This article provides a detailed guide on creating and using detail sheets in Revit Structure, specifically focusing on foundation details. It takes you through the entire process, from creating a new sheet and title block, to importing AutoCAD details, creating a grid, manipulating line thickness, and categorizing details.
Key Insights
- The process of creating detail sheets in Revit Structure involves creating a new sheet and title block, renaming the title block, and creating a grid to place details in.
- It is possible to import AutoCAD details into Revit Structure for more precise and detailed work. You can adjust parameters like line thickness to suit your needs.
- Revit Structure allows for effective categorization and organization of details, making it easier to manage and locate specific details when needed.
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Hello, welcome to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've made our plan sheets, let's move forward and make our detail sheets.
The first thing we want to do is we want to go to our view tab. Let's go to our sheet composition and create a new sheet. Let's pick it.
Here we have our defaulted title block. Let's hit OK. Here we have our new title block.
Let's rename our new title block. There are two ways we can go about this. We can right click and go to rename.
We can pick our title block and rename it in the properties. Let's do it here. We want to rename this foundation details and we want to give it a new sheet number.
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We'll call it 7.1. And as you'll notice in your title block, you now have foundation details and sheet 7.1. Okay, let's create a grid to place our details in. First thing we want to do is we want to go to our annotate tab. Let's go to our detail lines.
Let's pick that. Let's check our parameters. Thin lines, our draw line is picked.
Let's get started. Let's randomly place three lines, two lines in this direction on our drawing. Now let's go to our dimension on our quick toolbar.
Let's dimension this very quickly and equally space our lines. Okay, we see the equal is here. Let's pick it.
We see now that we have equal spacing. One thing that happens with a dimension line when we equalize it, we can also pick it again and it shows our equal dimensions. Okay, let's escape out of that.
Let's pick it and delete it. Let's zoom out and let's place three more lines, annotate, detail lines, star lines. We need three in this direction.
And again, let's very quickly dimension them. We can pick them up from our measure tab. And again, let's equally space them.
And we have equally spaced at seven and three eighths inches. Escape out of that. Let's delete this.
And here we have our grid set up. Now, before we start placing details in our detail sheet, we have to create a detail view. Let's go to view.
Let's go to drafting view. Let's pick that. Okay, here we set the parameters for our drafting view.
First is drafting name. Let's call our first detail since it's a foundation detail, wall at foundation. Now, we can set the scale, three quarter inch.
Set okay. Now, what we want to do is we want to go to the insert tab, go to CAD import, and we'll go to our C drive where we have in our BIM folder the downloaded details. Okay, we have foundation one and foundation two.
We want the first one, which is the wall at the foundation at the exterior. Now, what we want to do is make sure we have our parameters correct. We want it to be black and white.
We want to have it align manually centered so we can set it ourselves. That's set. Everything else looks good.
And let's open it. Okay, now that it's loaded into the drafting view, let's place it. Let's zoom in on it.
Let's do ZX. And here we have it. Now, you notice in Revit when we import a AutoCAD detail, it shows us the lines as just a monolithic line, meaning they're just going to be one thin line.
We can manipulate the thickness of these lines. Let's go to VV. And if we go to imported categories, we see we have our detail lines here.
Now, what we can do is we can pick our lines. We have heavy lines, so we can override it. Okay, let's pick that.
And it gives us an override. What we want to do is we want to override the weight. We want our heavy lines at a five.
Let's hit okay. Our light lines we want at one. Let's hit okay.
And our medium lines we want about a three. Let's hit okay. And you can see it gives us a example of what the lines will look like when we're finished.
Let's hit apply. Let's hit okay and take a look at our detail. And there you have it.
Now, we have some definition to our AutoCAD detail. Okay. And again, over here in our properties, it tells us we have a detail.
What we want to do is we want to create a category. So, we'll go to edit type and create a category for our details now. We'll go to duplicate.
And we want to call this foundation. Let's hit okay. Let's hit okay.
And now you see here in our drafting views, we have wallet foundation. Very good. Let's X out of that.
What we want to do is we'll go here and we'll drag our new detail into the first block. You see it gives us a square, which represents the size of the detail, and our detail line. Now, this detail line isn't exactly what we want it to be.
We want the bubble on the right with the name and no scale. So, we have a preloaded title with line or title only. We'll go with title only.
And it does give us a scale and that's okay. What we will do is since we have this, we will go in later and upload a family, which will give us the right identification for this detail. Right now, what we want to do is we want to import CAD details.
Okay. Let's go to the next one. Again, we'll go to view.
We'll go to drafting view and create a new drafting view. And we'll name this one wall blocks wall at foundation interior. Set the scale three quarter inch.
Is it okay? And again, let's go to insert, import CAD. Pick our second detail. And you see all of the parameters are preset.
Let's open. Let's set it. Let's go to VV again.
And let's reset our imported category overrides. Overrides. And five for heavy, one for light, and three for medium.
Is it okay? Okay. There we have it. Let's get out of this.
Well, before we do that, let's place it in the correct drafting view. We have foundation. So let's pick that.
And it puts us in our foundation. Let's X out of this and place our second detail in the proper location. Let's reset it.
Title only. Let's get the title into position. And you see we have a lineup from the title above.
There you have it. Zoom on. And there we've placed and imported two AutoCAD details.
Now, create sheet S7.2, name it framing details. And when we come back in the next video, we will start populating that sheet with framing details. That's it for this video.
We'll see you in the next one.