Symbolic representation settings - Revit Tutorial

- [Instructor] It's certainly important to get our drawings to look right. This video will look at making our drawings nice. So this short video will have us going through and looking at the settings that are inherent to Revit. So to get started, let's jump into Revit. Under Models, let's go Open, browse to where you're keeping your exercise files, find your structural model. This is the model that we did in chapter one. If you didn't do chapter one, just open up the structural model and you can start right here. Or of course, any project you're working on, open up your model. Select it, click Open. So it doesn't matter what view we're in. If we go to Structure, notice that we have our little settings arrows here. Under Structure, let's click on this Setting arrow here and now we have Symbolic Representation Settings. Most of these are pretty standard. So for example, if we have a brace, we're going to give it a cutback of 332nds of an inch. That's if our detail level is set for Course. Same with the beams and trusses. Columns are a little less at 116th of an inch. Brace Assemble, so plane representation, I like parallel line but we'll model some braces in in a moment and we'll see what that looks like. Show brace above, show it below. I like that connection brace parallel. I like the brace kicker. We can always load different families or symbols into our model or into our template and use those instead. This is out of the box Revit so these are the two we have. I use 'em. Connection Symbols, Display Symbols, Beam and Braces, we could displace symbols at columns as well. I like Beams and Braces. And we can add a moment frame which is basically a little filled triangle. Cantilever moment which is very similar. Let's click OK. Let's go to our Level 2 structural plan. Zoom into this area right here between two and three. On the View tab, click the Elevation dropdown. Let's go to Framing Elevation. Notice that if we hover over this grid line, which happens to be gride line E, we're going to get a framing elevation so go ahead and pick that. Hit Escape a few times. Now let's open this elevation. We can simply double click right on this text. Let's set our detail level to Fine. Let's set our scale to something a little bigger. We'll go to 1/4 inch equals a foot. Now, on the Structure tab, let's click the Brace icon. And let's click our dropdown here and let's grab an HSS six-by-six-by-1/2. Now as we model this brace, I want to make sure that we're hitting the analytical endpoint of our beam right here, the center line of it. So let's click on this endpoint here. Now, I want to find the midpoint right here. Do the same on this side. Pick that endpoint right there. And let's click that midpoint there. Hit Escape a couple times. Now let's go back to level two. Notice that we get this. This indicates where our actual braces are. Pretty cool. If we go to our roof level, it shows it outside indicating that it's below. If we go back to our Structural Settings, that's what we have shown. Show Brace Above, Show Brace Below. These are our symbols. Click OK. I want to go to a 3D view. Let's zoom in on our items. It looks like these analytical lines are a little bit off. Let's look at those in the next video.