3D Creation of Ceiling, Roof, Architectural plan, Structural plan, Sectional view, Elevation view and Camera specific view for a house plan using REVIT

Aim: To model a ceiling above the architectural plan created.

Procedure:

• Click the project created. Click the first floor in plan view. Click the ceiling from the architectural tab.
• Click the sketch and select pick lines select the exterior wall faces Click ok.

•  Create a ceiling above the Click terrace by sketching.

Result:
The ceiling is modelled above the architectural plan. 

Ans2).

Aim: To create a roof above the ceiling and adjusting the roof slope to 10 degrees.

Procedure:

• Go to the 3d view. Click the roof tab under the architecture tab.
• Click pick lines and with draw lines connect the roofline in roof level.

• Click the finish.

•  Then adjust the slope to 10 degrees.

Result:
The roof is created above the ceiling and the slope is adjusted to 10 degrees.

Ans3).

Aim: To create plan views for ground floor and first floor levels and separate them into architectural and structural.

Procedure:

Architectural plan- walls, floors and all components inside the building.

• In the architectural tab Click walls and draw the walls. Click the doors and window tab under architectural, and place it
  wherever required.

• Click floors and Click pick lines and Click the outline lines.

• Click place a component under the architectural tab and if the components are present place it or Click load family.
• Load the components we need to place.
• Place sofa and table, chairs, TV, TV stand in the living room. Place dining set in the dining room.
• Place bed, table, chair, cabinets in bedroom
• Place water closet, bathtub and sink in the toilet.
• Place hood and hob and cabinets in the kitchen.
• Place washing machine and cabinet in the store.

• Similarly, the walls create the first floor and Place doors and windows.

• Place the components. Sofa set and chairs in the living room, bed and cabinets in bedroom, reading table and chair and shelves in
  the bed room.
• Water closet in toilets.Create stairs for access to the first floor

Structural plan:

Columns and Beams

• Create walls by clicking walls in the architectural tab. Create doors and windows.
• The floor is created by clicking on the floor tab and pick lines and select the lines.
• Place columns by clicking on the column tab under the architectural tab. Click the architectural column and place the columns in all corners of the wall and also wherever required.
• As the column is bigger in size, go to edit type, duplicate and change the size of the column- 8"x8" mm. Similarly, place the column in all the corners and wherever required.

•  Delete the walls and floors.

• Select the wall from the architectural tab, and draw beams connecting the column.

Result:
The architectural plan and structural plan has been created.

Ans 4).

Aim: To add dimension using annotate toolbar to the architectural and structural plan.

Procedure:

Architectural plan- dimensions with respect to the grids

• The grids are created along the walls.

• Click the annotate tab, select the linear dimension. Click the two walls, to get the distance of the rooms.

Structural- dimensions with respect to the grids

• Create columns on all corners of the wall.

•  Using the grid tab, place the grids at the centre of the column. Use the annotate tab, aligned and linear to measure the dimension
  between the grids, grids and wall. Measure the dimension from grid and partition walls.

Result : Dimensions with respect to the grids are measured using annotate tool.

Ans 5).

Aim: To create a sheet template from the view tab and adjusting the parameters to add views.

Procedure:

• Click the View tab, select the sheet option, select A1 metric. If we need more sheet Click the load button select title blocks and select the sheet we need. A sheet will be created.

•  We can edit the template by double-clicking the letters. To add views, Click place views under the view tab. Select the views created to place them in the sheet. Click add view to the sheet.

•  When adding if the size is large, Click size crop, select scale and give a value (here 500) and apply. Click living and dining views and add them.Step 4: Click 3d view of the restroom and 3d view of the building and place it in the sheet.

Result:

Sheet template is created and views are placed in the sheet template.

Ans6).

Aim: Creating elevations views using the elevation tab from North, South, East and West.

Procedure:

• In the view tab, Click elevation in level 1 view. Place the view where we need, elevation 1 will be created in the property browse Click elevation 1 to see the view.

 

• Similarly place the elevation blocks in North, South, East and West and rename them respectively. Click the elevation tab from the project browser.

 

• Expand the elevation tab, we can see different elevations of North, East, West and South. Click East view.

 

•  Click North view.

 

• Click South view

 

• Click West view.

 

Result:
North, South, East and West elevations are created using the elevation tab.

Ans7).

Aim: To create section through each room creating sections longitudinally and transversely.

Procedure:

• Click the section tab from the view tab, draw the section through the bedroom transversely.

 

• Click section view from the property browser, we can see the view.

 

• Click the section tab, from the view tab and place the section through the living room longitudinally.

 

• Click section view and select the created section from the property browser, we can change the name by right-clicking and rename it to bedroom. Click the living room view from the section tab.

 

• Click the section from the view tab and draw the section transversely in the restroom.

 

• Rename the section to the toilet. Click the toilet view from the section tab.

 

• Click section view from view tab, and draw section line through the longitudinal direction in the kitchen.

 

• Rename the section to the kitchen. Click the kitchen view from the section tab.

 

• Click section view from view tab, and draw section line through the longitudinal direction in Dining.

 

• Rename the section to the dining room. Click the Dining room view from the section tab.

 

•  Click section view from view tab, and draw section line through the longitudinal direction in Storeroom.
  Rename the section to the storeroom. Click the storeroom view from the section tab.

 

Result:
The section view is created for:
1. Living room
2. Dining room
3. Bedroom
4. Restroom
5. Kitchen
6. Storeroom

Ans8).

Aim: To classify different views like plan views, section views and elevation views and document them in the project browser

Procedure:

• In the property browser, we can see all the views are visible.

 

• Click each of the tabs to expand it, so that we can see the plans, elevations and section view created. For plan view, Click the floor plans and expand it.
  We can see that the ground floor, first floor, Roof which are created are visible.

 

• Select on each level to see the floor plan of that level. -first floor created at 10' and the roof at 20'.

 

• Select the first-floor plan so that we can see the plan view of the first-floor level.

 

• Click elevation in the property browser, expand it and we can see that different elevations views are there.

 

• Click East to see the east elevation view.

 

•  Click North elevation.

 

• Click South view.

 

• Click West view.

 

•  Click the section, to expand the views.

 

• Select bedroom view.

 

• Step 12: Click living room view.

 

• Click the restroom.

 

• Click the kitchen.

 

• Click Dining.

 

• Click Storeroom.

 

Result: Views are classified and are documented in the project browser.

Ans9)

Aim: To create multiple sheet templates using sheet template.
1. A 101- Ground Floor Architecture Plan
2. A 102- First Floor Architecture Plan
3. A 103- Roof Plan
4. S 101- Ground Floor Structural Plan
5. S 102- First Floor Structural Plan
6. S 103- Roof Framing Plan
7. A-201- North-South Elevations
8. A-202- East-West Elevations

Procedure:
a) A101 - Ground floor architectural plan

• Click create sheet from the view tab. Select the sheet, or load another if needed. The sheet created will be visible in the project browser, rename the sheet name as A101- Ground floor architectural plan.
• Click place view in the view tab, a dialogue box appears. Select floor plan ground floor, Click add view to the sheet.

b). A103- First Floor architectural plan

Create another sheet from the view tab - a new sheet. Rename it to A 103- First-floor architectural plan.

A102- Roof plan

• Click create sheet from the view tab. Rename the sheet name to A103-Roof plan. Select place view and place ceiling plan.

d) S101- Ground Floor Structural Plan

• Select sheet from the view tab. Rename it to S101- Ground Floor structural plan.
•  Click place view from the view tab, and place the structural plan.

e). S102- First floor structural Plan

• Select the created column and change the top constrain to level 3 with the base constrain as level 1. Select sheet from the view tab. Rename it to S102- First-floor structural plan.
• Click place a view from the view tab.
• Place the view in the sheet and adjust the scale if needed, here 1:20 scale is used.

f). S103- Roof Framing Plan
Step 9:
Create a sheet from the view tab. Rename the sheet number and name to Roof Framing Plan.
Click place view and place the roof plan in the sheet

g). A201- North-South elevations

• To create elevations, in the view tab Click elevations and place the elevation in between North and South and rename the created elevation as North-South.
• Click sheets from the view tab.
• Rename the number and sheet name to A201- North-South elevations.
• Click place view and place elevation North-South.
• Click the viewport window and level (in elevation view only) and right-click and hide the element to hide the window and leve in the sheet.
• To unhide Click reveal hidden elements in the bottom tab, then Click the hided element displayed, then right-click and there will be an option to unhide elements, Click reveal again to exit from it. Place the image in the centre.

h). A202- East-West elevations

• Create elevation from the view tab - elevation and place the elevation between East and West. Expand the elevation tab and rename the name to East-West elevation.
• Create a sheet from the view tab - sheet and rename it toA202- East-West elevation.
• Click place view and select the east-west elevation created.
• Adjust the view and scale it accordingly.
• Create a section by clicking the section tab for each room.
• As the sections are already created, create sheets and place them in each sheet. Click the sheet from the view tab, and rename it as A 203- Section -living.
• Click the view and place the section view created.
• Create a sheet for the dining section from view tab A204- dining section.

Place the section view- dining.

• Create sheet from view tab and rename it to A205- Section bedroom
• Click place view and place the section of the bedroom and adjust the scale.
• Similarly, create a sheet for kitchen A206- Kitchen -section Click place a view and place the section view of the kitchen.

Result:
Respective sheets are created using a sheet template

• A101- Ground Floor Architectural Plan

 

•  A102 - First Floor Architectural Plan

 

• A103- Roof Plan

 

• S101- Ground Floor Structural Plan

 

• S102- First Floor Structural plan

 

• S103- Roof framing Plan

 

• A201- North-South elevations

 

• A202- East-West elevations

 

• A203-A206 Sections

• A 203- Section -living.

 

• A204 dining room

 

•  A205- Section bedroom

 

• A206- Kitchen -section

 

Ans10). 

Aim: Creating camera views for each room and creating sheets for each of the 3d view.

Procedure:

• Go to floor plan, from the view option-3d view- Click the camera, and place the camera in which room we need the view.Created views will be seen under 3d in the property browser.
• Place the camera in the living room, in the floor plan. Click the 3d view created from the property browser and rename it to living.
• Click the camera from the view tab under 3d view. Place the camera such that the dining view is visible. Expand the 3d view from the property browser and rename it to dining. Click the dining view.
• Click the camera from the view tab under 3d view. Place the camera such that the bedroom view is visible. Expand the 3d view from the property browser and rename it to the bedroom. Click the bedroom view.Kitchen:
• Click the camera from the view tab under 3d view.Place the camera such that the kitchen view is visible. Expand the 3d view from the property browser and rename it to the kitchen. Click the kitchen view.
• Click the camera from the view tab under 3d view.Place the camera such that the restroom view is visible. Expand the 3d view from the property browser and rename it to the restroom.
  Click the restroom view.
• Click the camera from the view tab under 3d view. Place the camera such that the store view is visible. Expand the 3d view from the property browser and rename it to store. Click the store view.

Creating sheets:

• To create a sheet, go to the view tab Click the sheet, select the sheet we need or load more and select the required.Rename the sheet name as A501 - Living room.
• Click place view and Click the living from the dialogue box.
• Create another sheet from the view tab, rename it to A502 - Dining room.
• Click place a view, and select the dining room.
• Create another sheet from the view tab, and rename it to A503- Bedroom.
• Click place a view and place the bedroom view.
• Create a new sheet from the view tab, and rename it as A504- Kitchen.
• Click the place view and place the kitchen view.
• Create another sheet and rename it to A505- Restroom
• Place the view of the restroom in the sheet.
• Create a new sheet and rename it to A506- storeroom.
• Click place a view and place the storeroom.

Result:
Camera views of all rooms are created and sheets are created accordingly.
Views:
Living.
Dinning.
Bedroom.
Restroom.
Kitchen.
Store.
Sheets:

a501 : dining room

 

A502 bedroom 

 

A503- Kitchen

 

A504- Bathroom.

 

A505- Dining Room.