Overview
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Learn the fundamentals of the BIM philosophy, how it fits into industry usage and government strategies, and how to use Revit to optimize CAD workflows that relate to BIM.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Working with building information modeling (BIM)
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Using Revit as a primary BIM modeling and drafting tool
- The industry-wide use of BIM
- The UK Government Construction Strategy
- The BIM Overlay to the RIBA Outline Plan of Work
- The US definition of BIM
- Working with suitable project units
- Removing unnecessary layers in the CAD drawing
- Removing unnecessary blocks in the CAD drawing
- Removing all other unnecessary entities in the CAD drawing
- Using PURGE to remove any other entities
- Working to your own standard
- Working to a recognized standard
- Working with British standards (BS 1192 and ISO 19650)
- Importing a CAD drawing
- Hiding the imported CAD drawing
- Linking a CAD drawing
- Hiding the linked CAD drawing
- Creating a central model
- Checking linked CAD files
- Worksharing locally or in the cloud
- Setting up worksets
- Workset ownership and permissions
- Using sheets in Revit
- Scaling views in sheets
- Tagging elements and views in sheets
- Working with sheet families
- Adding project information to sheets
- Adding sheet revisions
- Setting up and scaling a view
- Importing and exploding DWG details
- Converting DWG text to Revit text
- Using Revit-filled regions to replace DWG hatches
- Creating a schedule
- Adding the schedule to a sheet
- Creating a legend view to go with a schedule on a sheet
- Publishing from Revit
- Viewing the published project sheets in PDF format
- Next steps
