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- I'd to start with the fact that

we need to deal with the architect.

There's nothing with the architect,

in fact I like architects,

but we do need to know what they're doing

in terms of building footprint.

This is where linking comes in handy.

The objective of this video is to

link in an architectural model.

Then we'll pin it down and check out the

half tone underlay settings.

Jump into Revit.

Under models let's go: new.

For template files click browse.

Want to grab structural analysis default.

Let's click open.

Let's click okay.

Not much to do here but bring in the architectural model.

Notice that we're in a level two,

we'll address all of this in great detail

throughout this course.

But now let's go to the insert tab.

Let's link Revit.

Browse to where you're keeping your exercise files

and grab your architectural model,

or you can grab any architectural model

that you're working with.

For the positioning I'm going to keep it at

auto origin to origin.

Click open.

It's very odd that we can only see

certain aspects of this model

which is because of the fact that our discipline

is set for structural.

Before we do anything, select that architectural model.

Let's click the pin button.

You do not want to inadvertently move that model,

trust me it's no fun.

If we pin it now I can't move it, that's what we want.

To get out of the selection or out of the a command in Revit

just hit escape a couple of times.

Now let's address the funkiness.

In the properties let's scroll down

until we find discipline.

Instead of structural, hit the pull down,

let's go to coordination and click apply.

That's a little better I think.

Notice that we have an elevation marker,

it's kind of in the way of everything,

so what I'm going to do is if you pick a window

around this elevation marker,

don't worry about selecting the underlay,

you won't because we have it pinned down.

Let's pick a window around both of these items.

Notice I'm picking a window starting

from the left to the right.

That means I'm only going to get

these two items in the selection.

Now hold down your pick button and just drag that out.

You don't have to have it perfectly in line.

Hit escape a couple of times.

I'm going to do the same with these elevations,

I'm going to drag these down,

I'm going to drag this one in,

and I'll drag this one up.

We'll be using all of these.

Go to a 3D view, you do that just by clicking

on the little 3D house.

In this set we have a bunch of levels,

that's okay,

there's a lot of sloppiness in the architectural model

but we'll deal with all of that as well.

Let's go back down to level two.

Now if we look at the underlay, let's go ahead and go to

the manage tab.

I want to look at some additional settings,

I want to see how Revit treats an underlay item.

So for additional settings, hit the pull down menu here,

let's go half-tone underlay.

For the weight I like to go with one.

It's a line weight of one

and I'll show you what that means in a moment.

I'll apply half-tone but I'm going to

crank the half-tone up to 80.

I'm going to hit okay, it's not going to change this,

because of my discipline,

however I want to show you what those numbers mean.

On the manage tab, if you come down here to object styles,

and click that you will see that any objects in Revit

are controlled by line weight.

Of course.

Unlike auto-CAD where it's controlled by a CTB

when you print,

in Revit it's controlled right on the screen

in real time so it's object driven.

If we only show structural elements

it'll be a little clearer.

We'll just show structure.

Now here's our structural stuff,

here's how you want it to look in planner elevation,

here's how you want it to look

if you cut a section through it.

I'm going to cancel here.

If we go to additional settings

and we come down to line weights,

you will see here what that controls.

It's a numerical, it's from one to sixteen, we can add more,

I don't see why you would need more than sixteen,

some people do,

but even as the scale decreases,

notice that the heavier line weights will decrease as well.

It's pretty cool how Revit controls this.

Hit okay.

Go ahead and save your model

somewhere that makes sense to you

and you're all set.

That's how you link in architecture.