This article demonstrates how to annotate or add information to a Revit Structure project. It specifically focuses on dimensioning major grid lines or structural elements within the architectural design.
Key Insights:
- The article details how to start annotating a project by going to level zero and turning off the visibility of the architectural link to better focus on the project.
- The dimension panel guides users in aligning dimensions using various elements, ensuring accuracy in the architectural design.
- Emphasis is placed on the process of dimensioning both major and minor grid lines, as well as other structures such as walls and equipment rooms in the design.
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Hello, welcome back to Revit Structure. Let's get started. In this video we are going to look at annotating or putting information on our project.
Let's get started. First thing we want to do is go to level zero. This will be our base plan and you notice the dimensions that are already given.
These are in the architectural link or the background so let's turn that off for the moment. We can use that to double check our dimensions when we finish. Let's go to Revit link.
Let's turn off the visibility. Hit okay. Let's get started.
First thing we want to do is we want to dimension the major grid lines or structural elements of our project. So let's go to the annotate tab and here we have the dimension panel with a variety of different elements. First thing we're going to do is we're going to go to the align dimension and you see it has a shortcut di that we can use on the keyboard.
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Let's pick that. Now let's check our type. We have a number of different elements here but what we want is we want ticks with an eighth inch text and we want it opaque.
That means it will block out any information behind it. Okay we can get started. You notice it automatically picks up the grid lines as we place our cursor over them.
So let's continue. What we want to do first is pick the major grid lines. Come out here and finish.
What this shows is that we have found the major elements in our project. Now we have offset grid lines with a number on the end of it. We will dimension those and those we will dimension separately because they don't need a continuous string dimension here.
Okay what we want to do is we want to bring this element out of the grid lines. We pick this button here, stretch this out and we see we have a leader back to this dimension. Okay let's zoom out and let's go to this end.
Now we see we have E9, D9 in between D, E and F. Start at D, D9, E, E9 and F. You see we have some pretty condensed information here. So let's drag it out. Let's pick the button and place it as you feel comfortable.
Escape out of that. Let's move our dimension line down, give it some room. And there we have our grids dimensioned.
Let's work in the other direction. And usually we dimension the top line because we don't have any extraneous information down here. So let's do this edge on the right edge because as we open drawings we open them from right to left so the information will be first noted on the right side.
So let's get started. Again we can pick our quick toolbar, align dimension. Let's zoom in here a little bit.
Start our major grids. Very good. Let's do our minor grids.
Level grid line two, grid line one. Let's give this a leader. Very good.
Looks good. Let's do our major grid to minor grid here. Very good.
Escape out of that command. Now what we want to do is take a look here and we notice our grid line is on the exterior face of our wall. So effectively we've dimensioned our columns and our walls.
But we do have this element out here for the equipment room. Let's dimension those walls. Always start from a grid reference.
Start here from this element to the face of this wall. You notice the default is to center line of the wall which is where we placed it originally. If we hit TAB it'll pick that outside face and dimension it.
You can bring it up and align it here but let's keep it down here so we know where it belongs. Okay let's do the vertical elements to our page. Let's start here because that is a major grid one.
Let's go to this face again. It aligns at the center. Let's hit TAB.
Let's go to the extreme face out here. Hit TAB. And there we have our dimension.
We know that our room now is 24 feet long by 11 feet wide. Let's escape out of that. Save the project.
Let's zoom all. Z-A. And there we have the major elements dimensioned.
Very good. That's it for this video. See you in the next one.