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

Creating levels

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

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Creating levels

- [Instructor] Now that our architectural model's linked in, we can start to think about items other than the physical building we use from the architect. Levels are one of those items. So, we'll jump in. Let's go into Revit. I'm going to open my Structural-01 model, which is contained within my chapter one folder, or you can use whatever model you're working on to follow along. I'm going to open it up. If we zoom in on our building, what I want to do is go to the project browser. Notice that all of our levels are contained right here. To create Levels, what I'd like to do is go to the South elevation, elevation South. Also notice that we have some little datums in our model. Don't delete these. These are actual live views of our model. So you can go to your South elevation by either double-clicking South here or by double-clicking South here. It seems like kind of a mess but let's zoom in and take a look. Notice that we have a Level 2 at 300 millimeters. The architect's Level 2 is 3048. What we want to do is arrive at the bottom of this slab right here. But what we need to do just to kind of clear things up. Select Level 2. Notice that there's a lock icon which means that it's locked to the level below it. So if we click on this grip right here, notice that both levels will move together. I like this behavior in Revit. What I'm doing now is I still have my Pick button pressed but I'm scrolling in and out with my middle finger. Hit escape a couple of times. Now for structure, Level 2 does not want to match the architectural finish floor Level 2. What we need to know is where our top of steel is. And that's going to be just below this slab. So I'm going to use my align tool to align my Level 2 to the bottom of this slab. If you go to the modify tab there's an align icon right here, click align. In the align command the object you want to align to is the object you select first. The object you physically want to move which is a level, you select second. So if I select the bottom of our slab here, now if I select our level, it will align to it. Ignore the lock icon. Now our Level 2 is at 2870. Hit escape a couple of times to create a new level, we can go to the structure tab. And way down here is the level command. Or if you right click an object and create similar that's going to start the level of command also. What we want to do is now pick the bottom of this slab on each level, until we get to the roof. So we're going to click on our pick lines button and we're going to zoom in on Level 3. We'll select the bottom. Don't worry about where it is right now we'll move that in a moment. Select Level 4. Select Level 5 and select your roof. Hit escape a couple of times. Now it looks like the roof level is disappeared, but it's not. We'll select this level. Grab that grip like we did earlier. Pick it, drag it over. Notice that once we get near Level 2, it will align it. Notice we have our little lock icon. Also notice that we can't see the datum or the text. We can just click on this little checkbox here and it'll show the bubble. Hit escape a couple of times. Select Level 5. It's easier if you click it on to the text somewhere. If you click the actual datum, notice that you can't select it. It's kind of quirky behavior but that's how Revit works. Select Level 5. Grab that little icon. And I'm going to bring it out until it clicks into alignment. And we're good. Hit escape a couple of times. Now It's kind of hard to see the roof level. We don't need a parapet in our structural model but for Level 6 click into Level 6. All caps, let's call it roof And hit enter. Now Revit wants to know if we want to rename the corresponding views meaning do we want Level 6 to stay Level 6 here? We don't, we want that to say roof. So we're going to say yes. Notice now that roof coincides with roof. We also have a type of footing level we need to deal with. So let's right click on Level 1, create similar. If we click on the Pick lines button, instead of selecting this, I want to show you the offset command. So for the offset, I'm going to type in 3048. Now we can select Level 1, and it's going to offset it down. We don't need to type in the negative value. Revit just knows it will be a negative value from zero. Select that, hit escape a couple of times. Select Level 7, and let's rename it to top of footing T period O period space footing. Hit enter, yes we would like to rename the corresponding views. Hit escape again and there we go. Now we have all of our levels in and we're ready to go.

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