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

Adding and setting up structural views - Revit Structure Tutorial

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

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Adding and setting up structural views

- [Instructor] Okay, 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 okay. We can fix that. We're going to use what is called visibility/graphic overrides. It's already time to discuss the fact that Revit doesn't have layers. What Revit wisely does instead is employs an object driven mindset to control the visibility in line weight developments, not what layer of color they happen to be. The objective of this video is to explore visibility graphics as well as our global visibility settings. So let's open up Structure_04. Now, I happen to have landed in the south elevation. If you're not in the south elevation, go ahead and scroll down in your project browser and double click on South for elevations. Because our discipline is set to structural, we can only see a few items. I don't know why windows and doors show up and not much else, but that's what happens. In the properties, if I wanted to change this, I would just scroll down to discipline, instead of structural, I click my dropdown and I would go to coordination, click Apply. Now we can see these items. It's kind of a big opening here, but that's okay. Let's change this discipline back to structural, click Apply, 'cause I'd rather just see it this way. But I want to go to a 3D view. If you click on this icon right here, Default 3D View, this is going to put us in a 3D view. Notice that we have two different tabs. We can switch between. So if I want to go back to South elevation, we click here. If I want to go to 3D, we click here. Notice now on the bottom, this is what's called the view control toolbar. As I had mentioned before, anything we change here is only going to affect the current view that we're in. So for example, we have a bunch of levels. We have the architectural levels, we have R levels and it just looks kind of weird wireframe like. So in our properties, I'm going to scroll down and I'm going to change the discipline to be coordination, click Apply. It's very wireframe looking, 'cause it is wireframe. If I change my scale, it'll only affect this few. We'll keep it at 1/8th inch, but I want to change this detail level. And we'll look at that and plan in a minute. I'm going to set that to fine. But right next to that is my visual style. It's set for wireframe, but if I change it to realistic, we're going to see the building. Now, a couple items are physically turned off it looks like. We have a giant curtain wall here. We have a roof here. So let's see what's going on. If you go to visibility/graphic overrides right here or if you type VG, it's going to bring up Visibility/Graphic Overrides for 3D View. That's it. So if we change anything here, it's only going to affect the 3D view that we're in. So in our filter list, I'm going to click the drop down. Let's turn on architecture and make sure structures on, click off of this. Notice that curtain panels, curtain systems and curtain wall mullions are all turned off. I suspect that roofs are probably turned off too. So scroll down to roofs and turn that on. Now, if you click Apply and click OK, now we can see the actual architectural model. I'm guessing doors and windows are turned off too, but that's okay. We'll just leave those as openings. In the project browser, let's jump down to level one under structural plans. So let's double click on level one, change our discipline to coordination. We're going to wind up changing all these back, but that's fine. Now we'll notice that we can only see two lines of the architectural wall. If we come down to our detail level and go to fine, now we can see all of the wall. That's the difference between viewing this wall in chorus or in fine. Type VG again. Notice that we have overrides. So for example, if I wanted to scroll down to something structural, like structural framing, I can override in just this view, the color, the transparency, the pattern, which is really cool. You can't do that in AutoCAD. But if I click override, we'll notice that we can change the foreground and the background fill color or the lines that can override the line weight. So if I go to weight, it's one through 16. I hit Cancel here. I hit Cancel here. That reads back to if we go to the Manage tab, Object Styles, that's what that one is. So these are the defaults in Object Styles. Visibility/Graphics VG is an override to those global defaults for this specific view that you're in. Hopefully that makes sense. And as we go through this project, we'll be going back and forth through these settings quite a bit.

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