Revit 2020: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

Introduction

• Revit 2020 for architecture
• Imperial or metric: Which version should I use?

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

2. Interface Basics

• Getting familiar with the user interface
• View navigation
• Selection
• Accessing a multi-user project using workshare

3. Starting a Project

• Creating a new project from a template
• Creating and configuring a new project
• Adding levels
• Adding grids
• Refining a layout with temporary dimensions
• Adding columns

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
• Creating topography from a DWG link
• 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
• Importing a PDF
• Understanding file formats

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
• Adding openings

7. Stairs

• Adding stairs
• Adding railings
• Adding extensions to railings

8. Complex Walls

• Understanding wall families
• 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
• View extents and crop regions
• View range
• Displaying objects above and below in plan views
• Using the Linework tool and Depth Cueing
• Using cutaway views
• Using graphical display options

10. Rooms

• Adding rooms
• Controlling room numbering
• Room bounding elements

11. Schedules and Tags

• Tags
• Adding schedule views
• Modifying schedule views
• Creating a key schedule

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

• 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

• Understanding sheet and view references
• Adding a new sheet
• Create a sheet index
• Working with placeholder sheets
• Aligning views with a guide grid
• Exporting to AutoCAD
• Plotting and creating a PDF

Conclusion

• Next steps