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    Creating Floors

    By
    Edwin Prakoso
    – July 20, 2009Posted in: Revit Architecture Tutorial

    If you are following this tutorial series from beginning, you’ve already
    known about defining level, placing walls, doors/windows, define your
    own door type, and wall type. Now it’s time to define your floor.
    Creating floor is a bit different than placing walls and doors. We have to
    use sketch to define our floors. Do you notice that I use ‘create’ word
    for floors and ‘place’ for wall and doors/windows?
    But don’t worry, it’s not difficult!

    1st Floor Plan

    Open your previous file. Open your 1st floor plan. We will add floor in this level. Activate floor
    tool from your ribbon. It’s on home tab, build section.

    Now you should see your plan become half toned. It means you can only see it and use it as
    reference for your floor sketch. Sketch? Yes, you have to define the floor boundary by sketching
    it. See your contextual ribbon tab, now it says: create floor boundary. And you will see sketching
    tools such as lines, rectangle, circle, etc.

    The default mode for this tool is ‘pick wall’. We will get to this later, now change your draw
    mode to line.

    Draw your floor boundary as below. Should be easy. Just snap to the points and use appropriate
    size for offset floor. Make sure you are creating a closed polygon. You can’t create the floor
    extrusion if it’s not closed.
    After you’ve done, click finish floor.

    Explore your model in 3D view. Now move to 2nd floor plan.

    2nd Floor Plan

    Open your 2nd floor plan view, and activate wall tool. Now, lets’ do it a bit different. Make sure
    the draw mode is ‘pick wall’
    Check your option bar. Make sure the extend into wall (core) is active. This option will tell Revit
    to find the wall core and snap to it.

    Pick these walls below. Select on the exterior side of these walls.
    Change your drawing mode from pick walls to line. Add these lines to finish your floor.

    Now examine your sketch. This is not a closed polygon. Lines created by picking walls might
    extend at wall intersection. Let’s fix this. Activate trim from your ribbon.

    Pick lines to trim or extend your lines. After you finish, then click finish floor.
    You will see some dialog box asking your confirmation.
    First, Revit will ask if you want your walls to attach this floor bottom? If you select yes, then
    every time you change the level height, your walls height will also be adjusted. We want this, so
    click yes.

    Next, Revit will ask if you want to join geometry and cut overlapping volume. We also want this,
    so click yes.
    After finish, let’s review the effect of selecting yes in those confirmation dialog. We will create a
    section view to this. Open view tab in your ribbon. Click section.

    Place your section line at this position. Make sure you have your balcony and interior floor get
    cut.

    Right click at the section line, then select Go to View. Change your detail level to fine.

    Wall is attached to floor Wall core is cut


    The image on the left is wall below the balcony. It is lowered and attached to the floor bottom.
    On the right, we can see the wall core is cut where it met our floor. Try to change your level
    height and see what will happen to these walls.

    Create a void in 2nd Floor

    Let’s modify our 2nd floor. We will add some space for our stair later. Open your 2nd floor plan.
    Activate modify tool, then select your floor. Place your pointer above your floor edge, wait for a
    while until you see the tooltip shown. If you see the tooltip saying Floors: Floor Generic
    something, click your mouse. If you don’t press [tab] until you see it in your tooltip. Click edit
    boundary in your contextual tab of your ribbon bar.

    You’ll be back to sketch environment.


    Edit your floor boundary to this. This will create an opening/void for our stair.

    Click finish floor after you’ve done. Not that difficult right?

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