Migrating from AutoCAD to Revit

Get up and running with Revit Architecture 2022 for architectural design. This course is designed for those who have no prior Revit experience and want to learn the basics.

Introduction

• Revit 2022 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

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

• The Recent Files screen
• Getting familiar with the user interface
• View navigation
• Selection
• Accessing a multi-user project using worksharing

3. Starting a Project

• Creating a new project from a template
• Creating and configuring a new project
• Configure save and backup options
• 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

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
• Editing stairs
• Adding railings
• Adding extensions to railings

8. Complex Walls

• 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

9. Visibility and Graphic Controls

• Using object styles
• Working with visibility and graphic overrides
• Recommendations for annotation visibility
• 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
• Room-bounding elements

11. Schedules and Tags

• Tags
• Adding schedule views
• Modifying schedule views
• Creating a key schedule

12. Annotation

• Adding text
• Text formatting
• Adding dimensions
• Adding symbols

13. Detailing

• Adding legend views
• Creating a detail callout
• Adding detail components
• Using arrays to parametrically duplicate objects
• Adding filled and masking regions
• Removing a callout view

14. The Basics of the Family Editor

• 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

15. 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

Conclusion

• Next steps