Discover in-depth insights about classroom interior elevations, their creation, and important cleanup work in this article. Learn about adjusting the grips, setting the view templates, adjusting visibility settings, and the significance of consistent line weight through the process.
Key Insights
- Classroom interior elevations begin with selecting an elevation, adjusting the grips to bring it closer, and setting the view to not look through the entire building. This process is repeated for all views.
- Setting the view template for the elevations can automate some tasks. This includes setting the scale for the view and adjusting visibility settings.
- The cleanup work, while tedious, is crucial in maintaining the quality of the elevation. The line weight used in the views should be consistent to avoid any inconsistencies in the final output.
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I'm going to start with the classroom interior elevations. And so the first thing I'll do here is I'll go ahead and select one of them. And I'm going to start with this guy on the right here, and I'm just going to do the grips to kind of bring it in a little bit closer, so it's not so out of bounds there, and then I'll bring it so that we're not looking all the way through the entire building, and I'm just going to work my way around and do that with all of these, and just a pro tip, I kind of set it up this way intentionally so we can all get in the habit of setting our views up this way, but with the walls in place, when I go through, and I'll just show you real quick here, to create the elevation, it's going to recognize the walls more because it doesn't recognize the linked model the way I'd like it to, but it'll recognize the walls.
Like let's say I place this elevation, it's going to be a lot more friendly to the user, where it'll actually recognize them a lot better, and you won't end up having to do as much of this cleanup. But I think this cleanup work, while tedious, is an important step to remember, because I've been using Revit for a long time, and I've seen a consistent issue with new users, specifically those who get really used to the automated nature of the program, and so you want to make sure you're still going through and doing that legwork to make things the way that you want them to, and so now that I've gone through and done that for these four views, what we can do is we can actually go to our elevations here, and we can set the view template, so if I select all four of those, I can go to my view template here, and I can set my interior finish elevation view template, and that's going to do a few things for us. So it'll set our scale for the view, and then it'll also set our visibility settings, and so if I pop into the first one, if you remember what we did before, is we set the extents based upon the boundary of this to where, like, where our ceiling height was going to be, where our finish floor is set at, and where our bounding walls are, and so if I were to click this and just hit edit crop, then I can use my align tool to set this up so that it's on the face of the walls, and then, because we haven't drawn a ceiling in here, I'll just set this to 10 feet, and that'll be our ceiling elevation for this, and that gives me the wall, which has nothing on it at the moment, but we'll get there, and the last thing we did on these views, if you remember, is we did the right click, override graphics and view by element, and we set our line weight to, I believe it was six, but we could always double check, too, so if I just popped into, like, bathroom A, turned on my thin lines, or off my thin lines, I can do the same process, and it'll tell me what we did, and it was six, so that's important just to double check, even if you're a hundred percent sure that you got it right, because there's no reason to assume that you got it correctly when you may not have, and then all of a sudden, you've got it wrong, and now you've got inconsistency, and so I'm gonna go through and do the same thing with all the classroom elevations, and I'm gonna leave the ceiling height at 10 feet.
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If we decide to change that later, it's not gonna be that big of a deal, so I'm gonna go through and do that for all of our classroom and our fitness area elevations, so that we're all on the same page there, and then, once we've got that set up, then we can take a look at our wall finishes.
