Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2012: No Experience Required

Creating Detail Sections

There is a third type of section we need to discuss: the detail section. Revit refers to this type of section as a detail view, so that's how we will start addressing it.

To create a detail view, open your model, or go to www.sybex.com/go/revit2012ner and browse to Chapter 3. Open the file called NER-09.rvt. If you wish, you can use a project you are working on and replace any names and specific dimensions with ones that are applicable to your project. Perform the following steps:

1. Open the view called Corridor Entry Section (if you do not have it opened already).
2. On the View tab, select Section (yes, the same section you have been using all along).
3. In the Properties dialog box, select Detail View: Detail.
4. On the Options ...