Sheets, Colours, Drafting & Perspective views

Before you start a project, enter relevant information in the Manage, Project Information area.

Scale

• You don't have to adjust line weights according to the scale you select when printing, Revit automatically calculates this for you, however, you can override line wieghts if you need to.
• Likewise, text size will stay the same (annotations) regardless of scale.
• Sections - generally 1:50 or 1:100
• Wall sections - generally 1:50 or 1:20
• Details - 1:10, 1:5, 1:1 depending on what the detail is

Drafting views
View, Drafting view
These are for things just drawn and not part of the actual model.

• For example, for showing a detail that is common to many projects so you don't have to redraw it but do want to show it in your plan
• Wall section, create a callout select the "Detail View" option, tick "Reference to other View:" and select the drawing you want.

Colour legends
First (to keep things clean and tidy) create a duplicate view of the floor plan (eg) you want to colour in for print purposes.

• Project Browser, click on the floor plan (eg) rm click, Duplicate, Duplicate with Detailing
• Home, Room - click on each room and give a name
• Home, Legend - then Edit this by Edit Type, Duplicate, name it (label it)
• NB. rm click on this view and choose View Legend - can update this to apply these same settings to other views

If you just want larger areas coloured for eg. circulation or broad programme explanations:

• Regions - select and colour (Edit Type) as wanted, then make your own legend

Sheets
Just drag and drop what you want to appear on a sheet, marvellous!
Can further manipulate schedule tables etc on the sheet (ie. making into columns, resizing etc)

• Must "Activate View" - will mean that anything you change on the Sheet will be changed in the model, for if you find a mistake in the model and it will be hard to find it exactly - quicker to fix on the sheet. Then "Deactivate" - get into habit of doing this.
• when printing, the default page size is A2
• can print Sheets and/or Views separately
• "filled region" = hatching
• to load a sheet you've created as a generic template, right click on the project browser on the Sheet area
• the 'view title' = the title of the view you've dragged onto the sheet (eg. floor plan, 1:50 etc) to edit, click on the edge of the view you've dragged in...

DON'T put text directly onto the sheet, instead, go back to the view you want the text to be associated with. NB. to quickly do that, 'activate view' then add then 'deactivate view'.

To switch off the elevation graphics in the sheet: VV Anontation tab, find the elevation bits
To change a views title when on the sheet: Viewpoint properties

NB. Make 350 for A3 ( a bit bigger)

Perspective views

• View, 3D view, Camera then place the camera where you want it
• This will appear in your project browser under '3D view[number]' so just rename it something sensible
• NB. will often distort or warp. To fix the view wrt this, Properties, then the Eye Elevation and the Target Elevation must be an equal height eg. eye level, so around 1500mm (500mm = 'worm view')
• to resize these in a Sheet:
• click on the frame, "Activate View", Size crop, Crop, select Scale (locked proportions).

NB. anything 3D, model related you just click the scale and choose another scale to resize.

Section Box
For 3D sections of your model.

• Make sure you're in the 3D view
• Duplicate the view you are going to use first and rename it something sensible (rmc)
• LHS Properties window, Section Box - tick, then just click to create the section box and move the box using the 'handles' until you have a section you want to use.