Revit Architecture 2016 Essential Training (Imperial)

Teaches you the techniques you need to complete solid architectural projects in Revit 2016, using imperial project units.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• Preparing for a certification exam

1. Core Concepts

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

2. Getting Comfortable with the Revit Environment

• Understanding the different versions of Revit
• The Recent Files screen and the Application menu
• Using the Ribbon and the QAT
• Understanding context ribbons
• Using the Project Browser
• Customizing the user interface
• Using keyboard shortcuts in Revit
• Navigating views (zooming, panning, and rotating)
• Selecting objects
• Understanding selection toggles
• Accessing Revit options

3. Starting a Project

• Creating a new project from a template
• Accessing a multi-user projects 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
• Using snaps
• Wall properties and types
• Locating walls
• Using the Modify tools
• Adding doors and windows
• Adding plumbing fixtures and other components
• Using Autodesk Seek
• Wall joins
• Using constraints

5. Links, Imports, and Groups

• Linking AutoCAD DWG files
• Creating topography from a DWG link
• Understanding 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
• Working with ceilings
• Creating extrusion roofs
• Attaching walls to roofs
• Using the shape editing tools to create a flat roof
• Working with slope arrows
• Adding openings

7. Stairs

• Working with stairs
• Adding railings to stairs
• Working with component-based stairs
• Adding extensions to railings

8. Complex Walls

• Creating a custom basic wall type
• Understanding 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
• Understanding view extents and crop regions
• Understanding view range
• Displaying objects above and below in plan views
• Using the Linework tool
• Using cutaway views
• Using graphical display options

10. Rooms

• Adding rooms
• Controlling room numbering
• Understanding room bounding elements

11. Schedules and Tags

• Understanding tags
• Adding schedule views
• Modifying schedule views
• Creating a key schedule
• Using images in schedules

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

• Understanding 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

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

Conclusion

• Next steps