I counted, and STG’s Revit standards intranet page has over 120 articles detailing everything from basic best practices to standards specific to our firm. On top of learning basic industry BIM standards, Revit comes with considerable customizability, quirkiness, and dysfunctionality that a user needs to become familiar and comfortable with.
How many other consumer software applications can you say that about? Layer on the complexity of the projects at STG, and Revit often remains difficult to use even after a couple of years in practice. Revit (and other BIM software) comes with a pretty hefty learning curve for beginners.
Revit is a legitimately difficult software to master, even with training. So how do we reconcile the need for Revit with the difficulty in learning it? STG has continuously invested in training our staff to do BIM well. Even though BIM can be challenging, the benefits are significant. Better coordination leads to real (sometimes major) time/money savings and fewer headaches during the life of a project. Modeling design elements accurately in 3D, and then documenting directly from the model, leads to better coordinated drawings and buildings. Despite its complexity, the benefits of using Revit are immense. Revit is an invaluable part of our toolbox, but it is also challenging to master. Revit is a BIM software specifically designed for 3D modeling and data management that STG Design adopted around 2012. These 3 planes define the ‘primary range’ of the view range.Building Information Modeling (BIM) is intelligent 3D model-based software that significantly improves outcomes for all project stakeholders, not just architects and designers, but also owners, contractors, facilities managers, and so on. The cut plane is a plane that determines at what height some elements in the view are shown as ‘cut’. The top and bottom planes represent the top and bottom extent of the view range.
The horizontal planes are Top, Cut Plane, and Bottom. The view range is a set of horizontal planes that control how objects are displayed in the view. This is what Revit’s ‘Cut Plane’ feature will achieve.Īll plan views have a property called View Range. What we are actually drawing is a section. The image below shows what we typically expect a plan to look like, cutting through the doors, walls, windows, and so on. When we create a floor plan with a 2D draughting package (AutoCAD of course) we think in terms of looking down at our building from the top, but quite likely, without even any further thought, we then proceed to draw a horizontal section, not a plan. Firstly, let’s begin with the basic concept. This tutorial is going to discuss the concept of Revit’s View Range feature, I’ll take you through the concepts and options to control what and how elements of a view are displayed.
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