Creating and Modifying Building Sections

As your model starts to develop, you will begin to see areas that need further attention. (Certainly the area where the corridor hits the west building needs to be fixed.) This brings us to a good point. Sections in Revit Architecture, when placed into the model, not only help us build a set of construction documents, but also help us to physically work on the model. For example, you need to fix the east wall of the west wing. However, you don't have any good views established that focus directly on this area. This is the perfect place to add a section!

Adding a Building Section

To begin, open your model, or go to www.sybex.com/go/revit2012ner and browse to Chapter 3. Open the file called NER-06.rvt. If ...

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