Revit Adding the Garage Platform, Appliances, and Fixtures

Adding the Garage Platform, Appliances, and Fixtures

Before you can add the garage appliances and fixtures, you will need to create a concrete platform.

• Open the RL2-4 file. Save the file as RL2-5.
• Go to the First Floor View and zoom in on the south end of the garage.

Location of Concrete Platform

• Go to the Component tool.

Click on the arrow and select Model In-Place.

The Model In-Place option is used to create simple models while in the Revit program.

Model In-Place Tool

• In the Family Category and Parameters dialog box, select Floors.

Family Category and Parameters Dialog Box

• Name the family, Garage Platform.

Name Dialog Box

• The drawing will turn gray.

Click on the Extrusion tool in the Forms panel.

Extrusion Tool

• Draw the rectangular shape for the platform. The edges are to the core boundary of the three walls.

Sketch Boundary for the Platform

• In the Properties box, set the Extrusion End to 0′-0″, Extrusion Start to -0′-4″, and the material to Concrete Cast-in-Place gray.

Change the color of the material to light gray (RGB 192 192 192).

This will create a 4″ thick concrete

platform on top of the garage slab.

Properties Settings

• Click the Green Check to finish the model.

Note: To edit the boundary of the slab, double-click on the slab and then the Edit Extrusion tool.

Properties Settings

Concrete, Cast-in-Place Gray Material Set to Gray

• Click the Green Check.

Click the Green Check in the In-Place Editor panel.

Note: Creating a 3D section view will be covered later in the book

3D Section of Platform

• Now you will add the garage appliances and fixtures. Approximate the locations.

Garage Appliance and Fixture Locations

• This is the end of Part 5. Save your file as RL2-5.