Creating Aerial Views with ViewCube in Revit: East, North, and Southeast Aerials Tutorial

So to get our East, North, and Southeast Aerials, I'm going to do the same thing where we then use the ViewCube here to rotate it. But first, and most importantly, I need to make sure and duplicate the view. And then I can go ahead and change it.

So I've done this one, we're now on this guy here. So I'll just go to the next one here. And then we'll go through that same process where we're going to go and use the ViewCube to zoom in and orbit and get us to the point where we would be content with the way the view looks.

And the idea is to show just generally the building itself and not any specific features. It's just to give a good general overview. And so that looks pretty good.

I'll go ahead and make sure I've got the right Size Crop. This looks good because I didn't actually adjust it on this one—I did the zoom instead. And I'm going to make one more change; it's a little tweaked there.

And that looks pretty good. And so I'll rename this one. And this is our Northeast Aerial.

And then we'll duplicate it again. And if you remember, like I said on the first one, once we get this thing generally set up, it goes together a lot easier. So this one's going to be our Southeast Aerial.

And then I'll pick that next corner on the cube. And we'll go through the same process where we take the wheel here. And we can zoom ourselves in and orbit and pan to get the view that we're looking for.

And then double-checking to make sure I maintained my Size Crop, which I did here. And so then once we have this all set up, we can go ahead and put these on our sheet. And you'll see once we get them on the sheet, there might be some tweaking that we want to do with them at that point as well.

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So I'm going to go to my 901 sheet now. And I'll kind of work my way through here. So back to my 3D views.

And the first one I'm going to grab—and it doesn't really matter—but I'll grab the Southwest Aerial here. And I'm going to throw it up into the corner. And then I will do the Northwest Aerial next here, because I kind of want to wrap around the corner.

And you can see what I mean by once we put them on the sheet, there's some tweaking we might want to do, because you can see this one is zoomed in a little bit closer. And this one's not as much, so it looks kind of weird. And then let's grab the Southeast Aerial.

And then the last one, the Northeast Aerial. And so just a little bit of modifications that we want to make here. And like I said before, the width of the sheet was our limiting factor.

We do have a little bit of white space here. But I will go ahead and zoom in on this guy. And I can make it a little bit taller, since we do have that space in that direction.

And then just going back to the wheel and, you know, zooming in and using the Orbit to kind of get us to that point where we can start to see the buildings in the same sort of orientation. So a combination of that zoom and pan, a little bit of orbiting to get the views to fit and kind of look the way that we're hoping to see them. And so same combination of things that we're going to do here.

I'm just going to make all the views a little bit taller so that I can see more of the building. And that’s also going to mean orbiting them around a little bit. Okay.

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And then this one's not that bad already, but since I tweaked all the other ones, it would only be fair. And this is one of those where it’s totally up to you on how you want this one to look and how we're going to put all these together. And so I'll go ahead and make sure all of these are lined up and look orderly here.

And then I'm just going to move these down so that they're a little bit more centered on the sheet, since this isn't necessarily a drafting view, but it is one that we want to have look nice for sure. I can select all my views here, and then we don't need to be showing the Crop Region. So that gives you a better idea of what the sheet's going to look like when it prints here.

And then we can apply a View Template, and let's just double-check the View Templates we have available. And there's one for 3D views that we could use here, and we can go ahead and apply it to our aerial views and see what we get. And that looks pretty good.

It's got some of the settings that we were using before with the lines crossing over each other, the ambient occlusion is on, and then the shadows are on. So that really takes these views kind of to the next level there. So I'm going to go ahead and save.

And then we'll go ahead and create the views, which will be more like vignette perspectives for our A902 sheet.