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Reviews User-contributed reviews Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Be the first. Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Tags Add tags for “Autodesk Revit for architecture : no experience required”. Architectural drawing — Computer-aided design. Architectural design — Data processing. We will discuss different techniques to insert both doors and windows: Use the pre-loaded families.

Load the RFA file from the hard disk. Customize the door and window sizes. We will discuss how to place doors and windows exactly using temporary dimension and Aligned dimension.

Finally, we will discuss the door and window tags. Though you can add doors and windows in many views, we prefer always to use Floor Plan views. Go to the Architecture tab, locate the Build panel, and click Door or Window: In both commands you will see the following context tab: This context tab allows you to include a tag. In the Options bar you will see the following: You can insert a tag in two orientations, either horizontal or vertical, with or without a leader you have to specify the length of the leader.

Look at the following illustration: Use Properties to pick the desired family and the desired size: In Revit templates, the default tag for doors is instance parameter i. But for windows, the default tag is type NOTE parameter i. In the coming chapters, we will learn how to load other types of tags for both doors and windows. Door and window families are RFA files. Revit comes with many families, which reside in the hard disk of your machine.

Another way is to look up door and window families online free of charge, download them, and then copy them to the desired folder. Once you start the Door and Window command, using the context tab, click the Load Family button.

You will see the following dialog box: Double-click the Doors folder or the Windows folder to see the following: Select the desired folder, select the desired family file s you can select several files , and then click Open to load them into your project. To do that follow these steps: Start the Door or Window command, and select the desired family. At Properties click the Edit Type button: You will see the following dialog box: Do not make the mistake of changing the values now; always create a duplicate and do your editing on it.

Click the Duplicate button: Type the new name of your type normally, the name is the size of the door or the window. Click OK to end the creation process. Change the values you wish to edit. To finish the whole customization process, click OK. Check the following illustration: Use the Aligned Dimension tool to position multiple doors or windows exactly. Check the following example: Notice the windows are not equally distributed over the distance between the staircase and the inside wall: Start the Aligned Dimension tool from the Quick Access Toolbar at the top left of the screen: At the Option bar, change Wall centerline to Wall faces: Input the dimensions starting from the edge of the stair at the top, to the center of each window, ending it at the edge of the wall: There is a small icon of the letters EQ with a slash to indicate that the dimensions are currently unequal; click it once to make them equal: To show the real distance, choose Properties and select the dimension if not already selected ; under Other, select Value for the Equality Display field: 5.

Using the bar at the bottom, switch on the Reveal Constraint button. You can flip the door opening while inserting by pressing the Spacebar.

Use the context tab titled Modify Doors or Modify Windows. Locate the Clipboard panel. Click the Copy to Clipboard button: Click the small arrow of the Paste button to see the different options: Select the Aligned to Selected Levels option. You will see the following dialog box: Select the desired levels you want to copy to, then click OK. Go to the 00 Ground floor plan view. Unhide the CAD Import and the gridlines. Zoom to the top left office. Change the tag number to Do the same thing for the office at the right and the staircase.

Use the Aligned Dimension tool as follows to center the left door: Click EQ to get equal distance. Delete the dimension at the Warning, click OK. Insert the same door at the right side. Using the Align command, align the right door to be like the left door, then click the lock to close it.

Use the Reveal Constraint button to look at the two constraints you just added, then turn it off. Go to the 00 First floor plan. Change the tag to It will look like the following: Insert it as shown below, and change the tag to Insert three more, create the Aligned dimension in the following way, and click EQ.

Copy all partitions, doors, and windows in the 01 First floor plan to the other four stories. Go to the 3D view and look at your model; you should get something like the following: To position doors and windows exactly at the desired place: a. Use the Aligned Dimension tool b. Use temporary dimensions before inserting c. Use temporary dimensions after inserting d.

All of the above 2. You can use doors and windows by: a. Using the pre-loaded families b. Downloading RFA files from online c. Customizing the sizes of an existing family d. You can choose in Aligned Dimension to measure from the center of the wall or from the face of the wall: a.

In Chapter 4 we used Exterior Glazing in our model, which consists of glass panels only stacked over and beside each other. The Storefront type is aluminum sections and glass panels. This type has the power of being embedded inside Basic walls. In this chapter, we will discuss how to control the Exterior Glazing using Curtain Gridlines and Panels. Also, we will discuss how to insert and control the Storefront type. When you move a curtain gridline, one of the panels will be smaller and the other will be bigger; hence, you can control the size of the panel through the movement of the curtain gridlines.

As an alternative method, you can add new curtain gridlines to the existing curtain wall, and new panel sizes will result. You can delete whatever you added but not the original curtain gridlines. To do that you need to unpin them first. By default, Panels are holding Glass material, but you can assign any material you desire.

Hide anything may hinder your work. If it was pinned, then unpin it to unpin anything pinned, use the Modify context tab, locate the Modify panel, and click the Unpin button : There are several ways to move a curtain gridline: Use the Move command. Hover your mouse over the curtain gridline until the Move icon shows, then click and move it. Use the temporary dimension. Use the Align command. To issue this command, go to the Architecture tab, locate the Build panel, and click the Curtain Grid button: The following context tab will appear: If you hover over a horizontal curtain gridline, Revit will understand that you will add a vertical one.

If you hover over a vertical curtain gridline, Revit will understand that you will add a horizontal one. When you want to add a new curtain gridline, select from the following choices: Whether the new curtain gridline should cut all segments Whether the new curtain gridline should cut only the picked segment Whether the new curtain gridline should cut all segments, then pick some undesired segments out 6.

You will see the following context tab: This command allows you to pick any segment of a selected curtain grid line and delete it if it exists, or add it if it is not there. This could help you remove an original curtain grid line by removing all of its segments but the curtain grid line will stay. Material used is always Aluminum but you can change it To issue this command, go to the Architecture tab, locate the Build panel, and click the Mullion button: You will see the following context tab: You can select one of the three options: Grid Line — you will add mullions covering the whole grid line Grid Line Segment — you will add mullions for the selected segment All Grid Lines — you will add mullions covering all grid lines in the curtain wall 6.

Check the following illustration: Break at Join will do the opposite. This special curtain wall has the ability to penetrate basic walls and occupy their space. This is a wall type, hence all things we know about walls apply here. You have to add in the middle of the other walls, as in the following: This how it looks in elevation view: 6.

You can do two things: You can replace a panel with special doors or windows. You can change the material of a panel. End the door or window command. In elevation view select the desired panel, then Unpin it. Go to Properties and click the arrow beside the current type System Panel Glazed. Check the category called Most Recently Used Types, find the loaded door or window among them, and select it: 6. Go to Properties and click the Edit Type button.

Click the Duplicate button and give a name for the new System Panel. Locate the Material field: When you click the Glass field, at the far right click the small button with three dots to show the Material Browser dialog box: Browse for your new material, or use the top edit box to type the name of the new material to search for it in the library.

Select the desired element. Hide all grid lines. Unpin all horizontal curtain grid lines. Using the Align command, align all horizontal lines to level lines. Assign mullions for all curtain grid lines using Circular Mullion 25mm 2. Select one of the mullions and isolate the category. Select all bottom mullions and make them continuous. Do the same thing for the top mullions. Go to the 3D view, and check how the panels holding windows look different from the other panels.

Go to the Ground Floor view. Storefront specification is as follows: a. Go to the North elevation view. Replace the panels after unpinning them with the three doors as shown in the following with the new loaded door family: Delete the mullions beneath each door. Change the top panels to show Aluminum material create a duplicate and name it Alum Cover. Go to the 3D view, look at the north elevation, and check the different material of the entrance. Do the same thing for the left part of the building.

Make the storefront mullions on both sides aligned with the curved curtain walls exactly start from bottom to top — Unpin all grid lines in the right and left storefront walls. Change the profile of the two storefronts to look like the following illustration: Go to the 01 First floor plan view.

Show the CAD import. Zoom to the north part of the building which contains four offices. Go to Elevation 1-a. Using the copy and mirror commands, complete the rest of the offices change the opening of the doors when needed.

The keyword in working with curtain walls is the curtain grid line: a. False 2. You can replace curtain wall panels with special doors and windows made specifically for curtain walls. You can change the material of any curtain wall panel. You can replace curtain wall panels with any door and window family.

Mullions come with multiple shapes and sizes. False c. True for inside curtain grid lines, but for the outside you can delete them. True for the outside curtain grid lines, but for the inside you can delete them. Storefront wall types can penetrate any type of other walls: a. Make Continuous 7. Floors will be the tool to define balconies and decks. Create floors by selecting the bounding walls, or by sketching using drawing tools. Later on you can edit the profile just like we did with walls.

We can create shafts to create an opening in a floor or floors depending on the height of the shaft. We will learn some extra functions related to walls. To start the Floor command, go to the Architecture tab, Locate the Build panel, and click the arrow beside the Floor button to select Floor: Architecture: In the Properties palette, select the desired floor family. Floor families are like wall families; they are system families: The following context tab will appear: The default option is to specify the Boundary Line.

In the Profile Sketching mode, you either select the bounding walls the default option , or start sketching using the drawing tools. Use the Slope Arrow button to specify the slope of the whole floor. Use the Span Direction button to specify the direction of the floor span.

By default Revit will specify the direction of the floor span as the first picked line of the profile. The Options bar will show: Specify whether the floor should be extended into the wall to core , or not. You can also specify an offset value inside or outside. The profile should be closed with no overlaps. When done, click to end the command, and you may see the following message: Revit asks if you want to attach the lower walls to the upper walls or not.

If you created part of the floor outside the walls e. NOTE Just like the Wall command, to create an opening in the floor, simply draw a closed shape inside the boundary lines. Floors are normally created at the level you are in. If you go to an elevation view, you will see something like the following. So the thickness of the floor will go below the level this is of course by default : 7.

But when you copy this floor for the other levels, the copied floors will not join the wall, so you should join them manually with the Join Geometry command. To join two elements together here we are talking about floors and walls do the following: Go to the Modify tab, locate the Geometry panel, click the arrow beside the Join button, and then select the Join Geometry button: At the Options bar, click Multiple Join if you want to join multiple elements and not only two: Select the first element and then the second element.

Also, after creating a floor you can create a shaft opening, specifying a Base Constraint and Top Constraint. The user should be in the floor plan to create a shaft. To do that, go to the Architecture tab, locate the Opening panel, and select the Shaft button: You will be inside a sketch mode to draw the plan of the shaft.

The following context tab will appear: In the Options bar, you will see the following: Keep the Chain checkbox on so you can draw multiple lines. Specify an offset if the shaft has an offset to existing walls or elements. If the shape contains arcs, specify the radius of the arcs. Use Symbolic Line to draw lines to indicate a void in the plan and all the plans the shaft reaches. Here is a shaft Opening with Symbolic Lines: Control the height of the shaft using Properties: In the above example, the shaft extends from the Ground floor mm to the Roof level, penetrating all floors in between these two levels.

To do that, follow these steps: Select the desired floor. At the context tab, click the Edit Boundary button. At the context tab, click the Slope Arrow button: Draw the slope arrow the length and direction are very important , and you will get something like the following: The first point will be the tail, and the last point will be the head.

When done, select the arrow and look at the Properties: Under Constraints, click Specify, and you will have two choices, either Height at Tail or Slope. If Height at Tail is selected, specify the level of the head and tail the current is default, which means the current level.

Also, specify the Height Offset at tail and head. You will first need to add Split Lines, which will split the area of the toilet from the other parts of the floor.

Then add a point with a lower elevation to create the slope. Depending on the floor family used, Revit will slope the entire floor or only the top layer. To create a drainage slope, do the following: Select the desired floor. You will see the following context tab: Start with the Add Split Line button to separate the area in which you want to create the drainage slope from the rest of the floor slab.

Select the Add Point button, then at the Options bar, specify the desired value it should be negative—assuming the other points to be at zero slope. You will get something like the following: To edit the point height, hover over it, press [Tab] until the point is highlighted, and then click.

A number will appear beside it; click it to edit the value. Also, this will allow the user to move the point to another location. At the context tab click the Reset Shape button, and everything will go back to the point before you specified any drainage slopes: 7.

Linework will allow you to draw lines over the edges of other elements to highlight them. Go to the 00 Ground floor plan. Hide the CAD import and gridlines. Pick the outside edge of all the outside walls one by one. Press [Esc] twice to get out of the selecting mode.

Zoom to the right entrance. When done click to end the command. Go to the South elevation view to make sure that the floor is covering the whole ground floor up to the outside edges of the walls. Go to the 01 First floor plan. Using the CAD import you will notice there are some extra lines to specify outside edges and inside edges for the floor slab. Using the same floor family, do the boundary of the first floor making sure the Extend into wall to core checkbox is turned on.

Hint: do the walls first, then do the other lines, and make them connected and closed. Would like to join geometry and cut the overlapping volume out of the wall s? The new floor is already selected; copy it to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th levels.

Notice that first floor slab penetrates the wall and you can see the edge lines. But from 2nd to 5th, the wall edges are not there! We need to join the two walls with the floor slabs. Hint: make sure it is set to Multiple Join before you start. Visit the 3D view to make sure it penetrates both sides. Go to the Ground Floor. Zoom to the office at the top left. Start the Floor command and select the Offices floor type. Select the walls of the office from inside turn off Extend into wall [to core].

Do the right office as well if any message comes up, answer No. In Properties, locate Underlay and make the following settings: a. Select the edges of the above floor which is near the curtain wall and the two balconies. A Floor family is like a Wall family; both are System families: a. If you want to add tags once you add columns, click the Tag on Placement button. If you select At Grids, you will see the following context tab: At Grids will ask you to select the desired gridlines.

Once you are done selecting, click the Finish button to end the process of inputting columns. At the Options bar you will see the following: Select Height to go up from the current level, choose Height, to go down from the current level, choose Depth.

Specify the level to which the column will extend. In the current view only 4. If needed move the four elevation symbols to the proper places. Delete the unnecessary columns: A1, A4, F1, and F4. Go to the South elevation view and adjust the length of the levels to go beyond the columns at the right and at the left.

A template file will dictate the units used: a. True, but you can change them c. False d. Using levels: a. A template file includes two levels. You can change the name of the level. You can change the height of the level. All of the above. Project Information will appear in the sheets later on: a. False 6. We will cover how to input walls in a Revit file and will discuss what things you need to control.

Then we will cover the rest of the Modifying commands, which we started in Chapter 2. Finally, we will wrap up by discussing wall profiles. System families are families that exist in a Revit file as an essential part of your modeling process, such as walls, floors, ceilings, roofs, stairs, and railings. There is an RFA for each family. You can create new families using the Family Editor. Wall families are System families and exist in all Revit files by default.

Walls in Revit are not only two parallel lines, but: They have 2D presentation and 3D presentation. They carry data information like width and height. They consist of layers of materials each layer has a width and function.

They can host other elements like Doors, Windows, and Light Fixtures. They understand the relationship between them and the roofs, floors, and ceiling attached to them. You can generate a schedule from them. To input walls, go to the Architecture tab, locate the Build panel, select the Wall button, and then select Wall: Architecture: The properties will show the wall types so you can pick one of them: You will see the following context tab: The Options bar will show the following: In the Options bar control whether this wall will go from the current level downward choose Depth or upward choose Height.

You have two options to control the height of the wall starting from current level: Unconnected, which means the wall is not connected to a level. In this case input the height value. Each wall should have this layer, which can be at the center of the wall width or not. Check the following illustration: Other Location Lines are: If you want the drawing of the wall chained the beginning of the new segment is the end of the last segment , then click on the Chain checkbox.

If you click it off, you will specify two points for the first segment, two points for the second segment, and so on. Set the Offset value if the wall will be created with an offset value from the points selected. If the wall has an arc, click on the Radius checkbox and input the radius value. To control how two walls will join, select Join Status to be either Allow or Disallow: 4. If you click and hold the Witness Line, you can measure from center to center, or from outside edge to outside edge, or any combination of the above.

Another way is to click the blue circle, which will move it from inside to the center to the outside of the wall. Press the [Tab] key, and all chained walls will be highlighted. Click to select them. Make sure that you are at the 00 Ground view in Floor Plans.

Start the Wall: Architecture command and input the following data: a. Using the Pick Lines tool, click the CAD file to import outside lines, making sure that the dashed lines are on the inside, ignoring the door openings, and not picking the curve.

Using the Drag Wall End tool, close the door openings ignored in the previous step along with the entrance at the east elevation. This is the final product of the exercise: The first selected element will stay in its place, and the second will move to be aligned with the first one. To issue this command, go to the Modify tab, locate the Modify panel, and then click the Align button: Do the following steps: Pick the element that will stay in its place.

Then pick the element which will be aligned with the first one. Example: 4. This command will produce a neat intersection between two walls. First select the boundary element you will trim to or extend to.

In case of trimming, select the part that will stay. In case of extending, select the end that you want to extend. To issue this command go to the Modify tab, and using the Modify panel, click one of the following two buttons: 4.

There are two ways to use this command: Click inside the wall to locate the position of the split. Or, click the Delete Inner Segment checkbox in the Options bar. Then click twice on the wall, and Revit will delete the inner segment between the two clicks. To issue this command go to the Modify tab, locate the Modify panel, and then click the Split Element button: In the Option bar you will see the following: The mouse will change to the following: Click either one click or two clicks as discussed previously.

This command is perfect for defining pre-cast concrete panels. The default value is To issue this command go to the Modify tab, locate the Modify panel, and then click the Split with Gap button: Once you issue the command, the Option bar will display: Click once on the desired wall, and you will see the following: 4. This command can work with walls, windows, doors, etc. To issue this command go to the Modify tab, locate the Clipboard panel, and then click the Match Type Properties button: Do the following steps: Start the command, and the mouse pointer will change to the following: Click the element that holds the desired type properties: The mouse pointer will change to the following: Click the other element that will change: NOTE To fillet a wall intersection with an arc, do the following, bearing in mind that we already have the wall intersection: Start the wall command.

Click the existing wall, right-click, and then select the Create Similar option: You can start inputting the wall right away, as it holds all the right information. You can use this command with doors, windows, and so on. You need to stop the finishing layer in the staircase or elevator. To do that, you will use the Cut Profile command. Do the following steps: Disjoin the intersecting wall by selecting it, right-clicking the blue circle, and select the Disallow Join command.

You will see the following: Start the Cut Profile command by going to the View tab, locating the Graphics panel, and clicking the Cut Profile button: Select the layer you want to stop.

It will turn orange. In one of the sides, draw a line representing the thickness of this layer. A small blue arrow will appear pointing to the direction you want to keep if the initial one is not desired, click it to reverse the direction. Click to end the command. You will encounter something like the following: 4. You can switch this feature off using the properties of the floor plan you are in right now.

Do the following: Make sure you are not selecting anything press [Esc] twice. In Properties, you will see the properties of the current view. Go to the 00 Ground view in Floor Plans. Show Thin Lines if it is turned off. Zoom to the top right part of the building ignoring all openings , and do the following: a.

Using Line from the Draw context panel, draw the following walls starting from the midpoint of the column: f. Using Create Similar, draw the staircase walls make sure to touch the outside wall. You should get the following result: h. Using the Align command, align the left edge of the left wall of the elevator with the left edge of the column: 6. Using the Cut Profile command, remove the finishing layer drywall from the staircase.

Do the inside walls except the toilet inside walls using the following, ignoring all the openings: a. Use the Pick Line tool e. Follow the AutoCAD import 8. To do the partition inside the toilets, do the following: a.

Make sure that all walls are connected to the outside wall of the building. Using the CAD import, draw all interior walls and toilet interior walls using the same families and same settings we used in the 00 Ground view floor plan, except the lines representing the front wall of the offices we will use a curtain wall in Chapter 6 to create them.

Editing the wall profile means you can change the wall look in an elevation. To edit the profile do the following steps: Go to the elevation view where your wall resides. Pick the desired wall by clicking. A context tab will appear; click the Edit Profile button: The wall will change to having a magenta border.

Make the necessary changes, but make sure that your profile is always closed, continuous, and with no overlapping lines. Once done, click the in the context tab to end the profile editing. NOTE A closed area inside the profile will mean an opening. You have the ability to hide some of the elements at any time during project development, then unhide them later.

To hide any element, do the following: Select one element of the desired element say we need to hide the gridlines. Right-click, and you will see the following menu: Select Hide in View, and then select either Elements or Category.

If you select Elements, only the selected elements will be hidden. If you select Category, then all elements of this category will be hidden in this view. To Unhide any hidden element, do the following steps: Click the Reveal Hidden Elements button the button showing a light bulb in the View Control bar: You will see a red frame around the screen. Any hidden element will be shown in a red color. Select the desired elements to be unhidden, then right-click, and you will see the following menu: Click the Reveal Hidden Elements button to end the process.

Go to the 00 Ground view floor plan. Zoom to the right part of the building. The entrance at the east side of the building extends from the Ground Floor to the First Floor.

We need to make an opening for this wall using the East Elevation view. Go to the East Elevation view. From the top, click the wall at the middle. Check the illustration: 7. Click Edit Profile, and edit the profile to look like the following from the bottom no change at the top.

Looking at it using the 3D view, you should get the following result: 9. Go to the 00 Ground floor plan, and hide both the CAD Import and the gridlines to select the CAD Import, hover over the text, and once you see the blue frame, click to select. Zoom to the same place; you will discover that the outside wall is not displayed in the Ground Floor plan because we changed the profile of the wall.

You should get the following result: Wall families are: a. System families b. Component families c. Component families that can be loaded to the project d. None of the above 2. You can set the wall height to be Unconnected without specifying the height value: a. Wall Profiles: a. Are a Magenta color b. Should be closed c.

Should have no gaps or overlapping lines d. All of the above 5. You can hide and unhide elements in Revit Architecture: a. Walls are the hosts for both doors and windows. We will discuss different techniques to insert both doors and windows: Use the pre-loaded families.

Load the RFA file from the hard disk. Customize the door and window sizes. We will discuss how to place doors and windows exactly using temporary dimension and Aligned dimension. Finally, we will discuss the door and window tags. Though you can add doors and windows in many views, we prefer always to use Floor Plan views. Go to the Architecture tab, locate the Build panel, and click Door or Window: In both commands you will see the following context tab: This context tab allows you to include a tag.

In the Options bar you will see the following: You can insert a tag in two orientations, either horizontal or vertical, with or without a leader you have to specify the length of the leader. Look at the following illustration: Use Properties to pick the desired family and the desired size: In Revit templates, the default tag for doors is instance parameter i. But for windows, the default tag is type NOTE parameter i. In the coming chapters, we will learn how to load other types of tags for both doors and windows.

Door and window families are RFA files. Revit comes with many families, which reside in the hard disk of your machine. Another way is to look up door and window families online free of charge, download them, and then copy them to the desired folder. Once you start the Door and Window command, using the context tab, click the Load Family button. You will see the following dialog box: Double-click the Doors folder or the Windows folder to see the following: Select the desired folder, select the desired family file s you can select several files , and then click Open to load them into your project.

To do that follow these steps: Start the Door or Window command, and select the desired family. At Properties click the Edit Type button: You will see the following dialog box: Do not make the mistake of changing the values now; always create a duplicate and do your editing on it.

Click the Duplicate button: Type the new name of your type normally, the name is the size of the door or the window. Click OK to end the creation process. Change the values you wish to edit.

To finish the whole customization process, click OK. Check the following illustration: Use the Aligned Dimension tool to position multiple doors or windows exactly. Check the following example: Notice the windows are not equally distributed over the distance between the staircase and the inside wall: Start the Aligned Dimension tool from the Quick Access Toolbar at the top left of the screen: At the Option bar, change Wall centerline to Wall faces: Input the dimensions starting from the edge of the stair at the top, to the center of each window, ending it at the edge of the wall: There is a small icon of the letters EQ with a slash to indicate that the dimensions are currently unequal; click it once to make them equal: To show the real distance, choose Properties and select the dimension if not already selected ; under Other, select Value for the Equality Display field: 5.

Using the bar at the bottom, switch on the Reveal Constraint button. You can flip the door opening while inserting by pressing the Spacebar. Use the context tab titled Modify Doors or Modify Windows. Locate the Clipboard panel. Click the Copy to Clipboard button: Click the small arrow of the Paste button to see the different options: Select the Aligned to Selected Levels option. You will see the following dialog box: Select the desired levels you want to copy to, then click OK.

Go to the 00 Ground floor plan view. Unhide the CAD Import and the gridlines. Zoom to the top left office. Change the tag number to Do the same thing for the office at the right and the staircase.

Use the Aligned Dimension tool as follows to center the left door: Click EQ to get equal distance. Delete the dimension at the Warning, click OK. Insert the same door at the right side. Using the Align command, align the right door to be like the left door, then click the lock to close it. Use the Reveal Constraint button to look at the two constraints you just added, then turn it off. Go to the 00 First floor plan.

Change the tag to It will look like the following: Insert it as shown below, and change the tag to Insert three more, create the Aligned dimension in the following way, and click EQ. Copy all partitions, doors, and windows in the 01 First floor plan to the other four stories. Go to the 3D view and look at your model; you should get something like the following: To position doors and windows exactly at the desired place: a. Use the Aligned Dimension tool b.

Use temporary dimensions before inserting c. Use temporary dimensions after inserting d. All of the above 2. You can use doors and windows by: a. Using the pre-loaded families b.

Downloading RFA files from online c. Customizing the sizes of an existing family d. You can choose in Aligned Dimension to measure from the center of the wall or from the face of the wall: a. In Chapter 4 we used Exterior Glazing in our model, which consists of glass panels only stacked over and beside each other. The Storefront type is aluminum sections and glass panels. This type has the power of being embedded inside Basic walls. In this chapter, we will discuss how to control the Exterior Glazing using Curtain Gridlines and Panels.

Also, we will discuss how to insert and control the Storefront type. When you move a curtain gridline, one of the panels will be smaller and the other will be bigger; hence, you can control the size of the panel through the movement of the curtain gridlines. Cancel Overwrite Save. Terms of service. Privacy policy. Cookie policy. Change language. Made with love in Switzerland. Main languages. Now, choose the Open button to open the file. To open a new project file, choose the New option from the Projects section.

In this dialog box, make sure that the Project radio button is selected, and then choose the OK button; a new project file will open and the interface screen is activated. In Autodesk Revit, all the tools are grouped in several panels in the ribbon. The ribbon, which contains task-based tabs and panels, streamlines the structural workflow and optimizes the project delivery time.

In Autodesk Revit, when you select an element in the drawing area, the ribbon displays a contextual tab that comprises of tools corresponding to the selected element.

The interface of Autodesk Revit is similar to the interfaces of many other Microsoft Windows-based programs. The main components in the Revit interface are discussed next. Project 1- Floor Plan: Level 1 is the default project name and view displayed. The ribbon, as shown in Figure , is an interface that is used to invoke tools. When you open a file, the ribbon is displayed at the top in the screen. It comprises of task-based tabs and panels, refer to Figure , which provide all the tools necessary for creating a project.

The tabs and panels in the ribbon can be customized according to the need of the user. This can be done by moving the panels and changing the view states of the ribbon the method of changing the ribbon view state is discussed later in this chapter. The ribbon has three types of buttons: general, drop-down, and split. These buttons can be used from the panels. In the ribbon, you can move a panel and place it anywhere on the screen.

To do so, press and hold the left mouse button on the panel label in the ribbon, and then drag the panel to a desired place on the screen. After using the tools of the moved panel, place the panel back to the ribbon. To do so, place the cursor on the moved panel and choose the Return Panels to Ribbon button from the upper right corner of this panel, as shown in Figure ; the panel will return to the ribbon.

Tooltips appear when you place the cursor over any tool icon in the ribbon. The name of the tool appears in the box, assisting you in identifying each tool icon. The ribbon can be displayed in three view states by selecting any of the following four options: Minimize to Tabs , Minimize to Panel Titles , Minimize to Panel Buttons , and Cycle through All.

To use these options, click on the down arrow located on the right of the Modify panel, refer to Figure ; the arrow will be highlighted. Next, click on the down arrow; a flyout will be displayed, as shown in Figure Figure Various options in the flyout for changing the view state of the ribbon.

From this flyout, you can choose the Minimize to Tabs option to display only the tabs in the ribbon. If you choose the Minimize to Panel Titles option, the ribbon will display the titles of the panels along with the tabs.

You can choose the Minimize to Panel Buttons option to display panels as buttons along with tabs in the ribbon. If the ribbon is changed to a different view state, then on placing the cursor over the first arrow on the right of the Modify tab, the Show Full Ribbon tooltip will be displayed. Click on the arrow; the full ribbon will be displayed. These tabs are displayed when you choose certain tools or select certain elements. They contain a set of tools or buttons that relate only to a particular tool or element.

For example, when you invoke the Duct tool, the Modify Place Duct contextual tab is displayed. The Select panel contains the Modify tool. The Properties panel contains the Properties button and the Type Properties tool. The Mode panel has some necessary tools that are used to load model families or to create the model of a window in a drawing.

The other panels, apart from those discussed above, contain the tools that are contextual and are used to edit elements when placed in a drawing or selected from a drawing for modification. The application frame helps you manage projects in Autodesk Revit. These are discussed next. The Application button is displayed at the top-left corner of the Autodesk Revit interface.

This button is used to display as well as close the Application Menu. The Application Menu contains the tools that provide access to tools such as Open , Close , and Save. Click on the down arrow on the Application button to display the Application Menu , as shown in Figure The Quick Access Toolbar , shown in Figure , contains the options to undo and redo changes, open and save a file, create a new file, and so on.

You can customize the display of the Quick Access Toolbar by adding more tools and removing the unwanted tools.

To add a tool or a button from the panel of the ribbon to the Quick Access Toolbar , place the cursor over the button; the button will be highlighted.

Next, right-click; a flyout will be displayed. The Quick Access Toolbar can be customized to reorder the tools displayed in it. To do so, choose the down arrow next to the Switch Windows drop-down, refer to Figure ; a flyout will be displayed. Use various options in this dialog box to customize the display of toolbar and choose the OK button; the Customize Quick Access Toolbar dialog box will close and the tools in the Quick Access Toolbar will be reordered.

You can use InfoCenter to search for information related to Revit Help to display the Subscription Center panel for subscription services and product updates, and to display the Favorites panel to access saved topics. Figure displays various tools in InfoCenter.

The Status Bar is located at the bottom of the interface screen. When the cursor is placed over an element or a component, the Status Bar displays the name of the family and the type of the corresponding element or components. It also displays prompts and messages to help you use the selected tools. The View Control Bar is located at the lower left corner of the drawing window, as shown in Figure It can be used to access various view-related tools.

The Scale button shows the scale of the current view. When you can choose this button, a flyout containing standard drawing scales is displayed. From this flyout, you can then select the scale for the current view. The Detail Level button is used to set the detail level of a view.

You can select the required detail level as Coarse , Medium , and Fine. Similarly, the Visual Style button enables you to set the display style. The Options Bar provides information about the common parameters of a component type. It also displays options for creating or editing them.

The options displayed in the Options Bar change according to the type of component being created and selected for editing. Figure displays the options in the Options Bar to create a structural column. Figure The Options Bar with different options to create a structural column. The Drawing Area is the actual modeling area where you can create and view the building model. It covers the major portion of the interface screen.

You can draw building components in this area. The position of the pointing device is represented by the cursor. The Drawing Area also has the standard Microsoft Windows functions and buttons such as close, minimize, maximize, scroll bar, and so on. These buttons have the same function as that of the other Microsoft Windows-based programs.

The Project Browser is located below the ribbon. It displays project views, schedules, sheets, families, and groups in a logical, tree-like structure, as shown in Figure and helps you to open and manage them.

To open a view, double-click on the name of the view, or drag and drop the view in the Drawing Area. You can close the Project Browser or dock it anywhere in the Drawing Area. The Project Browser can be organized to group the views and sheets based on the project requirement.

For example, while working on a large project with a number of sheets, you can organize the Project Browser to view and access specific sheets. The current view in the drawing window is highlighted in bold letters. The default project file has a set of preloaded views. In Autodesk Revit, accelerator keys have been assigned to some of the frequently used tools.

These keys are shortcuts that you can type from the keyboard to invoke the corresponding tool. The accelerator key corresponding to a tool appears as a tooltip when you move the cursor over the tool. The Properties palette, as shown in Figure , is an interface without model, which displays the type and element properties of various elements and views in a drawing.

The Properties palette is dockable and resizable, and it supports multiple monitor configurations. The Properties palette is displayed in the Revit interface by default and it shows the instance properties of the active view. As you become accustomed to use Autodesk Revit, you will find these Keyboard Accelerators quite useful because they save the effort of browsing through the menus.

When you select an element from a drawing, the Properties palette displays its instance properties.

 
 

 

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