[Revit Tips] Revit 2011 new feature: Sheet Guide Grid

Tips on the usage of Sheet Guide Grid for Revit 2011

New features were added to Revit 2011 that can enhance your everyday documentation process by helping you make your drawings look the way you want and by enabling you to better organize your project sheets. 

One of them is the Sheet Guide Grids are a graphic option on sheet views which allow you create drawing alignments across multiple sheets. Reference elements in your views, such as Levels, Grids and Reference Planes can be snapped to Guide Grids, and the grid spacing can be adjusted for individual sheets, depending on the sheet layout.

In order to use the Sheet Guide Grid, you have to:

1. Adding Guide Grid:

• Open a sheet.
• In the View Bar, Sheet Composition, click Guide Grid.

• In the Guide Grid Name dialogue, you can rename the guide grid: Guide Grid 1 or ½” Grid etc. Then click OK. Guide Grids will appear on the sheet.

• Select the Guide Grid.
• In the Element Properties dialogue, you can change the spacing of guide grids.

2.  Adjusting the area of the Guide Grid:

• Select the Guide Grid.

• Click and drag the blue dots on the edges to adjust the guide grids to fit into the sheet. 

3.  Adding views and align them on the sheet:

• Drag a view onto the sheet.
• Use the Move toolto relocate the View.

Remark: Grid Line, Level or Reference Plane can snap to the Grid Guide and you can align multiple views using this technique 

To assure the consistency between different sheets, same Sheet Guide Grid can be used in different sheets. Any changes made to the first guide grid will directly affect the grids on the other sheets. Alignment of views in different sheets can be maintained by this method.

Below displayed two layout plans that are aligned by Guide lines: 

  Note:

1. Only Reference Planes, Levels or Grid Lines can snap to Sheet Guide Grid

2. The Sheet Guide Grid does not print.