Revit Scope Boxes and Key Plans

[@victors.7717]

You always have a tutorial covering whatever topic I want to investigate a bit further. Fantastic!

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Glad to be of help mate!

[@User_2026_]

Old but Gold! Bro we need the script you talked about at the end.. thanks alot!

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Enjoy! kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4SXdnugoLaEobcfeature=shared

[@henriroelke926]

I subscribed as soon as I saw the guy with the spoon. Glad i'm not the only weirdo using revit. Everbody Dance!

[@AussieBIMGuru]

I find most BIM folk are weird in one way or another, glad to be one of them!

[@marianaarodrigues1]

Hi Gavin! Great video again :) some things I knew, others not. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Again, in my current office they used to do this type of key plans in Autocad with the actual floor plan as an Xref. They would use it, not so much to divide the building into multiple parts, but to highlight which piece of the plan is being detailed further (ex: 1:20 drawings of a bathroom with the general plan as a key plan indicating which bathroom it is). That would also happen in section drawings to highlight the portion of it that its being developed in 1:5, in a constructive detail for instance... But I think for this we should probably use the Callout tool instead...

[@AussieBIMGuru]

You're welcome! I sometimes use the AutoCAD plan as reference, although I usually prefer to simplify the diagram quite a lot to avoid too many lines to print. At the end of the day it's a diagram really so doesn't have to be 100% detailed or accurate. Whilst a callout could work to some degree, unfortunately it could only be placed on a single sheet.

[@marianaarodrigues1]

@@AussieBIMGuru Oops, indeed. So I guess either a more schematic diagram or the Autocad as ref. Personally I would go for the first option, but I guess it is better to analyze it project based and see if the others agree.

[@AussieBIMGuru]

@@marianaarodrigues1 yes get team concensus. I've always found a simple diagram is best, keeps things basic and human friendly to manage/interpret on a drawing.

[@borjabalbastrecamarena1560]

Thanks for the video! Very instructive! Is there any way of creating scope boxes directly in Dynamo?

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Aside from duplicating and moving one I don't think Scope boxes are an exposed class in the API unfortunately. They are generally referred to using the BuiltInCategory DATUM_VOLUME_OF_INTEREST.

[@nebiatsentayehu5303]

amazing as always, thanks

[@AussieBIMGuru]

You're welcome!

[@igoruzon285]

Is it possible to make something similar, but I would like to hatch only certain wall that is placed on sheet? And possibly tag that wall? I would like to automate that process

[@AussieBIMGuru]

To check which walls are placed on a sheet in a model, you can get the sheets viewports, their views and then in those views use elementsofcategoryinview. I believe clockwork and genius loci have nodes for this. Much of this logic will come down to your specific setup in Revit. Try to approach it in steps based on how you would approach this task manually.

[@steedlei1]

Hi buddy, I am from Melbourne. One thing of scope box puzzles me is that there is a gap between scope box and automatically created section box. Is there any way to edit or remove this "gap"? Thanks!

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Hi Lei, nice to hear from a fellow Aussie! I believe by default the section box is automatically offset unfortunately. I would try out this tool by COINS that generates section boxes with manually specified buffers; apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=8920075109543819118&appLang=en&os=Win64

[@shobhitranjan4029]

If some one ask that divide floor area into two parts in each floor along building length what it means..is it relates for creating scope box

[@AussieBIMGuru]

I would ask them to be more clear with their instructions. This could also mean the slab needs a construction joint or a model needs to be broken into two zones. I am guessing they mean to use two scope boxes to cover the floor plan over 2 sheets most likely.

[@fredod5271]

Thank you

[@AussieBIMGuru]

You're welcome!

[@iftekharkhan8879]

Sir .. have seen this video I found that "active zone" name parameter drive the other parameters i.e zone 1 to zone 6 ...but in that video u set parameter name as highlight zone?? Here i did nt see any highlight zone parameter???thanku sir

[@AussieBIMGuru]

It doesnt really matter what the parameter is called, it just needs to be consistently named in dynamo and revit. My videos are a guide, dont follow them 100% literally. They dont connect like a course does.

[@iftekharkhan8879]

@@AussieBIMGuru sir..i have dynamo 2.0..so i have to install archilab,rhythm,and some package ...which ver of this package i have to install...sir

[@AussieBIMGuru]

@@iftekharkhan8879 i would install the versions with dates from around the time of this video or later if they can be installed.

[@iftekharkhan8879]

@@AussieBIMGuru sory sir ,i did nt understand ur answer..

[@AussieBIMGuru]

@@iftekharkhan8879 look at the date i made this video. Look at the package version release dates in package manager. The version i used must have been around that version.

[@davidmoneda]

Hi Gavin, great videos! I am planning to start uploading my own tutorials at some point and you channel is definitely quite motivational. Regarding the key plan I have used a slightly different workflow; To avoid using Autocad, I simply draw the lines (detail lines) on the 'A1-Floor Plan' for example, then copy and paste on the family. The rest pretty much the same. I also use yes/no parameters instead of an Integer parameter. In that way, I can highlight more than one zone on the same plan if necessary. Maybe you know a better way to achieve this?

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Thanks David, I look forward to seeing your tutorials! All your workflow differences are definitely suitable - depending on the project I've used all of these alternatives as well at times.

[@mehdiemamverdi7224]

Hi Gavin, fantastic videos! How can i find the dynamo codes that you used in this video?

[@AussieBIMGuru]

You can find most of my content on my github, and thanks! github.com/aussieBIMguru

[@MrJai471]

Set Key Plan Zone Using Dynamo... can u pls direct me to this video... I couldnt find it in your video list...

[@AussieBIMGuru]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4SXdnugoLaEobcfeature=shared

[@sebamicheli]

Is there any way to link that keyplan zones with the scope boxes in the model? So that if we choose a different zone, the keyplan changes automatically. Thanks!

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Not using dynamo. Youd need to develop an application that runs off events to do something like that.

[@beps8737]

@@AussieBIMGuru any chance you found some magic trick for this one? It would be good to be able to update the keyplan following the scopebox selection

[@AussieBIMGuru]

@@beps8737 the only app i know that does this potentially is property wizard.

[@owaismattoo6245]

Can you share these dynamo scripts ?

[@AussieBIMGuru]

All my scripts that i share can be found on my github. Link on my YT profile.