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Transcript
00:07
INSTRUCTOR: You could start adding walls
00:09
any time you have enough information to place them.
00:11
In projects with a column grid it's
00:12
usually convenient to lay out the grid first, and then
00:15
use that to help you place the walls.
00:17
But you can start adding walls right away instead,
00:19
if you wish.
00:20
There's really no one right, or wrong way to do it.
00:22
In this example, we're going to lay out
00:24
the exterior walls of our building,
00:26
and we're going to use the column grid to help us do that.
00:29
So to get started, let's go to the architecture tab here,
00:32
and click the wall command or you can type the letters WA.
00:37
Now, the first thing we want to look at is the kind of wall
00:39
that we're drawing with.
00:40
So if you come over to the Properties palette
00:42
at the very top, there is a dropdown menu,
00:44
and this is called the type selector.
00:47
When you click that, it will expand open, and give us
00:49
a list of all the available types
00:51
that we have to choose from.
00:52
Now, it defaults to generic 8 inch.
00:54
We want something just a little bit thicker,
00:56
so we're going to choose generic 12 inch.
00:59
Now, all this means is generic wall is a simple wall with one
01:03
material, and that material happens to be 12 inches thick.
01:06
So it's a good sort of placeholder wall.
01:08
The next thing we want to consider
01:09
is, how we want to draw the walls.
01:11
Do we want to do them line by line,
01:12
do we want to do the shapes, rectangles, circles, arc,
01:15
and we have all those choices here in this little toolbox.
01:19
So for this example, drawing with rectangles
01:21
will be convenient.
01:22
Because we'll be able to click two opposite points
01:25
along the diagonal of a rectangle, and that
01:28
will create four separate walls for us.
01:30
Now if I start clicking right at the point
01:32
I want my walls will be right on top of the grid lines.
01:35
So what I want to do is actually offset them
01:37
away from those clicks just a little bit.
01:40
So the offset that I'm going to put in is one foot,
01:43
and then let's highlight the intersection of grid A1.
01:47
Notice that we'll highlight both grids,
01:49
and it'll put a little X there indicating the intersection.
01:52
That's an object snap, and Revit will snap directly
01:56
to that point with exact precision.
01:58
So go ahead and click right there,
01:60
and then start moving down into the right along a diagonal,
02:04
and you'll see the rectangle start to form.
02:06
Then what we want to do is locate
02:09
the intersection of G and 6, and click
02:13
to place our second point.
02:15
And we end up with four walls in a rectangular formation.
02:19
Now we're going to stay in this tool
02:22
and keep all the same settings, and draw a second rectangle
02:26
from the intersection of D6 over to the intersection of H9,
02:32
and then one more from the intersection of E9,
02:37
down to the intersection of J10.
02:41
I'll click the Modify tool here to cancel the command,
02:44
and that's the basic layout of walls that we need.
02:48
Now next, we need to do some cleanup.
02:52
Some of the walls may not be in exactly the correct locations.
02:55
So we can start making modifications to it.
02:58
So the idea in Revit is you do a rough sketch first,
03:02
that's close to what you want.
03:04
And then you come back and you massage it and you refine it
03:07
until it's more correct.
03:09
So what I want to do is take this wall right here,
03:12
that's to the left of grid 6, and I want
03:15
to move that over a little bit.
03:16
Now there's a bunch of ways we could move things in Revit
03:19
but one of the simplest ways to do
03:21
it is to use these dimensions that appear on screen.
03:25
So notice it there's a long dimension here,
03:27
and a short one here.
03:28
Let's highlight the short one, and activate that value.
03:31
It's currently 2 feet, and what I want to do
03:34
is type in a new value of
03:39
And when you do it'll move that wall over
03:42
to match the dimension that you called for.
03:45
Next, I want to eliminate these internal pieces of the walls,
03:50
and end up with just a clean outer shape.
03:53
And we can do that on the Modify tab with this trim
03:57
and extend to corner tool.
03:59
The keyboard shortcut for this is TR.
04:01
So the way this works is you run the command,
04:04
and it says, select the first line or element that you
04:07
want to trim and extend.
04:08
And it says, click the part you want to keep.
04:10
That's really important.
04:12
So in this case, I want to keep the part to the left-hand side
04:17
of this lower wall.
04:18
And then it's going to repeat that prompt with the same click
04:22
the part you want to keep.
04:23
So this time I want to pick the lower
04:26
portion of the vertical wall.
04:28
And notice that it trims off the excess on the other side.
04:33
So let's repeat that over here.
04:35
I want to keep the vertical part above,
04:37
and I want to keep the horizontal part to the right.
04:41
So real easy to use that tool to create an L condition that
04:46
joins up two lines of the walls at a point,
04:49
and trims off the excess.
04:51
In the case where the walls are too short,
04:53
it will extend them to make that connection.
04:57
Let's move on to another trim and extend tool here,
05:01
trim and extend single element.
05:04
Now, the reason I want to use this one this time is
05:07
on the other two rectangles the condition
05:10
is a little bit different.
05:12
I do want to keep some of the interior lines.
05:16
So let's zoom in a little bit to make
05:18
this a little easier to see, so I just sort of roll
05:20
my wheel a few clicks.
05:22
Here, we're asked for a boundary edge first,
05:26
and then the element we want to trim or extend.
05:28
So here you can pick either side of this horizontal wall
05:31
at the bottom as our boundary edge.
05:34
Then it's click the part you want to keep.
05:37
So I want to keep this lower portion of this line right
05:42
here, and when I click it, it will trim off
05:45
the excess up at the top.
05:47
So let's repeat this over here to the right.
05:49
Pick either side of the vertical as the boundary,
05:52
and then I want to click the right-hand side,
05:54
because that's the part I want to keep,
05:56
and it will trim off the little excess on the side.
06:00
So let's click the Modify tool to cancel out of there.
06:02
Now, I'm going to zoom back out slightly just so that we
06:06
can see the entire plan again.
06:08
Now, let's make some selections and adjust the heights
06:11
of some of these walls.
06:13
So one way that I could select the four
06:16
walls, and the small rectangle to the right
06:19
is to just simply Control-click all four.
06:21
Over here on the properties, it'll say walls, and then four.
06:25
Once I have those selected what I want to do next,
06:30
is go over to the Properties palette,
06:32
and in the unconnected height field
06:35
I can change the value of the height of these walls.
06:39
I'm going to type in 33, which is 33 feet and press Enter.
06:45
Now, you won't see the result of that change
06:48
here in the plan view, you will be
06:50
seeing that in just a moment when we switch to another view.
06:53
What I want to do instead, is show you a faster way
06:57
to make the selection than the Control-click method
06:59
that we just did.
07:01
Highlight one of the exterior walls
07:04
that we haven't changed the height of yet.
07:06
Press the Tab key on your keyboard.
07:09
Now don't hold tab down, just press it,
07:11
and notice that it reaches around the chain of walls Revit
07:16
calls this endpoint to endpoint and highlights
07:19
all of the connected elements in that chain.
07:22
Now notice it ignored the ones on the far right, because those
07:26
aren't touching endpoint to endpoint,
07:28
so that's not considered a chain.
07:30
In order to be a chain, it has to be touching end to end.
07:33
Now if I click the mouse, it will select
07:36
that entire chain of walls.
07:37
So notice that with a highlight and a tab, a single click
07:41
I was able to select eight walls, which
07:43
is much more efficient than control clicking eight times.
07:47
Now, that I have those selected, I'm
07:50
going to instead of changing the height directly here,
07:54
I'm going to actually associate the height of those walls
07:57
to one of my levels.
07:58
So I'm going to say that they go up to the roof level.
08:02
In addition to that, I want to give them
08:04
a small parapet at the top.
08:06
So you see here how there's a top offset?
08:09
I can type in a value there like 3,
08:12
and that will add an additional 3 feet
08:14
to the top of those walls.
08:17
I want to select the vertically oriented rectangle on the left
08:21
now, and lower the height down a little bit.
08:25
The easiest way to do that is going
08:26
to be to use a window selection.
08:28
So I'm going to start out here, next to A and 1.
08:31
Click and hold down the mouse.
08:33
Notice that deselects everything.
08:35
And then start making a box just big enough
08:39
to surround the rectangle on the left only.
08:43
And that will select four walls.
08:45
And instead of those going all the way to the roof,
08:48
I'll drop them down to level two.
08:50
But I want to keep the 3-foot top offset.
08:54
So now at this point, I want to check out
08:57
our progress, and the best way to do that is
08:60
going to be in a 3D view.
09:02
So I'll come up here and click our little birdhouse icon
09:04
to open up the default 3D view.
09:07
And now you can see the various heights
09:09
that we've assigned to all of the walls.
00:07
INSTRUCTOR: You could start adding walls
00:09
any time you have enough information to place them.
00:11
In projects with a column grid it's
00:12
usually convenient to lay out the grid first, and then
00:15
use that to help you place the walls.
00:17
But you can start adding walls right away instead,
00:19
if you wish.
00:20
There's really no one right, or wrong way to do it.
00:22
In this example, we're going to lay out
00:24
the exterior walls of our building,
00:26
and we're going to use the column grid to help us do that.
00:29
So to get started, let's go to the architecture tab here,
00:32
and click the wall command or you can type the letters WA.
00:37
Now, the first thing we want to look at is the kind of wall
00:39
that we're drawing with.
00:40
So if you come over to the Properties palette
00:42
at the very top, there is a dropdown menu,
00:44
and this is called the type selector.
00:47
When you click that, it will expand open, and give us
00:49
a list of all the available types
00:51
that we have to choose from.
00:52
Now, it defaults to generic 8 inch.
00:54
We want something just a little bit thicker,
00:56
so we're going to choose generic 12 inch.
00:59
Now, all this means is generic wall is a simple wall with one
01:03
material, and that material happens to be 12 inches thick.
01:06
So it's a good sort of placeholder wall.
01:08
The next thing we want to consider
01:09
is, how we want to draw the walls.
01:11
Do we want to do them line by line,
01:12
do we want to do the shapes, rectangles, circles, arc,
01:15
and we have all those choices here in this little toolbox.
01:19
So for this example, drawing with rectangles
01:21
will be convenient.
01:22
Because we'll be able to click two opposite points
01:25
along the diagonal of a rectangle, and that
01:28
will create four separate walls for us.
01:30
Now if I start clicking right at the point
01:32
I want my walls will be right on top of the grid lines.
01:35
So what I want to do is actually offset them
01:37
away from those clicks just a little bit.
01:40
So the offset that I'm going to put in is one foot,
01:43
and then let's highlight the intersection of grid A1.
01:47
Notice that we'll highlight both grids,
01:49
and it'll put a little X there indicating the intersection.
01:52
That's an object snap, and Revit will snap directly
01:56
to that point with exact precision.
01:58
So go ahead and click right there,
01:60
and then start moving down into the right along a diagonal,
02:04
and you'll see the rectangle start to form.
02:06
Then what we want to do is locate
02:09
the intersection of G and 6, and click
02:13
to place our second point.
02:15
And we end up with four walls in a rectangular formation.
02:19
Now we're going to stay in this tool
02:22
and keep all the same settings, and draw a second rectangle
02:26
from the intersection of D6 over to the intersection of H9,
02:32
and then one more from the intersection of E9,
02:37
down to the intersection of J10.
02:41
I'll click the Modify tool here to cancel the command,
02:44
and that's the basic layout of walls that we need.
02:48
Now next, we need to do some cleanup.
02:52
Some of the walls may not be in exactly the correct locations.
02:55
So we can start making modifications to it.
02:58
So the idea in Revit is you do a rough sketch first,
03:02
that's close to what you want.
03:04
And then you come back and you massage it and you refine it
03:07
until it's more correct.
03:09
So what I want to do is take this wall right here,
03:12
that's to the left of grid 6, and I want
03:15
to move that over a little bit.
03:16
Now there's a bunch of ways we could move things in Revit
03:19
but one of the simplest ways to do
03:21
it is to use these dimensions that appear on screen.
03:25
So notice it there's a long dimension here,
03:27
and a short one here.
03:28
Let's highlight the short one, and activate that value.
03:31
It's currently 2 feet, and what I want to do
03:34
is type in a new value of
03:39
And when you do it'll move that wall over
03:42
to match the dimension that you called for.
03:45
Next, I want to eliminate these internal pieces of the walls,
03:50
and end up with just a clean outer shape.
03:53
And we can do that on the Modify tab with this trim
03:57
and extend to corner tool.
03:59
The keyboard shortcut for this is TR.
04:01
So the way this works is you run the command,
04:04
and it says, select the first line or element that you
04:07
want to trim and extend.
04:08
And it says, click the part you want to keep.
04:10
That's really important.
04:12
So in this case, I want to keep the part to the left-hand side
04:17
of this lower wall.
04:18
And then it's going to repeat that prompt with the same click
04:22
the part you want to keep.
04:23
So this time I want to pick the lower
04:26
portion of the vertical wall.
04:28
And notice that it trims off the excess on the other side.
04:33
So let's repeat that over here.
04:35
I want to keep the vertical part above,
04:37
and I want to keep the horizontal part to the right.
04:41
So real easy to use that tool to create an L condition that
04:46
joins up two lines of the walls at a point,
04:49
and trims off the excess.
04:51
In the case where the walls are too short,
04:53
it will extend them to make that connection.
04:57
Let's move on to another trim and extend tool here,
05:01
trim and extend single element.
05:04
Now, the reason I want to use this one this time is
05:07
on the other two rectangles the condition
05:10
is a little bit different.
05:12
I do want to keep some of the interior lines.
05:16
So let's zoom in a little bit to make
05:18
this a little easier to see, so I just sort of roll
05:20
my wheel a few clicks.
05:22
Here, we're asked for a boundary edge first,
05:26
and then the element we want to trim or extend.
05:28
So here you can pick either side of this horizontal wall
05:31
at the bottom as our boundary edge.
05:34
Then it's click the part you want to keep.
05:37
So I want to keep this lower portion of this line right
05:42
here, and when I click it, it will trim off
05:45
the excess up at the top.
05:47
So let's repeat this over here to the right.
05:49
Pick either side of the vertical as the boundary,
05:52
and then I want to click the right-hand side,
05:54
because that's the part I want to keep,
05:56
and it will trim off the little excess on the side.
06:00
So let's click the Modify tool to cancel out of there.
06:02
Now, I'm going to zoom back out slightly just so that we
06:06
can see the entire plan again.
06:08
Now, let's make some selections and adjust the heights
06:11
of some of these walls.
06:13
So one way that I could select the four
06:16
walls, and the small rectangle to the right
06:19
is to just simply Control-click all four.
06:21
Over here on the properties, it'll say walls, and then four.
06:25
Once I have those selected what I want to do next,
06:30
is go over to the Properties palette,
06:32
and in the unconnected height field
06:35
I can change the value of the height of these walls.
06:39
I'm going to type in 33, which is 33 feet and press Enter.
06:45
Now, you won't see the result of that change
06:48
here in the plan view, you will be
06:50
seeing that in just a moment when we switch to another view.
06:53
What I want to do instead, is show you a faster way
06:57
to make the selection than the Control-click method
06:59
that we just did.
07:01
Highlight one of the exterior walls
07:04
that we haven't changed the height of yet.
07:06
Press the Tab key on your keyboard.
07:09
Now don't hold tab down, just press it,
07:11
and notice that it reaches around the chain of walls Revit
07:16
calls this endpoint to endpoint and highlights
07:19
all of the connected elements in that chain.
07:22
Now notice it ignored the ones on the far right, because those
07:26
aren't touching endpoint to endpoint,
07:28
so that's not considered a chain.
07:30
In order to be a chain, it has to be touching end to end.
07:33
Now if I click the mouse, it will select
07:36
that entire chain of walls.
07:37
So notice that with a highlight and a tab, a single click
07:41
I was able to select eight walls, which
07:43
is much more efficient than control clicking eight times.
07:47
Now, that I have those selected, I'm
07:50
going to instead of changing the height directly here,
07:54
I'm going to actually associate the height of those walls
07:57
to one of my levels.
07:58
So I'm going to say that they go up to the roof level.
08:02
In addition to that, I want to give them
08:04
a small parapet at the top.
08:06
So you see here how there's a top offset?
08:09
I can type in a value there like 3,
08:12
and that will add an additional 3 feet
08:14
to the top of those walls.
08:17
I want to select the vertically oriented rectangle on the left
08:21
now, and lower the height down a little bit.
08:25
The easiest way to do that is going
08:26
to be to use a window selection.
08:28
So I'm going to start out here, next to A and 1.
08:31
Click and hold down the mouse.
08:33
Notice that deselects everything.
08:35
And then start making a box just big enough
08:39
to surround the rectangle on the left only.
08:43
And that will select four walls.
08:45
And instead of those going all the way to the roof,
08:48
I'll drop them down to level two.
08:50
But I want to keep the 3-foot top offset.
08:54
So now at this point, I want to check out
08:57
our progress, and the best way to do that is
08:60
going to be in a 3D view.
09:02
So I'll come up here and click our little birdhouse icon
09:04
to open up the default 3D view.
09:07
And now you can see the various heights
09:09
that we've assigned to all of the walls.
You can start adding walls anytime you have enough information to place them. In projects with a column grid, it is usually convenient to layout the grid first. This is what we did here. But you can start right in with adding walls instead if you wish. The process to adding walls is simple: layout walls in rough locations first and then come back and modify their locations, sizes and types. For this example, we will use the column grid to help us locate walls. If you are working in a project that doesn’t have a grid, simply click approximate points first and then move the walls to their proper locations later.
Catch-up file completed to this point: 05_Medical Center_Ext_Walls_A.rvt
Be sure that Level 1 floor plan is the current view. Close any other open view tabs or windows.
Figure 5–1 Run the Wall tool and configure the settings
Pay attention to the orientation of the walls before you click. If the rectangle is being formed inside of the two corners, tap the spacebar to flip to the outside before you click the second point.
Figure 5–2 Use the rectangle option to create the first four walls snapped to grid intersections
Figure 5–3 Create the rough layout of the building footprint with three overlapping rectangles
Catch-up file completed to this point: 05_Medical Center_Ext_Walls_B.rvt
Now that we have the basic exterior walls in place, we can use some standard tools to clean things up a bit. We have a few techniques we can use. The basic premise with all of them is the same: quickly sketch the rough form first (as we did in the previous steps) then modify the form.
Two temporary dimensions will appear tying its location to the walls at its left and right.
Figure 5–4 Use a temporary dimension to move a wall
The wall will move to the left. Next let’s clean up the overlapping portions (see Figure 5–4).
Figure 5–5 The Trim/Extend to Corner tool
13. Click the horizontal wall at Grid G. Click on the left side of the wall.
14. Click the lower portion of the wall at Grid 5 (this is the one we just moved). Be sure to click the part below Grid G (see Figure 5–6).
Figure 5–6 Click the two walls to join in a corner condition - be sure to click the side you want to keep!
You always need to click the portion of the wall that you wish to keep. So, if you got the wrong thing, click the Undo tool (or press ctrl + z) on the Quick Access Toolbar and try again.
Figure 5–7 Use Trim/Extend to Corner at the wall intersection at Grids D and 6
Figure 5–8 The Trim/Extend to Single Element Tool
Figure 5–9 Click the two walls to join in a “T” condition – First click, boundary, second click, the side you want to keep!
Figure 5–10 Use Trim/Extend to Single Element at the wall intersection at Grids E and 9
Clicking on an element selects that element. Clicking a second element deselects the first and selects the new one instead. To select several items at once we have a few methods:
Practice each selection method. Click in empty space or press esc to deselect everything.
We can adjust the heights of the exterior walls on the Properties palette. To do this, we want to select several walls at once.
Be sure to practice the methods just mentioned and in covered in “Selection” above. From now on, selection methods will be referenced by name.
Figure 5–11 Chain select the walls on the right
Figure 5–12 Edit the Unconnected Height of the selected walls
Alternatively, use the levels to set the height of the walls.
Notice that this makes the Unconnected Height “read only”.
Unconnected height now displays a new value based on the height of the Roof level plus the additional 3'-0". This top offset will represent a parapet for these walls (see Figure 5–13).
Figure 5–13 Assign the height of the walls to the Roof level plus a parapet offset
Figure 5–14 Change the height of the left most walls to Level 2
Let’s view the result in 3D.
Figure 5–15Open the default 3D view
Figure 5–16 Open the default 3D view and have a look around
