Deepen your understanding of setting up elevation views in modeling projects, with a focus on using scope boxes effectively and managing visibility settings. This piece also explores important considerations when evaluating the depth of different elements in a building project.
Key Insights
- The article highlights the importance of proper setup of elevation views in a modeling project, including checking each view to ensure it shows the intended aspects of the model.
- Effective use of a scope box is emphasized, particularly in relation to visibility and graphic overrides in Revit links, to ensure that elevations consist only of relevant portions of the building.
- The article also addresses the need to evaluate the depth of different elements within the building, and consider whether each element is worth showing in their respective views.
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Our next step is going to be to set up all of our elevation views. And so we have some that are already set up, but we need to go through and take a look at each one of those views and make sure that they're showing what we want them to show on our model. As you may have noticed from previous classes, when we didn't move those around, we started cutting them in kind of a weird way.
The other thing we need to do—as I just popped over to the east elevation here—is to make sure that we're using our scope box properly on these views, just like we did with our floor plan. So the first thing I'll do is I'll select all four of the elevations that we already have created. And then I'm going to establish the scope box on these to be the one for this project, which is the Scope Box 1.
And then the next thing I want to do here is I want to go ahead and remove the link from these views as well. So in my east elevation, this is kind of going to be the basis for that work that we're doing. So I'll go in and set my Revit links.
And this is all from our visibility and graphic overrides. So VV on the keyboard, Revit links, and then I can go ahead and uncheck that file. And so now our elevations are all going to consist of just the portions of our building.
The next thing I can do is I can start looking at some elements that are going to have greater or less depth than the other ones. And so this is something that is a little tricky because you have to understand where things exist within the building. And so when we look here, you know, this is on the other side of the building.
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So you have to evaluate if it's even worth showing in this view or if you just want to halftone it back. But that's something that has to be considered for sure. So what we're going to do now is we're just going to go through each one of these views and make sure it looks appropriate.
So I'm going to go ahead and take out my dimension that we used for the working session that we did when we created this panel. And then I'll look at my south elevation, which should be pretty good since we've already kind of worked on that one a little bit. And then the west elevation, making sure it's not cutting anything strange and looks pretty normal.
So with the elevation views looking roughly the way we want them to, we can go ahead and move on to the next step. And I can see a couple of things not looking quite right here. And so this will get fixed with our view template that we're going to create based on our east elevation.
The other thing that I'm seeing is we've got the parking elements, which this could be an issue, but it's not too bad. But we also have in our imported categories, we have our base, our CAD base showing. And so that's going to give us some bold lines through here.
And then if we didn't want to show the parking elements, we can always do a Right-click > Hide in View > Category and that'll get rid of those as well. So the next thing we need is to add in our ground plane, which in previous lessons we've used Filled Regions for that. But here I want to show you another trick that we can use that has some pluses and also like anything else has a few downsides that we'll go ahead and evaluate.
