Creating detail views - Revit MEP Tutorial

- [Voiceover] What I'd like to do here is create a simple drafting view. What a drafting view is, it's basically a blank sheet of paper, a blank sheet of paper that has nothing to do with the model. We can draw anything we want on it. It's as if we're drafting in AutoCAD. What we need to do is make a new view. So, I want to go to View. Now we're gonna come over here to Drafting View. For the name, I'm gonna call it Curbing Detail. I'm gonna keep my scale at 1:10, that's fine. Now I'm gonna hit OK, bam, blank sheet of paper. Now, I'm gonna go to my Annotate tab. On my Annotate tab, I have all kinds of tools to just draft with. One tool is the Detail Line. I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna click on Detail Line. For my Line Styles, I can click my dropdown here, and Revit comes with a couple different types of Line Styles. Your company might have a bunch of 'em. We just have a few in the default. I don't recommend having a lot of Line Styles, 'cause then we're getting back too much to AutoCAD. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start drawing some lines. So, for my Line Styles, I'm gonna come down to Wide Lines, and I'm gonna pick that. I'm gonna pick a point right about here, and I'm gonna come down about 305 millimeters, and I'm gonna head out there. I'm gonna come about 3200 millimeters this way. Now, what happens when I come up to my 305, notice that Revit's gonna find the adjacent geometry and it's gonna select it. So, I'm gonna select right where it lines up with it, I'm gonna pick a point here, and I'm gonna come straight back. Now, what's cool is, Revit doesn't have what's called a Stretch command, like AutoCAD does. If I select this line and I click on my Move button, I pick it, and I move it 500 millimeters, it's gonna naturally stretch everything with it. That's kind of neat. What I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna zoom in here, and I'm gonna create some offsets. I'm gonna select my line, and I'm gonna right-click, and I'm gonna Create Similar. On my Line Style, I'm gonna click my dropdown, and I'm gonna select Hidden Lines. On my Draw panel, I'm gonna click on my Pick Lines button, and I'm gonna offset 150. I'm gonna offset to the right, and I'm gonna offset up. I'm gonna type T + R for trim, and I'm gonna trim that out, so I can have hidden lines beyond. I'm gonna select this line, and I'm gonna use a mirror command. I'm gonna click on Mirror, Draw Axis. I'm gonna pick a point right here. I'm gonna pick a point right here, and I'm gonna mirror that out. I'm gonna type T + R for trim, I'm gonna pick this line here, and then this line here, and hit Escape. And it's even green. What I'd like to do now is I wanna just draw a little foot here, so I'm gonna go to Annotate. I'm gonna go to Detail Line. For my Line Style, I'm gonna go with Medium Lines, and notice when I hover over this line, Revit's gonna give me a temporary dimension. I'm gonna come in 30 millimeters. I'm gonna draw a line up 25 millimeters, I'm gonna draw a line over 100 millmeters, I'm gonna draw a line up another 100 millimeters, and I'm gonna come over so that it lines up with that hidden line, I'm gonna come down like that. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna bolt this imaginary clip angle down, but before I do that, I'm gonna put a little radius in the corner here. Now, to do that, there's no Fillet command in Revit. What we do is we click on Detail Line again, and for Line Styles, I wanna go to Wide Lines. Now, I'm gonna click on Fillet Arc, I'm gonna click my Radius button, and I'm gonna go 15 millimeters. I'm gonna pick a point here, I'm gonna pick a point here, and it's gonna put it on a wide line. Now, once it does that, we can always just select it, just like in AutoCAD, and put it on Medium Lines like we should do. Now, let's bolt this puppy down. I'm gonna click on the Component button, but what I wanna do now is I wanna click on Load Family, and we wanna go to Detail Items. I'm gonna go to Div 05 Metals, and I'm gonna go to Metal Fastenings. Notice that we have a bunch of bolts and stuff like that. I'm gonna grab this one here, MA307 Bolts-Side, and I'm gonna click Open. Now that it's in here, what I can do, if I hit my spacebar, I'm gonna flip it. I'm gonna bring it down so it lines up with my little angle. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna select this line, I'm gonna right-click, and I'm gonna Create Similar. On my Draw panel, I'm gonna click my Pick Lines button, and I'm gonna offset 50 millimeters. I'm gonna offset this line down, and hit Escape. I'm gonna type T + R for trim, and I'm gonna trim both these out. Now I can select this bolt; notice I have a little grip on it. I'm gonna select my grip, and I'm gonna drag it up, and it's gonna bolt itself to that imaginary line. Now, on the other end, I'm just gonna select this green line, hit Delete, I'm gonna pick a window around all of these lines, type D + M for Draw Mid, and I'm gonna mirror it along that midline, and we're good. What I can do now is I can go to Detail Line, for my Line Styles I'll go Thin Lines, and I'm just gonna draw a line from the back of this clip angle over to here. One more thing I wanna do is, I'm going to go to Component, I'm gonna click on Load Family, I'm gonna go to Detail Items, I'm gonna go to Div 01-General, I'm gonna grab M Break Line, and I'm gonna click Open. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come to the middle here, I'm gonna hit my spacebar, and I'm gonna flip it in the direction I want it, I'm gonna pick a point right here. It's in the wrong direction, so I'm gonna select it again, hit my spacebar twice, now I'm gonna grab this little grip and I'm gonna pull it down. I'm gonna grab this grip and I'm gonna pull it up, and hit Escape. I'm gonna select it, I'm gonna click Copy, copy it down to here, hit Escape once, hit my spacebar, I'm gonna pull my grip up, now I can nudge it over like that. So now it looks like I'm actually cutting this thing in the middle, and I can grab this grip, and notice it will line it right up to the next one. We can draft all day long. I always recommend, though, cut a live section through your model, and then draft on top of that.