Explore the process of converting Revit files into presentable drawings by employing color schemes and legends. Learn how to define departments for each room, add color fill legends, and customize the colors based on departmental segmentation.
Key Insights
- The article demonstrates the process of improving floor plans by defining departmental segments for each room and adding color to them. This process involves adding a color fill legend from the annotate tab.
- The color fill legend can display varied information types, but in this context, it is defined based on the department associated with the rooms. The rooms initially don't have a definitive department, which needs to be set up.
- The article guides on how to select specific rooms and define their departments, after which these rooms are filled with color based on their department. The color scheme can be customized according to user preference and can be adjusted as needed.
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The focus of this lesson is going to be to take the information that we've already modeled and input it into our Revit file and put it into a form that is presentable on a drawing sheet. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to embellish our floor plan with a little bit of color and we're going to do that by defining departments for each of our rooms and then we're going to go ahead and add a legend to define what each one of those colors represents. The first step to doing this is to add a color fill legend and this can be found on the annotate tab and then color fill legend.
Now the color fill legend can be set to display multiple different types of information but what we're going to do and you'll see after we place this is we're going to define it by department based on the rooms. If I just click anywhere on the view here with my legend I'm going to get an option to define it based on what type of space we're going to use rooms and the color scheme to use is going to be department. So I'll hit okay and what will happen is nothing's going to be defined because none of these rooms have a definitive department set up yet.
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So to do that we can use the trick that we looked at before for renaming all of them. So I know all of my offices are going to be a specific department all of my conference rooms are and then my circulation elements like stairs the lobby and the hall those and the restroom those are going to be what we'll call core elements because they're not necessarily part of the outside of that that core function of the building. So first thing I'll do is I'll select all of my offices here making sure I'm picking just the rooms there using filter I'll check none and then select just rooms and what's great here is I can go in to where it says department and I can define the department as administration and now I have a department defined and you can see as we do that the colors will fill in and so if I do the same thing with my conference rooms I can go ahead and select them both again at the same time this time I didn't use filter I just selected them and then I can set that department to assembly and you'll see another color is going to pop in and so when I select the rest of my element I can change these now to core for my stairs restrooms hall and lobby and I can still use that same trick that we've been using the crossing plus filter and since I've already typed in core once it's best to use the drop down because if I do make a mistake there then it'll create another category so now that I have the last two selected I can go in and I can set those to be at core and we get a color scheme now most people will look at this and say the first question is going to be well that's great but can I change the colors and the answer to that is yes so if you click on your color fill legend here you can say edit color scheme and then you can see these are all the colors that were predefined in here and so for the core functions what I'll do is I'm going to set them to kind of a light gray color and then I'll set assembly to another one kind of a we'll just pick a muted tone here sort of a blue and then administration I'll go with more of an orange but again we'll tone it down a bit and those are the colors that I could select and you can always go back and forth right so if I look and think wow that gray is really dark I can go in pop in here and I can lighten it up and now I've got a lighter a lighter gray tone and so you can customize the colors however you want and you can easily go in and adjust them as you go so we'll go ahead and do the same thing for level two and these rooms still need to be applied their departments but everything's already been typed in so this is just a matter of selecting them and then assigning the departments and you'll notice there's no color fill legend on this view so they're not going to adapt the color but I can still assign the departments to them and just taking full advantage of that crossing plus filter selection option allows me to do this in a lot of big bulk kind of moves here and same thing going across to grab this last stair here and then setting this last one here to core to finish it off I'll add that color fill legend and if I set it to rooms and department then I should get the same exact color scheme that I had before
