Open a plan and click View tab › Create panel › Elevation › Elevation. Move the marker near a wall, press Tab to turn the arrow, and click to place it. For interior elevations, click the marker's square and tick each wall.
Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, to add interior elevations to every room you name.
How to do it in Revit
Step 1: Start the Elevation tool
Open a plan view and click View tab › Create panel › Elevation › Elevation. The cursor picks up the elevation symbol (Autodesk Help: Create an Elevation View).
Step 2: Choose exterior or interior
Pick the view type in the Type Selector before you place the marker. It decides which branch of the Project Browser the view goes in, so use your template's interior elevation type for rooms.
Step 3: Place the marker
Move the cursor near a wall; the arrow snaps to face walls square on. Press Tab to try other directions, then click to place it. The marker's rotation control lines it up with an angled wall.
Step 4: Turn on more directions
Click the marker's square to show its check boxes, and tick one for each direction you want a view of. Four ticks inside a room give you all four walls. Click away from the marker to hide the boxes.
Step 5: Set the width and depth
Click an arrowhead to show its clip plane. Drag the blue controls to change the width, and drag the far clip line or set Far Clip Offset in the Properties palette to change how far it looks (Autodesk Help: Change the Clip Plane in an Elevation View).
Step 6: Open the view and fit the crop
Double-click the arrowhead, or find the new view in the Project Browser, named with a number and a letter such as Elevation: 1 - a. If its crop doesn't stop at the room's walls, floor and ceiling, drag the crop edges to them.
Step 7: Rename the views
Right-click each view in the Project Browser and choose Rename, for example "Exam 201 - North", so the views make sense on the sheets and in the sheet index.
Step 8: Change the symbol if you need to
To change how elevation markers look across the project, click Manage tab › Settings panel › Additional Settings › Elevation Tags and edit the type properties (Autodesk Help: Modify Elevation Symbol Properties).
What to watch for
No arrow in plan? Check the crop. An elevation's arrowhead shows in a plan only if the elevation's crop region crosses that plan's view range. Shrink the crop below a floor and the marker disappears from that floor's plan. See how to change the view range.
New projects start with four. Autodesk's default template comes with north, south, east and west elevations already placed. Add more for angled wings, using the marker's rotation control.
Elevations follow the model. Revit updates them as the design changes, so the work is in setting up the crops and names once.
For a cut, use a section. An elevation looks at surfaces from its marker. To cut through walls or floors, see how to create a section view.
Give interior elevations a template. Assign a view template to the interior elevation views so scale, detail level and visibility match in every room, and change them all in one place.
Forty rooms, four views each. A clinic or hospital floor can hold dozens of exam rooms, each needing a marker in the middle, four boxes ticked, the crops checked and every view renamed for its room. It's the same clicks over and over, and one room missed shows up later as a gap in the sheet index. That's the repetitive part an AI agent for Revit can take on, with you approving the plan first.
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Add four interior elevations to each exam room on Level 2.
Mira lists the Level 2 exam rooms, skips any that aren't enclosed and names them, and asks which elevation type and view names to use before it places anything. Placing the markers needs a small tool Mira writes, which asks Allow first.
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Related Revit how-tos
- How to Create and Apply View Templates in RevitOn the View tab, open View Templates and click Create Template from Current View, or duplicate a template in Manage View Templates. Assign it with the View Template property to link and lock a view's settings; Apply Template Properties copies them once. Or, just ask Mira to assign a template to every plan that doesn't have one.
- How to Hide and Unhide Elements in RevitClick Reveal Hidden Elements, the light bulb on the View Control Bar. Hidden elements show in color. Select one, click Unhide Element or Unhide Category on the ribbon, then click the light bulb again. Clear a temporary hide with Reset Temporary Hide/Isolate. Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, to list everything hidden in a view and unhide it.
- How to Use Scope Boxes in RevitIn a plan view, click View tab › Create panel › Scope Box, click two opposite corners and name it. Set a view's Scope Box to it and the crop follows the box. Grids and levels assigned to it show only where views cut it. Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, to apply one to every floor plan.
- How to Change the View Range in RevitOpen the plan, click Edit next to View Range in the Properties palette (or type VR), and set Top, Cut Plane, Bottom and View Depth. Click Apply, then OK. If View Range is greyed out, change it in the view template. Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, to set the cut plane on every plan without a template.
- How to Create a Section View in RevitOpen a plan and click View tab › Create panel › Section. Pick a section type, click the start and end of the section line, and drag the dashed crop to set its width and depth. Double-click the section head to open it. Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, to cut a named section along a grid line.
- How to Create and Lock a 3D View in RevitClick View tab › Create panel › 3D View › Default 3D View and rename {3D} in the Project Browser. Tick Section Box in Properties to cut it to one level, then click Save Orientation and Lock View on the View Control Bar. Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, to make a locked 3D view of one level.
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