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Revit Architectural Foundations

Commercial - RAC 2011 - COM101

Building information modeling (BIM) is an integrated process for exploring a project’s key physical and financial characteristics digitally—before it’s been built. The CDV Revit Architecture Foundations course is developed to do just that—in a comprehensive, hands-on way, train students to use Revit Architecture's documentation and verification tools to deliver a higher degree of coordination and efficiency in project design decisions and documentation.

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Objectives and Prerequistes 

Course Objective: The CDV Revit Architecture Foundations course is ideally held at the start of the project's design development phase, enabling users to focus on learning the tools required to construct their completed SD design project.  This allows adaptation to a new technology without having to make project design decisions.  This process facilitates discovery of modeling techniques that provide benefit to the creation of both presentation imagery for early concept validation and construction documentation as a deliverable.

Duration: 5 Days

Pricing: Individual Rate: $1,395 per person | Group Rate (5+ people): Discounts are available for single client's with five or more students per single class. Please Call for Pricing.

    

Prerequisite: A working understanding of Microsoft® Windows® XP®  or Vista®  operating systems and file management; Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 software.

All online classes are subject to our Terms & Conditions.

The Revit Environment: What You Need to Know 
  • What is BIM? What is Revit?
  • User Interface (UI) Intro
    • Application Menu/ Title Bar
    • Quick Access Toolbar
    • Ribbon - Tabs / Panels
    • Graphics Screen
    • Right Click Contextual
    • Options Bar
    • Project Explorer
      • Browser Structure
    • Drawing Area (graphic screen)
    • View Control Shortcut Bar
    • Sketch Mode
    • Status Bar
  • Annotations / Dimensions / Tags / Text
  • "View” Your Projects: Views Intro
    • Sections / Elevations
    • Callouts (Section / Detail)
    • Default 3D Views / Navigation Bar
    • Camera Views
  • Documentation Intro: Views and Sheets
Where to Begin: Project, Modeling and Documentation Basics 
  • Creating New Projects - Using Templates
    • New Revit Project. RVT
    • New Revit Family.RFA
  • Setting Up Your Project
    • Project Information
    • Levels & Grids –Creating & Manipulating / Graphics
    • Reference Planes
  • Linking Models / Files - Best Practices
    • What are Linked / Host Files
    • Linking Files - AutoCAD
    • Managing Linked Files
  • Workflow: Modeling Intro
    • Walls / Doors / Windows
      • Tag and Tag All
      • Editing Tools
    • Hierarchy of the Model
  • Documentation: Cartoon Set Intro
Starting the Project: Worksharing - Revit Projects in a Team Environment 
  • Worksets Themes: What is Worksharing?
  • Activating Worksets
  • Working Together
  • Worksharing Monitor
Starting the Project: View Management
  • View Types: Work vs. SHEET Views
  • View Settings / View Templates
  • Partial Plans / Callouts
  • Duplicate Views & Duplicate with Detailing
Building the Model:  Rooms and Room Schedules & Color Fill Diagrams
  • Room Objects / Tags / Settings
  • Creating a Room Schedule
  • Color Fill Legends / Separation Lines
Building the Model: Structural Floors
  • Structural Slab vs. Finish Slabs –Best Practices
  • Creating / Adding Structural Floors
  • Floor Conditions and Penetrations
Building the Model: Hierarchy of the Model
  • Category / Family / Type (size)  / Instance
  • View Properties / Underlay / View Range
Building the Model: Family Editor Part 1 - Family Elements - ADVANCED 
  • Family Elements
  • Building Basic Parametric Objects
Building the Model: Glazing -Curtain Walls
  • Creating Curtain Wall
  • Base Elements
  • Curtain Panel Doors
  • Editing Elevation and Profile
Building the Model: Family Editor Part 2: Curtain Panels - ADVANCED
  • Simple Curtain Panel Family
Building the Model: Stairs, Roofs, Floors Part 2: Curtain Panels - ADVANCED
  • Stairs and Railings
    • Multi-Level Stairs
  • Roofs: Sloping vs. Flat
    • Sub-element Reshaping
  • Finish Floor Edits
    • Materials & Patterns
Building the Model: Furniture
  • Loading  and Placing
  • Positioning / Purging
Building the Model: Family Editor Part 3: 2D Furniture - ADVANCED
  • 2D Symbolic Lines
Building the Model: Ceilings
  • Two Methods
  • Room Based and Custom
  • Add Fixtures
Building the Model: Family Editor Part 4: 2D Profiles - ADVANCED
  • Ceiling Soffits using profiles
Hierarchy of Model Surface: 2D vs. 3D
  • Fill Patterns / Filled Regions
  • Materials
    • Applied to objects vs. painted
  • Line Weights, Patterns, Styles
    • Model vs, Detail
      • Work Plane
Hierarchy of the Model Graphics
  • Lineweights
  • Object Styles
  • Visibility Graphics
  • Override Graphics in a View
  • Edge Settings
  • Permanent vs. Temporary Display
  • Cropping the View: 2D vs. 3D
Building the Model: Model Documentation
  • Ext / Int Elevations, Sections, Callouts
  • Fine Tuning the Views:
    • Making the Views Pop
  • Detailing
Building the Model: Sheet and Layouts
  • Create and Edit Sheets
  • View Properties
  • Title Sheet Text By Project / By Sheet
  • Drawing List
Model Output
  • Print Setup & Printing
  • Single Prints vs. Multiple Plots
  • Exporting to CAD / DWF
    • Design Review
Advanced Topics 

Please note: Advanced topics not listed below can also be provided to suit your particular needs.

  • 1/2 Day - Topic: Phasing and Design Options
  • 1/2 Day - Topic: Custom Design and Documentation Schedules
  • 1 Day - Topic: Building Revit Families

 
 

What our Customers say...

"Train the Project is the best training method I have come across. Not only do we get trained and develop content for a project that we are working on, but with the instructor's help we were able to bill the entire project... We had a great instructor... I would DEFINITELY recommend this course to others because you get all the experience of Revit on a project that is specific to your office...This method is the future of training."

Scott Robbins

Office CAD Manager
TRO / Jung Brannen

 

 


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