Create a landing page

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In the previous video, we looked at the project information contained within the BIM database,

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which segues nicely into this video where we will create a landing page within Revit.

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Revit has this option to define a starting view.

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So what we will do is we will create a specific sheet as our starting view to serve as the landing page for this project.

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The landing page will contain a variety of information within the BIM relational database as it pertains to the project lifecycle.

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So let's go to Revit and continue with the project that we started previously.

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In Revit 2024, on the home page, let's create a new family. So under Families on the left, click on "New".

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The type of family we want is a title block,

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and in title block, oh, let's pick the E1 42 x 30, and click "Open'.

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I have a blank rectangle, and this is going to become the landing page for a project.

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So let's add some project information onto this page.

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So let's click on "Label" under the Create tab.

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Where do I want to place my label? Let's pick up near the center.

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And here, we have all the parameters,

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or all the fields that are part of the relational database for project information.

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So let's pick on project name, and click the green arrow to add it.

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Let's click "OK". And modify.

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We don't want to add any more labels right now, but we want to modify the label that we just created.

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So I select that. And for my horizontal alignment, let's click "Center".

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And for the vertical alignment, let's pick "Middle".

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And strike it out a bit. Now the text is a little bit small. So let's edit the type of my tag one.

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Let's duplicate this type and call it "Project Title".

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Click "OK". Let's have some fun with this. Let's make it three quarters of an inch, for the text size.

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For the font, give it a unique-looking font.

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I'm going to select the color, I think a dark blue.

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Let's bold it and italicized, and click OK. That looks nice.

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Now with my arrow keys on the keyboard, I can nudge this tag up or down, back or forth.

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So position it where you want it. Let's add some more project information.

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So I click on modify to deselect my original tag on my create tab. Let's go back to label.

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Is this the label maybe right here? And let's add a few things like our project number.

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I can select project number in the green arrow. I can double click on project status which does the same thing.

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Let's also add project address by double clicking, and project issue date.

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Let's say we don't want the project issue date.

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So I select project issue date on the right hand side, and use the red arrow or double click.

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I also want these three to be on separate lines. So I'm going to click on break, click OK Once again, I can stretch it out.

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On the create tab, I can click online to put some graphics in here.

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I'm just gonna put a simple rectangle over here, and perhaps a rectangle over here. I can add some text.

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So I click on create, add some regular text, project info, and let's create some other text over here.

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Call it Project Notes. Now it will also be nice to have an image of the project.

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So on the Insert tab, let's click on Import Image.

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We browse out where the image is.

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It's called Splash and it's a Tiff file, select it, click open, and let's position it down here, and let's resize it.

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Now, you get the idea. We're just putting a project landing page, and we're going to configure that as our startup page.

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OK? We haven't yet saved this file. So let's save it as a Family.

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We'll go to the project folder under Config, and call it Project Page, and click save.

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Now it's time to load this into our project. So let's go open the project small medical center.

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Let's go back to our project page, and let's load that into our project and close this family.

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Now, it's telling me that it can't load this title block into a view which is fine, but it is loaded into the project.

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So if I now go to start a new sheet in my project browser,

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I scroll down to sheets all I right click on sheets all and I want to create a new sheet, and here is our project page,

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and here's all the information you notice that it has entered the project name, and it entered the proper project information.

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And for the project notes, what we would do is we would simply add some text for the various project notes.

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Let's add some bullets, verify dimensions on site, et cetera.

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So Revit supplied the sheet with its own name and number so I can double click on that,

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to change the number to simply 000 and the name will be startup.

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So now all that needs to be done is to set this startup page as the Revit startup page.

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And I do that by going to my manage tab, and under starting view,

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it's no longer the last view that was set for all along. But I browse down to 00 sheet startup.

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Let's save the file, close the file, and let's see if it actually works.

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Let's go to our small medical center, and there is our project landing page,

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and it takes advantage of all the information in the project database.

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So if I need to change anything, I can double click on it, and change all the information.

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For example, for the address, let's type in 123 Main Street, Allentown PA.

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So it's added to my project information.

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And if I go to my manage tab, you'll see that it's also added in the project information,

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put a space in here, and that information will propagate throughout the entire project wherever the project address is required.