Explore the process of preparing for a midterm project by duplicating views, making necessary adjustments, and using floor plans. Gain insights into the choice of a floor plan or a reflected ceiling plan, the practicalities of showing underground and overhead piping, and the importance of considering the complexity of the system.
Key Insights
- The choice between a floor plan or a reflected ceiling plan is often dependent on what suits the project requirements best. Floor plans are often preferred as they can show both underground and overhead piping.
- Breaking up the project and system views depends largely on the complexity of the system and the nature of the project you're working on. Different project elements might require separate views for clear representation.
- Duplicating views with detailing and loading them onto a title block is an important step in preparing for a project. Proper renaming and numbering of views, following the National CAD standards, are also crucial steps within this process.
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In the previous videos, we went ahead and finished up our system and we're ready to get going for our midterm. So what I want to go ahead and do is I'm going to first duplicate these views and we're going to have to make some adjustments so we can see everything, but we're going to go ahead and use a floor plan here.
It's kind of up to your office if you want to use a floor plan or a reflected ceiling plan. Sometimes people like to use the floor plans because they can show underground piping, which we haven't modeled yet, but they can show underground piping and above head piping. If you were going to break it up in different ways, you may want to think about how you're going to break up the project and the systems.
So you may have above ceiling piping, you may have only an underground plan, depending on how complicated the system is. But in this instance, we're just going to go ahead and use this one. We'll need to change the view just a little bit, but really how you break up these views is more so based on the project that you're working on at the time.
So what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to take my plumbing here. I'm going to right click, duplicate view. I'm going to duplicate with detailing.
So I get all my tags and everything, and I'm going to name this. I'm going to rename it to be dash sheet view. My same with my level two plumbing, right click, duplicate view, duplicate.
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Oops, excuse me. I want to duplicate with detailing. Notice how this view did not come through with any of my tags.
So I'm going to undo on my level two plumbing, duplicate view, duplicate with detailing. There we go. I'm going to go ahead, hit F2 and rename this to be dash sheet view.
Perfect. What I want to go ahead and do is we're going to go ahead and get this on a title block, and then we'll make some adjustments. So I'm going to go ahead.
I'm going to go sheets in my project browser, right click new sheet. Make sure that you have the proper title block loaded. I'm going to go ahead and load.
I'm going to go to my documents folder where I have that VDCI folder. You may have it in a different location, but VDCI, BIM 322 file downloads, families and references, and we should have the VDCI 30 × 42 here. Hit open, select the VDCI one, hit okay.
There we go. We're going to go ahead and rename this to be P-101 following national CAD standards. The P is the discipline designator.
The dash is a holding spot for a secondary discipline designator. And then obviously the sheet number. Let's go ahead and expand out our sheets.
I'm going to go ahead and name this first floor plumbing. I'm going to go ahead. I can duplicate the sheet, right click, duplicate sheet, duplicate.
We could do empty sheet. We're just going to empty sheet for right now. I'm going to go ahead and rename this to be P-102 and then second floor plumbing.
And there we go. Perfect. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to bring my sheet view over here.
So my plumbing one sheet view, drag it over and let's see how does it fit? It's a little bit large, so it doesn't quite fit at the eighth inch scale. We can go ahead and change that. I'm going to change this to a 16th of an inch and it's going to fit nicely.
Let's go ahead and adjust our view title. There we go. We may need to jump in here and mess around with some of these items to kind of get them to read properly.
You can always drag them out. It's going to automatically populate your leader for you, which is kind of a nice new feature in more recent versions of the software. And we can go ahead and go around and adjust our tags as needed.
I'm not going to get too super crazy. Just make some slight adjustments. Hmm.
Let's see. Boom, boom, boom. These offices probably want to get these stacked a little bit differently.
Luckily Revit will kind of, sometimes you got to move these around just a little bit to get them to line up properly. Just one of those things. The one thing that I'm noticing about these tags though, is that I do not have anything demarcating the end of the tag.
It's kind of a pet peeve of mine, oddly enough. But what I will go ahead and do, we got to move all these down now. Let's see.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take one of these tags. I'm going to edit type on the space tag, leader arrowhead. Let's go ahead and change this leader arrowhead.
I'm going to make it a dot filled 16th of an inch. Apply. Okay.
And that's going to apply that to every single one of those. And sometimes you don't have to necessarily take them all the way outside the building if you don't have to. Move this corridor down.
When we have a lot of space like this, we can kind of do some different things. Again, I'm not going to worry too much about the room numbering or anything like that. That's kind of been dictated by the architect, but we may want to alert them that some of these room tags or these space tag numbers are just a little bit, probably not what we want to be, but maybe that's the way they want to number the project.
Okay. Looking good. Then I'm going to go to my second floor plumbing plan.