Revit 2023: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial and Metric)

Course details

Get up and running with Revit 2023 for architectural design. This course is designed for students who have no prior Revit experience and want to learn the basics. Instructor Paul F. Aubin begins by helping you get comfortable with the Revit environment. He demonstrates how to set up a project and add the grids, levels, and dimensions that will anchor your design. Then Paul helps you dive into modeling: Adding walls, doors, and windows; using joins and constraints; creating groups; linking to DWG files; and modeling floors, roofs, and ceilings. He also shows advanced techniques for modeling stairs and complex walls, adding rooms, and creating schedules. Finally, discover how to annotate your drawings so all the components are clearly understood, as well as output sheets to PDF and AutoCAD.

Concepts

Introduction

Revit 2023 for architecture
Imperial or metric and the exercise files
What is Revit
How do I get Revit
Understanding Revit flavors
Understanding Revit release versions and file formats
Other Revit courses

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

Interface Basics

The Recent Files screen
Getting familiar with the user interface
View navigation
Selection
Configuring Revit options
Accessing a multiuser project using workshare

Starting a Project

Creating a new project from a template
Creating and configuring a new project
Configure save and backup options
Adding levels
Using keyboard shortcuts
Adding grids
Refining a layout with temporary dimensions
Adding columns

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

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
Adjusting ceiling patterns
Adding openings

Stairs

Adding stairs
Editing stairs
Adding railings
Adding extensions to railings

Complex Walls

Understanding wall families
Creating a custom basic wall type
Stacked walls
Adding curtain walls
Adding curtain grids, mullions, and panels
Creating wall sweeps and reveals
Model lines
Adding slanted walls
Tapered walls
Modifying a slanted wall and adjusting sweeps and inserts

Visibility and Graphic Controls

Understanding visibility and graphic controls
View extents and crop regions
View range
Displaying objects above and below in plan views
Using object styles
Working with visibility and graphic overrides
Recommendations for annotation visibility
Using view templates
Hiding and isolating objects in a model
Using the Linework tool and Depth Cueing
Using cutaway views
Using graphical display options

Rooms

Adding rooms
Planning room numbering
Room-bounding elements

Schedules and Tags

Tags
Adding schedule views
Modifying schedule views
Creating a key schedule

Annotation

Adding text
Text formatting
Create a working view
Adding dimensions
Adding symbols

Detailing

Adding legend views
Creating a detail callout
Adding detail components
Using arrays to parametrically duplicate objects
Adding filled and masking regions
Maintaining a callout view

The Basics of the Family Editor

Families
Creating a new family from a template
Managing saved views
Using reference planes, parameters, and constraints
Editing and creating family types
Adding solid geometry - Extrusions
Adding solid geometry - Sweeps
Cutting holes using void geometry
Adding solid geometry - Blends
Completing the family

Sheets, Plotting, and Publishing

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

Conclusion

Next steps