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Revit Architecture I - Essentials

Course duration: 3 days

Revit Essentials is a practical hands-on course that will be of benefit to anyone who wants to learn the

fundamental concepts modelling using Autodesk Revit. It’s aimed at architects, architectural technicians and

draftsmen. Learn the techniques of modelling and gain understanding of BIM. The course assumes no previous

knowledge or experience.

Topics include:

• Introduction to Building Information Modelling - BIM

• Fundamental structure of an Autodesk Revit model

• Understanding elements and properties

• Setting up the model skeleton with grids and levels.

• Creating foundations, walls, curtain walls, doors, windows, and roofs.

• Loading family components and creating system family types

• Creating sloped roofs with gables, fascia and gutters.

• Working with linked models

• Working with groups, creating and editing, setting point of origin

• Creating ceiling plans and placing lighting

• Creating stairs, lift shafts, ramps, railings and fences

• Areas, rooms, room tags and room properties

• Creating sections, elevations, orthogonal 3D views and perspectives

• Using 3D section boxes and creating exploded views

• Creating schedules and material take-offs

• Creating callouts and detail views with detail components.

• Solar Study – locating the project and setting the sun

• Annotations including text, dimensions, and tags.

• Using dimension constraints

• Aligning and locking objects

• Annotating 3D views

• Introduction to rendering

• Preparing documentation, creating sheets and laying out views

• Creating, plotting and publishing sheets with views

• Importing and exporting from Revit to CAD, IFC, and publishing to DWF

• Exporting views and images

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The course begins with a presentation about BIM and the world of collaborative modelling of information

about buildings. The course is spent hands-on with Revit, creating models using building elements such as

walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, lighting. Creating one model with many views. Elevations, sections, 3D views,

orthogonal and perspective views, section boxes and exploded views.

Creating a Solar Study, locating the model geographically and setting the sun time and day of the year.

Candidates will create a multi-storey building with separate structural and architectural models linked

together. The structural model is built with structural elements such as columns, footings, foundation walls,

beams, floors and roof. The architectural model is built using architectural elements such as custom walls,

curtain walls, internal partitions, floor finishes, ceilings, stairs, ramps and lifts.

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The following illustrations come directly from the model candidates create in this course. Linking the

structural model with the architectural model

Monitoring

• Linking and monitoring elements across disciplines

• Monitor elements in the same file

• Copy and Monitor elements in a Linked File

• Interference check between disciplines

System Families

Custom Walls

• Using sweeps and reveals

• Using split and merge

• Using wrapping

• Wall profiles

• Stacked walls

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Curtain Walls

• Create new types of curtain walls

• Embedded curtain walls

• Grids, panels and mullions

• Applying Curtain System on basic massing

Creating custom stairs, railings and fences.

• Stair components

• Stair by sketch

• Treads, risers and nosing

• Rails and balusters

Roofs

• Flat roofs with falls

• Extruded Roofs

• Facias, soffits and gutters

Detailing

• Creating callouts and details

• Detail components

• Annotation

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Schedules • Creating schedules of quantities

o Room Schedules

o Door schedule

o Wall schedule

o Materials Take-off

• Creating parameters

• Sorting, grouping and filtering data

Section Boxes

Using section boxes and simple mass to create a dome curtain system. Creating multi-story staircase, lifts,

balconies and shopfronts. All illustrations show the actual modelling produced by candidates during the

course.

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Groups

• Creating groups

• Editing groups

• Detail and Model groups

Rooms

• Rooms and properties

• Room Tags

• Room schedules

Sheets

Setting up sheets and views

• Dragging views onto sheets

• Alignment of views with grid guides

• Sheet schedule

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Rendering

How to create fast quick amazing renderings

• Internal and external renderings

• Lighting

• Use of decals

• Model Text

• Sun location

• Background

• Camera Views

• Sun and Artificial Lighting

• Materials

• Using Rich Photographic Content

• Using Decals

• Adjust Exposure

• Walkthroughs

Course content and images prepared by Fernando Pavon using Autodesk® Revit®

fernando@pavonleo.com

www.PavonLeo.com