Overview
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Learn the basics of using Revit for architectural design. This course is for those without prior Revit experience who want to work in metric units (meters and centimeters).
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Preparing for a certification exam
- Introducing Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- Working in one model with many views
- Understanding Revit element hierarchy
- Comparing versions of Revit
- Using the Recent Files screen and application menu
- Using the ribbon and QAT
- Understanding context ribbons
- Using the Properties palette
- Using the Project Browser
- Moving and stacking palettes
- Using keyboard shortcuts in Revit
- Navigating views (zoom, pan, and rotate)
- Selecting objects
- Understanding selection toggles
- Accessing Revit options
- Creating a new project from a template
- Accessing a multi-user projects using Workshare
- Creating and configuring a new project
- Adding levels
- Adding grids
- Refining a layout with temporary dimensions
- Adding columns
- Adding walls
- Wall properties and types
- Using snaps
- Locating walls
- Using the Modify tools
- Adding doors and windows
- Adding plumbing fixtures and other components
- Using Autodesk Seek
- Wall joins
- Using constraints
- Linking AutoCAD DWG files
- Creating topography from a DWG link
- Understanding CAD inserts
- Import tips
- Creating groups
- Mirroring groups to creat a layout
- Creating Revit links
- Rotating and aligning a Revit link
- Establishing shared coordinates
- Managing links
- Understanding file formats
- Creating floors
- Creating footprint roofs
- Working with ceilings
- Creating extrusion roofs
- Attaching walls to roofs
- Using the shape editing tools to create a flat roof
- Working with slope arrows
- Adding openings
- Working with stairs
- Adding railings to stairs
- Working with component-based stairs
- Adding extensions to railings
- Creating a custom basic wall type
- Understanding stacked walls
- Adding curtain walls
- Adding curtain grids, mullions, and panels
- Creating wall sweeps and reveals
- Model lines
- Using object styles
- Working with visibility and graphic overrides
- Using view templates
- Hiding and isolating objects in a model
- Understanding view extents and crop regions
- Understanding view range
- Displaying objects above and below in plan views
- Using the Linework tool
- Using cutaway views
- Using graphical display options
- Adding rooms
- Controlling room numbering
- Understanding room bounding elements
- Understanding tags
- Adding schedule views
- Modifying schedule views
- Creating a key schedule
- Using images in schedules
- Adding text
- Adding dimensions
- Adding symbols
- Adding legend views
- Creating a detail callout
- Adding detail components
- Using arrays to parametrically duplicate objects
- Adding filled and masking regions
- Understanding families
- Creating a new family from a template
- Using reference planes, parameters, and constraints
- Adding solid geometry
- Cutting holes using void geometry
- Adding blends
- Completing the family
- Working with sheets
- Working with placeholder sheets
- Aligning views with a guide grid
- Exporting to AutoCAD
- Plotting and creating a PDF
- Next steps
