Deepen your understanding of Revit Architecture with this comprehensive guide on creating detail components to enhance your model views. This article covers every step of the process, from drawing gypsum boards to adding studs, sheathing lath, and mortar beds.
Key Insights
- The first step in detailing in Revit Architecture is to draw in the gypsum board across the interior side of the detail before returning it at the window jam.
- Detail components such as gypsum wallboard sections and C stud sections can be added via the annotate tab in the ribbon under the detail panel.
- For a more graphically pleasing detail, separate lines slightly to make it clear what component is which, and use the mirror function to create a double stud at the corner.
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In this video, we are going to create detail components to embellish our views of the model, which is part of this hybrid approach to detailing in Revit architecture. Let's go to our view plan detail window jam. So just go to the project browser, double click plan detail window jam.
And let's change our scale to three inches equals a foot. And note the line weights updated. Let's first draw in the gypsum board as it comes across the interior side of our detail and then returns at the jam of our window.
To add a detail component, let's go to the annotate tab in the ribbon. And in the detail panel, you'll see component. And let's click on detail component.
Let's go to gypsum wallboard section five eighths of an inch. And we'll go ahead and draw it over the gypsum board that's part of our wall type. And then let's go ahead and return it down to the edge of our storefront.
Next, we're going to add two studs at the edge of our wall here. So let's go back and repeat the same steps annotate component. This time, let's select C stud section and the type eight inch.
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And you'll notice it previews the section. And if you hit spacebar, like I'm doing right now, you can see it rotates the orientation of that detail component. Let's go ahead and just place it.
And then I hit escape to get out of that detail. And what we're going to do here is let's kind of align it to our gypsum board and let's pull it out an eighth of an inch from the top and to the right. And what that'll do is just create a little bit of a more graphically pleasing detail so you can clearly see the stud in relation to the gypsum board.
Sometimes you don't want the lines overlapping one another. You want to separate it a little bit in a detail and give it that separation to make it really clear on what component is what. And then we'll make this a double stud at the corner here.
So let's select our detail component and we'll go ahead and mirror the stud. Now let's draw the sheathing lath and mortar bed that's going to be behind our stone veneer finish on the exterior side, which is the bottom of our detail here. So again, go back to component.
And this time, let's select gypsum sheathing section and we're going to select the three quarter inch type. And we're going to draw it as this first layer outside of the stud layer. And I'm just going to pull it back and align it with the edge of our stud.
And then on top of our sheathing, we're going to have a layer of mortar and we're going to use a detail component called gypsum plaster section. Let's go back to component. Gypsum plaster section.
We're going to use the three quarter inch type for this as well. Go ahead and draw it on top of our sheathing. And I just use space bar there to flip the orientation of our detail component.
Click again to end the command. And then finally, let's use masking region and then a detail line to represent a wood shim at the window jam in this location. We'll go back to annotate masking region.
Let's use medium lines as the line style. And let's just draw a rectangle starting from this corner of the storefront and then ending at the gypsum board. Click the checkbox and we masked out that line that was representing the edge of our stud layer on our wall type.
And then we're just going to draw a detail line. We'll just use thin lines. And then we'll just draw on those lines to represent our shimming.
And that completes our look at detail components. We're going to add much more detail to this view as we proceed in this class. And in the next video, we're going to take a look at a command called repeating details, where we take a detailed component and repeat it at a regular interval.