Learn detailed steps on how to accurately add crown molding to your home design using Autodesk Revit. This comprehensive guide walks you through the process from selecting the correct type to adjusting placements for a complete and polished look.
Key Insights
- Adding crown molding entails choosing from a variety of profiles, picking a suitable one for interior walls, and loading it into the Autodesk family.
- Placement of the crown molding is essential for a realistic representation. An offset from the level can help set it at the correct height, but further adjustments are often needed to ensure it hits the right points, especially with angled moldings.
- Once the molding is placed, visibility graphic overrides or category selection can be used to hide ceilings temporarily, aiding in better placement. Keeping the molding continuous and cleaning up the walls contributes to a cleaner representation of the design.
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So I've moved over here to our living room A elevation, and I'm going to go through a similar process that we did with our base molding, but I'm going to do this for the crown molding. And so what we'll do is we'll do wall, sweep, and then we need to make sure we have the right type. So this is going to be B1, and then we also have cornice here, but we're not going to use that one.
We're going to do edit type, duplicate, and we're going to go CM-1 for crown molding, and we'll hit okay. And now we need a profile for this. So again, just like before, if we look at the ones that are available, it's really not one that we want here.
So I'm just going to hit okay, hit escape a couple of times, and then we're going to go through that process of insert, load Autodesk family, and we're already on profiles here, which is nice. But I can pick a crown molding that I want. So there's a few different ones.
Some of these are intended for exterior walls, so you want to probably stay away from those. But there's a handful of crown moldings that you could choose from here. I'm going to go ahead and use this one here, crown number two, and click load.
And then I'll go back into our wall sweep. We'll edit the type. I'm going to change it to CM-1 here, and then I'm going to make sure I have the profile that I want.
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So remember we picked that crown two, and then I'll hit okay. And now I can place it, and you can see it's kind of trying to set it at a location, but it's hard for me to tell where it needs to go. And so I'll just set one of them here.
And you can see it's set at a point, but the offset from level is eight foot six, or eight foot five. And so if I put this at nine feet, it's going to put it up above our ceiling. We need to know where it actually needs to sit.
And so I'm going to put it back at that eight foot six mark, which is pretty close to our ceiling. But then I can always move this around so that it hits it at the point where it needs to be, because this was a four and a half inch molding at an angle. So you can see we get a kind of a weird dimension in there.
Now that we have this one placed, what I can do is I can go to my 3D view, and you can see we've got it set here at the very bottom of it. And I can adjust this section box a little bit here, so I can kind of see more of it. But it's definitely a fine line, because I don't want to go too far.
And let's say I were to take it all the way to this point here. All I would need to do now is I can go to my visibility graphic overrides, and I can turn off ceilings in the view. And so that'll turn it off permanently until I turn it back on.
Or what I could do is I could select the category, and I can go to the sunglasses here, and I can hide the category of ceilings temporarily. And then when I'm done, I could reset it to turn it back on. And so that's what we'll do here is I can take this guy now, and I can do the same process where we just add remove walls to make sure we get the molding on all the locations within this space here.
And it'll be, again, similar to that same process with the base, where I can kind of just work my way around. And then I'm going to need to go back in and do quite a bit of cleanup work, because as you can see, you know, the way these walls were drawn, it makes it a bit messy. We want to go back in and clean these things up.
Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and make sure I get the molding all the way around these pieces like we did before. And then it's exact same process as the base. And I want to make sure I have it on all the walls within this space here, which is kind of like our main living area in the bedroom and in the bathroom.
When it comes to these ends here, it's going to be the same process, where we want to make sure that we modify the return. And then we can use that align tool to extend it around the corner. We have that look that we're going for.
So I've gone through the process of adding the molding in each of the rooms here. And I did it a one piece of molding, roughly in each of the rooms where we have it. Some of it had to be broken down a little bit again, because that two sided wall thing.
But this should be pretty easy to manage since they're kind of in, in continuous lines here. And so if we have to make changes, then we can always go back. And so once we've got that all set up, we can kind of start looking at how this is showing in some of our elevations, like we can see here.
And then we can start taking a look at the next part of this course, which is actually going to be adding some furniture so we can create that furniture plan.
