Autodesk Revit: Drafting Views

In this Autodesk Revit tutorial I show explain the use of Drafting Views in your project. I show you how to create new Drafting Views as well as how to cross reference a Callout to a Drafting View. If you’d like to watch the video version of the tutorial first, just click in the box below…..

 

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Most of the views that you create in Revit reference the model in some way. This is true for Floor Plan Views, Ceiling Plan Views, Section Views, Elevations Views, etc. They all use the model in order to generate their Views. However there is a type of view that does not reference the model in any shape or form- and that’s the “Drafting View” type. So if Drafting views do not reference the model, what are they used for. Well, in the course of documenting your design (i.e. producing you Construction Document set) you will inevitably need to show some “standard details”- i.e. parts of your design that occur in…

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