Creating Sheets and Plotting

Name: Creating Sheets and Plotting
Author: Patrick Porter

In this chapter you will learn how to setup and create Sheets and then how to plot those sheets.

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Hello. Welcome to this chapter, where we are going to discuss creating sheets and plotting. And in this particular lesson, we're going to take a look at an introduction to sheets. Before we get started, I'd like for you to note that I am using Revit LT 2022, and we are not in a drawing or model at this time. So once you go ahead and get Revit launched, let's go ahead and follow along. Now, sheets are used in Revit or almost any CAD application, to create your construction documents that you share with your clients or your engineers to basically communicate your design's intent. In this course, we've been creating and taking a look at some floor plans. We've done some elevations with Revit. You may have even done some 3D drawings. All of this was to convey your design intent. Now we need to put this onto a sheet, so that we can later plot these drawings to submit to our engineers for our construction documents. So to get started, let's go ahead and start off with a brand new model. So let's click over here in Revit under new, under the models area, and we're gonna choose the residential imperial template, and we're gonna be creating a new project. And let's say okay. As this new project loads, it's loading up with a default template of floor plans already created. It has some ceiling plans, some 3D views already, your elevations, but they're all blank because there's no model elements created yet. Let's scroll down here to this section for sheets. Let's hit the plus here, take a look at it. There are sheets already created in this project. Let's double click on the AO basement plan sheet to launch it. Let's look at the property's browser at the top, and with nothing selected, I can see in the property browser that I am in a sheet. I'm in sheet A0 basement plan. In this sheet, it is made up of a title block. So I hover over this title block. I can select this title block here as shown, and now it is active. And over here on the properties browser, it's a D size 22 by 34 horizontal title block. Gonna click here to deactivate the title block, and now I'm back in just the sheet. Your sheets can be created with or without a title block. It is better to create a sheet with a title block, as title blocks are basically necessary to outline the borders of your sheeting. It makes it easier for printing down the line. So let's go ahead and take a look at creating a brand new sheet. Even though this project template was set up with several sheets, let's say we needed to add a new sheet. To do this, one way we can do it is to come over here in the project browser. Right click on the sheets title here, and choose new sheet. When we do this, we're brought up with the new sheet dialogue box. In here, what it's asking you to do is choose the title blocks up here at the top that have been loaded into your template. This template had these two title blocks, the 11 by 17 horizontal and the 22 by 34 horizontal. If you had additional title blocks that you would like to load into your project, you can just click on load right here. In the load family dialogue box, we're gonna browse to the title blocks area. Under imperial here, I'm gonna scroll down till I find title blocks. And in here, I can choose from any of Revit's pre-made title blocks, or any of my company custom title blocks that I may have. I'm gonna go ahead and load in this E size 34 by 44 title block, and then I'm gonna choose open. And that title block has now been added to my template, and is now available for me to select. So I'm gonna go ahead and select this title block here. And for a placeholder sheet, we're gonna leave this as new, and we're just gonna say okay here. And there we've just created a new sheet. I'm going to hover over my title block, and I can see that it is the 34 by 44 title block that I just loaded into this template. If I wanted to switch this title block out to be a different title block, I can have it selected, come over here to the properties, and then I can choose from any of the others that I have already loaded to change its size if I needed to. I'm gonna click away to deselect it. Now let's take a look at some of the properties for this new sheet that we just created. Notice that it is named E3 unnamed, and E3 unnamed also displays in the title block. We can change that by scrolling down and finding the sheet name where it says unnamed, and let's go ahead and just type out floor plans. And for the sheet number, I'm gonna click in here, I'm gonna call it E00, and then press the enter key. I'm gonna move away from here, and notice my title block has updated to the information that we just supplied over here for the sheet name and number. I could have also selected this title block, and I could click in any of these fields, and I can change these parameters with the title block selected as well. So instead of this being E00, let's make it E01. For the number I can click here, then click away, come over here to the properties, take a look at it, and it has been updated here as well. So that was an introduction to creating sheets in Revit. Join me in the next lesson, where we will take a look at creating and adding plan views.

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Course Description

In these lessons on Creating Sheets and Plotting in Revit, you will be introduced to sheets and learn how to create sheets as well as how to add views to your sheets. You will also learn how to add schedules and legends to your sheets and how to build a sheet list. Finally, you will learn about printing and plotting sheets.

Through this course, you have created and worked with different types of views, from plans and sections to details, legends, and schedules. Now you will need to organize those views onto sheets so that they can be printed or exported to PDF format. This module will focus on the creation of sheets in Revit first. To create a set of drawings from your model, you will need to create sheets. The sheets you create will include a title block, and you will learn how to modify the title block text and then how to place views onto those sheets. You will also see how placing a model element view on sheets slightly differs from adding schedules and legends on sheets. From there, you will build an index from all your sheets in the form of a sheet list. You will also learn how to modify, sort, and filter that list appearance as necessary. Then, you will finish by discovering how to create a sheet or view set and how to set up your Revit project for successful plotting.

What You'll Learn

Create sheets in Revit that include a title block, and modify the title block text
Add views to your sheets, including placing model element views
Add schedules and legends to your sheets
Build a sheet list and modify, sort, and filter its appearance
Create a sheet or view set and set up your Revit project for plotting
Print and plot sheets, or export them to PDF format

Key Takeaways

To create a set of drawings from your model that can be printed or exported to PDF, you first need to create sheets in Revit.
Sheets you create include a title block, whose text you can modify before placing views onto the sheet.
Placing a model element view on sheets differs slightly from adding schedules and legends to sheets.
A sheet list serves as an index of all your sheets and can be modified, sorted, and filtered as needed.
Setting up the Revit project correctly through page setup is part of preparing for successful plotting.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Revit course cover?

It introduces sheets and covers how to create sheets, add views to sheets, add schedules and legends to sheets, build a sheet list, and create and print a document set, finishing with printing and plotting.

Why do I need to create sheets in Revit?

To create a set of drawings from your model so they can be printed or exported to PDF format, you need to create sheets and organize your views onto them.

What is a sheet list in this course?

A sheet list is an index built from all your sheets, and the course shows you how to modify, sort, and filter that list's appearance as necessary.

What lessons are included?

The lessons are Introducing Sheets, Creating and Adding Plan Views, Adding Schedules and Legends, Adding Sheet Lists, and Page Setup and Plotting.

What skills does this course relate to?

The course relates to Autodesk Revit, Spreadsheets, Batch Sheets, Blueprinting, Graphing, and Style Sheets.