From the course: Revit: Industrialized Construction

Working to your own standard - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit: Industrialized Construction

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Working to your own standard

- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter now, where we're going to be looking at Working With Our CAD Drawings. In essence, we're going to be a BIM level zero in our industrialized construction workflow. So what we've got is a drawing in the library for you, it's called Rest Room 1_2021-PLAN-Lvl 1.dwg. It's a bit long winded, but you'll understand that later when we start bringing these CAD drawings into our Revit model, ready to start thinking about industrialised construction. Now also bear in mind as we work through these AutoCAD and Revit chapters, a lot of the drawings a lot of the models will be pre prepared, and you can just download them from the library to utilize them effectively. It just saves you all the donkey work of creating all the lines, arcs, circles, families, et cetera. So, there's our drawing. That's the name of it at the top in AutoCAD 2021 it's Rest Room 1_2021-PLAN-Lvl 1.dwg. Download it from the library, open up your AutoCAD. And there we go. Now, the good thing about the DWG file is it's been saved back in 2013 DWG file format, so you can open it up in versions of AutoCAD from 2013. upwards too which really helps. We're going to have a look now at working with your own standard. Now sometimes companies adopt their own standard. And I've simplified this dramatically if we go into the Home tab on the ribbon in AutoCAD, with the drawing open and go to Layer Properties. We've got some layers there that don't really adhere to any standard whatsoever. And they are doors, floor and walls. Now those three layers are in essence my own standard. I haven't used any standard terminology for them whatsoever. You'll notice that there's a lot of other layers that do adhere to standards. And that particular standard is BS 1192. You'll notice these ones beginning with a, and that one there beginning with m. Now, if you're utilizing your own standard, you might want to put objects onto those particular layers. So for example, if I zoom in on the bottom left corner, you can see we've got a door here represented by a line. I'll select that line, and I'll go to my layer drop down and put that on the layer doors, hit escape to deselect, changes color on a different layer. That's where you're adopting your own standard. I'll just undo that 'cause I want it to stay on the British Standard. I'll go back now to zoom out by double clicking on the wheel. And let's say for example, I wanted to add one of the wall lines to my own walls layer. I'll zoom in here, there's a line there. Let's select that line. And you can see it's utilizing a standard layer at the moment. I'll put it on to my own standard layer walls, hit escape to deselect and you can see it changes color and it's green instead of yellow. Now, I'm just going to undo that and pop it back to the British Standard, and then double click on the wheel to Zoom Extents. Now, you want to adopt a commonly used standard with all of your AutoCAD drawings when you're thinking about including them in a BIM process or workflow. So, you'll notice that the layers that I'm using are the ones that begin with a, begin with m. And they're the standardized a BS 1192 layers that I'm using in this particular AutoCAD drawing. And as we work through this chapter, I'm going to take you through how to prepare your CAD drawing to then bring it into your Revit project.

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