TABLE OF CONTENTS This section continues a series of exercises using basic Revit Building techniques to create related, interconnected project files. The exercises in Chapter 3 showed how to use 2D imported CAD file information as the basis for a Revit Building model. You created the model using building elements (walls, roofs) and components (doors, windows). For your hypothetical multi-building project, the starting point is an existing building which will be modified. In this chapter's exercises you will start modeling three structures for Phases 1, 2, and 3 of this campus development.
To get started, you will import a file holding a site topography/building model similar to the one you created in Chapter 3 and a sketch of a proposed site plan into a project file, and then correlate these two sources. You will trace building footprints on top of the raster image and copy/paste those footprints into three additional empty project files. Each of those project files will become a building model, and you will work in each one using massing components to start a building. You will link those building model files back into the first file you created, which will hold the overall view of this extensive development.
Create mass models using a variety of techniques in three separate files
Link Revit Building files together; share locations and coordinates
Create perspective views of mass models for client presentation
File save settings
File link
Shared levels
Coordinates acquire; relocate project
File import attributes
Model lines line,...
