Is ther anyway to set up like AutoCAD?

[B_RAD]

Hello,

I'm a fire protection desinger and I'm having some problems. We've (my company) decided to design in Hydracad and then link into Revit. I'm having to learn how to do all this on my own. I'm a designer and have had CAD operators set up mostly everything in the past as far as sheets, clips, notes, and details go. So, I'm taking on this challenge as how to set up what we need in Revit. Anyways, I'm wondering if it's possible to set up an overall floor plan view where you don't really have to use view range? The problem I'm having with VR is the builing has some areas where it's mulit level and if I set the VR (for the overall floor plan) to show only the upper level and not the bottom level walls and lights I then have other areas not showing up because of different wall, ceiling heights. The way we set up clips/bases in the past(AutoCAD) is to clip out the lower are and only show the upper level in the main overall plan view since most of the FP is in the structure. I'm a total noob with Revit so If anyone has any suggestions I'd be greatful.

Thanks,

[Revitaoist]

The view range is a common problem for noobs to wrap their head around. Understand that Revit is Building Information MODELING, not drafting. Every view is a view of the model. You can underlay another plan on your plan in the properties, and you can use plan regions, which are view range boxes that can have independent view ranges. You can also use drafting lines to draw in whatever you want, but it will not be parametric, basically the same as CAD.

[jeffh]

You can use plan regions (http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Revit/enu/2013/Help/00001-Revit_He0/1468-Document1468/1469-2D_Views1469/1470-Plan_Vie1470/1478-Plan_Reg1478) to accomodate different view ranges in one floor plan.

[B_RAD]

This helped!

Thank you,

[MikeJarosz]

Learning to work in Revit means learning to think in 3D. Recall that in Acad you rarely, if ever, modeled a floor unless you wanted to see a floor pattern. Don't try that in Revit.

As an exercise, take a multi-floor building in Revit and go to the plan of the top floor. Turn off all the floors in visibility graphics (VG). It's a mess, isn't it?. Now adjust the view depth up and down. You will quickly see how useful that setting is. Don't forget to turn the floors back on.

Revit is fundamentally different from Acad. Very little of what you learned in Acad is of use in Revit. In Acad you are drawing lines on a flat sheet of paper. How often did you see in Acad elevations drawn on the XZ or YZ axes? Almost never, right?

In Revit you are (figuratively) cutting sheets of foam core and cardboard and gluing them into a 3D model. You will need to master the viewing tools that manipulate 3D objects.

It can be great fun!

[B_RAD]

Thanks. I'm getting it more and more each day.