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Transcript
00:06
If you have a brand-new model with nothing modeled at all, this part is pretty easy.
00:11
Normally this is not the case, nor is it in this case.
00:16
I was given an architectural model with some standards foreign to mine.
00:20
I'm sure those standards were great for whoever was working on it,
00:24
but for this project, they are not.
00:26
In this video, I'd like to grab a model, clean it up, and bring it into our project.
00:31
Let's start by jumping into Revit.
00:34
For models, I'd like to click Open.
00:38
I'll browse to my little made-up project.
00:40
This time I'm going to Architectural, Provided By Others.
00:46
Here's this fictitious date. And here's this model. I'm going to click it.
00:53
Just like the AutoCAD Civil 3D model, I don't trust it. So, I'll click Audit.
00:60
This operation can take a long time.
01:01
Trust me, if Autodesk tells you something is going to take a long time, it's going to take a long time.
01:07
We'll have to just suck it up and deal with it though. So, click Yes.
01:11
Now, Detach From Central, because they had work sharing turned on.
01:16
We need to turn it off, because Revit gets confused, it throws a bunch of errors.
01:20
We will detach it from central.
01:22
Click Open.
01:25
I want to Detach and discard worksets.
01:27
I don't know what they used for worksets, we'll deal with what worksets are later.
01:32
But right now we are going to detach and discard worksets.
01:38
There's always going to be some kind of references that we're missing.
01:42
We may have them, we may not.
01:45
For now, I'm going to ignore those references.
01:47
We do need to know what they are, but let's keep our eyes on the prize.
01:51
I want to fix this model, get it on our coordinate system,
01:55
and then go in and see what we're dealing with in terms of links that it can't find.
01:60
So right now let's just ignore and continue opening the project.
02:03
I'm already seeing stuff I don't like.
02:06
In our site plan, this is at some weird rotation angle.
02:12
Zoom in to this area here, our site project base point.
02:17
I'm going to click that.
02:20
Angle true north 325? I don't think so.
02:24
So instead of angle to true north 325 I'm going to click into here and type 0 and hit Enter.
02:31
It's going to rotate that model.
02:36
Hit escape a few times.
02:37
Now what I'd like to do is kind of look at an elevation.
02:41
I can't find any.
02:42
Let's go down to our ground floor plan under floor plans.
02:46
Zoom in on this one here I suppose and double click it.
02:49
I don't care what elevation it is as long as we're looking at it laterally.
02:55
Ah, I hate that.
02:56
So, they set their ground floor to 100 feet.
02:59
I guess that's a standard for some people.
03:01
It's not for me,
03:02
and if we're on shared coordinates, I doubt that's going to be 100 feet even.
03:08
Let's move this.
03:09
So, let's zoom out.
03:11
Type in VG for Visibility Graphics.
03:14
Notice everything is grayed out.
03:17
Hit Cancel.
03:18
In the Properties, scroll down for the View, and it looks like our View Template is set to something.
03:23
Elevation-NoPlanting. Click that.
03:27
Click None. Click OK.
03:31
Now we can edit the visibility graphics. Type VG for Visibility Graphics.
03:36
Scroll down until we find site.
03:40
Drill into site. Turn on project base point. Turn on survey point.
03:46
Click Apply. Click OK.
03:49
That's bad, right?
03:51
Everyone can agree that this is bad.
03:53
We want these to be the same, don't we?
03:56
We have to relocate our project.
03:58
Ground floor is at 100 feet.
04:01
So if we go to the Manage tab, on the Project Location panel, click the Position drop down.
04:08
Let's go to Relocate Project.
04:11
Basically we're in the Move command.
04:14
We're going to pick a point along ground floor, and we're going to move it straight down.
04:22
We're going to type in 100 and hit Enter.
04:30
Okay, the survey point is in the right spot.
04:34
Uh oh, our project base point is way down here.
04:37
Select it. It says minus 100 feet.
04:41
No good.
04:42
What we need to do now is unclip it.
04:44
If we don't unclip it and we move it, it will move our model back up to 100 feet.
04:50
Unclip it.
04:51
For the elevation, type in 0 and hit Enter.
04:56
Oh yeah!
04:58
Clip it back on again.
05:01
Perfect!
05:02
Hit Escape a couple of times.
05:04
Let's go to file. Let's go to Save As, Project.
05:15
I'm going to move out of this directory here.
05:18
I'm going to put it right in my architectural folder.
05:21
And for my file name, all caps, I'm going to call it ARCHITECTURAL.
05:25
Go to your options. Maximum backups, let's select one.
05:32
Click OK. Click Save.
Video transcript
00:06
If you have a brand-new model with nothing modeled at all, this part is pretty easy.
00:11
Normally this is not the case, nor is it in this case.
00:16
I was given an architectural model with some standards foreign to mine.
00:20
I'm sure those standards were great for whoever was working on it,
00:24
but for this project, they are not.
00:26
In this video, I'd like to grab a model, clean it up, and bring it into our project.
00:31
Let's start by jumping into Revit.
00:34
For models, I'd like to click Open.
00:38
I'll browse to my little made-up project.
00:40
This time I'm going to Architectural, Provided By Others.
00:46
Here's this fictitious date. And here's this model. I'm going to click it.
00:53
Just like the AutoCAD Civil 3D model, I don't trust it. So, I'll click Audit.
00:60
This operation can take a long time.
01:01
Trust me, if Autodesk tells you something is going to take a long time, it's going to take a long time.
01:07
We'll have to just suck it up and deal with it though. So, click Yes.
01:11
Now, Detach From Central, because they had work sharing turned on.
01:16
We need to turn it off, because Revit gets confused, it throws a bunch of errors.
01:20
We will detach it from central.
01:22
Click Open.
01:25
I want to Detach and discard worksets.
01:27
I don't know what they used for worksets, we'll deal with what worksets are later.
01:32
But right now we are going to detach and discard worksets.
01:38
There's always going to be some kind of references that we're missing.
01:42
We may have them, we may not.
01:45
For now, I'm going to ignore those references.
01:47
We do need to know what they are, but let's keep our eyes on the prize.
01:51
I want to fix this model, get it on our coordinate system,
01:55
and then go in and see what we're dealing with in terms of links that it can't find.
01:60
So right now let's just ignore and continue opening the project.
02:03
I'm already seeing stuff I don't like.
02:06
In our site plan, this is at some weird rotation angle.
02:12
Zoom in to this area here, our site project base point.
02:17
I'm going to click that.
02:20
Angle true north 325? I don't think so.
02:24
So instead of angle to true north 325 I'm going to click into here and type 0 and hit Enter.
02:31
It's going to rotate that model.
02:36
Hit escape a few times.
02:37
Now what I'd like to do is kind of look at an elevation.
02:41
I can't find any.
02:42
Let's go down to our ground floor plan under floor plans.
02:46
Zoom in on this one here I suppose and double click it.
02:49
I don't care what elevation it is as long as we're looking at it laterally.
02:55
Ah, I hate that.
02:56
So, they set their ground floor to 100 feet.
02:59
I guess that's a standard for some people.
03:01
It's not for me,
03:02
and if we're on shared coordinates, I doubt that's going to be 100 feet even.
03:08
Let's move this.
03:09
So, let's zoom out.
03:11
Type in VG for Visibility Graphics.
03:14
Notice everything is grayed out.
03:17
Hit Cancel.
03:18
In the Properties, scroll down for the View, and it looks like our View Template is set to something.
03:23
Elevation-NoPlanting. Click that.
03:27
Click None. Click OK.
03:31
Now we can edit the visibility graphics. Type VG for Visibility Graphics.
03:36
Scroll down until we find site.
03:40
Drill into site. Turn on project base point. Turn on survey point.
03:46
Click Apply. Click OK.
03:49
That's bad, right?
03:51
Everyone can agree that this is bad.
03:53
We want these to be the same, don't we?
03:56
We have to relocate our project.
03:58
Ground floor is at 100 feet.
04:01
So if we go to the Manage tab, on the Project Location panel, click the Position drop down.
04:08
Let's go to Relocate Project.
04:11
Basically we're in the Move command.
04:14
We're going to pick a point along ground floor, and we're going to move it straight down.
04:22
We're going to type in 100 and hit Enter.
04:30
Okay, the survey point is in the right spot.
04:34
Uh oh, our project base point is way down here.
04:37
Select it. It says minus 100 feet.
04:41
No good.
04:42
What we need to do now is unclip it.
04:44
If we don't unclip it and we move it, it will move our model back up to 100 feet.
04:50
Unclip it.
04:51
For the elevation, type in 0 and hit Enter.
04:56
Oh yeah!
04:58
Clip it back on again.
05:01
Perfect!
05:02
Hit Escape a couple of times.
05:04
Let's go to file. Let's go to Save As, Project.
05:15
I'm going to move out of this directory here.
05:18
I'm going to put it right in my architectural folder.
05:21
And for my file name, all caps, I'm going to call it ARCHITECTURAL.
05:25
Go to your options. Maximum backups, let's select one.
05:32
Click OK. Click Save.
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