Revit: Optimize Your BIM Workflow

Learn the fundamentals of the BIM philosophy, how it fits into industry usage and government strategies, and how to use Revit to optimize CAD workflows that relate to BIM.

Introduction

• Working with building information modeling (BIM)
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. BIM in Industry

• Using Revit as a primary BIM modeling and drafting 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

2. Working with CAD Drawings

• Working with suitable project units
• Removing unnecessary layers in the CAD drawing
• Removing unnecessary blocks in the CAD drawing
• Removing all other unnecessary entities in the CAD drawing
• Using PURGE to remove any other entities

3. CAD Drawings: Standards

• Working to your own standard
• Working to a recognized standard
• Working with British standards (BS 1192 and ISO 19650)

4. CAD Drawings: Importing CAD Files

• Importing a CAD drawing
• Hiding the imported CAD drawing

5. CAD Drawings: Linking CAD Files

• Linking a CAD drawing
• Hiding the linked CAD drawing

6. Worksharing in Revit

• Creating a central model
• Checking linked CAD files
• Worksharing locally or in the cloud
• Setting up worksets
• Workset ownership and permissions

7. Sheets and Sheet Views

• Using sheets in Revit
• Scaling views in sheets
• Tagging elements and views in sheets
• Working with sheet families
• Adding project information to sheets
• Adding sheet revisions

8. Detail and Drafting Views

• Setting up and scaling a view
• Importing and exploding DWG details
• Converting DWG text to Revit text
• Using Revit-filled regions to replace DWG hatches

9. Scheduling

• Creating a schedule
• Adding the schedule to a sheet
• Creating a legend view to go with a schedule on a sheet

10. Publishing a Revit Project

• Publishing from Revit
• Viewing the published project sheets in PDF format

Conclusion

• Next steps