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In this course, you will learn:
- Understanding BIM and the Revit element hierarchy
- Navigating views
- Creating a new project from a template
- Adding walls, doors, and windows
- Adding plumbing fixtures and other components
- Linking AutoCAD DWG files
- Rotating and aligning Revit links
- Working with footprint and extrusion roofs
- Adding openings
- Adding railings
- Creating stacked and curtain walls
- Hiding and isolating objects
- Adding rooms
- Creating schedule views and tags
- Adding text and dimensions
- Creating new families
- Using reference planes, parameters, and constraints
- Plotting and creating a PDF
Syllabus:
- Introduction
- Revit 2020 for architecture
- Imperial or metric: Which version should I use?
1. Core Concepts
- Introducing building information modeling (BIM)
- Working on one model with many views
- Understanding the Revit element hierarchy
- Editing elements within the Revit hierarchy
2. Interface Basics
- Getting familiar with the user interface
- View navigation
- Selection
- Accessing a multi-user project using workshare
3. Starting a Project
- Creating a new project from a template
- Creating and configuring a new project
- Adding levels
- Adding grids
- Refining a layout with temporary dimensions
- Adding columns
4. Modeling Basics
- 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
5. Links, Imports, and Groups
- Linking AutoCAD DWG files
- Creating topography from a DWG link
- CAD inserts
- Import tips
- Creating groups
- Mirroring groups to create a layout
- Creating Revit links
- Rotating and aligning a Revit link
- Establishing shared coordinates
- Managing links
- Importing a PDF
- Understanding file formats
6. Sketch-Based Modeling Components
- 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
- Adding openings
7. Stairs
- Adding stairs
- Adding railings
- Adding extensions to railings
8. Complex Walls
- Understanding wall families
- Stacked walls
- Adding curtain walls
- Adding curtain grids, mullions, and panels
- Creating wall sweeps and reveals
- Model lines
9. Visibility and Graphic Controls
- Using object styles
- Working with visibility and graphic overrides
- Using view templates
- Hiding and isolating objects in a model
- View extents and crop regions
- View range
- Displaying objects above and below in plan views
- Using the Linework tool and Depth Cueing
- Using cutaway views
- Using graphical display options
10. Rooms
- Adding rooms
- Controlling room numbering
11. Schedules and Tags
- Tags
- Adding schedule views
- Modifying schedule views
- Creating a key schedule
12. Annotation and Details
- 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
13. The Basics of Families
- 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
14. Sheets, Plotting, and Publishing
- Understanding sheet and view references
- Adding a new sheet
- Create a sheet index
- Working with placeholder sheets
- Aligning views with a guide grid
- Exporting to AutoCAD
- Plotting and creating a PDF
