Placing Plants and Entourage in a Project View

  1. Open a floor plan view or a 3D orthographic view in a Revit project.

    You cannot place plants or entourage in perspective views, elevation views, or section views.

  2. Load a family of plants or entourage, as follows:
    1. Click Insert tabLoad from Library panel (Load Family).
    2. To load plants, open the Planting folder. To load people and other entourage, open the Entourage folder.
    3. Select the desired RPC or entourage family files (for example, RPC female.rfa or RPC Shrub.rfa), and click Open.
  3. Place a plant or entourage object in the drawing area, as follows:
    1. On the ribbon, click (Place a Component).

        Where is it?

      • Architecture tabBuild panelComponent drop-down (Place a Component)
      • Revit MEP
      • Systems tabModel panelComponent drop-down (Place a Component)
      • Revit Structure
      • Structure tabModel panelComponent drop-down (Place a Component)
    2. Select the desired family from the Type Selector.
    3. Click in the drawing area to place a plant or entourage object in the view.
    4. Move and rotate the object, as needed.

      To move the object, drag it to the desired location. To rotate the object, select it and press Spacebar to rotate 90 degrees, or use the Rotate tool to rotate to a specific position.

      Note: You cannot tag or schedule RPC objects.
    5. To exit the Component tool, press Esc twice.
  4. Open a 3D view for rendering.

    The 3D view displays placeholders for entourage. When you render the image, the entourage objects are rendered in detail. See Rendering an Image.