Detailing

Name: Detailing
Author: Patrick Porter

In these lessons you will learn about Revit’s detailing tools

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Hello. Welcome. In this chapter, we're gonna discuss detailing in Revit. And in this particular lesson, I'm gonna introduce you to placing detail components. Now, before we get started, I'd like for you to note that I'm running Revit LT 2022, and I have opened up the detailing Revit project from the exercise files. So once you get that open, let's go ahead and follow along with me. So when creating details in Revit, you're usually doing this to create a final level of detail for some of your model elements or a particular view that you have. So in this process of creating a detail view, you typically construct your model elements as you would and then you increase the level of detail by drawing over them with detail components. Now, detail for use can typically be done from creating a drafting callout view or detail view, or you can do it from a section view. And the level one view that I have displayed on my screen, we already have a section down here. So let's go ahead and double-click on this section head to launch us into the section view where we're going to add some detail components. So let's zoom in a little bit on this view. And in here, we can see our brick wall, which is a basic wall, and we're going to place a few components, 2D elements over top of this view, to give it a little bit more detail. To do this, I'm going to come up to the Annotate tab on the ribbon, and then we'll come over to the Detail panel and then Component. So click the dropdown arrow here, and here we have the ability to place detail components that have already been loaded into my project. So I'm gonna click this. And then we're gonna have to come over here to the type selector. And these are the different elements that have currently been loaded into our project. So I have the Break Line, the Brick Standard, I have Nominal Cut Lumber, and we have Rough Cut Lumber. Let's go ahead and choose the Rough Cut Lumber section, two by six. So we select that. And on my cursor, we have the lumber block that we're going to place. We can rotate it by pressing the spacebar on our keyboard. Gonna get it till here. And I'm gonna snap down over here in place. When you're done placing your components, you can press the Modify button over here or you can just hit the escape key. Let's continue to add some more detail to this section view that I have here. Let's place some insulation. So on the ribbon under the Annotate tab, we're gonna come over here to the Detail panel and we can click on Insulation. And in the ribbon, it changes to the Modify Place Insulation, where I can adjust the width of my insulation. I'm gonna leave it at six inches. You can create a chain, you can set an offset, and we can adjust how it's gonna place. I'm gonna leave it at to center. And then we're gonna come down over here in the view and I'm gonna snap right about to the center of here. And I'm just gonna draw up for my insulation. When you're done, you click away and press the escape key. That was easy enough to accomplish. To get a better idea of the detail components that you already have loaded into your project, you can come over here to the project browser, as I have here, and you can scroll down to the families area, hit the plus again just to expand mine, and if you look under the Detail Items, these are the detail items that have currently been loaded into my project. I can select one of these from off of here, which is the break line in this case, I can drag it out into my view, and just like that, I can place this. I'm gonna hit the spacebar to rotate it. And here's that break line. And it has its own set of controls. Hit the escape key to stop placing it. With this, I can drag out how far the break is gonna be. And what this does is this masks the area within this area here. If a particular component that I would like to place is not already loaded, I can come over here to the component, Detail Component, and I can click on Load Family. And in my library, under English Library, for detail components, I can choose from all of those default ones that come with Revit, any of these that I would like to place. Gonna hit Cancel here. And that was a look at loading and placing detail components in Revit. Join me in the next lesson where we will take a look at creating detail lines.

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Course Description

In these Detailing lessons, you will discover Revit’s 2D detail components and shapes to enhance your detail views. You will create detail lines to aid in adding more features to your views. You will then use regions to create graphics that represent various real-world materials such as earth or sand. You will also create an annotated legend and detail views and learn how to control the display of annotations in these views. Finally, you will explore exporting and importing detail views.

This module will explore more of Revit’s 2D drawing tools by focusing on detail elements. Most of your focus when using Revit is based on 3D modeling. Your goal usually isn’t to model everything but just enough to show what the building is going to look like. When a more detailed view is necessary, in comes Revit’s detailing tools to create 2D detail elements that allow you to augment your views and add extra “detailed” information to your views without adding bulk to your models by spending a lot of time modeling every detail feature.

What You'll Learn

Create detail lines to add features to your views
Create regions to represent real-world materials such as earth or sand
Annotate detail views and control the display of annotations
Create annotated legends and detail views
Place 2D detail components and shapes to enhance detail views
Save, export, and import detail views from files

Key Takeaways

Revit's detailing tools create 2D detail elements that augment views without adding bulk to 3D models.
Detail components, detail lines, and regions let you add detailed information and represent materials like earth or sand.
Most Revit work focuses on 3D modeling just enough to show what a building will look like, with detailing tools used when a more detailed view is necessary.
The module covers controlling the display of annotations within detail views and creating annotated legends.
Detail views can be saved, exported, and imported between files.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Detailing course cover?

It covers Revit's 2D detail components and shapes, creating detail lines, creating regions to represent materials such as earth or sand, annotating detail views, creating annotated legends, controlling the display of annotations, and exporting and importing detail views.

What are the learning objectives of this course?

The stated objectives are to create detail lines, create regions, learn to annotate detail views, create legends, and perform view saving and extraction.

What lessons are included in this course?

The lessons are: Introducing and Placing Components, Creating Detail Lines, Creating Regions, Annotating Detail Views, Creating Legends, and Saving and Inserting Views from Files.

Why use Revit's detailing tools instead of modeling everything in 3D?

Detailing tools let you create 2D detail elements that add extra detailed information to your views without adding bulk to your models or spending a lot of time modeling every detail feature.

What skills does this course relate to?

It relates to being detail oriented, Autodesk Revit, Creo Elements/Direct Drafting (2D CAD), solid modeling, structural detailing, and visual modeling.