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Now you can… modify and add line weights to be used in both the 3D and 2D E E environment add linework in a drafting view as well as a 2D and 3D view E E create both masking regions and

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F i g u R e 1 2 8 2 The Set Work Plane button on the Work Plane panel of the

Home tab

F i g u R e 1 2 8 3 Click the Set button.

4 Click OK.

5 Pick the roof, as shown in Figure 12.84.

6 On the Model panel of the Home tab, click the Model Line button.

F i g u R e 1 2 8 4 Picking the roof Your work plane is now set to slope with

the roof Anything you draw will be on this sloping plane.

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7 In the Properties dialog under Line Style, click the Medium Lines line

type, as shown in Figure 12.85

F i g u R e 1 2 8 5 Click the Medium Lines button under Line Style in the

Properties dialog.

8 On the Draw panel, click the Start-End-Radius Arc button, as shown

in Figure 12.86

9 Draw an arc from the two endpoints shown in Figure 12.86 Make the

radius 80′–0″

10 Go to a 3D view You can still see the arc.

11 Save the model.

F i g u R e 1 2 8 6 Drawing an 80′–0″ radius arc

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It is a good idea to keep this feature in mind This drafting tool will become quite useful when it comes to sketching in 3D There are going to be many situ-ations when you use this little nugget!

Are You experienced?

Now you can…

modify and add line weights to be used in both the 3D and 2D E

E environment add linework in a drafting view as well as a 2D and 3D view E

E create both masking regions and filled regions to provide hatching to E

E

a model mask an area so you can draft over it E

E add detail components to the model and create repeating details E

E modify detail families to suit your needs E

E create a group to be used in multiple drafting views and change the E

E group and update each copy in each view create a new Drafting view to draft from scratch and import a CaD E

E file into a drafting view

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creating specific views and Match Lines

As you can see, Revit is all about the views In fact, by using Revit, not only are you replacing the application you use for drafting, but you are also replacing your existing file storage system as well This is largely because we are now using one model, and we are simply using views of that model for our project navigation

Duplicating views





Creating dependent views





adding match lines





Using view templates





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duplicating views

That being said, I wanted to dedicate an entire chapter to project navigation Although you have steadily gained experience in this area, we can expand on much more to round out your Revit expertise

The first item we will tackle in this chapter is the process of duplicating a view

to create another Although it is a straightforward procedure, a lot is riding on the hope that you proceed with this function correctly As you are about to find out, this command is not a simple copy-and-paste operation

Revit will change how you organize a project You will no longer open a file and save it as another file so you can make changes without affecting the original

As you know, Revit is all-inclusive in terms of files Well, there is only one From that one file, there are views that reside within the Project Browser

Of course I am not telling you anything you have not learned If you have gone through the book from page 1, you have already gained experience in cre-ating views (especially in Chapter 3, “Crecre-ating Views”) If you are just jumping

to this chapter, you most certainly have had some exposure to view creation The reason this topic is broken into two chapters is to help you gain a more in-depth understanding of how you can manipulate and organize views

Now let’s duplicate some views! To begin, open the file you have been follow-ing along with If you did not complete the previous chapter, go to the book’s

web page at www.sybex.com/go/revit2011ner From there you can browse to

Chapter 13 and find the file called NER-30.rvt The objective of the following procedure is to create a furniture plan of Level

1, then turn off the furniture on the original Level 1

1 In the Project Browser, find the Level 1 floor plan and right-click.

2 Select Duplicate View ➢ Duplicate With Detailing, as shown in Figure 13.1

3 You now have a view called Copy of Level 1 Right-click on it in the

Project Browser

4 Rename it to Level 1 Furniture Plan.

5 Make sure you are still in Level 1 In the Level 1 view window, type

VG This will bring up the Visibility/Graphics Overrides window.

6 In the Visibility column, deselect Casework, Furniture, and Furniture

Systems

7 Click OK.

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F i g u R e 1 3 1 Right-clicking on the Level 1 Floor Plan in the Project Browser

Now any time you add furniture or casework, it will only show up in the

furni-ture plan You do not need to deal with a layer or display configuration

The ability to create a copy of a view and then modify its visibility graphics to

display certain items is a critical function within Revit Another similar task is

also available: creating coordinated match line divisions in a model by creating

dependent views

creating dependent views

You create a dependent view in much the same way you duplicate a view In fact,

you are duplicating a view The function of a dependent view is to “nest” a

dupli-cate of a view within the host view (or the view you are making the duplidupli-cate

of) This nested view is dependent on the host view in terms of visibility graphics

and View Properties You can have multiple dependent views categorized under

the host view The reason we create dependent views is to add match lines Yes,

you could simply duplicate a view and move its crop region, but when you have

dependent views—as you will see in Chapter 14, “Creating Sheets and Printing”

—you can tag those views in a specific way for Revit to keep track of the sheets

they are on Dependent views also give the advantage of making your Project

Browser much less cluttered, without unnecessary floor plans

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the difference between choos-ing Duplicate With Detailing and Duplicate is that Duplicate With Detailing will also copy all the tags and annotations you have in the original view Duplicate will only copy the geometry.

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The objective of the next procedure is to make a dependent view of the Level 1 Floor Plan

1 In the Project Browser, right-click on the Level 1 floor plan.

2 Select Duplicate View ➢ Duplicate As A Dependent You now have

a view that is nested under Level 1 As you can see, Level 1 is now expanded to show its dependencies

3 Right-click on Level 1 again.

4 Select Duplicate View ➢ Duplicate As A Dependent You now have two views nested under Level 1 (see Figure 13.2)

5 Right-click on the Dependent (2) on Level 1 dependent view.

6 Rename it to Level 1 East.

7 Rename the other dependent view to Level 1 West (see Figure 13.2).

F i g u R e 1 3 2 Creating the two views dependent on Level 1

Now that the views are duplicated and nested within the host view, it is time

to divide the Level 1 floor plan We will do this by adjusting the crop region

Adjusting the crop Regions

Every view in Revit has a crop region Crop regions play an important role when your plan is too large to fit on a sheet All we need to do at this point is to slide the east and the west crop regions to display the correct views

The objective of the next procedure is to adjust the crop regions to display the appropriate parts of the plan based on the name of the views

1 Open the Level 1 West dependent view.

2 Select the crop region, as shown in Figure 13.3.

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3 Drag the right side of the crop region to the position shown in

Figure 13.3

F i g u R e 1 3 3 Dragging the crop region in the Level 1 West view

4 Open the Level 1 East view.

5 Select the crop region.

6 Drag the left side of the region to the right, as shown in Figure 13.4.

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You will notice that there are two stretch grips One is for the actual crop

region, and the other is for the annotation crop region We will cover what

the annotation crop region means in a moment For now, pick the stretch

grip to the inside as shown in this image:

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F i g u R e 1 3 4 Dragging the crop region to the right

7 Select the crop region again if it is not selected already and right-click.

8 Choose Go To Primary View to open the Level 1 floor plan.

9 When you are in the Level 1 floor plan, turn on the crop region by

clicking the Display Crop Region button on the View Control toolbar,

as shown in Figure 13.5

F i g u R e 1 3 5 Turning on the crop region from the View Control toolbar

Now you can see the area where you need to draw the match line The crop region should overlap in the corridor If not, drag the crop regions so that they match Figure 13.6

inde-pendent view, you can simply right-click on the deinde-pendent view and select Convert to Independent View this will break the link to the host view

Unfortunately, if you have a match line situation in your project, you must fol-low this procedure with each floor plan separately For multifloor projects, this can become time-consuming Or you can right-click on a view that has depen-dencies, and select Apply Dependent Views From there you can select which views the dependent views will be added to

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F i g u R e 1 3 6 Adjusting the crop regions to overlap in the corridor

As you can see, adjusting the crop region is how you specify which part of the

plan is going to show up on your sheet This poses one issue If you have text that

you would like to lie outside of the crop region—that is, if you have a leadered

note pointing to an item within the cropped boundary—you may not see the

note This is where we can adjust the annotation crop region

Adjusting the Annotation crop Region

Since the crop region cuts off the model at a specified perimeter, what is to become

of our text that needs to lie outside of this boundary? This is where the annotation

crop region comes in handy You will always have the situation where leadered text

must be outside of the geometry it is labeling We can make adjustments to ensure

this can happen

The objective of the next procedure is to adjust an annotation crop region to

clean up a plan

1 In the Project Browser, find the Level 1 West dependent view and

open it

2 Select the crop region, as shown in Figure 13.7 Notice the two

perim-eters: one is a solid line type and the other is a dashed line type

3 In the corridor, there is a dimension that seems to be floating This

is because the crop region allows this dimension to show With the

crop region still selected, pick the outside stretch grip (as shown in

Figure 13.8) and stretch the annotation crop region in until the

dimen-sion disappears