Learn how to create and modify braced frame elevations on project sheets in Revit Structure. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the process, from setting up your elevation to tagging and renaming elements.
Key Insights
- The article begins by guiding you on how to create a new sheet in the project browser for your elevations. It also highlights how to change sheet properties like sheet number and name.
- It extensively explains the process of placing and labeling braced frames on the project sheet. The guide also teaches renaming strategies for better clarity and avoiding redundancy in naming the frames.
- Before concluding, the write-up provides a detailed procedure to clean, tag, and align elements in the elevation. It also emphasizes the importance of hiding elements instead of erasing them to avoid deleting information essential for other project members.
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Hello and welcome back to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we have our elevation set up, let's start placing them on project sheets.
Okay, let's get started. Let's go to our project browser and under sheets, let's right click, create new sheet, save our project. Very good.
Now here we have our new sheet dialog box with our title that we have been using in our project. Let's hit okay now that it's highlighted. Very good.
And as you can see, it gave us sheet automatically 8.2 and it's unnamed. Well, let's change that. Let's again go to our properties.
And in our properties, we have sheet number. Let's change that to sheet S.5.1. And we are going to call this braced frame elevations. Okay, you can see since we changed it here in our properties, it's changed here in our project sheet and it's changed here in our project browser.
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Okay, very good. Now to create or place the braced frame in this elevation, we simply have to go to our project browser. And since we've created or set up all eight of our frames, the first one we're going to pick is braced frame number one.
Let's pick it, hold down your left mouse button and drag it onto the sheet. Okay, you can see that we have a viewport about the size of the elevation. Let's place it right here.
And there you have it. There's your braced frame elevation. Now here we have the braced frame title.
Let's pick that. Let's bring it over here. And you notice we have it called BF1 number one.
Well, that seems a bit redundant. So what we're going to do is we're going to change the name of this. It'll still remain BF1 in the plan.
But what we're going to do is we're going to go to the view name, but we're not going to change it there. We're just going to change the title on this sheet to braced frame. There we have braced frame number one.
And that will correspond in a note that will be placed on the foundation plan or the first floor plan as BF1 denotes braced frame on this sheet. Very good. Okay, as you can see, we haven't completed our braced frame yet.
We haven't tagged any of the elements. So let's double click on it, which will activate it. Let's finish cleaning it up.
Let's get rid of these nailers. Let's select all instances visible in view. Let's right click on it.
And let's hide elements. Remember, you don't want to erase and rev it. You want to hide things because if you have more than one person working in your project, that could cause problems with deleting information that somebody else may have placed.
So hide it in your view and it only hides in your view. Okay, let's move on to tagging. Let's go up to our quick toolbar and there is tag by category.
Okay, we don't want any leaders. Our tags are set for structural framing as standard, which is what we want. Let's hit okay and start tagging our elements.
You notice we have overlap. We'll come back and clean those up. Just go ahead and finish tagging all of the elements in our elevation.
Very good. Let's go to the columns and you'll notice that the column element aligns with direction that the column is being placed, which is vertical. So let's pick that.
Let's pick this one. To escape out of this command, let's move these elements off so we can read them. And usually everything in a drawing reads left to right.
And you notice we put our first frame on the right hand side because if these are meant to be a hard copy, when they're stapled on the left side, the element will read right to left. We'll read our project information from right to left as we see it. Okay, let's finish moving these elements and clean this up.
Then we'll pull in the next elevation. We'll set up this sheet. Now, since these are all the same elevations between floors, we can move these entities all at once.
If they weren't, then they would get a little bit out of sync and it wouldn't look quite right. Again, we want to keep the elevation readable, neat, and concise. That way we convey the information in the best possible manner and your contractor will be able to read and use your drawings effectively.
Okay, let's zoom out. ZX. Let's close this elevation by deactivating the view.
And there you have your finished first brace frame. Let's go on to brace frame number two. Let's pick it.
Let's drag it. Let's set it. And you'll notice we get the alignment tool again because what's happening is the program is seeing that we have similar elevations.
So let's pick it. Let's escape out of this. Let's move it over.
And there's your elevation number two. Let's go ahead and change the name on this. And again, there's the alignment tool.
We want to change this BF2 to brace frame number two. So let's go to our properties here. Let's call this brace frame.
Okay, the reason we do it at title on sheet instead of in view name, because we cannot have duplicate view names. If I just change this to brace frame, we'd get an error message that says that we had a brace frame here and it won't let us do that. So the title on sheet gives us the flexibility of renaming views to what we need them to be.
Okay, there's number two. Let's go to number three. Let's set that one.
Again, let's look for the lineup tool. There it is. Let's set this one.
Very good. Let's again move our title in. Let's again change the title on sheet to brace frame.
And you notice how quickly we did three elevations. Let's move this one over a little bit. Give ourselves a little room.
Let's pick this and let's move these off a little bit here so we can get some good looking drawing here. We can actually drag this down and we see it's lined up. Now it's locked to the other one.
And there you have it. And there you have your brace frame elevations on sheet 5.1. What we want to do is we have one more elevation that we need to take care of. So again, let's go to sheets.
Let's right click, new sheet. Here's our dialog box. Let's hit okay.
And you see it sequentially gave us the new brace frame elevation sheet 5.2. Let's just go over here to our properties and change the name to it. Again, to braced frame. Frames.
And there you have it. The information has changed. And let's drag in our last brace frame into this one.
Very good. Let's go ahead and change this. Now when we create a new sheet, it always defaults back to number one.
Again, we can change that in our viewport. Change that to number four. And again, let's change the name of the title on sheet to braced frame.
Very good. Let's zoom out. Okay, there we now have two braced frame.
Oops, let's go ahead and fix this. Let's rename it. Braced frame elevations.
Consistency. Consistency is always good. Very good.
Let's zoom out. There we have it. Very good.
Now we've created our braced frame elevations in our project. That's it for this video. We'll see you in the next one.