- We've already explored a little bit
of 3D viewing in previous video
but we were in the Document Management
module when we did that.
This time, I want to stay in the Design Collaboration module
and show you some 3D viewing and navigation
techniques that you can use here in Design Collaboration.
So while there are similarities to document management,
there are some subtle differences as well.
So, I'm logged in as my user, Haui
and he's a member of the architecture team,
so it takes me to the architecture team space.
And beneath there, I have two different sets.
Now what you see on your screen
will vary depending on which account
and project you're in and what your level of user access is.
But to follow along with me, you can open
up any model and any 3D view.
So, I'm going to go to my 3D views set here.
And that will take me to the first view in that set.
Now, if you look over here on the content
browser on the left, you can see
that there are actually four views within that set.
So, a set is something you create in Revit
and the set just contains one or more Revit views.
So, if I click on these views by name here,
it will actually take to that vantage point
from that Revit model.
So, we've got this dining from above
and we've got two different exterior views,
one from the parking and one from the street,
and you could see how easy it is
to quickly toggle between those.
Now, I'm going to go back to the Axon view here.
Now, we're going to talk about creating sets
and publishing those out to design collaboration
in a future video.
So for now, I just wanted to show you
that a model can contain those items.
Now, if the model you're looking
at doesn't have sets, then it will probably
just say the name of the Revit file
and you can click directly on that,
and usually it will publish the 3D view by default.
Now, when working in this 3D view,
we have many of the same navigation tools
that we've already looked at in the Document
Management module, so we can certainly
roll our wheel to zoom in or to zoom out.
We can hold down our wheel and drag to pan side to side.
And we have the tools here on these little
pop ups, we have the Zoom in window
and we have the Zoom and the Pan tools.
And we already talked about if you're working
on a track pad on a laptop, you might need
to use those tools in lieu of your wheel
if you don't happen to have a wheel handy.
We've got our orbit tool and we've got
our view cube over here.
So, much of the same navigation
is available to us when working
here in the Design Collaboration module.
Now, what I'm going to do is back up
slightly here and I want to just see
the entire model, and one set of tools
that I want to look at in this video that we haven't looked
at previously, is the sectioning tools.
So, if we come over to this little
fly out tool bar right here, you will see
that if you click the little arrow
on it, there are a few different
sectioning tools, we have XY and Z
planes that we can enable.
You could choose whichever one you want,
I'm going to choose the Z plane, and what that's going to do
is add a plane that slices through my model
at some location.
Now, it'll either sort of add itself
either in a random location or it will remember
wherever it was the last time you were in this view,
but notice that's there's little gizmo
control here that you can use to modify that plane.
So, the arrow allows us to move the plane
up and down in this case, because it's the Z plane,
so, if I hover over that arrow, it changes to yellow,
and then I can start to drag it, and slice
through more or less of the model.
So, we can drag that in both directions,
depending on what you want to slice
through and see there, so let me just,
just below the ceiling, and then
there's these arcs here that allow
you to actually rotate that section plane,
so if you really want to, you can
actually start to spin that plane
at an angle and kind of slice through it
at any angle that you like.
So, I'm not sure that that's necessarily
the presentation I want but if you're trying
to do something custom, then it certainly
is an interesting effect.
And in fact, you can rotate that in both
directions, so you could make a really interesting
presentation from this by simply
rotating those planes in a couple directions.
Now, if you want to turn that plane off,
you just simply click the tool again
and it will turn that off and show you the entire model.
Now, if course we do have other directions,
so if you wanted to try a Y or an X plane,
you could do that and you could see
that it's slicing through the building
but once again, I can drag it to indicate
where I want it to slice through.
And while you're in this mode,
you can orbit by holding down the Shift
and dragging your wheel or dragging
the view cube, you can zoom with any
of the zoom methods, you can pan.
So, you've got full navigation
to allow you to zoom in there and study
the effect with this slice enabled.
And then when you're ready to disable it,
you just simply click the button again.
Now, I'm going to reset the view using the view cube,
to go back to a kind of axonometric view here,
and then I'll click the Fit to view
to kind of back out, to see the entire model.
Now, as we saw in the Document Management
module, you can select elements
and then use the Properties button
here to see information about that element.
So, as I change Selection, you know
those are a couple roofs, this is a wall, you're going to see
that change right directly on the properties.
I can select a dining table with chairs,
and then if I just sort of click out in empty
space, it'll de-select or you can press
your Escape key to de-select.
Now, something really interesting
is that if I orbit, you can kind of see
that it's kind of remembering the last
object that I selected, as the pivot
point for the orbit.
Now, you can use that to your advantage,
if I wanted to focus on this canopy
for example, I can select it and then
when I start to orbit, notice that it's keeping
the canopy kind of as the centre
of the orbiting and in fact if you look
at that carefully, if I just sort of tip it
down a little bit, and then zoom in slightly.
If I hold the Shift key down in the wheel
again, you're now going to see a little green dot.
It's a little hard to see, but there's a little green dot.
Now, it actually just moved when I clicked
my mouse in a different location.
So, you can actually change where that pivot is.
Now, I'm going to zoom back out here,
another thing that you can do is with an object
selected, you can right click and when you
right click, you'll have some other choices here.
So, what we were just moving was the pivot point.
So, by choosing pivot point, you can be a little
bit more deliberate about that,
you can clear the selection.
So, if you're having a hard time
de-selecting 'cause it's trying
to select other things, then just
right click, right, so if I kind of click
away from it, trying to de-select,
you see how it's selected the floor.
So, by right clicking, I can clear the selection.
You can Hide or Isolate elements,
so if I choose Hide, it's going to hide that canopy.
Now, it's going to leave it kind of ghosted,
so it's still visible but because it's transparent,
it's easier to see the objects
that it was previously concealing.
Now, another thing that you could do
is select an element and isolate that element.
So now, that is the only element
that's visible and everything else
in the model becomes transparent
and is, I'm focused clearly on this one
element that I selected.
Speaking of Focus, if I choose
that, it will bring that object front and center.
So, that's a really easy way to kind of zoom in on things.
Now, I'm going to right click and clear
the selection, and click the Zoom
to fit the view again, and that will stay
focused on this element because it's the only
element visible.
So, I'm going to right click here and choose
Show all objects, and then click this button again.
And you see now that zoom's all the way out.
So, when you've isolated in object,
it kind of automatically becomes the focus,
but if I select an object first
and then do Zoom to fit the view,
notice that that's another way to focus.
So, you don't always have to right click
to get these functions, it sort
of does it naturally, but the right
click is a nice way to kind of take inventory
and see which options are available for you.
So, I'm going to go ahead and clear out of that selection.
So, I encourage you to spend a little
bit more time here, navigating in the 3D view,
using the section cuts, doing selections
using the right click options, just getting
comfortable with how you can fully
navigate and immerse yourself in this 3D view
and do all of that in a web browser
without even needing to open up the model in Revit.