Course Description

Revit Architecture offers lessons and demonstrations that cover from beginner to advanced BIM features and functions, including modeling essentials, components and families, creating views and sheets, controlling the appearance of views, adding dimensions and constraints, creating reports and schedules, and using collaboration tools to work with others.

Course Content

• Getting Started

1. Introduction to Autodesk Revit Architecture 2013.

2. Starting Revit

3. Starting Revit for the First Time

4. Opening a Project File

5. Identifying the User Interface Components

6. Understanding the Ribbon

7. Understanding the Options Bar

8. Understanding the Application Menu

9. Understanding the Info Center Toolbar

10. Understanding the View Controls

11. Starting a New Project

• Modeling Essentials

1. Understanding Modeling with Revit

2. Understanding Model Objects

3. Understanding Sketch-Based Objects

4. Understanding Datum Elements

5. Creating and Modifying Levels

6. Creating and Modifying Grids

7. Segment Grids

8. Controlling Datum Visibility

9. Limiting Visibility of Datum Using Scope Boxes

10. Setting and Showing the Active Work Plane

11. Creating Reference Planes

12. Modeling Accurately with Length and Angle Snap Increments

13. Working with Object Snaps

14. Using Visualization Aids When Working in 3D Views

• Building elements

1. Wall Drawing Aids

2. Exterior Building Walls

3. Doors

4. Windows

5. Curtain Walls

6. Roofs

• Walls Systems

1. Wall System Families

2. Curtain Wall Types

3. Curved Curtain Wall

4. Curtain Walls that Turn Corners

5. Curtain Wall Grids

6. Curtain Wall Components

7. Stacked Wall

8. Wall Profiles

9. Wall Openings

10. Embedded Walls

11. in-Place Wall Sweeps

12. in-Place Reveals

13. Joined Walls for Complex Assemblies

• Building Core

1. Building Core Walls

2. Floors

3. Hosted Components

4. Architectural Columns

5. Stairs

6. Landing Components

7. Support Components

8. Ramps

9. Railings

• Building Interiors

1. Interior Partitions

2. Interior Storefront Glazing

3. Rooms

4. Ceilings

5. Area Plans

• Components and Families

1. Understanding Families

2. Loading Families and Using Type Catalogs

3. Editing Component Families within a Project

4. Placing Components from the Project Browser

• Basic Modify and Reporting Tools

1. Selecting Objects

2. Saving Selection Sets

3. Copying and Moving Objects

4. Rotating Objects

5. Creating Linear Arrays

6. Creating Radial Arrays

7. Scaling Objects

8. Mirroring Objects

9. Using the Clipboard for Copy and Paste

10. Splitting Objects

11. Creating Elements Consistently with Match Type Properties and Create Similar

12. Aligning Objects

13. Trimming and Extending Objects

14. Offsetting Objects

15. Pinning Objects in Place

16. Deleting Objects

17. Dimensioning Objects

18. Understanding Element IDs

19. Understanding and Reviewing Warning Messages

20. Reporting and Displaying Coordinates

• Views and Sheets

1. Creating Plan Views and Reflected Ceiling Plan Views

2. Creating a Plan Region

3. Creating Building Elevation Views

4. Creating Interior Elevation Views

5. Creating Framing Elevation Views

6. Creating Section Views

7. Segmenting a Section View

8. Creating Callout Views

9. Creating Drafting Views

10. Creating a Reference View

11. Understanding View Discipline

12. Duplicating Views

13. Creating Match lines and View References

14. Creating Additional View References

15. Creating and Using Sheets

16. Aligning Views on Sheets with a Guide Grid

17. Placing Schedules on a Sheet

18. Using a Sheet List and Placeholder Sheets

19. Creating Custom Title blocks

20. Creating a Key Plan

21. Managing Sheet Issues and Revisions

22. Creating Revision Clouds and Tags

23. Adding a Revision Schedule to a Title block

24. Creating Supplemental Drawings

• Graphics and visual representations

1. Working with Visual Styles

2. Understanding Scale and Detail Level

3. Understanding Plan View Range

4. Understanding View Templates

5. Creating View Templates

6. Applying and Assigning View Templates

7. Creating View Types

8. Understanding Object Styles

9. Understanding Visibility and Graphic Overrides

10. Creating Element and Category

11. Graphic Overrides in a View

12. Creating Filter Overrides

13. Understanding Temporary Hide or Isolate and Viewing Hidden Elements

14. Understanding Crop Regions

15. Understanding Annotation Crop Regions

• Dimensions and Constraints

1. Understanding Dimensions and Constraints

2. Using Temporary Dimensions

3. Modifying Temporary Dimension Settings

4. Working with Permanent Dimensions

5. Working with Spot Elevations

6. Working with Spot Coordinates

7. Working with Spot Slopes

8. Modifying Dimensions

9. Overriding Dimension Text

10. Creating and Modifying Dimension Styles

11. Locking Dimensions

12. Controlling Dimensions Using Equality Constraints

13. Controlling Dimension Units

14. Dimensioning Entire Walls

• Site Tools

1. Introduction to the Site Tools

2. Creating a Topo surface Using Points

3. Creating a Topo surface from CAD

4. Creating a Topo surface from a Points File

5. Managing Site Settings

6. Creating Topo surface Sub-regions and Split Surfaces

7. Creating Building Pads

8. Creating a Graded Region

9. Creating Site and Parking Components

• Conceptual Mass Design

1. Understanding the Conceptual Design Environment

2. Working in 3D in the Conceptual Design Environment

3. Creating Conceptual Mass Solid Forms

4. Creating Conceptual Mass Surfaces

5. Creating Conceptual Mass Void Forms

6. Creating Reference Planes and Reference Lines

7. Lines versus Reference Lines

8. Using Reference Points

9. Creating Dimension and Parameter Constraints

10. Modifying Form Profiles

11. Modifying Forms with Add Edge And Add Profile

12. Sketching on Forms

13. Creating Divided Paths

14. Creating Divided Surfaces

15. Adding Patterns to Divided Surfaces

16. Creating a Panel Family for Conceptual Massing

17. Creating Adaptive Components

18. Loading a Conceptual Mass

19. into the Project Environment

20. Conceptual Massing in Projects

21. Understanding How to Place Masses and Control Their Visibility

22. Creating an In-Place Mass

23. Creating Masses with 3D CAD Files

24. Creating Mass Floors

25. Working with Mass Type

26. Properties to Place Tags and

27. Create Schedules

28. Creating Model by Face Elements

29. Modifying Elements with Update to Face and Edit Face Selection

• Design Analysis

1. Sun Path Diagram

2. Solar Study

3. Energy Analysis

• Schedules and Tags

1. Understanding Schedules and Tags

2. Placing Element Tags by Category

3. Placing Room and Area Tags

4. Creating a Schedule and

5. Specifying Fields

6. Modifying Schedules with Filters

7. Modifying Schedules with Sorting and Grouping

8. Modifying Schedule Formatting

Duration

 3 hours lecture, 3 lectures per week, 30 hours

    
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