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Draw floor plans to scale to help draft an accurate representation of how the finished design will look. If you prefer the old-school method, you’ll need a drafting table, drafting tools and large sheets of 24-by-36-inch paper to draft the plans by hand. Research zoning laws. Draw to scale. Take your time.
For example: SketchUp is sometimes used early on, but as long as the designer does not take the model too far (window mullions) there is a chance that we will not recreate as much once it gets into Revit. Revit Zone. This means that everyone and each project stage should be responsible to provide a digital handoff. All Things BIM.
Revits Drafting Machine. For those of you who remember using drafting machines mounted to a drafting table youll find a similar tool in Revit. Now any lines or walls that you draft will snap to the gridlines of your workplane. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Google Sketchup. Friday, August 11, 2006.
Tim Alatorre posts to his blog sloArch on a varaiety of subjects including but not limited to Artlantis, Revit, Sketchup, LEED, A.R.E., Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Google Sketchup. Blogger: slo Arch. Check this out when you have some free time. and other Architecture related subjects. David Duarte. at 3:09 PM.
For instance you can combine custom room schedules with color fill plans (drafting. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Google Sketchup. A parameter is basically any characteristic of a space or component that you want to illustrate, analyze or communicate. BIMtroublemaker. Design Reform. Family Jewels. Green Revit.
Using Revits 2D Drafting tools: Because beginners are not completely familiar with all of Revits tools and because they are often faced with a deadline, beginners will likely rely on detail lines and filled regions to piece together plans, sections, and elevations for their first few projects. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone.
We import (not link) the DWG into a Drafting View. If you save all of your roof details (as an example) into one project file you can later import these drafting views into any project youre working on. Views to import drafting views youve generated in other projects) 8. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Manage Links.
Edward Borg of Precision Drafting LLC has a dedicated FTP site for sharing cool Revit Project Templates and Families. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Google Sketchup. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Thursday, October 26, 2006.
The only solution is to place images in a drafting view (or legend view) first. Rescaling the image can also be easier from a drafting view once scale is established. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Google Sketchup. then place the view on your sheet. Just change the scale of the view. BIMtroublemaker. Design Reform.
In one year Ive learned what I had to to develop working drawings, weve managed to build up some Revit content, weve organized our templates, and we are successfully developing our details and other drafting standards transfered from PowerCADD to AutoCAD to Revit. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Google Sketchup.
I just ran across this old post while searching for a way to upload Impression for a Presentation project Im doing in Architectural Drafting school. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Google Sketchup. Bluegrassrules. I uploaded Impression, exported my Revit project as a DWG and imported it into Impression. BIMtroublemaker.
Goto Drafting. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Google Sketchup. Detail Component and import your DWG into your new Detail Component. Place a masking region behind your imported text (as shown). Load this Detail Component into your project. Repeating Detail. Properties. BIMtroublemaker. Design Reform. Family Jewels.
Specify Coordinates at a point) While Spot Coordinates will report the coordinates of any model or drafting element it is not really clear in the help files that Spot Elevations will report the elevation of only certain parts of model elements. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Google Sketchup. BIMtroublemaker. Green Revit.
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