From the course: Revit 2022: Essential Training for Structure (Metric)

Adding and setting up structural views

From the course: Revit 2022: Essential Training for Structure (Metric)

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Adding and setting up structural views

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- [Instructor] It's time to check out how our views look. I'll tell you right now, right out of the box, it doesn't look very pleasing. That's all right. We can fix that. We're going to use what's called visibility graphic overrides. It's already time to discuss the fact that Revit doesn't actually have layers, which is a good thing. What Revit wisely does instead is employs an object driven mindset to control the visibility and line weights of elements, not what layer color they happen to be. The objective of this video is to explore visibility graphics, as well as our global visibility settings. Let's get into Revit. I'm going to open my structural three. Let's go to my favorite elevation, which is the South elevation if you're not already there by default. We can see some architectural elements. But like we've done before, let's switch this over to coordination. In our view properties, let's scroll down till we find discipline. Instead of structural, we'll change this one also to coordination and hit apply. Notice we can now see the brick facade and everything architectural that's in this building. It's not uncommon to keep switching between disciplines. Eventually, (indistinct) arrive at structural. But for now in the early stages of our model, we want to switch between coordination and architectural. Another important aspect to bring up about Revit is the fact that just because we changed this one single view, the coordination that doesn't affect any other view in the entire model. And that's good 'cause we can duplicate these views and make them look however we want without affecting the physical model. That being said in the project browser, let's scroll down to level one structural plan. Looks pretty ugly. So, we know that we should switch our discipline to coordination then click apply. But there's other things missing. And there's a lot of extra lines that are sketching through it. And there's some over here that are kind of annoying. What I want to do is turn these off. What we'll do is we'll go to our visibility graphics. In your structural plan properties, let's come down to visibility graphics. And notice there's an edit button right here. You can also type VG. But don't hit enter. This is our new layer manager. We can turn items on or off that we see fit. If we go to annotation categories, we can scroll down to reference planes. And we can uncheck these. Hit apply. But notice again, at the top of this dialogue, it says visibility graphic overrides for structural plan level one. Meaning the rest of our model will not be affected by the changes we make here. This is only for this view. Click OK. At the bottom of the view, we have what's called the view control toolbar. Our scale is set one to 100. But you can change that. We'll keep it there for now. Right next to that is the detail level. If we click our detail level where it says course, we can change that to fine. Notice that that's going to turn on a lot more lines. Structural usually we keep that to course. But in this case, we'll turn it to fine. And when we come back and model this, we might have to change it, but that's okay. Let's go to a 3D view. How do we go to a 3D view? Well, what we can do is come right up here and we can click on this little house. Also, if you go to the view tab, the little house is here. Go ahead and click on 3D view. Wow. There's a lot of stuff going on here. We can turn it off though. If we type VG for visibility graphics, we have a lot of overlapping levels. If we come down to Revit links under architectural we have that set up by the host view. So under display settings, if we click on by host view, we can go to custom. Now, if we go to annotation categories. Under annotation categories instead of by host view, we'll go custom. Now let's scroll down till we find levels, and uncheck it. Click apply. Click OK. Click OK. It's still looks kind of funny. So, what we can do is we can set our detail level to fine. We can set our discipline to coordination. And we can set our visual style to realistic. Now we have a pretty good view of that model. So, there we go. That's how we set up how our views look.

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