Revit Tutorial - Align Views on Sheets (Tips and Tricks)

Today's tutorial can be one of those tips that seems rudimentary.  Well, it is... But, the amazing thing about Revit is how many different ways users go about accomplishing the same task.

I have seen hundreds of different Revit files from hundreds of different companies and users and the variety of techniques used to align views on sheets is astounding.  I decided to make a quick video that demonstrates the way I align views from sheet to sheet in Revit....

Continue reading to view the tutorial ... let's see how many other ways you come up with!

Revit Tip - Schedule Technique for Quicker Sheet Creation

One of the things I love about Revit is how there are many different ways to perform a task.  Some better than others but there are typically more than one right answer.  I posted a tutorial a few weeks ago illustrating a technique I have used in the past to quickly generate sheets.  Well, Dan commented on the post with another technique.

This was one of those "duh" moments.  I completely forgot that placeholder sheets can be converted to real sheets in Revit.  DUH!  Dan, thanks for commenting and sharing your knowledge with our community.

As for the tip, continue reading to find out another method of created sheets in Revit...

Revit Tip - Copy / Paste for Quicker Sheet Creation

Creating lots of sheets in Revit can be a hassle.  There use to be a nice little tool that helped the process along (but it has been out of commission for some time now).  Whether you are navigating to the "View" tab, selecting sheet, and then your title block, or right clicking the "sheets" in your browser and selecting "New Sheet" it can be tedious on a job with over 200 sheets...  Well, I discovered a little shortcut that could save big time.

The video you are about to see has been extracted directly for BIM After Dark - Volume 2.  In Volume 2, I take you through the process of creating Construction Documents from a design model.  During our journey I throw in little tips just like this one to increase efficiency which ultimately leads to bigger bottom lines!  Check out BIM After Dark Volume 2 today...

Tutorial - Sheet and Sheet Basics

I am happy to say that I have two more finals left this week and my Design Studio Project is finished!  This finally leaves me some time to make the tutorials that I have been wanting to make all semester.

This first tutorial is very simple and many of you may know the topic well.  Although, during this semester I have had countless number of sutdents asking me how to do it.

Topics Include:

• Multiple methods to create sheets.
• Lodaing in different Titleblocks.
• Multiple methods to adding views to a sheet.

Click here to view the Sheet and Sheet Basics Tutorial..

Stay tuned for Titleblock creation/editing tutorials...

Tutorial - Moving Views Around (Revitize)

Moving a set of views from one sheet to another

Revit does not allow the same DWG view to be placed in more than one sheet. For this reason, when we want to move a set of views from one sheet to another, it does not let copy or cut and paste. It gives a “multiple instances of the same view in sheets not supported!”

One way to move the views, is to open the sheets category in the project browser

and just drag and drop the views to another sheet in the project browser or in the DWG area.

Tutorial - Revit Sheet Numbers (Revit Rocks)

This is a great tip that I have used and you will definitely use in the future...

REVIT does not come installed with a title block family parameter that displays how many sheets are in a sheet set. In fact REVIT doesn't have sheet sets.

Some people prefer to display the total number of sheets in a set as the '15' displays above.

In the 3 CADclips below you are first introduce to the completed title block family in a project then we start from scratch and show you how to build it yourself.

1. Create a Shared Parameter named 'Number of Sheets'.

2. Use this Shared Parameter in the Title Block rfa family file.

3. Load the title block family into a project.

4. Create a local Project Parameter of Category 'Project Information' pointing to the same Shared Parameter.

5. Set the 'Number of Sheets' value manually in the Project Information dialog box or the field in the title block and witness the change to all sheets.

Continue to the post and video....