Metric Tutorials - Autodesk

Notice that the Project Browser has reorganized all the views within this project according to
Phase, Type, and Discipline.
22 Click File menu ➤ Close.
If you want to save this file, navigate to your preferred directory, enter a unique file name, and
click OK.
In this lesson, you modified various project settings that affect project appearance and organization. All the
settings that you changed in this lesson are saved with the project. You can also save these settings in a
template file. By saving these settings as a template and using it throughout the office, you maintain consistent
standards and reduce the amount of repetitive work. In the lesson that follows, you create an office template.
Creating a Structural Template
In this lesson, you create a Revit Structure template file and set it as your default template. When you create
new projects, the project template is used to provide the initial project settings such as materials, dimensions
styles, levels, preloaded families, and view names. You can save Project Browser organization schemes, named
print settings, and rendered scenes in a template. Although Revit Structure provides many templates to
choose from, you may decide to modify one or more of these templates to the specific needs of your company.
A well designed template will ensure office standards are maintained and will reduce repetitive work.
This lesson is intended to provide you with a blueprint of how to create your structural template. It is mostly
conceptual and is designed as a road map with options for your consideration. The lesson begins with
choosing the right base template and progresses through many of the most common modifications that
you would consider in order to make a template unique to your situation.
Choosing the Base Template
In this exercise, you select the starting point for your structural template.
Whenever you create a new project or template, a group of settings are used to specify the project
environment. For example, when you create a new project, you can select an existing template or begin the
project with no template. Even if you choose not to base that project on a template, certain baseline settings
are still assigned to the new project. When you create a new template based on an existing template, the
same rules apply. You can use an existing template as the baseline or use no template at all. Depending on
your needs, choose the option that will help you develop the best template with the least amount of work.
Review existing templates
1 Click File menu ➤ New ➤ Project.
2 Under Template File, click Browse.
Notice there are a number of different templates to choose from. The template selection may
vary depending on your installation. Other than the default template, each is modified in a way
to make it useful to a particular industry, such as structural or construction.
The first step in creating your structural template is deciding which template to use as your
starting point. If your work requires a variety of templates, you can modify one template and
use Transfer Project Standards to copy the changes to other templates.
3 Select the Structural Analysis-DefaultMetric.rte template, and click Open.
4 In the New Project dialog, select Project for Create new.
5 Click OK.
6 In the Project Browser, expand Views ➤ Elevations, and double-click Building Elevation.
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