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Setting Up Views for Sheet Placement in Revit: Adjusting Scale and Detail Level

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Now, let's get these views set up so that we can put them on a sheet.

Now, let's get these views set up so that we can put them on a sheet. And the first thing we want to do is adjust a couple of the settings. So, number one, we want to make sure that they're all set to that medium setting for the detail level.

We want to make sure that they're all set to eighth inch equals a foot. It changed to a quarter automatically because we created a call-out from an eighth-inch view, so it cuts the scale in half. So to adjust the scale and detail level of all of these views at the same time, I can actually select them all in the project browser.

So you can see here, I’ve selected these two views, and I can do that just by holding down the Control key, and I can select all of those views. When you look here in the properties, it says views four, meaning I’ve got four views selected. And what’s great is that I can change the scale, and I can change the detail level to medium, and then it'll update all of the views that I have selected here, which is awesome because then I only have to do that one time.

The next thing I’ll do is tighten these up a bit because we don’t need to have them taking up so much space. And you’ll see when we put it on a sheet why that’s going to be a big deal. Then, we just need to create the sheet.

I’m going to go to, I can do this a couple of different ways. From the view tab, we just click on 'Sheet'. And we want to use the VDCI 11 × 17 title block because this is more of an exhibit than anything.

And so I’ll go ahead and hit OK. And I’m going to change my sheet here. We’re going to change that number to A2.0. And I’ll change the name here to restroom options.

And then now we can start putting our views on the sheet. And so we can do it a few different ways here. It really just depends on how you want to lay it out.

But what I’ll do is put my level one options across the top and my level two options across the bottom. So, I’ll grab option A first and place it on the sheet here in a place that fits well. So you can see I’m just going to adjust it around using the directional pad.

And this is a little close, so I’ll just move this down a little bit and over. And just slightly adjust those. Once I’ve got one set the way I like it, it’s really nice because when I place the next one in, I’ll be able to line it up.

So you can see I can go and I can grab my level two option A and set this one. And they’re going to want to line up with each other. Do you see how that’s working? And so I can line them up as it fits and then I can just adjust this a little bit.

And so like I was saying before, I’ll want to tighten these up by moving some of the grids down so they’re not overlapping the view. And then I like when they line up and so you can’t make it perfect, but you can go ahead and adjust that around and then I’ll just bring these grid tails in a little bit and I’ll just double-click to exit that view. So remember we double-click in, double-click far away to exit, and then we can adjust it.

And so by grabbing this view title, I can move it around. And as I move it, you’ll notice that it tries to grab onto certain constraints. And what’s cool is it’ll want to lock in with the one above it.

We can keep those lined up and the same thing happens with the end point. So you can see I’ve got it selected and I’ve got this dot and if I move this around, it’ll want to line up with that end point. So I’ve got everything nice and lined up on the sheet.

Next thing will be to just grab option B for level one and then we’ll move that across and these should line up because they’re the same view essentially, just different options shown. And I’ll do the same thing. I’ll double-click in to activate the view and then I’ll adjust the extents of my grids so everything lines up nicely.

Then I can double-click out and I can go in and I can align the view titles and the endpoint of that so it’s kind of close to lined up with the grid. And this last one is going to be even better because it will fit exactly where we want it.

Same thing with the grids, just lining everything up. It’s one of those things that seems kind of trivial while you’re doing it, but it actually makes a big difference in your presentation because the nicer and more ordered your elements are on a sheet, the easier it is to read the information. So I’ll just finish that out by lining up that end piece and now you can see here, we’ve got all four options on all the views on the sheet and this is easy to adjust and modify as needed. If things change in either option, then we have this sheet ready to go and it’s easy to send out to our client.