REVIT - RENDERING & DRAWINGS

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1 TUTORIAL L-15: REVIT - RENDERING & DRAWINGS This Tutorial explains how to complete renderings and drawings of the bridge project within the School of Architecture model built during previous tutorials. This tutorial is number 15 out of 14 previous video-style tutorials. The following topics will be explained in the next pages: 1) Applying materials to items within the Conceptual Design Environment. 2) Bringing a Conceptual Mass Bridge into the Project Environment. 3) Camera Views & Successful Render Setup. 4) 11x17 Titleblocks & Drawings By Jeremy L Roh, Professor of BIMethods & Co-Professor of Computational Practice UNC Charlotte s School of Architecture

2 3) In the Material Dialog box, click on Default as the material. 4) Click on the Duplicate icon. 2) Once the element is selected, in the Properties Box under Material, left-click on the phase <By Category>. Then click on the gray button that shows up in the right side of that box. 1) Select the element that you want to apply a material to by tabbing over and left-clicking as necessary. Note that if the element is a Curtain Panel Family, there are other steps associated with that process that will be covered in future slides. This step covers elements directly modeled in this file.

3 1) Type a new unique name for the material and choose OK.

4 1) Click on the Appearance Tab. 2) Either choose a material from the Autodesk Library or click on the Color and choose a new RGB value from the pop-up dialog box. Sometimes colors go a long way instead of always relying on materials, but it is your choice. 3) Then choose OK

5 2) In order to apply materials to other components that have been loaded into this file such as Curtain Panel Pattern Based Families and Adaptive Components, you need to first select the component by tabbing over the item and left-clicking as necessary. 3) Select Edit Family. 1) The materials that you select in the Appearance tab only show up if your view is set to Realistic which is also how the material will show in the final rendering.

6 1) Once in the family file, go through the same steps as selecting the element, clicking on the material, duplicating an existing material name, and choose the appearance tab.

7 This, time for a different example, I have chosen a Plastic Smooth - Amber as the material.

8 When done adding materials, click on Load Into Project and choose to Overwrite the Version and Its Parameters.

9 Once complete with the parametric bridge component, and while having your SoA Project Model open in the background, you can also choose to Load Into Project. This will bring the Bridge into your project file as a family component.

10 2) Click on Home and then Component. 3) From the pull-down Properties Box, choose the Component Bridge File Name. 1) Choose the Floor Plan View to place your bridge on. 4) Place the bridge. Notice my bridge is too big for the space.

11 2) Click on Edit Type 1) To adjust the bridge to fit, click on the bridge component. to select it. 3) If you set up your bridge to be parametric with parameters to change, you can make your change in the dialog box that pops-up. This is the same as selecting Edit Family going back into the Family Environment File, changing the parameters there, and reloading it/overwriting it back into this file. Here I changed my Length parameter from 75 to 55 and then finally to 50. Note: If you didn t model your bridge parametrically, you would have to remodel everything by hand!

12 1) To setup a perspective camera view, select, View and then in the 3D View pulldown, select, Camera 4) A new view is added under 3D Views 2) Place the Camera Position 3) Plase the Camera Target

13 4) To make sure the image is the correct size for printing, click on Size Crop 1) While in the 3D View, you can adjust the Eye and Target Elevation here. 3) Change how far the Far Clip Plane occurs or uncheck the box to make it infinite 2) You can also adjust the crop boundary with the drag handles 5) Then select Scale (locked proportions) and type in the Width or the Height that you want the final output rendered view size to be. Since the final project requirements is 11x17 drawings, you probably want dimensions close to that to be efficient.

14 2) Then select Switch Windows and select a view that is open in the background such as the Floor Plan View. 1) To make camera placement adjustments after the camera has been placed, select the crop region border.

15 1) Make adjustments in placement as needed.

16 NOTE: The next steps are all you need to know for rendering a good interior shot in the SoA Model. I am not going to expand on other lighting concepts or setups. If you want to know more visit various video classes in the BIMethods portion of the class website for interior lighting, exterior solar setups, more on materials, and interior rendering setups. Also in the Resources section under Articles & Papers a lot more information is available in PDF format. The next slides also assume that you have setup a Translucent skylight material like we did in a previous class and it also assumes that you have set up your materials throughout the SoA Model. By the way, my model is missing something that should have been modeled in the Atrium Space. You should add in the boxed soffits that engage the columns at the 2nd Floor line to better complete your model. TIP: Photorealistic renderings can take anywhere from 1 to 5+ hours depending on your computer. Only render the views that present your project the best. All other views can be shown in other view display methods: Hidden Line, Hidden Line with Shadows On, Shaded or Realistic Display with or without shadows, etc. You can also copy your file over to another computer and render other views. Then export the renderings as images to file and then import them just like one of the first classes where we inserted an image of a floor plan. If you follow the next steps as I present them, any interior shot within the Salon should match the quality that will be shown herein.

17 1) Click on Manage 2) Click on Materials 3) Find your material and make sure that in the Appearance tab it has the following settings. Essentially, we are turning the skylight into one big interior light for a better photorealistic rendering.

18 Note: When in your 3D Perspective View, make sure in Massing & Site you click on Show Mass and the icon matches what is on my screen. Then goto your VG or Visibility Graphics and make sure Mass is checked.

19 3) Click Render 1) Next Click on View and then Render 2) Make sure your render settings match this dialog box.

20 3) Once you have saved to project, click close. 2) Rendering is added to the Project Browser 1) When rendering is done be sure to click Save to Project. If you do not and you close this render box, you will lose your rendering.

21 1) To begin creating drawings and renderings to be placed on 11x17 sheets, click View and then Sheet.

22 1) Click Load

23 1) Double-click into the folder Titleblocks

24 1) Select the B-size 11x17 titleblock

25 1) Select the B-size 11x17 titleblock 2) Select OK

26 3) Click on Edit Family 1) Sheets are added to the Project Browser 2) Left-click on the Titleblock

27 1) Window around all the items except the border lines and hit Delete on your keyboard. 2) Click Load into Project

28 1) If you have multiple files open, you will be asked which file to load into. Choose your Project File

29 1) Overwrite the titleblock family file.

30 Note: To add more sections and other types of views including sheets, use the View tab. Sections and Callouts are available when in model views. 1) You are now ready to drag and drop drawings and renderings onto this sheet. 2) To place any drawing/model view or rendering onto a sheet, left-click and hold the name of the view from the Project Browser and drag it onto the sheet. Release the mouse button and then leftclick where to place it on the sheet. Note: For and view that is already made, you can right-click on the view and select Duplicate to create another view for cropping and scaling for a sheet. This is good if you want to maintain the original view in its original format. You will have to crop and scale for 11x17 sheets.

31 3) Or if you don t want to rename the view but want a different title, leftclick on the view and type a title here. 1) Viewport titles show the name of the View as the title. To change the name, see steps 2 and 3 2) You can either right-click on the view name and select rename.

32 3) Duplicate the Viewport Family Type 2) Select Edit Type 4) Give it a unique name 1) If you don t want a title, left-click on the viewport 4) Change Show Title from Yes to No by selecting the options in the drop-down menu once you left-click on the word Yes

33 1) For renderings, just be sure you made them slightly larger than the titleblock border and then what ever overlaps will not print. 2) Now lets setup a drawing, create a new Sheet

34 1) Again, select the B-size titleblock.

35 2) You can rotate the drawing 90 degrees either way. 1) Again, drag and drop drawing onto sheet

36 1) Activate the View so that you can go through the Paper and back into the Model view all in the same screen. Click Activate View here OR 2) Right-click on the drawing on the screen and select Activate View to return to Paper space right-click again and select Deactivate View

37 1) Once in the activated view, Change the scale of the drawing as needed to fit the border.

38 2) Select and Drag the border shape handles to crop the drawing down to the sheet size. Select and Drag annotation items like column bubble and section marker ends. 3) Check Annotation Crop to make sure you don t have floating room names outside of the border. 1) Turn-on the Crop Region

39 1) When you are ready to print sheets, select Print from the applications menu. Note: If you made anything such as the bridge path with a conceptual mass family, be sure you have the Mass turned on in your VG visibility graphics in each view. Revit likes to turn masses off a lot.

40 If you have a mass family, when you hit print, you will get this dialog box which essentially says the same thing as my previous note. Just click Close. It is just telling you to double-check that your drawing looks right.

41 2) Select, create separate files or you can combine into one PDF if you want 3) Make sure printer is set to Adobe PDF and then choose Properties 4) Select 11x17 for PDF Page size. 1) Choose Selected views/sheets

42 1) Make sure Layout is Landscape and hit OK. 2) Select Setup

43 3) Give it a name and hit OK 2) Save printer settings as... 1) Make sure the settings are Offset from Corner and No Margin and Zoom is 100%

44 2) Check all the sheets that you want to print and hit OK 1) Click Select 3) Then select OK again here to start printing.

45 1) Click Save and Adobe Acrobat Printer should print your 11x17 and show you the final in Acrobat. These steps will repeat for each sheet to print. 2) Once you have your PDFs saved, send the PDFs to a printer to print.

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49 END: NOTE: To learn more about construction documents view the class video at << >>. Essentially, construction documents are a way to present your project on paper like you would in studio by showing renderings, floor plans, sections, etc. The only difference is you would have more text, tags, and dimensions shown on the drawings like you will see in the link mentioned.