Mastering Revit Structure? This article provides an in-depth tutorial on creating interior frames, detailing how to utilize elevation markers, change the view name, clean up views, and isolate elements. These techniques are essential for creating professional-quality structural models in Revit.
Key Insights
- The article covers the process of creating interior frames in Revit Structure, including activating the view, using the elevation drop-down to obtain frame elevation, and highlighting grid lines to get an elevation view.
- It delves into managing elevation markers, changing the view name, and cleaning up views. It explains how to create an elevation of a line by picking a box, how to delete unnecessary views, and how to use viewports for cleaning up the visual presentation.
- The guide also details how to use the hide and view elements function for cleaning up and finalizing views, as well as how to reveal hidden elements and how to reset temporarily hidden items. These techniques help in creating a cleaner and more professional Revit model.
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Hello, and welcome to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've created the frame elevations for exterior frames, let's look at the interior frames.
Zoom in, let's double click and activate the view. There, we see it's activated. Let's get started on creating our interior frames.
What we're going to do is we're going to go to the view tab. We'll go to the create panel and the elevation drop-down. Now for this, we want the frame elevation.
What that's going to do is that's going to give us elevations of the interior frames. Okay, let's pick that. Let's get started.
Now unlike the exterior elevations, what this will do is we're going to have to go to the grid line where the frame exists and it'll highlight it and here we see we have the elevation marker. Now notice when we pick the grid line, it gives us the elevation view on one side. If we move slightly to the other side, it will move the elevation marker to the other side.
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We want to be consistent and have our elevation at the top side. So let's pick this one. Let's escape out of that.
And again, what we want to do is we want to first, let's change the name. So let's pick it. Let's go to our properties and in our view name, let's change it.
We're going to change this to BF-1 or brace frame 1. Very good. Okay. Let's go ahead and move it around a little bit to clean this up.
Let's move it up here a little bit. There you go. Okay, that clears the interference of the other text for our other information.
Okay, again, let's zoom in and let's pick the elevation marker here. You see we again have the view area. What we want to do, if you notice, the line here is now attached to the grid line.
If you pick it, it will not move unlike the exterior elevations. So what we want to do is, let's go ahead and we can stretch it in three directions. Here, here, and here.
Very good. Now that we've done that, let's go back to our elevation marker. One interesting thing about the elevation marker, this is a separate entity which outlines the view box.
Now if we go ahead and let's zoom in on this, pick the marker that will give us our sheet name when we put it on the sheet. Let's pick that. And you notice we have three other boxes.
What these are, these are also elevation markers, but they are inactive because they're checked here. They're unchecked here, but this one's checked, so this one is active. If we wanted to, we could create an elevation of this line simply by picking this box.
And you notice it gives us the elevation 1D, this elevation 1C, and this elevation 1B. And if you noticed previously, this was marked elevation 1A. Now this we would probably use to do an interior elevation of a room and elevate the walls and doors and windows and identify them in that view.
But we're not doing that here. We're elevating our brace frame that exists here. So let's go ahead and uncheck those boxes.
Hit OK. Since we picked it, it did create them if you notice over here, but we don't need them there. So let's hit OK and delete these views.
OK, now we're back to our regular elevation. OK, let's zoom out. Let's pick our elevation marker twice and that elevates our view.
Now let's clean this view up. First thing we want to do is let's get it to scale here, quarter inch, and let's change our detail level to fine. Very good.
You see we now can't see our braces and our columns and our beams. OK, now let's clean this up. Let's go to VV.
Let's turn off the background of the Revit link. Let's uncheck it. Let's hit OK.
Very good. There you see we have only our brace frame and beams and columns. OK, let's go to our viewport.
Let's bring that down and that will help clean up a little bit of the upper area. Very good. And we're going to bring this end up here.
We just have the brace frame. Next thing we want to do is we want to do a full-size element grab on all the elements. Let's go to the filter.
Let's pick that. And now the things that we want to keep we will uncheck. That will make them not visible to our next process.
We want the grids. We want the levels. Let's scroll down.
Let's see what we have. We do want the columns. We want the girders.
And you notice now here we have joist and other. The structural framing joists are the two-by's and other framing that we use to model the floor. But the structural framing other that notates the brace frames that we have.
We want to keep those and the views which is the viewport. So let's hit OK. And you notice we have the information we want is not highlighted.
OK, so let's right-click anywhere out here. Let's go to our hide and view elements. And there you have it.
They're all hidden. Now what we want to do is continue to further clean this up and finalize it. Let's pick our grids.
Control. And let's go to our temporary hide and isolate. Let's hide those elements.
Again, let's pick our levels. And for this since we have more than one level, let's right-click. Let's go to select all instances visible in view.
And again to our temporary hide and isolate. And hide them. Very good.
Now what we can do is we can come out here and you notice even though we don't see the elements they are there. We can pick those without getting into our frame and picking those. Let's hold the control key down.
And do the same thing on this side. What that does is that picks any extraneous elements we don't want to see. Again, let's right-click.
Hide and view elements. And they're gone. But you notice we did hide our viewport.
What we can do to get that back is we can type in RH, which is reveal hidden. And you see the box is highlighted in red. So pick it.
Right-click on it. And we can go to unhide in view elements. And you see now that it's grayed out.
We can see it. You can use this to actually unhide elements that you may have accidentally hidden or elements that you want to see again. Okay.
Now to turn it off we can either go to the little light bulb in the bar at the bottom. Or we can type in RH again. And it takes us out of that view.
Okay, you can see we have just a couple little extraneous things at the top. Hold your control key down. There we go.
Let's right-click. Select all instances visible in view. Okay, let's right-click again just to make sure we got them all.
Hide elements in view. Hide the elements. There you go.
We've cleaned up our brace frame. Now we can go ahead and turn our viewport off. Again, we can use a little light bulb down here.
Hide crop region. There you go. Let's zoom all.
Let's go back to our temporary hide isolate. Let's reset temporary items that were hidden. And there you have your brace frame.
All by itself. Very good. Now that we've created the brace frame, let's go ahead and finish this video.
And in the next one, we will come back and start placing our other frames in sheets. So go ahead and complete brace frame two, three, and four. And I will see you in the next one.