Placing Projects on Drawing Sheets in Revit Structure: A Step-by-Step Guide

Hello, welcome back to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've finished annotating or placing notation for the elements in our project, let's start placing our projects on drawing sheets.

As we did previously, we created a drawing sheet and we named it 2.1 Foundation Plan. Let's double click on it. Very good.

Here we see we have our typical drawing sheet with our name, the address, the plan that's going to be placed here, and the pertinent information, our project number, the date, your name, and who it's checked by, and our sheet number. Very good. Let's get started.

First thing we want to do is we want to go to our View tab. And under our View tab, we have Sheet Composition. And here again, we can see we can load a title block from this point, but since we already have one, what we're going to do is we're going to create a guide grid.

And what that will do, as you can see in the dropdown, is it creates a grid that doesn't print, but helps us locate our project in the same place every time. So let's pick Guide Grid. Let's create a new one.

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We're going to call this Plan Location. Typical Plan Location. Let's hit OK.

And as you can see, it gives us a grid expanded over the face of our drawing sheet. Now, if you look down here in the properties, we see it here also. And what this does, it gives us a toggle as to where we can turn the guide grid on and off.

Pick None. We can go back and pick the guide grid we just made, and it places it in our plan. Okay, let's get started.

What we want to do is we want to pick our level zero, which is our foundation, and drag it from our project browser into our project. Let's place it. Okay, now we've placed it as a random element in our drawing.

Let's give it a permanent location. What we want to do is we want to move it a little to the left, I'm sorry, a little to the right, because we open drawings from right to left, and we want the drawing, or the plan, to be the first thing we see. So let's zoom in here.

Okay, let's pick a location. Let's go to our modify command. Let's go to our move command.

Let's pick it. And we want from this intersecting point to a point relative, and as you can see, it's picking elements of the guide grid, to here. Okay, let's take a look at what we have.

That gave us a nice right-hand location. And this is where we're going to place every level as we put our plans into our drawings. Now, what we're going to do is we're going to isolate this area so that at every level, it will give us the same location every time.

We pick it, find the button, and draw it in. And I'd like to give it just a little bit of a crossing area you can do as you wish. Again, check with your BIM Manager to see what type of standards you may have in your office.

Let's pull this up. Let's pull this one over. And there we have it.

Within this small guide grid, we have a central location that we can identify and place each drawing in typically every time. Okay, let's zoom out. Now, let's take a look at our title.

We have a title line, which has a number on it, which isn't exactly the one we want to use, but let's move it into the position. Let's pick our drawing. What that does, it gives us a button on each end that we can adjust the size of this line.

Now, we'll get out of that, and we see if we pick the line itself, we can move it individually. But if we pick the plan, when we move this line, it'll move everything, so be careful. Okay, what I'm going to do is I'm going to change this in our plan.

And we want title with line, and we don't want the number on it. There we have it. It's identifying as level zero, which is level zero.

No scale. But what we want to do is we want to change this name. And we don't want to change the view name over here in the properties, so we want to just change the title on sheet only.

We'll come in here, cap locks on, and type in foundation plan. Just go back into our drawing, and you see it's identified it without changing any information here. Very good.

That's our first plan. Let's move on to our other floors. First, we're going to create a new sheet.

Again, we can enter a title block in the sheet composition in the view tab, or we can just right click on sheets in the project browser and accomplish the same thing. So let's right click here, new sheet, save the project. And here we have our loaded title block, which is what we want.

We hit okay. You see it automatically gives it the next sequential number. Sometimes this changes, sometimes it doesn't.

In this case, it doesn't, so we're going to use that, but we're going to change the sheet name. So you can either pick the name in the drawing, or again, you can right click on the sheet, go to rename, and we're going to call this first floor. Let's hit okay.

And there we see we have the sheet titles first floor. Let's go ahead and go to our properties here. Let's do the dropdown, our typical plan location.

Let's pick that and turn on our guide grid. And you can see it gives us our guide grid here. So let's drag in our level one, place it randomly so we can get a look at our grids.

Let's go to our column. Again, let's go to our modify tab, our move command, and our, let's pick our plan. Let's identify our intersection, let's pick it, and let's place it at our intersecting point here.

Let's escape out of that. And you see we placed our first floor at the same location as our foundation. Okay, again, let's pick our title.

We want to change that to title with line. And again, we want to change the name of the title on sheet to first floor. Very good.

Again, let's shrink this line down a little bit, give us something we want to look at that looks pleasing to the eye. And there you have it. Go ahead and finish out levels two through the high roof, and we'll see you when you get that finished.

Now that we've placed all the floor plans, let's finish with the roof. Let's go to sheets, let's right click, new sheet, border's there, let's hit okay. Let's rename our sheet, pick twice on unnamed.

You see the dialog box comes up. Let's call this roof and high roof plans. Because what we're going to do is we're going to combine two framing plans into one sheet.

Okay, let's go ahead and let's turn on our guide grid again over here in the properties. Typical plan location. You see the guide grid comes up in the same location on every sheet.

So let's drag our roof in here. Okay, let's give it the move command. Find our intersecting location that we've had previously at 1.1 and E.9. Let's place it at this intersection to escape.

Now what we want to do is let's finish cleaning it up. Let's bring our title line up. Again, since we've picked the plan, it gives us the bubble, let's shorten it up.

Let's give it the correct title with line. Okay, and let's change it to roof plan. Very good.

What we're going to do here is we're going to pick in the element and we're going to turn on the perimeter so that we can shrink it up a little bit so we can get our high roof framing plan in this area. Very good, that's finished. Let's go ahead and turn it back off.

And in 2015, what we can do is we can pick twice outside of our window and it takes us out of the active view and we can go back now and place the high roof framing plan. So let's grab it. Let's drag it in.

And this one we can place randomly as we want to make it fit here. And you see the alignment line popped up when we moved the plan into place. This will align it directly with the placement where it occurs above the low roof plan.

Okay, let's clean this up a little bit. Let's zoom in. Again, let's rename it first.

Here, we're going to call this high roof plan. Very good. Okay, let's change that title line up here.

And let's shorten it up. And pick it independently and move it into place. Now what we want to do is we want to clean up the grids a little bit because they're overlapping the border and overlapping the low roof framing plan.

So let's pick it twice, activate it. Let's grab our grid. Again, let's set it to 2D.

Let's drag it in board a little bit. Let's do the same thing with grid line three. And at the other ends.

Since we're outside the plane of the window that we have, we can do this because it's already set to 2D. Okay, let's pick outside of it. And there you have it.

We now have set all of the plans into sheets. And this is going to be the basis of our drawings. We don't need the guide grid anymore since we've already set our plans in place.

So let's go back to our properties. Let's go to our guide grid. Let's go to none.

Go back into our drawing. Now they've all gone in our other sheets. Okay, let's take a look at what we have starting here at the high roof.

And the roof, we have our plan layouts on sheets noted with our title block set. Let's close that one. Here we have the fifth floor.

And zoom on. We have the fourth floor. We have the third floor.

We have the fourth floor. Again, let's turn off that guide grid. You have to do it individually on each sheet.

I will correct myself on that. It doesn't do it when you turn it off in one. Let's close this one.

And let's, again, the guide grid to none. Let's close this one. There we have the foundation plan.

Okay, let's turn off the guide grid. Now that we've placed all of our plans, framing plans in our sheets, we can get started with basic notations for general information and detailing. And we'll get to that in the next video.

That's it for this video. We'll see you in the next one.