From the course: Revit 2025 Essential Training for Structure (Imperial and Metric)

Adding grids to the model - Revit Structure Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2025 Essential Training for Structure (Imperial and Metric)

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Adding grids to the model

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With a traditional structural plan, you're not going to get very far without a grid system. This video's objective is to use our architectural underlay to set up that grid system. In Revit, under Models, let's go Open. Browse for your keeping your exercise files, and in Chapter 2, let's select Structural 02-01. Click Open. Beautiful. In the project browser under structural plans, let's go down to level 1. Let's set the detail level on the view control toolbar to fine. Pan around, remember by holding down your wheel button, and scroll into here by rolling your wheel button. To add a grid, we're going to go to the Structure tab. On the Datum panel, we'll click Grid. On the Draw panel, click Pick Lines. And we'll zoom in to the center line of this vertical wall. And notice when you hover over the center, it's going to give you a dotted line. Once you see that, that indicates that you have the center line selected. We're going to pick it. hit escape a couple of times and then zoom out now select grid line one notice that there's a little grip just like on the levels you gonna pick this little grip and you gonna drag it up and out. You're just gonna pick it, hold, drag upward about six feet. Now with it still selected let's pan down to the bottom and we'll see that this is embedded in this wall so we can grab the same grip pick it and drag it down but notice there's a toggle if you hover over the toggle it says show bubble that's what we want to do so click on that toggle to show the bubble. Hit escape a few times and we have grid line one. Okay now we need to copy it I'm gonna pan back up to the top zoom into about here and I'm gonna select column grid one on the modify panel click the copy button make sure constrain and multiple are both clicked on. We need to grab column line one so we are going to pick a point just above the geometry of our building. I am going to pick a point right here. Now I am going to pan down I am going to move my cursor down until it hits the center line of this little wall here we're going to pick that. We're going to come down till we click the center line of this wall, the center line of this wall, the center line of this wall, and the last one's pretty tough. So we're going to zoom into here and we're going to pick the center line of this wall. Now hit escape a few times. Next one's a little bit tricky but you'll get it. We're going to right click on column grid 6 and we're going to create similar. Let's zoom in to where these two walls meet and we'll see that if you hover just over the center of it you got to zoom in pretty close you're going to see the end point of this wall. Pick that. Pan down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down. Pick that point there, hit escape a few times. Select column grid seven. I'm gonna pan down to here. We're gonna grab this grip. I like to just kind of hover over it and pause for a second. It says modify the grid by dragging its model and we're gonna do that. Grab it, drag it, drag it, drag it, drag it, drag it, drag it. Notice that it will come into alignment with our grids below it. So we're going to pick that point. We're going to click on Show Bubble. Hit Escape a few times. Now let's put in our horizontal grids. I'm going to zoom into here. Right click on column grid 1. So all we have to do is hover. Hover over it, right click on it, and create similar. On the draw panel, click pick lines. Let's pick the center line of this wall here. Pan over, grab this grip, drag it out. Zoom out a bit. Let's toggle that on. Let's come down to the other end, grab this grip. you might have to zoom in on it, grab it, pick it and you can still wheel around with your middle finger here and you can hold down the wheel button, you can pan over I want to grab column line 8 and I want to drag it out past our building footprint. Hit escape a couple of times now if we zoom in on column line 8 we can select it and pick the blue 8 and we're gonna call this cap locks on A. Click off of it got column grid 1 A. Now hit escape select grid A. Let's click copy. Make sure constrain and multiple are both selected. Pick a point like we did with grid 1 right about here. We'll come to the center line of this wall Down to our corridor, to here, to here, and then to the very bottom, got to zoom in close, pick it. Excellent. Hit escape a few times. cool. Three left. We need the frame in this area here. So let's right-click on column line B and create similar. On the draw panel we'll click on pick lines. For offset, let's make that six inches. Zoom into your little radial area, hover over the inside face of the architect's wall here, and notice that you're going to get a temporary alignment line that jumps to the inside of the building. Once you see that, go ahead and pick this. Same procedure, we're going to grab this grip and let's drag it out a little bit. It takes a second to know that you're dragging it and don't worry it's gonna stay tangent upon that quadrant point so we're gonna bring it out to here pick that we're gonna turn that on you can pull it out a little more if you want to okay come down here grab column line Jake and pull that over to there hit escape a couple times okay we need two more at a 45 degree. Right click on column grid B and create similar. Now if you move your cursor down here it's gonna snap to all kinds of stuff so I want to make sure we're hitting the center line of this column grid so if you type SC for snap center and now hover over column grid G you'll see a little snap dot show up. Once you see the little snap dot pick the center pick it right on column line G I don't know if snap dot is the official term but I'm going to use it now we're gonna now we're gonna just bring H over to 45 degrees notice it will snap at that increment and we're gonna kind of pick a spot outside of our building hit escape a couple times select column line H on On the Modify panel, click Mirror Pick Axis. Notice in parentheses, you could type MM, so Mirror Pick Axis or MM. If you type MM, don't hit Enter. Once we've started the command, we're just going to pick this horizontal reference plane and we're going to mirror it down. Hit Escape a couple of times. Now, I want to select column line H, we'll label that B.1. And for this column grid, we'll label it D.9. And escape a couple of times. Now, a thing about grids, if you go to a 3D view right here, we'll see our grids, but if you hover over one of them, Notice that these grids are actually a 3D element, a 3D plane. Keep that in mind as we start modeling other elements.

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