Chapter 18
Documenting Your Design
While the industry continues to move toward a 3D building information model as a construction deliverable, today we still need to produce 2D documents for a construction set or design reviews. Using the integrated documentation tools in Autodesk® Revit® Architecture software, you can create these sets with more accuracy and dependability than in the past. In this chapter, you will take the elements you have previously modeled and detailed and begin to create the documentation for your design.
In this chapter, you'll learn to:
- Document plans
- Create schedules and legends
- Use details from other files
- Lay out sheets
Documenting Plans
In this chapter, we'll introduce a scenario that will mimic what might happen on a real project in a preliminary design phase. We are going to assume that you'll be using the c18-Sample- Building.rvt model from the book's companion website: www.sybex.com/go/masteringrevit2013.
Here's the story: You have recently completed some preliminary design work in advance of your upcoming client meeting. You will need to lay out the plans, elevations, and perspectives on some presentation sheets for the meeting, but you will also have to include some building metrics, such as area plans and schedules of overall spaces. You have also been thinking through some of the details and would like to show a few of those as well. Secretly, you had some details developed for a similar project that never made it off the ground, so you plan ...