Creating Elevation Views in Revit Structure: Bracing and Moment Frames Tutorial

Hello, welcome to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've completed detailing and placed our details in our detail sheets, let's move to elevations and creating elevations from our brace frames and our moment frames in our plans.

Okay, let's get started. Let's zoom in. Let's click twice and activate our view.

We know it's activated because we can start picking edities in our project. Okay, let's move on. Where we want to go is we want to go to the view tab in the create panel.

We want to go to our elevations. Now we do the pull down and you notice we have two types of elevations. We have the framing elevation and this shows vertical bracing.

We have our building elevation and that creates an elevation view of the building itself. That's where we're going to start with this moment frame. Let's pick that and you'll see the delineation arrow of our view is on the top side of the wall.

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If we go past the grid, it's on the underside of the wall. This gives us a consistent elevation view of our building. Okay, we want to place it right about here.

Give it a clear area that we can work with. Let's place it. Let's escape out of that and let's move on to manipulating the elevation itself.

First thing we want to do is we want to change the name. Now when we pick it, you'll see we get a view box that shows us the range of the view of our elevation. First thing we're going to do is let's consolidate this before we move on to changing the name.

Let's pick this bar, hold down the mouse to here. Now let's go to the buttons on the ends, bring those in. Let's bring this one in.

If we don't grab the button, it'll move the whole box. All we want is just the edge. Let's bring this up.

Very good. Now that we've done that, let's go to our properties and under view name, we're going to change this to MF1, which is moment frame one. When we do that, let's zoom in.

You see it changed the name of our elevation. We're going to use it moment frame one as our example and you can go ahead and finish out moment frame two, three and four. And when we finish that, we'll go on to the brace frames and then we're going to place them in our project on project sheets.

But let's start here. You see the pointer of the elevation is pointed downward. Let's pick that twice and it will open up our moment frame elevation.

Here you see we have the architectural model visible. So what we want to do is we want to remove that first or hide it. So let's go to VV, rivet links and change the visibility to off.

Okay. Now here we have the moment frame elevation itself, but it's in a very coarse detail. Let's change the detail to fine.

Now we can see our beams, columns and other information. And let's change it to a workable scale. A quarter inch is good.

There you have it. Okay. What we want to do is we want to clean this up.

And the easiest way to do that is we can come in here. We can grab all of our elements here. And let's go to our filter in the selection panel.

Okay. You see it outlines everything we have here. The things we want to keep, we're going to turn off.

We don't want floor openings or the floors. We do want the grids. We want the levels.

We don't want reference planes, cutouts, roofs, shaft openings. We don't want the beam systems. We do want the structural columns.

We do want the foundation. We do want framing girders and we don't need the joists or the walls. We'll leave all those on.

And when we hit okay, you see it's identified all the elements we don't want. So let's right click. Let's go to hide and view elements.

There you have it. We've cleaned up the majority of the elements we don't want. Let's go ahead and minimize our elevation.

Let's bring this up to here. And let's go ahead and even out our grids. When we're inside the view box or the viewport, we get the 3D element on our grid.

So what we want to do is we want to bring this down and pull this grid outside of our viewport. What happens now is when we pick it, it goes to 2D and we're only manipulating the grid at this point only. And it doesn't change the grid throughout our drawing.

So let's pull this down, even it out. Let's go ahead and pull this down below the high roof because we're not using it and it will hide that element. Okay, let's go ahead and pick our levels.

Let's right click. Actually, let's not right click. Let's go down to our bar here and go to temporary hide isolate.

Let's pick that. Let's hide those elements because what we're going to do is we're going to grab. Actually, what we want to do is we want to select all of them.

So let's grab them again. Select all instances visible in view. Now let's go down to our temporary hide isolate.

Let's hide the elements. There you go. So what that did was that cleaned out our view of any elements that we want to keep.

And I'll show you why. Because what we want to do is we want to grab this, these girders and these girders. We want to right click hide elements.

Now you see we have some extraneous other elements here. So let's pick those. Select all instances visible in view.

And again, let's hide those elements. What we're doing is we're cleaning up the moment frame so that we can use it specifically in our project. Okay, let's zoom in.

You see we have a nailer atop this beam. Let's pick that. Let's right click.

Select all instances. There we have it. We have three of them.

Let's right click again. Hide in view elements. Very good.

That went very quickly. Now we have just our moment frame. Okay, let's go back and reset the temporary hide and bring back the elements that we hid.

Save our project. There you have them. Now I don't like having a viewport in here.

That's up to you. It's a personal thing. But you can turn it on and off right here with the hide crop region.

I like to turn it off. Let's shorten these. Again, they're outside the viewport.

So it's only these elements that are going to be shortened up here and here. And there we have our first moment frame. Go through and complete moment frames two, three, and four.

And when we come back, we will look at the interior brace frames. That's it for this video. We'll see you in the next one.