Explore the process of finalizing your plumbing information and starting to put it on a sheet in BIM 322 course. This article delves into the steps of selecting sheets, choosing title blocks, adjusting sheet views, and activating necessary items, to give you a comprehensive understanding of the task.
Key Insights
- This article discusses the completion of plumbing detailing for a project in the BIM 322 course and the process of transitioning that information onto a sheet.
- It also guides you through the process of adjusting views, activating view, hiding in view category, and changing the scale, to ensure the precision of your work.
- Lastly, it emphasizes the importance of making necessary adjustments like altering the tag text and cropping boundaries to maintain clarity and readability in the project.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 322 course. In the previous videos we went ahead and finished out detailing out our plumbing information and we're going to go ahead and start putting it on a sheet. Now for this drawing we only really need one sheet and we're going to go ahead and scroll down in our project browser to where it says sheets and then go ahead select sheets, do right click, new sheet, go ahead and synchronize to central if you get that message and I'm going to go ahead and choose the title block from the Revit MEP1 course, BIM 321.
Select it, go ahead and hit okay and there we are. Now it goes to M1.2 because that's the next logical regression in how we've named our sheets and we'll change that here in a second but let's go ahead and actually get the sheet views here. So I'm going to go ahead and bring the sheetview-1-plumbing over, there it is, I'm going to go ahead and place it about here, there we go.
I'm going to go ahead and bring over my enlarged bathroom plan 1 plumbing, place it there and I'm going to go ahead and bring my enlarged bathroom plan 2 plumbing, bring it here and there it is. Now one thing that's going on is we need to go ahead and activate some of these use and turn some of the things off. So let's select here on the main floor plan, I'm going to do a right click, activate view.
I'm going to go ahead and select my elevation tags here just like we did with the mechanical plan, right click, hide in view category. There we go. I'm going to go ahead and deactivate the view, perfect.
I'm also going to zoom in, select the viewport and adjust that view title just a little bit. Make sure that you're getting those shape handles because we have a little bit more space there. Now what's going on here is that we have a little bit of an issue.
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These are kind of small actually as compared to what we actually wanted. So what we want to do is I'm going to go ahead and activate the views and actually change the scale. So I'm going to select this guy, do a right click, activate view and I'm actually going to go ahead and change the scale either up in the properties palette or down here and I want to go ahead and change it to a half inch scale.
There we go, looks good. I want to go ahead, deactivate the view. Now when we make a major change like this, sometimes it's easier just to select the drawing and delete it from the sheet rather than do everything else like adjusting the view title because now when I bring that enlarged bathroom plan dash one plumbing in, I'm going to go ahead and pull it over here and as you can see, the view title and everything is already set correctly.
So there we are. I'm going to go ahead, select, right click, activate view on that second floor plan. I'm going to change this drawing scale to a half inch, right click, deactivate view and I'm going to go ahead and actually delete this view from the sheet.
So select it, hit the delete key and I'm going to go ahead and bring it back in so that I can get the correct view title and everything there. The other thing that's going on is that I want to go ahead and remove the crop boundaries. So again, I'm going to select it, do a right click,
Activate view and I'm just going to scroll down and uncheck crop region visible here, apply, right click, deactivate view, select here, right click, activate view, scroll down in my properties palette, uncheck crop region visible, apply, right click, deactivate view and there we go.
We've got a little bit larger plan which is going to help us kind of give out more information. As you can see, it's made a lot cleaner. Now since we did change this drawing scale, one thing I'd like you to go ahead, go back and do is, I'm not going to create a video for this but go back and adjust your tags.
If you notice, the tag text is smaller, our leaders are now longer and we can kind of clean it up and make it a little bit easier to read. So I'd like for you to go ahead and before you move on to the next lesson, go ahead, adjust your tags, get the sheet looking how you like it and I'll see you in the next lesson. And I'll see you in the next video.
