Discover how to modify line styles and effectively insert 2D views from a different drawing using Autodesk Revit in the BIM 322 course. Learn how to adapt default settings, select specific components, and adjust views to create cleaner, more readable designs in your CAD projects.
Key Insights
- The course content teaches you how to modify default line styles in Autodesk Revit. Through selecting specific components, you can change line styles to create cleaner, more readable designs.
- You can insert 2D views from a different drawing in Revit. This feature is particularly useful when specific views are needed from another Revit project, a common practice among many firms.
- The course also guides you on effectively placing designs on a sheet and making necessary adjustments, ensuring everything fits within the drawing area, further enhancing the readability and presentation of your CAD projects.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 322 course. In the previous videos, we went ahead and got our text and our leaders all correct, and what I want to go ahead and do now is, let's go ahead and change some line styles around. What's happening is that right now, all of this is at pretty much a default line style.
We have this guy up here, which is a little bit heavier—which is fine—we're going to go ahead and leave it as such, but we want to go ahead and make the rest of it match. So I'm going to go ahead, and all I'm going to do is I'm just going to select the components that I want to change, which are going to be these items up here—pretty much anything that outlines the water heater itself and the storage tank. Tab-select to select the chain, hold Control to add to my selection set. Again, I'm just going around and picking.
I'm also going to select the actual ground lines here, and I'm going to go ahead and select—I have selected the concrete pad and the ground lines. I've got everything selected that I want to go ahead and change, and so now all I need to do is go up here in my ribbon bar to the Line Style contextual area, and I'm going to change these to Wide Lines. And so it just reads a little bit nicer, a little bit cleaner. You can go ahead and change any of these line styles if you want to. Those are the only ones that I really wanted to change. I just need to get this one here—Wide Lines—and there we are.
I'm going to go ahead and Zoom Extents, Control-S to save the file. So everything is already ready to go, and we want to go ahead and place this on a sheet. So let's jump over to our Plumbing Plan sheet. I'm going to go to the P1.0. It's going to fit really nicely right up in here.
I'm going to go ahead and select my Domestic Water Heater Detail, select it, drag over, and then place it about there. Now I need to do a little bit of adjustment. I'm going to select it, and I'm going to go ahead and tap it over just so that everything is in the drawing area itself. I also want to go ahead and adjust some of this text here. I don't necessarily need to go out this far, so all I need to do is select it, do a right-click, Activate View, select the text. I'm going to go ahead and drag this in just a little bit—there we go—and then just move the actual text down itself.
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Not really moving the leader at all, just moving the actual text—and we've got it, and we're good to go. I'm going to go ahead and deactivate the view by right-clicking, Deactivate View. Go ahead and synchronize to central if you need to—there we go. I'm going to select it, and I'm also going to go ahead and change the size just a little bit—there we are. I'm going to go ahead and pick it again, and I'm going to go ahead and select the view title independently so that I can just slide it over to the right a little bit. I need to go ahead and take that line back again, so I'm going to select it, grab that edge, and bring it back—there we are. I'm going to go ahead and Zoom Extents, Control-S, save the file.
Now, one thing you may notice—let's go ahead and zoom in on something here. I'm going to zoom in on where we drew that callout on that original first floor plan. As you can see, now the callout head is linked and is populated with 4/P1.0. That's because this is Drawing 4 on P1.0, so it automatically gives us the information that we need there—awesome. I'm going to go
Ahead and Zoom Extents, and we're going to go ahead and start moving on. The next portion that we're going to talk about is actually bringing in 2D views from a different drawing.
One of the reasons we want to be able to do this is because a lot of times, people will already have the specific views that they need in a different Revit project. And what a lot of firms will do is they will actually have a default file with all their details already built into it. We're going to go ahead, and what we'll be doing is, if you go up to the Insert tab here on your ribbon bar, you'll notice where it says Insert from File—and we’ll be inserting views from a file. We'll go ahead and get that started in the next video, and I'll see you there.
