All language subtitles for 02 - Creating levels

- Now that our architectural models linked in,

we can start to think about items

other than the physical building we use from the architect.

Levels are one of those items.

So we'll jump in.

Let's go into Revit.

I'm going to open my Structural One model,

which is contained within my Chapter One folder,

or you can use whatever model you're working on

to follow up.

I'm going to open it up.

For zoom in on our building,

what I want to do is go to the Project Browser.

Notice that all of our levels are contained right here.

To create levels, what I'd like to do

is go to the South Elevation, Elevation South.

Also notice that we have some little datums in our model.

Don't delete these.These are actual live views of our model.

So you can go to your South Elevation

by either double clicking south here

or by double clicking south here.

It seems like kind of a mess,

but let's zoom in and take a look.

Notice that we have a Level two at 300 millimeters.

The architect's Level two is 3048.

What we want to do is arrive at the bottom

of this slab right here.

But what we need to do just to kind of clear things up.

Select level two,

notice that there's a Lock icon,

which means that it's locked to the level below it.

So if we click on this grip right here,

notice that both levels will move together.

I like this behavior in Revit.

What I'm doing now is I still have my pic button pressed,

but I'm scrolling in and out with my middle finger.

Hit escape a couple of times.

Now, for structure,

level two does not want to match the

architectural finish floor level two,

what we need to know is where our top of steel is.

And that's going to be just below this slab.

So I'm going to use my Align tool to align

my level two to the bottom of this slab.

If you go to the Modify Tab,

there's an Align icon right here,

click Align.

In the Align command, the object you want to align to,

is the object you select first,

the object you physically want to move,

which is the level you select second.

So if I select the bottom of our slab here,

now if I select our level,

it will align to it. Ignore the lock icon.

Now our Level Two is at 2870.

hit escape a couple of times.

To create a new level,

we can go to the Structure tab

and way down here is the Level command,

or if you right click an object and Create Similar,

that's going to start the level command also.

What we want to do is now pick the bottom of this slab

and each level until we get to the roof.

So we're going to click on our Pick Lines button

and we're going to zoom in on level three.

We'll select the bottom.

Don't worry about where it is right now

we'll move that in a moment.

Stuck Level Four,

select Level Five,

and select your roof.

hit escape a couple of times.

Now it looks like the roof level is disappeared but

it's not. We'll select this level,

grab that grip like we did earlier,

pick it, drag it over.

Notice that once we get near level two,

it will align it.

Notice we have our little Lock icon.

Also notice that we can't see the datum or the text.

we can just click on this little checkbox here,

and it'll show the bubble.

hit escape a couple of times.

Select Level Five.

It's easier if you click it on the text somewhere.

If you click the actual datum,

notice that you can select it.

It's kind of quirky behavior,

but that's how Revit works.

Select Level Five, grab that little icon.

And I'm going to bring it out until it

clicks into alignment.

And we're good.

hit escape a couple times.

Now it's kind of hard to see the roof level

we don't need a Parapet in our structural model.

But for level six, click into level six

all caps. Let's call it ROOF

and hit enter.

Now Revit wants to know

if we want to rename the corresponding views

meaning do we want Level six to stay Level six here.

We don't.We want that to say roof so we're going to say yes.

Notice now that roof coincides with roof.

We also have a top of footing level we need to deal with.

So let's right click on level one,

create similar,

if we click on the Pick Lines button, instead of

selecting this, I want to show you the Offset command.

So for the Offset, I'm going to type in 3048 .

Now we can select Level one

and it's going to offset it down.

We don't need to type in the negative value

Revit just knows it'll be a negative value from zero.

Suck that,

hit escape a couple of times,

Select level seven,

Let's rename it to Top of Footing.

T, period, O period, space FOOTING.

Hit enter. Yes, we

would like to rename the corresponding views.

hit escape again

. And there we go.

Now we have all of our levels in and we're ready to go.