Revit 2025: Essential Training for Architecture

Learn the skills you need, in order to use Revit to create architectural projects.

Introduction

• Revit 2025 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

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. The Basics of the User Interface

• 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
• Configuring a working view
• Locating walls
• Using the Modify tools
• Adding doors and windows
• Adding plumbing fixtures and other components
• Wall joins
• Using constraints

5. Links 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 Model Elements

• 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 and Railings

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

8. Wall Families and Types

• 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 Graphics Control

• 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
• Create a working view
• Adding dimensions
• Adding symbols

13. Detailing

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

14. Family Editor Basics

• 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, Output, and Sharing

• 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
• Using sheet collections
• Exporting to AutoCAD
• Exporting a PDF

Conclusion

• Continuing with Revit