Revit Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

In Revit Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting, we have a little something for every Revit designer—beginners and seasoned users alike! Each video focuses on a specific tip, trick, or troubleshooting technique for the most recent version of Revit. Do you import CAD files and want to achieve consistency? Want to get more from your dimensions? Need to check all of the views in a project and see if the settings are correct? Want to consistently configure crop boxes across the entire project? What about getting all the parameters in your family content in just the right order? These are just some of the topics in store. With a new video every week, you are sure to find something useful to add to your growing arsenal of Revit tools and techniques.

NOTE: The exercise files for this course can only be opened in the most recent version of Revit (Revit 2017).

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Revit Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

This week I want to talk about one of the project setup strategies that I like to employ when I first set up a project, and that is I like to create a dedicated level for my site information. Now the default templates that come with the software configured this way. They all include a site plan, but if you select the site plan view, which I currently have open, and scroll down on the Properties palette to the Associated Level parameter, you’ll see that the associated level for the site plan is actually set to Level 1.

Now if you hover over the associated level name, it gives you a tool tip, and it says, “This is a read-only field.” The problem is if you use the out-of-the-box templates to create your project file, you’ll get this site plan view that associated to Level 1 and you can’t change that. So the only way you can change it is to create a new level, call it Site or whatever you want to call it, and then create a new site plan to go along with that level, and that’s the process I want to walk you through.

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Revit Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting