Placing Braced Frame Elevations on Project Sheets in Revit Structure

Hello and welcome back to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we have our elevations 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, select New Sheet*, and save our project. Very good.

Now here we have our New Sheet dialog box with the title block that we have been using in our project. Let's click OK now that it's highlighted. Very good.

As you can see, it automatically gave us Sheet 8.2 and it's unnamed. Let's change that. Let's go to our Properties panel.

In our Properties*, we have the Sheet Number field. Let's change that to Sheet S.5.1. And we are going to call this Braced Frame Elevations*. Okay, you can see that since we changed it here in the Properties panel, it's also changed on our project sheet and in the Project Browser*.

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Okay, very good. Now to place the braced frame elevation on this sheet, we simply go to our Project Browser*. Since we've created and set up all eight of our frames, the first one we're going to place is Braced Frame No. 1*.

Let's pick it, hold down the 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'll notice it's labeled BF1 No. 1*.

Well, that seems a bit redundant. So what we're going to do is change the name. It will still remain BF1 in the plan,

But we're going to go to the View Name*—but we won’t change it there. We’re just going to change the Title on Sheet to Braced Frame*. There we have Braced Frame No. 1*.

That will correspond to a note that will be placed on the foundation plan or the first floor plan, indicating that BF1 denotes the 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 the view. 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 select Hide in View > Elements*. Remember, you don't want to erase in Revit. You want to hide things because if you have more than one person working in your project, that could cause problems by deleting information that someone 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 Access Toolbar*, and there is Tag by Category*.

Okay, we don't want any leaders. Our tags are set for Structural Framing and set to Standard*, which is what we want. Let's click OK and start tagging our elements.

You’ll notice we have some overlapping tags. We'll come back and clean those up. Just go ahead and finish tagging all of the elements in the elevation.

Very good. Let's go to the columns, and you'll notice that the column element aligns with the direction 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 to the side so we can read them clearly. Usually, everything in a drawing reads left to right.

And you'll notice we placed our first frame on the right-hand side because if these are printed as hard copies and stapled on the left, the elements will read from right to left across the sheet. 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 and continue setting up the sheet. Now, since these are all the same elevations between floors, we can move these tags all at once.

If they weren’t identical, they could get 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 clearest way possible, and your contractor will be able to read and use the drawings effectively.

Okay, let’s zoom out. Type ZX*. Let’s close this elevation by deactivating the view.

And there you have your finished first braced frame. Let’s go on to Braced Frame No. 2*. Let’s pick it.

Let’s drag it in. Let’s place it. And you’ll notice we get the alignment guide again because the program recognizes that we have similar elevations already placed.

So let’s pick it. Press Escape to exit placement. Let’s move it over slightly.

And there’s your elevation No. 2. Let’s go ahead and change the name of this one. And again, there’s the alignment guide.

We want to change BF2 to Braced Frame No. 2*. So let’s go to our Properties panel. Let’s update the Title on Sheet to Braced Frame*.

Okay, the reason we change it in the Title on Sheet field instead of the View Name is because Revit does not allow duplicate view names. If I changed this to Braced Frame in the View Name*, we’d get an error saying that a view with that name already exists, and it wouldn’t allow the change. Using Title on Sheet gives us the flexibility to rename views for display as needed.

Okay, there's No. 2. Let's go to No. 3. Let's set that one.

Again, let's look for the alignment guide. There it is. Let's set this one.

Very good. Let's again move our title into place. Let's again change the Title on Sheet to Braced Frame*.

And you can see how quickly we completed three elevations. Let's move this one over a little bit to give ourselves some extra room.

Let's pick this and move these tags off slightly so we can achieve a clean-looking drawing. 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. There are your braced frame elevations on Sheet S.5.1. What we want to do next is take care of one more elevation. So again, let's go to Sheets*.

Let's right-click and select New Sheet*. Here's our dialog box. Let's click OK*.

You’ll see it sequentially gave us the new braced frame elevation: Sheet S.5.2. Let's go over to the Properties panel and change its name. Again, change it to Braced Frame Elevations*.

And there you have it. The information has been updated. Now let's drag in our last braced frame into this one.

Very good. Let's go ahead and update this. When we create a new sheet, the first viewport always defaults to No. 1.

Again, we can change that in the viewport. Let’s change it to No. 4. And again, let’s change the name in the Title on Sheet to Braced Frame*.

Very good. Let's zoom out. Okay, now we have two braced frame sheets.

Oops, let’s go ahead and fix this. Let’s rename it to Braced Frame Elevations*.

Consistency is always important. Very good.

Let’s zoom out. There we have it. Very good.

Now we’ve created our braced frame elevations in the project. That’s it for this video. We’ll see you in the next one.