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Urban Planning & Landscape Foundations Class

Section: Planning | Category : RAC 2011 – UPL101

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 Urban Design 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 Urban Design 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: 4 Days

Pricing: Individual Rate: $1,156 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®, Vista® or Windows7® operating systems and file management; Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 software.

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
  • &quo;View&quo; 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
    • Project Information
  • Setting Up Your Project
    • 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 Model: Needs Analysis 
  • Shared Parameter Creation
  • Projected Area Schedules
  • Developing Building Template
Building Model: Conceptual Mass 
  • Creating Basic Building Shapes
  • Delineate Basic Shape into Specific
  • Add System Families
Block Model: Linking Models 
  • Creating subdivisions within the site
  • Scheduling of Linked Models
  • Working with Linked Models
Site Model: Create the Site 
  • Linking DWG Contour Map
  • Toposurface Gerenation
  • Subregion and Building Pads
  • Scheduling of Areas and Parking
  • Shared Coordinates
  • Visilibity of Links
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
Building the Model: Model Documentation 
  • Site Sections
  • 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

 
 

What our Customers say...

"Our CDV instructor was very good at managing people with different skill levels. It was clear that he had used the software extensively and was able to walk us through individual steps and key strokes. He clearly had a handle on the subject matter....He was able to respond to all of the questions that were posed to him."

Chuck Coleman

Principal
Torti Gallas and Partners, Inc.

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