Drawing Walls

Drawing Walls

YourBefore Artcraftplacing templatecabinets, comesyou'll withfirst aneed floor,to acreate wall,the room or space you'll be designing.

In Revit, walls define the room and aprovide fewthe familiessurfaces alreadythat loaded.cabinets will snap to during placement.

To begin, wenavigate needto walls.the OftenArchitecture wetab and select the Wall tool.

Once the Wall tool is active, click anywhere in your floor plan to define the starting point of the wall.

There are two ways to create the wall length.

The first method is to simply click and drag your mouse to the desired location, then click again to finish the wall.

The second method is to click the starting withpoint aand CADtype the desired wall length directly from your keyboard.

If you're working in metric, simply enter the desired dimension, such as 2000 for 2000 millimetres.

If you're working from an imperial drawing from our customer. Link your CAD drawing this way. Align the walls, then build your walls. Click Architecture > Walls and trace your CAD or drawfield to your dimensions. Before you clickmeasurement, you can alwaysalso type dimensions using feet and inches. For example, entering 80" will create an 80-inch wall, even if your wallproject dimensionis using metric units.

Revit automatically converts the measurement for you, allowing you to work comfortably with either measurement system.

Continue drawing walls until you've created the basic outline of the room.

At this stage, the goal is simply to establish the room boundaries—not to create a walldetailed architectural model.

These walls will provide the reference points that size,Artcraft cabinets use when snapping into position.

If you need to adjust a wall after it's been created, simply select it and thendrag click.either endpoint or use the temporary dimensions to make quick adjustments.

Once your room is complete, you're ready to begin loading and placing Artcraft cabinet families into the project.