How to Jazz up Floor Plan Graphics in Revit Tutorial

hey guys ball conducted here and in today's tutorial I'm going to be showing you how to jazz up your floor plans in Revit so here we've got a really boring regular floor plan and I'm going to show you how to add a bit of color add a bit of fly light and a life into this here floor plan how to make it look more interesting and how to make it more readable I think that's quite important when you're talking about graphics it's not only about looking nice it's also about being readable but before I get started I would just like to ask you to like this tutorial it helps me out a lot and if you haven't already I suggest you subscribe because they make tutorials like this every day ok so here I am this is a project i'm working for school and here I've got just a boring regular floor plan and I want to make it look a bit more interesting so let's see where to start let's start off with these ugly chairs so these are well they're actually really nice chairs there Charles Eames design but I really don't like this they're imported from Sketchup I'm guessing so they got this ugly mesh and it's brown and whenever you're loading families from some website you can get this ugly mesh so how do you fix this well I'm just going to select all of these these six over here and these six over here because they're you not even classify this furniture so that's quite a big problem and now I'm just going to right click go override graphics in view by element and here you just need to find projection Alliance open this up so that these are the projection lines these meshes and let's just change that so let's leave the pattern and as what is and let's change this to black hit OK and then just to make it seem a bit better I like to turn on halftone and go apply and as you can see now it's this halftone gray and it kind of blends into the floor plan I like my my walls to be kind of the first thing you see and then the furniture should be a bit gray so let's that let's set all the furniture to gray and instead of hitting everything every each element the quickest way to do that is to go just VG for visibility graphics and just search for furniture over here and just turn on half down let's see yeah this furniture half tone apply and now if we move this out of the way as you can see everything is that half tone but if I cancel out of this and a zoom in over here you can see in the bathroom our sink and water closet are there still not that half tone the reason for that is this is classified as plumbing or a plumbing fixture so you need to go into VG again search for plumbing and plumbing fixtures and just turn turn half down on that and while you're here turn the have down for generic models because some of these families that you're loading in might be classified as generic models so you want to do that and as you can see over here okay this is that regular tone for some reason let's see is furniture at half town ok furniture okay okay okay so this all works except for the refrigerator I don't know how is it classified but it's not that you have tons so you just need to right-click it and manually override graphics in view and just hit half down over here and apply ok so we've taken care of the furniture it now blends into the drawing and our walls are kind of in in first view but to make walls look a bit better I I don't like this batting line you have to have it it shows that you have some thermal insulation in the wall but I don't want to have cannot be this aggressive and black so I want to change it to some warmer color first to emphasize that it's while it's thermal it's warm and the second to kind of blend more in and to have these outlines of the wall pop up pop out a bit more so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go here to manage so go to manage tab and go to additional settings find align Styles open this thing up and here you need to open these lines and if we scroll down just a bit you have this insulation batting lines and here I'm just going to change it from black to let's go to some orange color and just hit okay okay okay and as you can see it's now a lot brighter and we can see these outlines of walls a lot better it looks a lot nicer and warmer I guess okay so next thing I like to fix is these here grid lines they're not really that visible because we've got just a bunch of lines and we can see it so I've got these section heads that are kind of blue so I want to keep that theme let's do an orange blue style and let's select these dim lines go into edit type and let's just change the color to blue and just go okay apply okay and as you can see now all the all the grid lines are blue next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to change the to turn the halftone for all of the windows and doors again I want to emphasize all of the walls and these windows and doors will kind of be kind of second in command as far as graphics goes when you look at the drawing so you're just going to see there's an opening and when you kind of look a bit closer okay there is a window that's I don't know he has this kind of a design nevermind so you just go V G again for visibility graphics and you scroll down you'll find doors turn halftone apply okay and then for windows as well you have tone okay apply and if we zoom over here to the door you can see we have this line that's kind of dashed now this doesn't come with Revit how you get this effect is I've already set this up earlier I forgot about it so you just go into V G again and you go to doors and you open up this drop menu and here you've got this plan swing and then you can override here and I just use this dot one millimetre line and that gives you this this effect we've got this dotted line for the door and here I've got some curtain windows so let me select the two of these and let's just right-click override graphics in you by element cap tone apply okay and as you can see now we've got kind of the the walls are the first thing we see but we also see these dimensions and they're kind of aggressive on the drawing and while we're here we've got this orange color so let's add a bit more orange so I'm just going to select one of these dimension lines go into edit type and then here let me scroll down we've got color and let's switch to orange and I like to make it just a bit lighter so it doesn't pop up pop out too much okay okay this might be too much so let me just select one of these add it go to this orange yeah let's make it a bit darker yeah now you can see the better okay so what's the idea with these graphics is when you're looking at the drawing you can pretty much only see the the first thing you see is these hard walls so you can get ok we're entering the house here here we've got a staircase you've got a living room this is kind of an outside Terrace or whatever here we've got the kitchen here's the dining area here's a little bathroom so that's how the house works but and then if we zoom in and we we can see okay we've got some dimensions over here okay this window is 70 centimeters whatever so you need to have some of sort of a hierarchy higher art hierarchy okay you need to have this is first view is walls second thing is furniture third thing is dimensions and just to emphasize walls a bit more I like to make them a bit more aggressive just to emphasize these lines a bit more so I'm just going to go to BG and visibility graphics scroll down find walls and here for cut lines I'm just going to override this and the weight I'm just going to go all the way to five okay apply and as you can see now walls are a bit darker and you can see everything a bit better so it's kind of clear when we look at this floor plan okay it's clear we've got walls are the first furniture is second and dimensions are third and because this is not going to be a belt that's why I left all of the only the dimensions on the outside of course you would need to have dimensions on the inside if you would if this was a house that was going to be built and one more thing that is this staircase over here it's kind of dark so let me change that as well and here we've got some railing so we need to change that as well so just go into VG visibility graphics scroll down a bit find stair let's see stairs okay and we have some railings railings turn the halftone over there just hit apply okay and now as you can see it's a lot lighter and now the whole thing looks even better so now we have hierarchy we hierarchy hierarchy god damn anyway you can see where everything is and it looks looks quite cool actually okay so that's pretty much it for this tutorial thank you for watching please subscribe to like and share this video and if you have any questions comments or suggestions for future tutorials please leave them in the comment section below thank you for watching and have a nice day [Music]

Channel: Balkan Architect

Views: 79,606

Keywords: Revit, tutorial, english, learn, BIM, building information modeling, how to, autodesk, modeling, visibility, graphics, setup, colors, lines, dimensions, grid lines, override, in, view, family

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Length: 10min 14sec (614 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 01 2018