Revit Structure: Recap and Cleanup - Placing Notes, Plans, Details, and Schedules

Hello, welcome to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've completed placing notes and plans and details and schedules in our project, let's go back and do a recap and a little bit of cleanup.

First thing we want to do is let's take a look at our S11 sheet, our general notes. It seems redundant that we have a header and a detail number on it. Let's get rid of that detail number.

What we want to do is we want to pick the viewport, go to Edit Type, we want to duplicate it, and we'll call it No Title. Now that we've done that, let's go to our parameters and our values. The title, we will pick None.

Let's hit OK. And you notice our number and title is gone. What we can do now is pick the rest of our viewports and change them to No Title.

There you have it. You have a nice, clean general note sheet. Zoom all.

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OK, let's move on. As you remember, we brought these in from the master note sheet, which we picked from Insert, Insert from File. And in our dropdown, we picked Insert, Views from File.

We went to our computer, and on our C drive, where we have our BIM 342 folder, we opened our master note sheet, and we retrieved our information from there. Let's cancel out of that. Let's move on.

Let's go to our foundation plan. Here we remember where we started. We linked our, actually, we relinked the architectural model into this.

Let's pick twice here. Let's activate the view. Let's go to VV.

We have it linked. Visibility. Let's hit OK.

And there we see we have our architectural model backgrounded into our structural model. Depending upon your office standard, some project engineers like to have the background on. Some don't.

So what we can do if we don't want it on is we can go to Manage. We go to Manage Links. We'll pick our overlay.

And we don't want to remove it from the project. We just want to unload it. What that does for us is that gives us a chance to reload it from the original model from the architect or an updated model from the architect.

So let's go ahead and unload. And what this does is we can't undo it once we've done it. We do have to reload it after we're finished.

Let's hit OK. Now we see the status is not loaded. We can always go back and reload from.

And this will take us back to our directory. And we can reload it from there. Let's cancel out of this.

Let's hit OK. And what that does, it removes the background from our project for printing. Very good.

Let's pick twice out here and deactivate our view. Let's move on. As we've seen in the first floor, we placed our details.

We placed our elevations. We've created our sheets, first floor, S2.2, by going to our Sheets, right-clicking, adding a new sheet, or going to the View and adding a new sheet here under the Sheet Composition panel. Very good.

Let's move on. And all the time remodeling the new attributes that the architect has given us. Stairs, equipment rooms, the face here for access into a boutique or shops in the basement area.

Let's move on. Let's go to the second floor. And here, we came in and we placed information on our elements in our plan.

We gave it notations. And as we did in the basement level, or the foundation level, we added dimensions. These will all be used in coordination.

Let's zoom out. Let's move on. Let's go to our roof.

Actually, let's go to the third floor, where we created a typical floor and we placed information, especially on our beam systems that we had in Annotate with our symbols and our beam span notation. That's important because sometimes when we have to create the beam system in the sketch mode, it won't give us this information as it does in the automatic sketch mode when it just picks the area and drops in the elements for us. Let's zoom out.

Let's right click. Let's get out of the command. Let's right click twice, or left click twice.

Let's move on. Now, we found that the third, fourth, and fifth floor were typical, so we placed information once and we copied twice. Very efficient.

Easy way to do things. Now, let's go up to our roof. As we planned our roof out, we had noticed that the architectural discipline had given us an opening in our roof.

Let's finish this out. Let's go here. Now, what we're going to do is we're going to annotate it with a couple of lines to note that it is an opening.

Here. From here to here. We'll place a notation from our text.

We want no arrows. Let's give it a center. And we'll place a notation here, open to below.

That lets us know that this is an open area to the lower level. And after we've done that, let's zoom out. Let's double click.

And after we had created that, we had created a new level in our high roof. Let's go here. Let's clean this up.

We don't need the moment frame notations here. Let's pick one. Select all instances visible in view.

Let's right click on one. Let's hide them. Very good.

We've cleaned this area up. Let's double click out here. And we've deactivated this view.

Very good. Now we've finished with placing trusses. And we used our 3D modeling tool that gave us the pitch of the roof, which helped us lay out our roof trusses along that pitch without having to go in and do it individually.

It did it in one step. Very efficient. Let's go on to our stair plans that we had created from our call outs, if you remember, from our plans.

Created the call out. Placed it here. Resized it.

Renamed it. And now we have the call out in the plan. Let's go to our brace ring elevations.

As you remember, we created this from our view panel. And we used our elevation view from our plans. Let's go back to a plan.

And we created our exterior from our building elevations. And we created our interiors from our framing elevations. Noting that the building elevation can be created on the outside of the building, from any position, at any point, whereas the framing elevations are tied to grids.

The elevation won't show up unless we have a grid line to choose from. OK, let's zoom out. Let's double click out of this.

Let's close this window. Let's move on. We've created our brace frame elevations, placed them on our sheets, sized them, gave them notations, tagging elements as we had created them in the plans.

Same thing with the brace frame elevations. Given elevations that we had linked in from the architectural model using copy monitor. It's important because this gives us information that we don't have to place by hand.

And it's coordinated information with other disciplines. That works well with elevations, which create our plan views and our grid lines. When we have the grid lines and the elevations placed, we create a box to create our elements for our model.

Finally, let's get into the details, details that we brought in from our master details sheet. From the Insert tab, again, we went to our Insert from File, Insert Views from File. And in our C drive, our BIM 342 folder, we went to our master details sheet, which we drew our details from.

And in the process, we brought in CAD details. We created structural details in Revit. We created live details from our plans, which covers the three ways that you can create and detail a project.

And lastly, let's look at schedules. Here we have our schedules that we had created, the grade beam schedule, the spread footing, and the column schedule. Now, having created these schedules, if you remember when we made it, these came directly from the plan.

Now, we created these parameters in our plans. They're text parameters, so we can go ahead and place information by hand. Let's call these number five bars at 12 inches on center each way.

When we go back to our schedule, we see that it's placed it in there. Let's stretch this out a little bit so we can read it. Let's move the schedule over.

Let's close this up a little bit, and there you have it. Having a text box in there, we can place any information we want here and have it read in our schedule for the properties of our beams, columns, and footings. Very good.

Let's go back to our general note sheet. Zoom on. Remember, when you've finished, always go back and take another look at your project.

Place your name here, and then project information. Fill out this information. You are the author.

Check by CD, CAD teacher. This is your project number, BIM 342, and the date. Zoom on.

Very good. Happy modeling. That's it for this video.