Creating a Site: Adding Property Lines

Creating a Site: Adding Property Lines

1/2/10 11:30 - 11:45am

Training File

• Click Open.
• In the left pane of the Open dialog, click Training Files, and open Imperial\RAC_CS_02_Property_Lines_i.rvt.

Add property lines

1. In the Project Browser, under Floor Plans, double-click Site.
2. Click Massing & Site tabModify Site panelProperty Line.
3. In the Create Property Line dialog, select Create by sketching.

   You use the sketch option because the DWG already contains property line information. The table option can also be used, depending on the information available to users at the time they create the property lines in a project. For more information about the table method, refer to Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 Help.

4. Click Create Property Line Sketch tabDraw panel (Pick Lines).

   Using the pick lines method, you can use existing geometry in the project as the basis for the property lines.

5. On the View Control Bar, click Model Graphics StyleWireframe.

   You change to the Wireframe style to view the right property line. It is hidden by the 3D toposurface in the Hidden Line style.

6. Select the 4 property lines, as shown.
   • Right line.
   
   
   1. Click Create Property Line Sketch tabProperty Line panelFinish Property Line.

   Tag property lines

   8. Click Annotate tabTag panelTag by Category.
   9. On the Options Bar, clear Leader.
   10. Select the midpoint of the north property line.

       There are no tags loaded for Property Line Segments in this project.

   11. In the dialog, click Yes to load a property line tag family for use in this project.
   12. In the left pane of the Open dialog, click Training Files, and open Imperial\Families\Property Line Tag.rfa.
   13. Click to tag each of the 4 property lines.
   14. Press Esc.

       The property line tag is very small. Change the view scale to make the tags easier to read.

   15. On the View Control Bar, for Scale, select 1'' = 40'-0''.
       NoteProject North and True North can be manipulated in the project for proper bearing information. Refer to Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 Help for more information.

       
       

       Close the file with or without saving it.