Establishing Scope Boxes and Creating Plan Views in Revit

Setting up Scope Boxes for Building Plans in Revit

Discover how to create scope boxes and plan views within architectural models to aid in project visualization and management. Learn how to adjust elevation markers and duplicate views to maintain model integrity and control over future changes.

Key Insights

  • The article instructs on how to establish levels and draw a scope box within a project, allowing for better visualization and distinction between models.
  • Adjusting elevation markers within the scope box can prevent potential issues when creating views in the future, allowing for more control over model changes.
  • Duplicating views and associating them with the scope box aids in model maintenance and helps preserve level views, a crucial step in the project management process within architecture.

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Now that we have the levels established, we can go ahead and draw in our scope box. If we go to our view tab, we'll look for scope box here. And this one we're going to draw kind of big for right now, but we will definitely be bringing it back into scale a bit because we don't know exactly where everything will be, but it's essentially going to be roughly in this area in here.

And this is good to do for especially a project like this, where you got two models, because now we can really distinguish the two. And so I'm going to go ahead and check the name scope box one looks fine. And then we'll look at it in elevation here.

And I just like to take it and drop it down a bit so that we're not cutting out anything that's below grade. And now we can go back to level one, and I'm going to adjust my elevation markers to be roughly within the scope box here. So you can see how if I have them within the scope box, and we won't have issues with them disappearing as we go through and create views in the future.

So just making small changes here to those locations. And this is something that we could be changing again, as we go forward, because we want to make sure that everything works out for our plans. And then I'll go ahead and set this view, which is our level one view.

And we need to create our plan view. So this is our datum view that we have here. So before we start associating the scope box, I always like to do the right click duplicate view.

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And that way we preserve our level views. It's just a model maintenance thing that just helps us out in the long run. So I'll call this one level one floor plan.

And I'll go ahead and do a duplicate for level two as well. Call it level two floor plan. And then we'll do the same thing with the roof plan.

And this one we'll just call roof plan. Pretty simple. Okay, and so I can go ahead and I can actually select all three of those at the same time.

And then I can associate all of them with scope box one. And so now my level one plan view looks like this.

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Michael Wilson

Revit Instructor

Bachelor of Architecture, Registered Architect

Mike is recognized by Autodesk as one of North America’s leading Revit Certified Instructors. He has significant experience integrating Revit, 3ds Max, and Rhino and uses Revit Architecture on medium and large-scale bio and nano-tech projects. Mike has been an integral member of the VDCI team for over 15 years, offering his hard-charging, “get it done right” approach and close attention to detail. In his spare time, Mike enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife, children, and dog.

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