Overview

Now that we've discussed how to annotate a drawing, be it for presentation or production, we will review how to create the set of documents that will be used by the contractor and subcontractors to build the project. In this chapter, we'll go into detail about preparing the construction document set. Topics we'll cover include:

• Formatting your documents

• Creating schedules

• Using drafting views

• Understanding drafting tools

• Importing CAD details

Formatting Your Documents

When you begin documenting your project, most of your modeling should be more or less complete. That doesn't necessarily mean that you have all your views established or all your sections cut, but it's helpful if the majority of your building geometry is in place. To illustrate, let's go back to the house we've been working on. By this point the geometry of the house should be well established; to begin the documents, you'll create a series of views of the model. You've already established some views in the model. Some were in the Revit template file, and you made others while creating the model. However, the views you currently have for the floor plans are set up for presentation purposes and are not suitable as construction documents. Therefore, we need to create new views, customize their appearance, and place them onto sheets to make digital or paper prints of them.