Revit 2019: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

Learn the basics of using Revit 2019 for architectural design. This course is for those who have no Revit experience and want to work in imperial units (inches and feet).

Introduction

• Welcome
• Imperial or Metric: Which version should I use?

1. Core Concepts

• Introducing building information modeling (BIM)
• Working on one model with many views
• Revit element hierarchy

2. Getting Comfortable with the Revit Environment

• Recent Files screen and File menu
• Using the ribbon and the QAT
• Context ribbons
• Using the properties palette
• Using the project browser
• Moving and stacking palettes
• Using multiple monitors
• Using keyboard shortcuts in Revit
• Navigating views: Zoom, pan, rotate
• Selecting objects
• Selection toggles
• Accessing Revit options

3. Starting a Project

• Creating a new project from a template
• Accessing a multi-user project using workshare
• 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
• 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

• Creating a custom basic wall type
• 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
• Room bounding elements

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

• Working with sheets
• Working with placeholder sheets
• Aligning views with a guide grid
• Exporting to AutoCAD
• Plotting and creating a PDF

Conclusion

• Next steps