04 - Starting A Project
04 - Starting A Project
Bansri Pandey
❑Challenge
STARTING A PROJECT
❑ Revit File Formats
❑ Setting up a project
❑ Levels
❑Files required for this tutorial: TutorialLevels_Input_LearningRevitOnline.rvt
❑ Grids
❑File required for this tutorial: “TutorialGrids_Input_LearningRevitOnline.rvt”
REVIT FILE FORMATS
❑RVT – ReViT project file
❑RTE – Revit project TEmplate file
❑RFT – Revit Family Template file
❑RFA – Revit FAmily file
REVIT FILE FORMATS - EXERCISE
1. Open Revit
2. Go to Models -> New
3. Under template file menu,
click browse to select one of
the template files. Note that
file format is *.RTE. Select
one of the template files.
4. Make sure Project is selected
under ‘Create New’.
5. Say OK to create a new
project.
6. Save this project file as *.RVT
format
PROJECT UNITS
PROJECT UNITS - EXERCISE
1. Go to Manage tab on the Ribbon
-> Setting Panel -> Project Units
2. In the Project Units dialog box,
Under discipline -> select
Common
3. Change the Length units to the
unit of your choice(Ex: Meters)
4. Select required Rounding values
(Ex: 1 decimal place) and Unit
symbols to be displayed (Ex: m)
5. Click OK for Format dialog box.
6. Click OK for the Project Units
dialog box.
7. Units for the length has been
successfully changed.
PROJECT INFORMATION - EXERCISE
1. Go to Manage tab on the Ribbon -> Setting
Panel -> Project Information
2. Project Information dialog box will appear. Add
the details about your project in this dialog box
such as Project name, Client name, Project
Address, etc.
3. Click OK when you are finished adding required
information. If you do not know some of the
information at this stage, it is okay. You can
come back to this dialog box later and add
information when you have it with you.
SPECIFY GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION FOR YOUR
PROJECT - EXERCISE
1. Click Manage tab -> Project Location panel ->
Location
2. On the Location Weather and Site dialog box, under
Define location by -> choose default city list.
3. Alternatively, you can choose to find the location by
choosing Internet mapping service in the same drop
down menu.
4. Under City, choose the city your project is located at.
5. If you do not find the city in the default list, you can
also enter the Latitude and Longitude of the exact
project site location.
6. Click OK to the location and weather site dialog box.
SAVE - EXERCISE
1. Go to File Tab -> Save
2. Give file name and Choose the file type as
*.RVT (Ex: Learning Revit Online_Sample
Project.rvt)
3. Click Options -> File Save Options dialog
box will appear -> Choose the maximum
number of backups you would like to have
for this file.
Every time you will save, a previous version of the
file would be saved as a backup till the maximum
number of backups specified here is reached. After
that, it will keep removing the oldest revisions and
add a newer version of the backup file. Each backup
file will get a suffix of “000n”(n=number of the
backup version) with the project name. (Ex:
Learning Revit Online_Sample Project.0001.rvt)
3. Keep the ‘Multiple’ option checked in the options bar to make multiple copies of that
selected level.
4. Click on any point on ’01 First Floor Level’ line and move your cursor upwards.
5. A temporary dimension (in blue) will appear. You can either choose to graphically select the
point where a copy needs to be placed, or type in the exact distance from the base point
where you want to the copy to be placed.
6. Type “3.05” (m) value on your keyboard to specify the exact distance between the two level
lines. Press Enter after typing the value.
7. As the multiple option is selected, the Copy tool is still active and you can make more
copies by moving your cursor upwards and typing the exact copy distance/graphically
clicking a point on the screen where you want the copy to be placed. Use this tool to create
one more copy of the level
8. Pres Esc twice to finish the Copy tool.
9. Change the name of the levels and elevation height as below:
Name: “02 Second Floor Level” Elevation Height value: “6.10”
Name: “03 Third Floor Level” Elevation Height value: “8.84”
CREATE PLAN VIEW - EXERCISE
1. Go to View tab -> Create panel -> Plan Views drop-down, and then click on Floor plan.
2. In the New Plan dialog box, Select one or more levels for which you want to create a plan
view.
3. Click OK.
4. Now, after creating floor plan views for all levels, note the project browser. All floor plans
are sorted alphabetically in order due to the naming conventions we used earlier.
GRIDS
In this tutorial, you will learn to,
•Add a new Grid
•Offset Grids
•Copy Grids
•Add Grid symbols to both sides
•Offset Grid symbols
ADD A NEW GRID - EXERCISE
1. Open the project file “TutorialGrids_Input_LearningRevitOnline.rvt” and go to “00 Ground Level” Floor plan
view.
3. Click Modify | Place Grid tab -> Draw panel -> Select a straight line option.
4. Let’s start by drawing Grid A. Grid A is located at the left vertical boundary line of the site.
5. Click the start point of the Grid at the top left intersection of the site boundary lines in the project.
6. Move the cursor downwards vertically. Click to enter Grid end point where you want the Grid line to end.
9. In the Grid symbol, click on the text to change the Grid name from 1 to A. Alternatively, go to properties of the
Grid line and in the Instance parameter Name, change the value from 1 to A.
10. While the Grid line is selected, you may notice the two node like circles at both start and end point. Clicking
and dragging these nodes, you can extend the Grid lines. Click and drag the node symbol of the Grid A and
extend the grid line away from the site boundary lines.M2 Grid 9
❑About Levels
❑ Practice Tutorial: Levels
❑About Grids
❑ Practice Tutorial: Grids