Adding Dimensions to Sheet A602: Vertical and Horizontal Mullions.

Now let's jump into finishing up sheet A602. So this sheet, we're going to go ahead and add many dimensions and also many keynotes. And so in this video, we are going to take a look at adding the dimensions.

I'm going to start with view one, the enlarged kernel elevation, because this one's going to have the most. And so, dimensioning the vertical mullions is pretty straightforward because they're consistent throughout. But the horizontal ones—we have a few different patterns that we're going to try to annotate.

And so, we might need to add some construction lines to make this easier for ourselves. But I'll start with the vertical ones because, again, like I said, that's the easiest one to start with here. And I'll work my way from the bottom all the way up to the top.

So I'm just going to hit every single one of them here, including the grid line. And so, I'll have dimensions like you see here that branch off of the grids. And I want to give myself enough space to be able to do these dimensions the way I want.

So this one, I'm going to put over the top here. And then what I want to do is locate myself from the grid on both sides. And what you can see is that I've got two-foot dimensions—I definitely don't need that.

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And so, what I can do is I can always modify my dimensions after I create them. So I'm going to pick this one. And I'm going to say Edit Witness Lines, and then I'll just remove the grid line from this top dimension.

And so, now I have this overall set here that shows how these are dimensioned. And then I also show how they're located relative to the column grid line. The next thing I'm going to want to do is add some hidden lines.

And so, I'll use this hidden line here. And I'm just going to draw it across horizontally. And you can see here that we've got our hidden line.

And this was the green one, so I actually wanted the hidden line. But this line right here, we can use by aligning it to our curtain grid.

And with this, what I'll be able to do is place this line at the location of our horizontal mullions as we go down. And then I can use that as a basis for my dimensions when I go across. So I'm going to take this same line,

And I'm just going to copy it going down vertically until I hit each one of these curtain grids here. And I can use my perpendicular snap if it's having a hard time grabbing something like you saw there.

And that's just keyboard shortcut SP. And then for ones that are close to the level line like that, I'm not even going to bother because there are too many things for Revit to keep track of. So what I'll do in those cases is place it really close,

And then I'll align it into place where I want it. But for the most part, I should be able to bring this thing down and set it to where we're trying to hit. But you can see it is a little finicky sometimes.

And that's where, if you just hit SP, then you can move it down to any point you want. And it'll stay perpendicular and hit those lines. Now I've got this horizontal grid that I can use to dimension these points.

And so, what I'll do is I'll set this up in a couple of different ways so that I'm able to dimension them and you can easily see. So the first set I'm going to use is going to be our grids from, say, this lower point here. So I'll dimension from level one up to this guy here, which is the four-foot-one dimension.

And then I'll do another one that goes up to the ten-foot dimension, which is this line right here. And with that one, what I could do is take it to the next ten-footer. And you can see how I'm locating this entire grid.

And then if I do it again—and you'll notice I accidentally ended that dimension—so I can hit Edit Witness Lines to do it again. And then I can take this one all the way up to the next mullion, and then to the top parapet line there.

And so, I've got the ten, ten, ten, and two for that module. And then because I have this module here, which is this bank on this side, I can go ahead and dimension that one from over here. And it helps by having this line go all the way across because then I can actually dimension to where these different grid lines are located.

So you can see I got this one, and it picks up this guy across and that one over there. And so, it makes it a little bit easier for us to be able to annotate and locate all these different curtain grids horizontally, and it makes it easy to ultimately construct. Now that we've got the horizontal grids dimensioned and the vertical grids dimensioned here, we can go ahead and add our keynotes and material notes just like we did before.

If I go to Annotate, I can do an Element Keynote. And this one here doesn't have a designation, and neither does that one. If you notice as I hit the Tab key, those other ones did before.

And so, if I go in and hit, say, this top one, we can pick the Element Keynote that's associated with it. And that's going to be the two-and-a-half by eight. And then this one, which is our shorter one, is the smaller one—the one-and-a-half by two-and-a-half.

So I can go in and say Edit Type and assign the keynote that we're looking for, which is that two-and-a-half by eight keynote. And you can see it pops in automatically. And then we do the same thing here, knowing that this is the smaller one.

And I can assign that one—the one-and-a-half by two-and-a-half. And that gives us the E5 and E6 that we hadn't been annotating before. And then this one is the two-and-a-half by eight again.

So I can go ahead and note the vertical the same way. And you can see how I just went in and hit it correctly, so it's showing me the right note.

And then I can use this tag by having the 3.1,2, and 3 to create kind of this L-shape so that I can clearly communicate which of these is the right mullion. So everybody kind of has an idea now. Switching over to the Material Keynote, I can note which one is the vision glass versus the spandrel glass, just as a general note on this view here because they're all identified by pattern.

And so, now we have this view set up with the look that we're going for. So the only thing that I'm seeing that's a little odd and doesn't quite match the rest of our elevations is this look with the earth hatch down there. And you can always take this, and we can just move this up to be just past that little peak there.

And now we still have our bold line at level one, and we're not seeing that odd earth hatch in an elevation when this is actually a section. Okay, so that takes care of view number one. And then the next video, we're going to take a look at view number two.