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Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video series for BIM303 detailing and

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rev it architecture. In this video we're going to take a look at creating

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detail libraries. We will continue using the same rev it project file that we

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used in the previous videos. So open up BIM303-lesson3.RVT and let's do a

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save as save this project as BIM303-lesson4. As you build your library of

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details whether they're created in CAD and imported or natively within

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rev it the best way to store and reuse them in future projects is to create

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a separate project file that only creates the drafted details. This will

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become the detail library file and it will only contain two de drafting

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views because they won't have a model to reference. This works well for

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typical details such as a typical door window or accessibility detail. Let's

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look at an example detail library file and review how it was set up. Let's go

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and open the file BIM303-details-accessibility.RVT. Make sure you've downloaded

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this file. Click open. Let's take a look at this detail library file and you'll

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note in the project browser if we take a look at the views take note that all

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the views have been purged out of this file other than the drafting views that

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are being referenced. So all the plans, sections, elevations all have been

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removed to keep this file very clean and very efficient. Note that there's a

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sheet file already set up for easy importing into your project file so if you

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go down to sheets there's a A7.0 typical accessibility clearance details and

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you can see each one of these views in the sheet relate back to these five

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drafting views in this project. So I'm just going through and taking a look at

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each one of these views and you'll know each one of these views is a series of

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detail components with no relation to a rev it model file. So what will typically

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happen is that you will have a detail library file something like this you

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might have one for accessibility details another one for door details another

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for window details and then what you'll do is in your project file that you're

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working on import views from these files. So let's take a look at how to import

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this sheet A7.0 into our current rev it project file. I'm going to close hidden

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windows and then go back to our lesson four rev it project file and to import

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that sheet that we were just looking at let's go to the insert tab and then go

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to the insert from file and go to the drop down menu and you can see you have

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the choice to either insert views from file or insert 2D elements from file.

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And in this case we want to insert a view click on that and what it will ask

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next is to open up a rev it project file that we're going to take the views

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from. So let's go browse to the file that you downloaded three or three details

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dash accessibility and then select open and the next dialog box called insert

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views will give you a list of all the views that are important from that file

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so you can see all the drafting views appear and it gives you a nice preview to

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the right so you can see what you're importing or you can actually go just to the

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sheet view and if it's set up properly like it was in this file we have all of our

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sheets laid out nicely on it or I should say all of our details laid out nicely on a sheet

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and if you import that sheet view the drafting views associated with that will

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import as well so select sheet a 7.0 click okay and there will be duplicate

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types inevitably and just say okay basically we're going to use the ones in this

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project file and just like that we have a new sheet in our project file numbered

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a 7.0 typical accessibility clearances now let's take a look at our drafting

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views in our project file if you expand drafting views in the project browser

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you'll note now those five details from our detail library file have all been

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imported along with this sheet a 7.0 in the next video we're going to take a look

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at 3D detail views the first being creating a section perspective