From the course: Revit: Fire-Alarm Systems Design

Linking architecture - Revit MEP Tutorial

From the course: Revit: Fire-Alarm Systems Design

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Linking architecture

- [Instructor] Let's start from the beginning. Linking in architectural models is certainly first in the list. Unlike AutoCAD MEP, in Revit we're not going to get very far until we do this step. That's because Revit is heavily dependent on the architectural elements, such as walls, ceilings, and floors. Without it, we'd be simply floating in space. The objective of this video is to find an architectural model, then we'll go to the insert tab and select the link Revit function. From there, we're going to link it origin origin, pin it, turn on room bounding, and configure the halftone underlays settings. So jump into Revit. Under projects, let's go to new. The template file, if we click the dropdown notice there's only four here, but if we click Browse, that's going to bring us to the expanded directory. Select Electrical hyphen Default dot RTE and click open. There's a good chance, if you're working at a company, they have an electrical template already set up for that company. Click OK. So here we are, Revit defaults us to the floor plan one lighting. We'll have to change that, but not now. The objective here is to just bring in an architectural underlay. To do that, go to the insert tab. You can also, in your project browser, scroll down to the very bottom, right click on Revit links, and select new link, it's the same thing. Click link Revit, browse to where you're keeping your exercise files. I'm going to find my architectural dot RVT. For positioning, I'd like to go auto origin to origin, that's the default. Click open, there it is. The very next thing I'd like to do is pin it down to make sure no one moves it. If we select the underlay, we can now come up to the modify Revit links tab, and notice there's a little pin icon, click it. We have now pinned down our underlay, that way we can't even move it. If you hit escape a couple of times, notice that right now when I try to hover over it, I can't even select it. That's because down here I have a few things turned off. I have select underlay elements disabled, so if I enable this, now I also have my pinned elements, I'd like to enable this. Now when I hover over my link, I can select it. One other thing I'd like to do is select the link, now click edit type in the properties. Let's turn on room bounding. What this does is, when we go to put in spaces, Revit will recognize walls, floors, and ceilings. Click apply, and then click OK, now hit escape a couple of times. One thing I'd like to do is, notice in the project browser, we have Revit links, but now we have a drill down icon. Notice that architectural is in here. If you right click on Revit links, let's go up to manage links. If you're used to AutoCAD, this is your Xref manager. Notice here we have Revit, I like to set my path type for relative, that way if it's in the same folder it'll pick it up. I like to set my reference type to overlay, so that means if link we our electrical model into another model, the architectural underlay from this model won't show up in the model that we have this linked into. If we select architectural dot rvt, notice that we can reload from, if we want it to come from another directory, simply reload it, unload it, add a new one, and of course remove it from the project entirely. I'm going to hit cancel here. One other thing I'd like to look at is the fact that it's so light. That's our halftone underlays settings. If we go to manage, then additional settings, come down to halftone underlay, we can change this, I'd like to add a weight of one. No override for my pattern, I'd like to apply a halftone, but I generally like to crank that up to 80. Depending on how your plotters plot, you might need to adjust this. Click okay, notice that it darkened it up a bit. So there you go, that's how you add an architectural underlay.

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