Revit 2027: Essential Training for Architects

Revit 2027: Essential Training for Architects

10h 25mBeginner2026-08-20

Authors

Paul F. Aubin

Paul F. Aubin

Author and Consultant

Course details

Get started with Autodesk Revit 2027, the industry-standard building information modeling (BIM) platform used by architects and design professionals worldwide. In this hands-on course, learn the fundamental workflows for creating, developing, documenting, and presenting architectural designs in Revit. From navigating the interface and building a model to creating custom families, managing project data, producing construction documents, and exporting deliverables, this course provides a practical foundation for architectural design in a BIM environment. Whether you're new to Revit or looking to build confidence with the latest release, you can gain the skills needed to begin creating professional architectural projects efficiently and accurately.

Learning objectives
Navigate the Revit 2027 interface and apply core BIM concepts to create and manage architectural projects using views, families, types, and instances.
Model key architectural building elements, including levels, grids, walls, doors, windows, floors, roofs, ceilings, stairs, railings, and site-related components.
Manage project data and collaboration workflows by working with links, groups, shared coordinates, rooms, tags, schedules, and other BIM information tools.
Control documentation and presentation graphics using visibility settings, view templates, annotations, detailing tools, sheets, and display options.
Create custom content and produce project deliverables by developing basic families, organizing sheets, and exporting drawings, PDFs, and visualizations for stakeholders.

Concepts

Introduction

  • Getting started with Revit 2027 for architecture
  • Using imperial or metric units and exercise files
  • What is Revit BIM software for AEC
  • Revit release versions and file formats
  • Accessing the Revit sample models

Core BIM Concepts in Revit 2027

  • Introducing building information modeling (BIM)
  • Working in one model with multiple views
  • Understanding the Revit element hierarchy
  • Editing elements within the Revit hierarchy

Navigating the Revit 2027 Interface

  • Getting familiar with the Revit 2027 user interface
  • Choosing a display theme and dark mode
  • Navigating views with zoom, pan, and orbit
  • Selecting elements quickly and efficiently
  • Opening a multi-user project with worksharing

Starting a Project in Revit 2027

  • Creating a new project from a template
  • Configure save and backup options in Revit 2027
  • Adding levels and grids to a project
  • Refining a layout with temporary dimensions
  • Adding architectural and structural columns

Modeling Basics in Revit 2027

  • Exploring wall instance and type properties
  • Modeling precisely with snaps in Revit
  • Adding walls and setting wall options
  • Adding doors and windows to host walls
  • Loading door and window families
  • Editing layouts with the modify tools
  • Adding components in Revit - Furniture and fixtures
  • Adding line-based components
  • Cleaning up wall joins

Sketch-Based Modeling Components in Revit 2027

  • Creating floors in sketch mode
  • Creating footprint roofs - Hip, gable, shed
  • Attaching walls and columns to roofs
  • Creating extrusion roofs for curved forms
  • Cutting a roof with a vertical opening
  • Shaping flat roofs with shape editing tools in Revit
  • Creating automatic and sketched ceilings
  • Adjusting ceiling grid patterns
  • Placing lighting fixtures in ceilings
  • Cutting dormer openings in a roof
  • Cutting shaft openings through a model

Stairs and Railings in Revit 2027

  • Adding stairs with associated railings
  • Editing stair risers and landings
  • Creating multistory stairs
  • Adding code-compliant railing extensions
  • Adding and shaping railings

Wall Families and Types in Revit 2027

  • Exploring Revit wall families
  • Creating a custom basic wall type
  • Creating a finish-only wall type
  • Adding curtain walls in Revit
  • Working with curtain wall grids
  • Working with curtain wall mullions
  • Working with curtain wall panels
  • Creating wall sweeps and reveals in Revit
  • Using model lines for 2.5D solutions
  • Creating slanted and tapered walls

Links and Groups in Revit 2027

  • Linking CAD civil engineering site files
  • Creating topography from a DWG link
  • Linking and snapping to a PDF
  • Creating Revit links - Custom positioning
  • Creating Revit links - Origin to origin
  • Establishing shared coordinates across links
  • Creating and managing model groups in Revit

Visibility and Graphic Control in Revit 2027

  • Understanding visibility and graphics control in Revit
  • Controlling view extents and crop regions
  • Setting view range and plan regions
  • Setting standards with object styles
  • Applying visibility and graphic overrides
  • Customize the graphics of a family element
  • Standardizing views with view templates in Revit
  • Best practices for annotation visibility in Revit
  • Controlling graphics with view filters
  • Hiding and isolating individual objects
  • Refining edges with the linework tool
  • Creating cutaway views with section boxes
  • Customizing views with display options

Rooms, Tags, and Schedules in Revit 2027

  • Adding rooms to define spaces
  • Tagging elements by category in Revit
  • Tagging elements across multiple hosts
  • Excluding geometry from tag leaders
  • Adding schedule views for any category
  • Sorting and grouping schedule views
  • Speeding data entry with key schedules

Annotation in Revit 2027

  • Adding text notes with leaders
  • Formatting text - Lists, bold, and case
  • Adding dimensions for editing and documentation
  • Setting up working views for daily edits in Revit
  • Adding annotation symbols to views

Detailing in Revit 2027

  • Creating legend views and components
  • Embellishing views with detail lines
  • Creating a detail callout from a model
  • Adding 2D detail components in Revit
  • Adding hatch patterns with filled regions
  • Concealing geometry with masking regions
  • Adding insulation to construction details

The Basics of Families in Revit 2027

  • Introducing the family editor
  • Creating a new family from a template
  • Managing saved views in a family
  • Using reference planes and constraints
  • Creating and editing family types
  • Adding solid geometry - Extrusions
  • Working with work planes for solids
  • Adding solid geometry - Sweeps
  • Cutting holes with void geometry
  • Adding solid geometry - Blends
  • Finishing a family with materials and nesting

Sheets in Revit 2027

  • Navigating sheet and view references in Revit
  • Adding a new sheet with a titleblock
  • Placing views on sheets
  • Organizing sheets with sheet collections
  • Placing a schedule on a sheet
  • Focusing schedules with filter by sheet
  • Creating a view list schedule
  • Editing revisions on a sheet
  • Creating a sheet index

Output in Revit 2027

  • Exporting to AutoCAD DWG
  • Exporting to PDF
  • Generating a cloud rendering

Conclusion

  • Continuing with Revit
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