Revit 2018. Building Modeling, Building Information Modeling (BIM)

LEARNING UNIT 1. DESCRIPTION OF THE REVIT INTERFACE 1. Introduction 2. Revit Terminology 3. Description of the User Interface LEARNING UNIT 2. CREATING PROJECTS 1. Selecting a Template 2. Setting Units 3. Levels 4. Specifying the Project Location 5. Topographic Surfaces 6. Property Lines 7. Construction Platforms 8. Parking Components 9. Site Components 10. Drawing a grid for placing walls or the structure 11. Placing walls 12. Drawing floors 13. Placing windows 14. Placing doors 15. Copy the typical floor plan to the remaining levels 16. Create a sketch of a perimeter roof 17. Define the space under the roof TEACHING UNIT 3. GENERATING SOLIDS AND OPENINGS 1. Conceptual design 2. Creating Shapes Using Mass Elements 3. Methods for Creating Shapes 4. 3D Workplanes 5. Solid and Hollow Shapes 6. Unrestricted Shapes or Shapes Based on References 7. Manipulating Shapes 8. X-ray Mode 9. Cutting Geometry with Solids 10. Creating Construction Elements from Mass Elements 11. ‘In Situ’ Elements 12. Creating ‘In Situ’ Masses LEARNING UNIT 4. LOT PROCESSING 1. Project base point and survey points 2. Inserting point coordinate and elevation dimensions 3. Rotating the project north 4. Rotating a view to true north 5. Inserting north arrows 6. Modifying north arrows 7. Inserting parking components 8. Modifying site components TEACHING UNIT 5. CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS I 1. Using visibility/graphics options 2. Creating wall foundations 3. Creating supports 4. Creating isolated footings 5. Creating foundation slabs 6. Creating and editing floors 7. Creating and editing ceilings 8. Creating and editing partition walls 9. Creating and editing doors 10. Creating and editing windows 11. Stairs 12. Railings 13. Openings 14. Ramps 15. Sections LEARNING UNIT 6. INTRODUCTION TO AND EDITING OF FAMILIES 1. Introduction 2. Viewing Families in a Project or Template 3. Viewing Elements of a Specific Family Type in a Project 4. What Are Families? 5. System Families 6. Loadable Families 7. ‘On-Site’ Families 8. The Family Editor 9. Creating Families 10. Using Visibility Parameters 11. Tips 12. Other Options 13. Conclusion LEARNING UNIT 7. CONSTRAINTS, REFERENCE PLANS, AND REFERENCE LINES 1. Constraints 2. Introduction to Reference Planes 3. Adding Reference Planes 4. Naming Reference Planes 5. 3D Reference Planes 6. Adding a Reference Line 7. Placing Components on Another Host TEACHING UNIT 8. CREATING COMPLEX FAMILIES. NESTING FAMILIES 1. Definition of complex families 2. Creating a nested family 3. Drawing reference planes in the nested family TEACHING UNIT 9. CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS II 1. Curtain walls 2. Curtain wall systems based on mass faces 3. Editing ramps TEACHING UNIT 10. FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT 1. Inserting furniture. Selecting families and types 2. Listing elements. Planning tables TEACHING UNIT 11. SPACE PLANNING IN REVIT 1. Creating rooms 2. Room tables 3. Color legends TEACHING UNIT 12. AREA PLANS 1. Calculating total built area 2. Generating lists of total built area 3. Creating rental areas 4. Creating Formulas to Calculate Amounts 5. Adjusting the Unit Format TEACHING UNIT 13. GENERATING DOCUMENTATION 1. Creating Sheets and Plans 2. Inserting Planning Tables into Plans 3. Cropping, scaling, and repositioning views 4. Creating special callout boxes 5. Inserting parameters via labels LEARNING UNIT 14. PARAMETERS IN ANNOTATION FAMILIES 1. Creating annotation families 2. Inserting labels with parameters into symbols 3. Saving custom symbol families 4. Loading custom symbols into project elements 5. Creating shared parameters for labels 6. Troubleshooting errors when importing shared parameters for labels TRAINING UNIT 15. CONSTRUCTION PHASES 1. Creating construction phases 2. Assigning elements to each phase 3. Creating construction phase views 4. Modifying phase drawings 5. Lists of elements by phase 6. Phase filters 7. Combining phases LEARNING UNIT 16. WORKING WITH LINKED PROJECTS 1. Introduction 2. Organizing Work to Link Models 3. Linking One Model to Another 4. Selecting Elements in a Linked Model 5. Reloading Linked Models 6. Mapping Phases Between Linked Models 7. Nesting Linked Models 8. Controlling the visibility of linked models 9. Including elements from linked models in scheduling tables TEACHING UNIT 17. DESIGN OPTIONS 1. Creating design options 2. Defining each design option 3. Creating views with design options 4. Editing each design option 5. Selecting elements in design options or in the base model 6. Moving elements from the base model to design options 7. Annotations and details for design options LEARNING UNIT 18. WORKFLOWS 1. Saving project templates 2. Defining units 3. Restoring true north in a template 4. Defining levels 5. Defining the lot—topographic area 6. Defining the construction platform 7. Defining the building envelope 8. Inserting a continuous foundation 9. Selecting a wall type 10. Inserting architectural supports 11. Inserting structural supports 12. Inserting an isolated foundation 13. Inserting beams 14. Inserting floor and roof slabs 15. Inserting partitions 16. Inserting doors 17. Inserting windows 18. Inserting roofs 19. Inserting systems 20. Inserting site components 21. Creating cross-sections 22. Analyzing surfaces 23. Using scheduling tables 24. Organizing information on drawings 25. Conclusions – analysis of the construction sequence