Creating Sheets and Organizing Views in Revit for MEP Mechanical

Welcome back to the VDCI video course content for the Revit for MEP Mechanical. In this previous video, we went ahead went over our work views and our sheet or sheet views and our working views. And then we're now we're going to go ahead and move forward putting together our sheets.

We also talked about view templates and the scope box, which I highly recommend you take a moment to kind of learn about those and take some time to understand them. And what we're going to go ahead and do here is we want to go ahead and load our title block. So I'm going to go to my insert tab.

I'm going to go to load family. It may take you to a, you know, random location. This is kind of buried on your C drive.

This is usually where Revit would install the content. They kind of have this, are you looking for content, but we're going to go to the documents folder, go to your VDCI downloads, and then I can go to families and references. And I'm going to load in that VDCI-E 30 × 42 horizontal title block.

Hit okay. There we go. And so I've loaded that in.

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So I'm going to go ahead and go sheets. There we go. It popped up a little window here.

It says you're trying to load, which already exists. I'm just going to override it. If you get this, just hit overwrite.

There we go. I'm going to go ahead sheets. I'm going to do right click new sheet.

I'm going to go ahead and select VDCI-E 30 × 42. Hit okay. And I'm going to go ahead and name this.

Now it might pop up a different number for you, but I'm going to go ahead and name this. This will be M-101. For my naming scheme here, I'm following national CAD standards for the name of the sheet.

And I can, I like to do this in the project browser. Most time I'm going to go here. I'm going to go ahead and name this mechanical plan level one.

I'm going to go ahead and with newer versions of Revit, you can actually duplicate the sheet, or we could create a new sheet. Since we're going to be using the same title block and everything, I want to use this duplicate sheet. This is a great feature that I, in my own practice, have been using all the time just to quickly establish sheets.

There's three options here. You have duplicate empty sheet, duplicate with sheet detailing. If you add any lines that may be defined a grid here or any notes or legends, things like that, and then also duplicate with views, I'm going to go ahead and just duplicate an empty sheet.

And then I have my M-102. I'm going to go duplicate empty sheet again. And then this is going to be my roof plan.

So I'm going to go mechanical plan level two, and then I'm going to go ahead mechanical plan. And if I can type here, roof plan. There we go.

Hit okay. There we go. Now I'm ready to go ahead.

And if you've been taking the Revit courses, or you've spent some time at Revit, you're probably used to putting items together on sheets. So I'm going to go here to mechanical plan level one. I'm going to drag my ceiling Mac sheet view on here, and I'm going to go ahead and kind of center it.

And there we go. Then here on level two, do the same thing. There we are.

And then level three, or my roof plan, excuse me. I'm going to grab my sheet view, drag it over. And there we go.

Perfect. The other thing I'm going to go ahead and check is notice how this says sheet view here roof. This is not really what I want this title to say.

So there's a parameter within the view called title on sheet. I'm going to go ahead and name this mechanical roof plan. So this is the title on the sheet, but the sheet, the view name stays the same in the project browser.

This is nice so that if you have a naming scheme for your project browser to kind of keep it organized, you can kind of customize the name on the actual view there. I'm going to go here and I could do it from here. Also, I can go title on sheet because it's a parameter of the view.

I'm going to go mechanical plan level one. And then if I wanted, let's say I'm just going to go here to look at it. So there, and then I'm going to title on sheet mechanical plan level two.

And there we go. Let's take a look at our three sheets here. So I have mechanical plan level one, mechanical plan level two, and my mechanical roof plan.

Perfect. Let's go ahead and take a look at our sheets real quick. We want to go ahead and maybe let's clean this up.

Let's spend a little time cleaning it up. It's always good to practice more. So I'm going to kind of go ahead and go around, select my space tags, establish some leaders.

There we go. Just so that I have a little bit more space. We might just go ahead and put some leaders.

And unfortunately, yeah, this kind of has to be done on a page by, or a sheet by sheet view. But you know, it's okay. It's always good to practice.

You can, when you create the leaders, you can establish or when you create the tags, you can establish a leader and a leader length. Sometimes it works out, but sometimes I'm not the biggest fan of it. Cause I have to go back and adjust them anyways.

And then I have extra leaders that are around anyways. So then here, I'm going to grab these ones and apply a leader. Now, the one thing you may notice with this leader, and I'm kind of a stickler about this is that it doesn't have an arrowhead at the top of it.

And I might need to readjust these because of the, these views up here. So I'm actually going to pull this guy down, come down here and we see if we can get this to line up. Sometimes they are a little testy, but it's working.

There we go. I'm going to shift the corridor one over a little bit. Same with this corridor over here.

There we go. That all looks good. This kitchen one, I'm going to kind of slide off that wall a little bit.

The classrooms look fine. The corridor looks fine. I could move this corridor one if I wanted to, but let's say I didn't want it on the duct per se.

You know, obviously, or maybe I wanted to put it down by the smaller portion of duct, or you could decide to put it on a leader and move it out. That's all kind of on your thought process there. The nice thing about these classrooms is that they're all kind of aligned.

We could select all of these if we wanted to, and I could assign a leader and then I could drag them all out. Nope, it doesn't want to do that. You have to do them individually.

So like I was saying earlier, I'm kind of a stickler about this, but let's go ahead and put a arrowhead on these leaders. I always like it to have a little arrowhead. There's always a lot of lines happening on these drawings, so it's nice to have an arrowhead of where the leader stops.

So I'm just going to select one of them. Under my space tag here, I'm going to hit edit type. I'm going to change the and I'm going to change it to dot filled 1 16th of an inch.

For space tags and room tags, I like to use dots. It just provides a nice end to it. It's not really an arrow, doesn't really feel like it fits there per se, and really none of the other options really work either.

I'm going to hit apply, hit okay, and you can see it's added that nice little dot to where my leaders are. So this is my level one. I'm going to go ahead into my level two.

You can see here that I have the same thing going on. So I'm going to double click into the view to activate it. I don't typically recommend working on sheets themselves, but what I can go ahead and do is on this particular instance, when I'm working with these tags, I'm trying to really arrange it how I want it to look on the sheet.

I can go ahead and work on my sheet. So I'm going to go ahead and select leader, pull that over. Since I changed the type property, you can see I still have the arrowhead.

So just work your way around. There we go. Maybe this quarter one wants to come up over here.

So I have a utility. Oh, someone didn't name this properly. That's fine.

I can just go ahead and type in what I want it to be there. And it looks like potentially that some of these spaces got a little bit messed up. Looks like maybe the architect had some that were not defined correctly.

That's perfectly fine. We could alert the architect or whoever was managing that. Hey guys, we kind of noticed this in our items.

If you want to go ahead and fix that, go ahead. So I'm going to go ahead and actually select the space here because this obviously wants to be in this corridor. So I can hover over the tag tab to select.

I'm going to click and drag over this space here. And there we go. And then I can bring the tag over also.

Now, when you select the tag, you'll notice how I have this red line going all the way around. That's the border of that corridor there. So what I want to go ahead and do is obviously I have another one here.

When I drag this over, if I drag this in, it's going to give me an area saying multiple spaces are in the same enclosed region. Correct area and perimeter will be assigned to one space and the others will display as a redundant space. If I hit OK, that's fine.

I can move that over. There we go. But what I'm going to end up doing is I'm just going to put a space separator in here.

So under my architecture, it might be actually under analyze. That's where my spaces are. It won't let me put the space separator in.

And I know what's going on here. I believe that I need to be in a floor plan view. There it is.

I'm going to put a space separator here and I'm going to go scroll over. And there we go. Now I've defined that space.

What I needed to do was needed to be in the actual floor plan view. It does not allow me to create a space separator on a ceiling plan view. So I'm going to go back to my ceiling plan view here and I'm going to take these and actually remove the leaders.

And there we go. Perfect. I'm going to go ahead and move some of these out where I do have quite a bit of stuff and you can go through and kind of do it on your own.

Whatever you want to do. Sometimes you may want to adjust the length of the leader also so that it's not sitting on the actual duct itself. It's actually tagging the individual room.

Make sure you get the tag. Sometimes it's a little bit testy. You can move this guy around a little bit.

Maybe I want to put it over in this location, which is fine. I'm going to go ahead and adjust some of these. Let's make some there.

I grabbed the wrong item. Make sure you get that drag point. And this is always kind of one of the monotonous things about Revit.

There are plugins and items out there, but I don't like to rely on plugins a whole lot. Just because it can not work in the way that you want it to. Here we go.

And there we go. If you want to go through and adjust more of them, I'm going to leave it there for now. Maybe just this last one here.

There we go. But if you want to go ahead and move some of these other ones where we have them over ducts, things like that, we're good to go. I'm going to go ahead and stop this video here.

When we come back, we'll be going ahead and PDFing and going through that process. See you then.