Explore the process of organizing, tagging, and incorporating notes into a plumbing isometric, and learn how to refine and add details to your title sheet. Delve into how to effectively incorporate a 3D view, turn off annotations, and insert drafting views from another project, enhancing your overall presentation and understanding of the plumbing system.
Key Insights
- The article details the process of organizing and tagging a plumbing isometric, including how to incorporate notes for points of connections, enhancing the document's clarity and usefulness.
- Adding a 3D view to the title sheet, turning off annotations, and adjusting the scale and detail level can create a visually appealing cover image that effectively communicates the nature of the plumbing system.
- Using the insert function, you can pull drafting views from other projects into the current one. This feature is especially useful for adding details and annotations, such as a plumbing legend and other specific elements, to the title sheet.
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In the previous video, we went ahead and completed our plumbing isometric. You may have a few other tags than I have, that kind of thing.
Things may be organized a little bit differently, but it takes some time to kind of just spend some time. Oh, I just noticed I want to tag real quick—I do kind of want to tag this, what this waste main coming out. And we can also incorporate the same notes that we incorporated on the previous, on the actual plans themselves if we wanted to, for the points of connection.
So what I could do for that—let's see here as I'm working on my sheets. So let's go to my Plumbing One Sheet view. Let's say I want to take this, just a single note, right? I can copy this.
So I can copy using the Copy to Clipboard. I'm going to go back to my plumbing isometric. I'm just going to go back to the sheet here.
And I could add that just to give people an idea of where these points of connection are. So I could say for POC information, see civil, so on and so forth. The gas one is kind of down in here.
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There we go. And that's looking pretty good. So as we start to tighten this up, I want to go ahead and bring in what we're going to have for our title sheet.
We could have another 3D view. I'm going to go ahead and duplicate this 3D view again. Right click, Duplicate View, Duplicate—just duplicate it.
No big deal. I'm also going to go ahead and just rename this to be Title Sheet Image. Then what I want to go ahead and do is I'm actually going to go into my VV, turn back on my Revit Link, and I'm going to turn off all annotations.
So I just go to Annotation, uncheck the box there, Apply. OK. And just, you know, just kind of a nice little 3D view.
It doesn't have to be perfectly to scale, but we'll go ahead and drop this on our title sheet here. So this one is—we do want it to a scale. Obviously, an eighth of an inch scale is probably a little too big. Let's go to a sixteenth and see what happens here.
There we go. That's kind of a nice, just a nice little, you know, cover image here. Pretty easy to set up.
I have it on a fine detail level, but just to kind of say, hey, this is the plumbing system. Now we want to go ahead and bring in what are going to be some of our details and what are going to be our general notes and annotations. So that's pretty simple to do.
So what I can do is I can go to the Insert tab, and you can use this to pull Drafting Views from any other project. Now it will not work for model views or anything like that, but it will work for the Drafting Views. So what we want to go ahead and do is I'm going to go to my Insert tab.
I want to go to Insert from File, Insert Views from File. It's going to possibly take you out to an interesting location. We're going to go to My Documents.
You might need to pull down here and go to your Documents. I'm just going to click on here, go to that VDCI folder. And in that BIM 322 file downloads, you'll have a Families and References folder, and then you'll have a Detail and Schedules folder and click Open.
It might do an upgrade. That's perfectly fine. I'm going to hit Check None.
We want to go ahead. We're going to bring in some of the plumbing stuff.
So I'm going to bring in the Water Hammer Arrestor. We'll just bring that in. That's going to be like a detail.
This can be any kind of detail you have in general—a Trap Primer. Let's go. Let's see.
Standard Valve Bolt. Let's bring that one in. Why not? I think most of these other ones are mechanical.
And then we have the Plumbing Legend. We'll bring that in and that should be good. We're going to build our own plumbing fixture schedule, so don't worry about that one.
I'm going to go ahead and hit OK. It's going to bring those in here. That's perfectly fine.
So here's our Plumbing Legend and abbreviations, all this other kind of stuff. I'm going to go to my title sheet. Now I’ve got to find those views.
I guess they're here under Mechanical. So Drafting Views, and let's see what we did—Standard Valve All Details.
We're going to take all of these. Let's change the discipline to be Plumbing, and we'll change that discipline to be Plumbing, and the sub-discipline will be Plumbing also. Now it's real simple to bring these in.
Once we've brought them in, the Plumbing Legend, we can just go ahead and put it here. Just put it in the top right corner. I'm also going to go ahead and make this so that we do not have any view title.
So Viewport One—we do have the standard viewport, which is that—but we want this to just have no title. This kind of already has a title up here. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to Edit Type.
I'm going to duplicate this. I'm going to change this to No Title, No Title, and OK. And here under Title, what I need to do is I need to check this to None, and Apply, and OK.
And then we forgot one little setting. I need to Edit Type. I'm going to uncheck Show Extension Line.
The View Title and the Extension Line are two different elements. So I'd Apply, OK, and there we go. So it looks pretty good for that.
Let's go over to our detail sheet. We brought in those details. So you could just take them and just drag them onto the sheet.
Boom. There we go. And we'll just put a couple of generic details on here.
I think we're all pretty good at that. So that all looks good. That all looks good.
Wonderful. I'm going to go ahead, save my file, and we're going to go ahead and pause in this video here. In the next one, we'll put together a few schedules.
See you then.
