From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
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Creating a key plan family
From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Creating a key plan family
- [Voiceover] When you have large floor plans that span across multiple sheets, you often want to create a Key Plan to indicate which portion of the building is showing on each sheet. I have a simple example of that to illustrate right here. If I use my Tab key and highlight the chain of walls, this is the perimeter of my building, and it actually spans across five different sheets, and so I've just labeled those Zone A through Zone E, so you can see those there onscreen, and you can also see them here as five dependent views indented beneath Level One. I've also created each of the sheets for each of those dependent views, and so each one is placed on sheets 101 through 105. Now I need to create the key plan. Now, I'm gonna do that in this example with a generic annotation family. Now, you might be thinking of other ways to do this, and there actually are other ways to do this, but firstly let's talk about things that you…
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