Discover the process of placing Revit details into a Revit project, a step up from our previous session where we inserted AutoCAD details. Learn how to insert these details from a file, check off the details you need, and import them directly into your project.
Key Insights
- Revit allows for the importation of details from another project file, simplifying the process of incorporating complex elements into your current project. This is done via the insert tab in the import panel.
- The details to be imported can be selected from a dialog box that provides a visual representation of each detail. Importantly, all selected details can be imported simultaneously, unlike AutoCAD where they need to be imported one at a time.
- Once imported, these details can be easily incorporated into your project via drag and drop. Crucially, the Revit view provides a more detailed representation compared to the AutoCAD view, demonstrating the benefits of using Revit for intricate design work.
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Hello, and welcome back to Revit Structure. Let's get started. In our previous session we had placed AutoCAD details into our Revit project.
Now in this video we will place Revit details into our Revit project. Let's get started. The first thing we want to do is go to the Insert tab in our Import panel.
We want to go to Insert from File because we're going to be inserting Revit details from a Revit project file. Okay, Insert Views from File. Let's pick that.
Let's go to our C drive, our BIM 342 folder, and you notice we have a sheet here called Detail Sheet. It's a previous project which we have set up with typical Details. So let's pick that.
As you can see we've got details in there already that are going to be imported. Let's open this. You see we have a dialog box here with a representation of the details we’re going to check off.
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So let's Check None because we don't want any detail sheets. Let's go to the drop-down and all we want are the Drafting Views Only. So let's pick that, and here you can see we have a miniature picture of the detail that we are going to import.
As you can see we have different details, different names, and those are going to be imported into our project. Okay, so let's start checking them. Now that they are checked, all of them will be imported into our project all at once as opposed to AutoCAD which we had to import one at a time.
Let's click OK. We get a detail or a dialog box stating that we have some overlapping information, which is okay. Let's click OK.
Now we can see over here that we've got a new Drafting View folder. Let's open that, and we can see we have our new details placed in our drawing. So let's get out of this detail and start creating our drafting views.
Again, go to the View tab > Drafting View. Now what we will do is we can grab our detail and just drag it into our project because it's already been created in a drafting view. So let's pick our first one, Slab to Wall—Two Sides, which is similar to the one above. Let's drag it in.
Let's place it, and you can see the difference in our views. The Revit view has more detail to it—stippling—whereas the AutoCAD view is very plain. And we will go into a future video and place information into this detail to make it look similar to the Revit detail.
Okay, let's proceed. Okay, we've placed this one. Now let's go ahead and Zoom All and place our details in our Framing Sheet.
Let's go here, let's Zoom All. Okay, since we've placed this one, what we want to do is pick this, go over to our Properties, and change it to a Foundation Detail. Very good.
Let's go ahead and drag the rest of these details in. First one is going to be our Joist to Beam. The next one will be Steel Column Base Connection at the First Level.
Now with the Brace Frames, we're going to have a Foundation Detail here because we want to have a contiguous line of details for the Brace Frame. So let's place the first one at the foundation. This will be the Middle Detail and this will be the Top Detail.
Okay, let's clean this up. You notice that the Revit program has placed our details with consecutive numbers. Now that we have our details in place, we can change the numbering on them.
Okay, we go to 5. We don't have a 6, so we can change this one to Detail 9. And since we have a 7 and 8 here, it won't let us duplicate it.
We'll change this 7 to just a temporary number, and we'll change number 8 to 7, and change the temporary number to number 8. All right, let's clean this up and get them in line. You notice they snap into alignment based on the previous locations of the other details.
And let's Zoom All, and that's how quickly we can place details into a Revit project from another Revit project. Let's Zoom All. Let's Save this.
And in the next video, we'll start placing information and components into these details. That's it for this video. We'll see you in the next one.