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Drafting Views
During the course of a project, you may want to create details in a view that are not directly associated with
the model. Rather than create a callout and then add details to it, you may want to create detail conditions
where the model is not needed (for example, a carpet-transition detail which shows where carpet switches
to tile, or roof-drain details not based on a callout on the roof).
You create this unassociated, view-specific detail in a drafting view. The drafting view is not associated with
the model. In a drafting view, you create details at differing view scales (coarse, medium, or fine) and use
2D detailing tools: detail lines, detail regions, detail components, insulation, reference planes, dimensions,
symbols, and text. These are the exact same tools used in creating a detail view. However, drafting views do
not display any model elements. When you create a drafting view in a project, it is saved with the project.
When using drafting views, consider the following:
■ Similar to other views, drafting views are listed in the Project Browser under Drafting Views. See Project
Browser on page 93.
■
All of the detailing tools used in detail views are available to you in drafting views. See Detailing Tools
on page 1146.
■ Any callouts placed in a drafting view must be reference callouts. See Reference Callouts on page 154.
■ Although not associated with the model, you can still drag the drafting views from the browser onto a
drawing sheet. See
Adding Views to a Sheet on page 1033.
Sample Drafting View
The following is a sample drafting view created using the 2D detailing tools in Revit Architecture. This is
not a 3D view.
Creating a Drafting View
1 Click View tab
➤
Create panel
➤
Drafting View.
2 In the New Drafting View dialog, enter a value for Name, and select a value for Scale.
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