Project 2B: Building Documentation
Proceed from project 2A, I had finally learn to use revit's documentation components such as Sheets, Titleblock,Section, Room tags, keynote, Schedule and Phasing. It was easy to prepare building documentation drawings compare to other native software. I had required to prepare building documentation drawings in A1 size containing the following componenets; Plans, Elevations, 2 Section, 2 Callout on sections, Exploded Isometric, Phasing (existing,demolished,new), 1 Room schedule showing area, 1 Finish Schedule and Perspective rendering which are 2 exteriors and 2 interiors. By following the guide from lecturer to create Revit Architecture documentation drawing.
12) Revit Documentation Drawing
1. Prepare Titleblock- open titleblock family, modify if necessary.
2. Prepare/ duplicate Views- Plans, Elevations, Sections, Isometrics, Details. Drag-drop
views into titleblock and adjust position.
3. Use View Control to hide/isolate categories/elements.
4. Enable Crop View/ Crop Region.
 1) Create a title block |  2) Using the titleblock that lecturer given |  3) Then insert the drawing into the sheet |
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 4) Than install my pdf converter to save as pdf and choose the sheet needed |
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Floor Plans
1. Duplicate views if necessary.
2. Use Room (RM) to label interior spaces.
3. Use Annotate> Colour Fill to generate room legend.
4. Use Edit Scheme to modify legend colour.
5. In the Plan’s Type Properties, change Underlay to None to hide lines of lower
level.
6. Enable Crop View and Show/Hide Crop Region to adjust the views.
7. Adjust Visual Style and Detail Level to suit requirements
 1) Duplicate Views |  2) Rename |  3) Use Room to label interior spaces |
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 4) Tag the room |  5) Can't tag the curve room |  6) Use room seperator & and draw boundary line |
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 7) Room can be tag on the curve room |  8) Tick on room area instead of room number |  9) Edit the room tag position |
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 10) Use Colour Fill to generate room legend |  11) The color will auto fill up |  12) Same to ground floor |
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 13) The color scheme is able to change or visible |
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2) Furniture Layout Plans
1. Duplicate GROUND FLOOR view with detailing to keep the dimensions & etc.,
rename ‘GROUND FLOOR Furniture Layout’.
2. Add furnitures by using Component > Place a Component > Load Family
3. The furnitures should only appear in ‘GROUND FLOOR Furniture Layout’ view. To
hide the furnitures in GROUND FLOOR view, use View > Visibility/Graphics (VG) to
control visibility of the furnitures in the current view.
4. From the VG list, uncheck ‘Furniture’ under Visibility column. All furniture
components will not be visible under this setting.
5. To highlight furniture components in colour, create a Filter (View > Filters ).
6. Click ‘New’ and name it as ‘Furniture Layout’. Select only ‘Furniture’ so that all
furniture components will be included in this Filter.
7. Under ‘GROUND FLOOR Furniture Layout’ view, open VG (View >
Visibility/Graphics). Click on the ‘Filters’ tab. Add the ‘Furniture Layout’ Filter.
8. Override the Lines colour by changing to red.
9. All furniture components will be displayed in red.
10. Repeat for ‘FIRST FLOOR Furniture Layout’ view.
 1) Duplicate floor view with detailing to keep dimension and etc. |  2) Go online to dowload or use the preset furnitures |  3) To add furniture , go place component to load family |
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 4) Untick the room,door,window tags from VG |  5) To highlight furniture components in colour, create a Filter |  6) Select furniture only so that all furniture components will be included in this filter |
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 8) Add the furniture filter into the Visiblity Graphics |  9) Override the lines colour by changing to red, then all furniture will displayed in red |  10) Creare a new category call white colour and change the color of all room to white |
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 11) The color scheme now appear as white colour |
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3) Roof Plan
1. Duplicate view if necessary.
2. Modify Type Properties> Structure > Material >Define Surface Pattern
3. Use Region> Masking Region to sketch roof pitch arrow.
4. Use Annotate> Detail Line to sketch the exterior wall outline with the ‘PickWall’
tool.
5. In the roof plan’s Type Properties> Graphic Display Option, set Transparency to
‘0’. All components underneath will turn invisible.
6. Change the Line Style to <Hidden>, to get the dash line result.
 1) Create a masking region to indicate arrow direction |  2) After create the masking region |  3) Insert the text |
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 4) Add detile line to underlay somethings below the roof |  5) Select the line style |  6) Beside of line style, can change it via element graphics |
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 7) Add toposurface to create site context |  8) Adjust the point elevation |  9) Adding building pad |
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 10) 3D view of building |  11) Add the tree in |
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4) Door & Window Tag
1. Annotate > Tag by Category.
2. Click on each component to tag.
3. Modify ‘Mark’ in components’ Type Properties to change the tag name
 1) Click Tag by Category |  2) Click on each component to tag |  3) Change the door tag name |
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 4) Modify 'Mark' in type properties to change the tag name |  5) Same as tagging the ground floor |  6) The curtain wall had tag as wall instead window |
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 7) Modify the curtain wall panel from door to window category |  8) Click Family Categoy and Parameters |  9) Change to the windows category to allow taggin as window |
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 10) Now the curtain wall able to define as window category |
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5) Door & Window Legends
1. Create a new Legend: View > Legend. Name it ‘Door & Windows Legend’.
2. From Project Browser - Families, expand Doors (and Windows) drag-drop the
respective door families into the view.
3. Choose the display from the option menu (Plan/Front/Back)
4. Annotate dimension and create table using Detail Line (DL)
 1) Create a new Door and Window legend |  2) Drag-drop the respective door families from project browser into the view & adjust the display op |  3) Follow the standard door and legend format |
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 4) After annotate dimension then create table using Detail line |  5) Duplicate the curtain wall into a new 3D views because it cant be drag from project browser to Ti |  6) Align the curtain wall |
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 7) After align the curtain wall |  8) Then drag the curtain wall into door & window legends drawing |  9) Front elevation of curtain panel and prepare to split segments by using section or crop view |
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 10) Adjust the crop boundary |  11) Split the element into six various part of curtain walls |  12) After split |
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 13) Drag all the curtain view into drawing |  14) Same for plan view of curtain wall |  15) Now i had the elevation and plan at the drawings |
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 16) Align the elevation and window nicely by using detail as reference |  17) All the door and window had been put on the drawing |
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6) Schedules
1. Create a new Furniture Schedule: View > Schedule. Select ‘Furniture’.
2. For the Schedule Properties, add Type, Level and Count fields.
3. Key in the Sorting/Grouping settings
4. A Furniture Schedule will be generated
 1) Create a new room schedule |  2) Select the room category to create a schedule |  3) For the Schedule Properties, add Name, Level, and Area |
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 4) Key in the Sorting Grouping setting as follow |  5) A room schedule had created |  6) Example of door schedule |
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 7) Example of furniture schedule |
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7) Elevations
1. Drag and drop the elevation from Project Browser to Sheets.
 1) Create an Elevation sheets |  2) Than drag and drop the East elevation to Sheets |  3) After drag, draw three lines on window and curtain wall to indicate as glass |
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8) Sections
1. Create Section from plan view.
2. Modify section cutting using Split Segment if necessary.
3. Use Tag Room (RT) to label interior spaces.
4. Go to section view, inspect the model, amend joining if necessary.
5. Click on section view crop, point cursor on Vertical/Horizontal View Break to split
and adjust view crop. Click ‘ResetCrop’ to disable ViewBreak.
6. For each section views, modify the view using View>Cut Profile on components
such as floor and wall. This effect is view specific and won’t affect the model and
other views.
7. To create hidden pad-footing, use Annotate > Masking Region to sketch.
8. Generate your own dash line spacing with Manage > Additional Settings > Line
Patterns. Create new pattern
9. Create new Line Style using Manage > Additional Settings > Line Style
 1) Create Section from plan view |  2) A section view had been create |  3) Modifying section cutting using Split Segment if necessary |
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 4) Create a cutout the zoom out a oart |  5) The view of cutout |  6) Creating a cut profile on section |
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 7) Drawing out foundation pad |  8) Beside of cut profile, we can use masking region |  9) A masking region had createed |
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 10) Can adjust the pattern surface from visiblity and graphic |  11) Even the transparency |  12) Use Tag Room to label inteioir spaces |
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 13) After indicate of Tag room |
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9) Sectional Perspective
1. At GROUND FLOOR PLAN view, create a new Camera view: View > 3D View >
Camera.
2. Place a camera in your building model. Select the camera view.
On the View menu, click View Properties. In the View Properties dialog box, select
the Section Box check box. Click OK.
3. A section box will appear in your drawing. Select the section box and use the
control grips to drag the sides of the box inside the model to generate the cut view.
4. Use VG to hide the Section Box.
 1) Create a new camera view on floor plan |  2) Divide 4 windows, so that easy to adjust the view I wan |  3) Hide crop view by untick on properties, and hide Section box by untick on VG |
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10) Exploded Isometric Views
1. Duplicate 3D view, rename ‘Exploded View’.
2. Select element, click Modify tab > Displace Element to create displacement set.
3. Drag and move along the axis.
4. Click Path to generate the displacement path.
 1) Duplicate 3D view and rename then create Displace Element |  2) Drag and move along the axis |  3) Click Path to generate the displacement path |
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 4) After all the path had been set |  5) Adjust the line thickness on object styles |  6) Prepare to create masking region to allow text |
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 7) Insert the text to determine the room spaces |
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11) Perspective View
1. Select camera to create perspective view
2. Then select render and adjust the setting
3. Drag and drop the rendered image into sheet to prepare for plot
 1) Create an interior view by choosing the camera |  2) An interior view been create |  3) With colour |
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 4) Than adjust the position of the camera |  5) Seperate the window to allow change the camera easily |  6) Same to Ground Floor |
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 7) Prepare to render by click render on view category |  8) Can be set the time & location before render |  9) Choose the place location |
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 10) Adjust the render setting |  11) Took a time to render based on cpu cores |  12) Finish the render |
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 13) Prepare to render in different view |  14) Finish the render |  15) It a long time to render, so i decide to find gpu render like enscape is a plugin for revit |
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 16) Before render, create a new material with high definition and adjust the bump to m ake it more r |  17) Get the image from sigershaders map |  18) Than prepare to render with gpu based, it just took 1min or less with at least 4K resolution |
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 19) Run the enscape and set the resolution |  20) Adjust the render setting |  21) Put In photoshop to add lens flare |
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 22) After effect of render in photoshop |  23) Finish render for exterior perspective |
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11) Phasing
1. Generate 3 views each (Existing, Demolish, New Construction) for plans and 3D
views.
2. Modify the Phase parameter in each view’s Type Properties (refer PHASING
SETTINGS.pdf)
3. Change the Phases settings: Manage > Phases (refer PHASING SETTINGS.pdf).
4. Change phase properties of each affected components.
 10) Move the 3 view of different stage of phasing into the title block |  1) Click the phase |  2) Add in demolish |
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 3) Change the show complete setting |  4) Change the colour to show the changes |  5) Dupliate the view and rename |
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 6) Choose the Existing for Phase Created |  7) Adjust the phasing setting to show the demolish part |  8) Demolish Phasing |
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 9) Same to New Construction Phasing by adjust the phasing setting | 10) Move the 3 view of different stage of phasing into the title block |
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Extra:
1) Custom Curve Railing
1. Create custom by using adaptive on generic model adaptive family.
2. Drag and drop the component from project browser.
3. Multiply the component on modify tab.
 1) Create a mass to make spline railing |  2) Using path and adjust the number of node in between of the line |  3) Drag the panel and post into the view |
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 4) Than click repeat to generate parametric |  5) The adaptive railing had doned |
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