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

Creating levels - Revit Structure Tutorial

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

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Creating levels

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- [Instructor] Now that our architectural model is linked into our blank model, we can start to think about items other than the physical building we used from the architect. Levels are one of those items. By going to the South elevation, we're going to locate the architectural levels. Then we're going to create our own type of steel elevation six inches below the architectural finished floor elevations. Then we're going to add a penthouse level. So let's get started. Under models I'm going to go open, browse to where you're keeping your exercise files, and I'm going to grab Structure_02, click open. Now, notice that we're in level two. What I want to do to create levels is go to either an elevation or a section, which we don't have yet. To go to an elevation we can do one of two things. If I zoom in on this South elevation here - I did that by wheeling my button away from me - we'll see we have South. If I hover over it, it says views elevation South. The reason in the last video I had you pick a window around these two items, is the fact that these are independent of one another. See, if I click on here, I can turn on four full elevations. So if we're going to move these, we need to actually move them using a window. In the project browser, we'll look over here and we will see that we have elevations. East, North, South, West, and you'll see they correspond with these elevations that we have in this model. They are linked, they're the same thing. So if we want to go to a South elevation, we can either double-click it here in the project browser, or double-click it here. That brings us into an elevation of our model. Since our discipline is set for structure, we're not seeing a lot of the architectural elements, which in this case is good, I want to keep it that way. What I want to concentrate on is the thickness of their floor and these levels. By default, our template had two levels built into it. The architect has added levels and has altered the elevation of their levels. So we need to deal with that, we need to copy that. So if I select this level here, right on the line, you'll see that a little dot appears, and there's an alignment line that kind of links the two together. This little lock, make sure that, if I move this level, this level will move along with it, consistent with the same movement. So I'm going to pick on this grip here. And if I pick and hold, and I wheel out with my wheel button, and I pick a point right here, and hit Escape a couple times, we can kind of delineate between the architectural level and our level. What I'd like to do is I want our level to be abutted to the bottom of this deck. There's a couple things we can do. Let's do the align command. Go to modify, then go to align right here, or notice in parentheses, we can type AL. So, I'm going to click align, I'm going to grab the bottom of this slab right here. So, the destination is the line you want to pick first. The object you want to move is going to be the line you pick second. So I'm going to go along and I'm going to pick somewhere along there. Don't lock it, ignore the lock. I'm going to hit Escape a couple times, and we have level two at 11' 6'', that's where we want it. Now, I want to create another level. There's two ways to do it, if you go to the structure tab, you can click the level button right here. Or, if you right-click on level two, you can create similar right here. So either way you want to do it, that's fine. Now, what we can do is, if we click on the pick lines button, we can either offset level three down, we can pick the bottom of the slab, or we can offset level two up 12 feet, so let's do that. For the offset, let's type in one two, for 12 feet, and we'll offset this level up. We'll offset this level up. Offset this level up, and for the last level what we're going to do is we're just going to go ahead and pick lines, and we're going to get rid of our offset. So for the offset, type zero, and we're going to pick the roof right here. Now hit Escape a couple times. When we pick the roof, notice for some reason, it didn't put our datum, or our information, on it, but that's okay. If you hover over this right here, you'll see that it will highlight that level. If you grab this grip right here and drag it to the right like we did before, notice that we can drag it right out til it lines up with level five, see that? Once you see that, it's going to add that lock, and now notice that we have a little checkbox here. So if you click on that check box, it's going to give us our information. Let's hit Escape a couple times. Zoom into level six, select it, pick it again. In all caps, let's call it ROOF, then hit Enter. We just looked at how our project browser is linked to our elevations. It's also linked to our levels. So would you like to rename corresponding views? Yes, we want the project browser to have the same name as our level so click yes. And hit Escape a couple times. Down on the end, I can grab these ends. Notice that it says 3D, and there's a lock, so we can pull these in a little bit so they're kind of even. And for our roof level, if we hit Escape a couple times, select this, and we can uncheck where it says roof there. One more level. So let's right-click on level one and create similar. On the draw panel, click pick lines. Let's offset that six feet. You don't need to type in the foot mark, if you just type six, Revit will automatically assume you need six feet because our settings are set up for fractional feet and inches. So if we offset level one down, notice that, when we hover over level one, we get an alignment line that goes downward. If we're to select it from the top coming down, they'd go in the wrong direction. So pick it coming from the bottom up, select it, hit Escape a couple times. I'm going to rename that from level seven to top of footing, so click level seven, click it again, call it T period O period footing, and hit enter. Yes, we would like to rename corresponding views, so click yes. Hit Escape a couple times. Now in our project browser, notice that we have structural plans level one through roof then site then type of footing. Select level one analytical, hold down your Control key, select level two analytical, right-click, and let's just delete them, we can get them out of the way. We can also delete the site. So select site, right-click, and delete. And that's it, that's how you create levels in Revit.

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