the schedule to fit the sheet properly.
Figure 13.25 Unformatted schedule placed on sheet
There are two different ways to modify the schedule directly from the sheet. On the upper portion of the schedule header, there is one blue triangle for each column. By simply drag-ging them left or right, you can resize the width of each column. You will notice some of our longer room names have wrapped to the next line. Grab the left triangle and drag it to the right to lengthen the Name field. Note that this will also shorten the schedule by removing the wrapped lines The other tool you can use to modify how the schedule fits on the sheet is the squiggle, located in the center of the schedule. Clicking this tool will split the schedule into two col-umns. It is important to note that you cannot choose where this split occurs. However, it will give you two separate columns that you can now drag independently of each other. Now that the columns fit within the space we have remaining, we can locate them to the right-hand portion of the sheet. The sections of the schedules can be subdivided as many times as you need and each section will subdivide independent of the others. Your final sheet will look like Figure 13.24.