Learn how to create building sections and clean up a fire protection project in this detailed guide. The article outlines the process of developing templates for sections, adjusting details, and annotating for clarity.
Key Insights
- The guide provides an in-depth explanation of constructing three sections of a building in a fire protection project, including detailed steps on creating and adjusting a fire protection view template.
- An essential part of the process is eliminating unnecessary elements such as plumbing equipment and fixtures, and specific Revit files, to ensure the focus remains on fire protection components only.
- The article also explains the importance of proper annotation, exemplified by labeling elements like city mains, pipe types, and points of connection, contributing to a clearer understanding of the building sections.
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We've created most of our sheets. All that's left is to create our building sections and do a little bit of cleanup, and our fire protection project will be complete. So let's go to Level 1 Piping Plan.
And we're going to create three sections of the building to help the reviewer understand what's going on in some areas. So let's go to the section. In the first one, let's drag from here to the other end of the building.
Let's flip this the other way. And let's pull this somewhere around the middle, past the main in the classroom and corridor area. That should be good.
Now we deleted all of our other building sections, and we're starting fresh from here. So let's go to View. Now, this doesn't look all that great.
And just like we did with our reflected ceiling plans, we're going to be making a template for our section so that we only have to do this process once. So let's go to View Template. And currently, there is no fire protection view template, so we'll make our own.
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Let's select the mechanical section. And let's go ahead and duplicate that. And let's call it FP-section.
Okay, we'll keep the scale at one inch. Our display, or excuse me, our detail level, let's go ahead and set that to fine. And then let's go to our overrides model.
Let's turn off all the plumbing equipment so we don't see any sinks or toilets. We'll turn off plumbing equipment, plumbing fixtures under model categories. And then let's go to Revit Links.
And let's just turn off the mechanical Revit file. Let's go to OK and see how this looks. Zoom out and pan over.
That's pretty good. I think there's one more thing I want to do. Let's put it on the fire protection subdiscipline.
Let's go back into our template and scroll down here. And under subdiscipline, instead of HVAC, since we duplicated this from the mechanical elevation, let's go ahead and choose fire protection. Okay, that looks pretty good.
Let's go back to our level one piping plan. And let's make another section. We'll start up here, go to about here, and let's pull in just something like this.
Right click and go to view. And now rather than starting all over, let's just go to our view template and choose FP section. That looks much better.
Now, because of our copy monitor, we have a few areas of these duplicated. We can just click on it and this box, deselect it, and it'll hide it. There we go.
Okay, let's go ahead back to our level one piping plan and make one more building section. Okay, and let's start the section. We will start at the bottom and go up to here and pull back just a little bit through the gym area.
Something like that should be okay. Right click and go to view. And let's go on ahead and set our template, FP section.
That's pretty good. Now, in this case, I think I want to make it a little larger. So I'm going to pull this over a bit, all the way like that and pull it down.
Okay, let's annotate these a bit and then we'll put them on our plan. So let's go to section two and annotate. And let's choose our text tool with leader.
And let's go ahead and start here. And let's just call this all capitals to city main. There we go.
And we'll call out this so we can even make a copy. And let's point out the pipe here. And let's say six inch PVC.
In parentheses, we can note for hydraulic reference only. Okay, we can call this out as six inch ductile iron pipe coming up into our riser. Double click into that.
Six inch DI. Let's call out our riser and point of connection. We will copy this up.
We're at this flange, we will label this. Let's extend this first. VDCI point of connection at flange.
Maybe move that a bit. Okay, now we have our riser. We can copy this one.
All right.