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Chapter 17

Documenting Your Design

While the industry continues to move toward a 3D building information model as a construction
deliverable, today we still need to produce 2D documents for a construction document set or
design reviews. Using the integrated documentation tools in Autodesk Revit Architecture
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software, you can create these sets with more accuracy and reliability than in the past. In this
chapter, you will take the elements you have previously modeled and detailed and begin to create
the documentation for your design.
In this chapter, you’ll learn to:
◆ ◆◆ Document plans

◆ ◆◆ Create schedules and legends
◆ ◆◆ Lay out sheets

Documenting Plans

In this chapter, we’ll introduce a scenario that will mimic what might happen on a real project
in a preliminary design phase. We are going to assume that you’ll be using the c17-Sample-
Building-Start.rvt or c17-Sample-Metric.rvt model from the book’s companion website:
www.sybex.com/go/masteringrevit2015.
Here’s the story: You have recently completed some preliminary design work in advance of
your upcoming client meeting. You will need to lay out the plans, elevations, and perspectives
on some presentation sheets for the meeting, but you will also have to include some building
metrics, such as area plans and schedules of overall spaces.
In the following sections, you’ll start with the area plans. For the purposes of program
verification, you have decided you need to establish the spatial areas for the building so the
client can get some preliminary pricing from the contractor. Before you create your area plans,
we’ll discuss some of the various ways you can calculate areas in Revit.

Calculating Space Using Room Objects
Certification The simplest way to calculate the space in a building design is to use room objects. Room tags
Objective can be used to report room name, department, area, and any of the other properties of a room.
These properties can also be scheduled to report the total area of all rooms within a design.
With rooms, however, the areas that they report are limited to how those spaces are defined. With
the c17-Sample-Building-Start.rvt or c17-Sample-Metric.rvt model open, choose the

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