Overview
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Get up and running with Revit Architecture 2023 for architectural design. This course is designed for those who have no prior Revit experience and want to learn the basics.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Revit 2023 for architecture
- Imperial or metric and the exercise files
- What is Revit?
- How do I get Revit?
- Understanding Revit flavors
- Understanding Revit release versions and file formats
- Other Revit courses
- Introducing building information modeling (BIM)
- Working on one model with many views
- Understanding the Revit element hierarchy
- Editing elements within the Revit hierarchy
- The Recent Files screen
- Getting familiar with the user interface
- View navigation
- Selection
- Configuring Revit options
- Accessing a multiuser project using workshare
- Creating a new project from a template
- Creating and configuring a new project
- Configure save and backup options
- Adding levels
- Using keyboard shortcuts
- 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
- Wall joins
- Using constraints
- Linking AutoCAD DWG files
- Creating topography from a DWG link
- CAD inserts
- Creating Revit links
- Rotating and aligning a Revit link
- Establishing shared coordinates
- Managing links
- Creating groups
- Duplicate groups to create a floor layout
- Creating floors
- Creating footprint roofs
- Attaching walls to roofs
- Creating extrusion roofs
- Using the shape editing tools to create a flat roof
- Working with slope arrows
- Creating ceilings
- Adjusting ceiling patterns
- Adding openings
- Adding stairs
- Editing stairs
- Adding railings
- Adding extensions to railings
- Understanding wall families
- Creating a custom basic wall type
- Stacked walls
- Adding curtain walls
- Adding curtain grids, mullions, and panels
- Creating wall sweeps and reveals
- Model lines
- Adding slanted walls
- Tapered walls
- Modifying a slanted wall and adjusting sweeps and inserts
- Understanding visibility and graphic controls
- View extents and crop regions
- View range
- Displaying objects above and below in plan views
- Using object styles
- Working with visibility and graphic overrides
- Recommendations for annotation visibility
- Using view templates
- Hiding and isolating objects in a model
- Using the Linework tool and Depth Cueing
- Using cutaway views
- Using graphical display options
- Adding rooms
- Planning room numbering
- Room-bounding elements
- Tags
- Adding schedule views
- Modifying schedule views
- Creating a key schedule
- Adding text
- Text formatting
- Create a working view
- 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
- Maintaining a callout view
- Families
- Creating a new family from a template
- Managing saved views
- Using reference planes, parameters, and constraints
- Editing and creating family types
- Adding solid geometry: Extrusions
- Adding solid geometry: Sweeps
- Cutting holes using void geometry
- Adding solid geometry: Blends
- Completing the family
- Understanding sheet and view references
- Adding a new sheet
- Duplicate sheets and views
- Filter by sheet
- Aligning views with a guide grid
- Create a sheet index
- Working with placeholder sheets
- Exporting to AutoCAD
- Plotting and creating a PDF
- Next steps
