Revit 2024: Essential Training for Architecture

Get up and running with Revit Architecture 2024 for architectural design. This course is designed for those who have no prior Revit experience and want to learn the basics.

Introduction

• Revit 2024 for architecture
• Imperial or metric and the exercise files
• What is Revit?
• How do you 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
• Exploring the Revit sample model

2. Interface Basics

• The Home screen
• Getting familiar with the user interface
• Choosing your display theme
• View navigation
• Selection
• Configuring Revit options
• Accessing a multi-user project using workshare

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
• Purging a file
• Using keyboard shortcuts

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
• Linking CAD Civil Engineering files
• Creating topography from a DWG link
• Controlling line weight settings of CAD links
• Importing a PDF
• Creating Revit links: Custom positioning
• Creating Revit links: Origin to Origin
• Rotating and aligning a Revit link
• Establishing shared coordinates
• Managing links
• Creating groups
• Duplicate groups to create a floor layout

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
• Adjusting ceiling patterns
• Adding shafts and dormers

7. Stairs

• Adding stairs
• Editing stairs
• Multistory Stairs
• Adding extensions to railings
• Adding 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

• Understanding visibility and graphics control
• 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 individual objects in a model
• Using display filters
• Using the Linework tool and Depth Cueing
• Using cutaway views
• Using Graphical Display Options

10. Rooms

• Adding rooms
• Planning 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
• Creating a working view
• Adding dimensions
• Adding symbols

13. Detailing

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

14. The Basics of the Family Editor

• 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

15. Sheets, Plotting, and Publishing

• Understanding sheet and view references
• Adding a new sheet
• Adjusting sheet composition
• Duplicate sheets and views
• Filter by sheet
• Aligning views with a guide grid
• Working with a sheet index and a view list
• Exporting to AutoCAD
• Exporting a PDF

Conclusion

• Next steps