Revit: Industrialized Construction

Learn how to use Revit to design for industrialized construction, a set of methods and processes that apply manufacturing paradigms to construction.

Introduction

• Discovering industrialized construction with Revit
• What is industrialized construction?
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Revit Philosophy

• Using Revit as a primary BIM design tool
• The industry-wide use of BIM
• The UK Government Construction Strategy
• The BIM Overlay to the RIBA Outline Plan of Work
• The US definition of BIM
• Industrialized construction in a nutshell

2. Working with CAD Drawings

• Working to your own standard
• Working to a recognized standard
• Removing unnecessary objects and layers in the CAD drawing
• Removing unnecessary blocks in the CAD drawing
• Removing all other unnecessary entities in the CAD drawing

3. CAD Drawings: Importing and Linking CAD Files

• Advantages and disadvantages
• Importing and linking a CAD drawing
• Working with the linked file settings in Revit
• Hiding the imported or linked CAD drawing

4. Using Revit for Industrialized Construction

• Prefabricated units for construction
• Bringing the units in to the project with linked Revit models
• Making sure the prefabricated units are located accurately
• Setting up views of the units in the project
• Dimensioning the units for design intent

5. Prefabricated Models: Design Reuse

• Reorienting and renaming an existing prefab unit
• Changing the use of the prefabricated restroom unit
• Reusing existing Revit elements and families
• Linking and positioning the new prefab unit
• Checking existing views of the newly placed prefab unit

6. Sheets and Sheet Views

• Using sheets in Revit
• Adding views to sheets
• Scaling views in sheets
• Tagging elements in views for sheets
• Adding sheet revisions
• Adding project information to sheets

7. Adding Detailing to Views

• Adding detail lines to a view
• Adding text annotation in a view
• Creating new filled regions in Revit

8. Scheduling

• Creating a schedule
• Adding linked Revit families to the schedule
• Adding the schedule to a sheet
• Creating a legend view on a floor plan
• Adding the legend view to a sheet

9. Publishing Your Revit Project

• Checking project information
• Checking title blocks on the Revit sheets
• Checking revisions
• Publishing from Revit
• Viewing the published project sheets in PDF format

Conclusion

• Next steps