Discover how to streamline and organize your design projects using Revit for Interior Design. This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to create sheets, load title blocks, and clean up an index for easy navigation and efficient workflow.
Key Insights:
- The article demonstrates how to create new sheets in Revit for an Interior Design project using the project browser. This is done by right-clicking on the ‘Sheets’ section and choosing 'New Sheet'.
- The author shows how to utilize the VDCI title block for all sheets and how to customize sheet names and numbers. This helps maintain consistency and orderliness across the project.
- It is further explained how to clean up the sheet index by deleting unneeded sheets for clearer navigation. The author also guides on how to set up title blocks for notes and legends aligning on the right side of the sheet, thereby enhancing the project's readability and accessibility.
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Now that we have our views set up, let's go ahead and create a couple of sheets that we'll use to help put together our midterm. So the first thing I wanna do is I'm gonna scroll down in my project browser to where it says Sheets here, and I'm gonna right-click, and I'm gonna go ahead and say New Sheet, okay? And if you do get this prompt, nobody's ever gonna be mad at you for saving, so I always hit Save, just so we always have a version of that. And then we're gonna go ahead and load in our VDCI title block, so I'll click Load, and then you'll wanna navigate to your Revit for Interior Design folder, and then the dataset will have our VDCI title block.
So I'll click Open, because that's the one we're gonna wanna use for all of our sheets here, and then I'll click OK. It's gonna ask me to go ahead and put in our sheet name and number, and these obviously aren't the numbers that we wanna use, so I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna change this one to, this'll be ID for Interior Design-101, and then I'm gonna call this one Living Unit Finish Plan, and then we'll do the same thing. I'll create a new sheet using that same title block.
It automatically is gonna name it ID-102, because that's the next in the sequence, and then I'll call it Living Unit Furniture Plan, and now we've got ourselves two sheets that we can use to place these things on, and if I go in and look at the sheets that have already been created for this project, because we did start with a template project, there's quite a bit of information in here that we're not gonna wanna keep around, because that's all part of different disciplines and not necessarily needed. So what we can do is we can go to this Working Sheet List, and from the Working Sheet List, you can see there's a whole bunch of sheets in here that I don't need, and so I'll leave the cover, because we might end up using that, but I'm pretty sure we're not gonna need any of these other ones here, and so you can see I pressed and dragged to highlight many the different sheets, and then if I click Delete, it's gonna say, hey, that's a big deal. You might wanna rethink this, but if we look here, it says this will delete 21 selected sheets, and if I look here, the ones that are selected look good to me, and so I'm gonna go ahead and say OK, and then it'll delete the sheets that we're not gonna use for this project, and the only reason I did that is because it's just so much easier for us to navigate to the sheets that we are using for our project, and that way we can easily find them.
In other situations, you might wanna keep some of that information, but in this case, we wanna go ahead and clean up that sheet index so that it's easier for us to find different things. So the next thing I'll do is I'm gonna go into my living unit finish plan sheet, and you can see here the title block's just blank. It gives us kind of a clean slate, but one of the things I wanted to show you is how we can go in and set up our title block so that we can have things like our notes always aligned and legends always aligned on say the right side of the sheet, and so I can do that by modifying my title block a little bit.
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If I click on the title block, and I say edit family, it'll give me the opportunity to draw a line in here, and this isn't something I want to show up on my title block, but it is something that I wanna have in the project so that I can see it as a reference. So this isn't something that'll print, but if I go to line here, I can change this from title blocks, the subcategory of the line, to invisible lines, and I'm just gonna draw a vertical line that's five inches over from the edge of my title block straight down, and what this'll do is just essentially gives me a visual cue of the five inches that I want here that'll then be used for my notes and my legends, and this line is set to invisible lines, and so what that's gonna do is when I load it into my project, I'm gonna overwrite the existing version, is notice nothing changed, but when I hover over the title block, it gives me a line that I could use as a guide for where I can put those general notes, and I picked five inches, could be five and a half, six, whatever works for you, but I think five inches is gonna work because it gives us plenty of room to have all the information on this side that includes our plans and elevations that'll be on that sheet, and that's gonna take place for every single one of our sheets that has this title block on there, and so now that we've got everything all set up, we can go ahead and dive into some of the work that we're gonna do with our finish plans and our furniture plans.
