Session 2 · Draw it and print it

About two hours. Start from pavilion_s1.rvt. The model does not change in this session. What changes is how you look at it: views are cut from the same model, placed on a sheet, and printed. This is the part of Revit that feels most different from Rhino or AutoCAD, and the part that pays off for the rest of your degree.

The result

A sheet carrying your ground-floor plan and a section at 1:100, with a filled-in title block, exported as a vector PDF. Saved as pavilion_s2.rvt.

Workflows, in order

1. Open Your First Plan, Section, and 3D View — Three live views of the same building side by side, with a section line you cut yourself. (clip)
2. Control View Range and Cut Plane — View range and cut plane set so the plan shows what you intend. (clip)
3. Create Sheets and Custom Titleblocks — A sheet with a title block that carries your name. (clip)
4. Lay Out Your First Sheet with a Plan and Section — Plan and section placed at 1:100 with clean view names. (clip)
5. Export Sheets to PDF — A correctly sized, correctly scaled vector PDF. No printer drivers, no plugins. (clip)

You can use the default title block for step 3 if you are short on time. Making a custom one is a nice extra and the course covers it properly.

Checkpoint before you move on

• Move a wall in the 3D view. The plan and the section update by themselves. If they do not, you drew lines, not a section.
• The plan cut plane sits at about 1200 mm: windows show as openings in the walls, not as solid wall.
• The sheet shows both views at 1:100 and the view titles say something you chose, not "Level 1 Copy 1".
• Open the PDF and measure the long wall with the PDF reader's ruler. It reads 9 m at 1:100. If it does not, the print scale was wrong.

If it went wrong

• The section shows nothing. Its view depth is too shallow or it looks the wrong way. Select the section line in plan and use the flip arrows, then check the far clip.
• The PDF is A4 while the sheet is A1. Paper size is set in the export dialog, not on the sheet. Set it to match the title block and set zoom to 100%.
• Views are pale or greyed on the sheet. That is the view's detail level or a halftone setting. Leave it for now; the course has a whole class on view graphics.

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