On the Modify | Detail Items tab, click the Edit Family button, as shown near the top of Figure 12.16.. On the Mode panel of the Modify | Detail Items tab, click the Edit Boundary butto
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Well, the soldier course is in place, but that fat line weight is horrendous! It would be nice if everything that came out of the Revit box looked nice and met our specifications, but alas, that is not the case It is time to modify this compo-nent to make it look presentable
Modifying a detail component
Right about now is when every CAD/BIM manager around the globe raises an eyebrow—for good reason Revit allows you to modify a component by actually opening the file! But don’t worry; you have to issue a Save As to save the detail
If even this is a concern, we will address proven BIM management methods in the last chapter (Chapter 23) of this book For now, just follow along, and we will talk about management later
The objective of the following procedure is to create a texture on the brick detail and to use a line weight that the user can control in the model
1 If you still have a command running, click the Modify button to the
left of the Ribbon, or press the Esc key
2 Select the Bricks-Top family that you just placed.
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shown near the top of Figure 12.16
4 The next dialog may ask you if you want to open this file to edit it
Click Yes if you get the message
F i g u R e 1 2 1 6 Click Yes to open Bricks-Top for editing after selecting the
Bricks-Top family.
The detail component family is now open It is time to operate, Doctor The next
set of procedures will focus on modifying the linework of the brick and adding what
is called a filled region
Modifying Filled Regions
A filled region is similar in nature to a masking region in that you proceed in
apply-ing both in the same manner A filled region, however, contains a hatch pattern
that is visible when the region is completed This is how we hatch in Revit It takes
the place of the conventional hatch command found in AutoCAD and MicroStation
The objective of the next procedure is to modify the filled region that comprises
the brick We will also use the region’s outline to define the perimeter and the
tex-ture of the brick itself
1 Select one of the heavy lines that comprise the outline of the brick, as
shown in Figure 12.17 Revit will indicate that this is a filled region,
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2 On the Mode panel of the Modify | Detail Items tab, click the Edit
Boundary button, as shown in Figure 12.17
F i g u R e 1 2 1 7 Click the Edit Boundary button on the Mode panel after
selecting the filled region.
3 Select all four lines that make up the brick (the long horizontal lines)
and delete them, as shown in Figure 12.18
F i g u R e 1 2 1 8 Deleting the four lines
N O T E as you may notice, manipulating lines is almost identical to
autoCaD in terms of the process in changing a line’s layer You select the
line, then change that line’s line type in the type Selector
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Figure 12.19
5 In the Properties dialog, select Detail Items from the Type Selector.
6 Draw a series of jagged lines, as shown in Figure 12.19.
7 Do the same for the bottom
8 Draw the right and the left straight lines back in.
F i g u R e 1 2 1 9 Adding a texture to the brick family
9 After you finish sketching the texture in, click the Edit Type button in
the Properties dialog
10 Change the background from Opaque to Transparent, as shown in
Figure 12.20
11 Click OK.
12 Click Finish Edit Mode.
13 Select the mortar joint to the left of the brick, as shown in Figure 12.21.
14 On the Mode panel, click the Edit Boundary button.
15 Select the arced lines.
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17 On the Mode panel, click Finish Edit Mode, and your brick should
look like Figure 12.22
F i g u R e 1 2 2 0 Changing the background to Transparent
N O T E By putting all of the lines on the Detail Items line type, you are telling revit that you do not want to specify a line weight here, but rather let the user specify the line weight by changing the Detail Items in the Object properties dialog after you load the detail back into the model
F i g u R e 1 2 2 1 Editing the mortar joint filled region and then placing the lines on
Detail Items
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The next step is to add shading underneath the brick pattern To do this, we
will create an entirely new filled region and add it to the brick by tracing over
the existing filled region
1 On the Detail panel of the Home tab, click the Filled Region button,
as shown in Figure 12.23
F i g u R e 1 2 2 3 Click the Filled Region button on the Detail panel.
2 In the Properties dialog, click the Edit Type button and change the
Type to Solid Fill - Black, as shown in Figure 12.24
F i g u R e 1 2 2 4 Changing the region to Solid Fill - Black
3 Click Duplicate.
4 Call the new region Light Shade.
5 Click OK.
6 In the Fill Pattern row, click into the Solid Fill [Drafting] field You
will see a […] button in the right corner Click it
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Solid Fill is selected, as shown in Figure 12.25, and click OK
F i g u R e 1 2 2 5 Select the Solid Fill pattern and click OK.
8 In the Color row, you will see a button that is labeled Black It also
has a little black box icon included Pick the black box
9 In the Color dialog, click the Gray tile, as shown in Figure 12.26 (The
color is actually RGB 192-192-192.)
F i g u R e 1 2 2 6 Selecting the gray color (RGB 192-192-192)
10 Click OK twice.
11 On the Draw panel, click the Pick Lines button, as shown in
Figure 12.27
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press the Tab key
13 When you press Tab, all of the lines you are trying to trace are
high-lighted After the lines are all highlighted, pick any one of the lines,
as shown in Figure 12.27 Revit will draw the region based on these
points
14 On the Mode panel, click Finish Edit Mode, and then press Esc Your
brick should look like Figure 12.28
15 When the Filled Region is in place, select it by clicking on the
boundary
16 On the Arrange panel, click the Send To Back button, as shown near
the top of Figure 12.29
F i g u R e 1 2 2 7 Press Tab to select the chain of lines, as shown here.
F i g u R e 1 2 2 8 The solid pattern will cover the previous pattern We will fix this in a
moment.
O You may find that nothing happens when you press tab
If this is the case, click into the view in any location revit just needs to focus
on the view You can also hold down the wheel button on your mouse to pan a little this will also switch the focus from the Options bar
to the view window.
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F i g u R e 1 2 3 0 The finished brick
17 Press Esc Your brick should now look like Figure 12.30.
18 Click the Save icon.
19 Save the file to a separate location other than the root folder The file is also available at the book’s web page: www.sybex.com/go/ revit2011ner From there you can browse to Chapter 12 and find the
file called Bricks-Top.rfa
20 On the Family Editor panel on the Create tab, click the Load Into
Project button, as shown in Figure 12.31
21 Click to overwrite the family, but do not check Overwrite Parameter
Values Of Existing Types
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Notice that when you clicked the Save icon, Revit did not just save over the
origi-nal file You are forced to do a Save As You have one of three choices here:
If the file is not write-protected and you have administrative access
to the original folder, you can simply save over the original file (Do
I need to mention that you had better make sure this is what you want to do?)
Save the file as a different file altogether in either the same directory
or somewhere else
Do not save the file at all and load it into your project Revit will
still update the project with the changes even if you did not save the family file
You can even close out of the family file and not save any changes Your
model will still hold the changes If you choose to edit the file at a later
date, you can select the family in the model and click Edit Family Revit will
open a copy of the modified family
22 Go back to your model to verify that your detail looks like
Figure 12.32
23 Save the model.
F i g u R e 1 2 3 1 The Load Into Project button
The next group of procedures focuses on editing the bricks used in the
repeat-ing detail We certainly want the same face texture, and it would be nice if there
was a mortar joint between them