Mastering: Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2011

Chapter 18. Documenting Your Design

While the industry continues to move toward a 3D BIM model as a construction deliverable, today we still need to produce 2D documents for a construction set. Fortunately because of Revit, you can create these sets with more accuracy and dependability than in the past. In this chapter, you will work on taking the elements you have modeled and detailed and creating documentation.

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 preliminary design. We are going to assume that you'll be using the Jenkins.rvt model from the book's companion ...