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Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014 Course Details

Course Description

„„52+ hours of training

CADLearning® for Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2014 offers lessons

„„534 video tutorials

and demonstrations that cover from beginner to advanced BIM features and functions, including modeling essentials, components and families,

„„Exercise files included

creating views and sheets, conceptual design, design analysis, creating

„„Instructor: Jason Boehning

reports and schedules, and using collaboration tools to work with others.

Lesson Outline Getting Started

• Understanding the Project Browser

• Starting a New Project from the Application Menu

• Understanding the Properties Palette

• Understanding the Units and Snaps

• Understanding the Type Selector

• Using the Mouse

• Understanding the Status Bar

• Using the Keyboard

• Understanding the Drawing Area

• Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts

• Understanding the View Controls

• Managing Windows

• Understanding the Ribbon

• Understanding the Navigation Bar

• Understanding Macros

• Customizing the User Interface

• Understanding the ViewCube

• Saving and Closing Files

• Understanding the Quick Access Toolbar

• Understanding the Steering Wheels

• Closing the Application

• Understanding the Options Bar

• Understanding the Options Dialog

• Understanding the Application Menu

• Managing File and Template Locations

• Understanding the InfoCenter Toolbar

• Managing the Places List

• Starting Revit • Starting Revit for the First Time • Opening a Project File • Identifying the User Interface Components • Managing User Interface Components

• Using the Revit App Store

• Starting a New Project from Recent Files

Revit Fundamentals • Understanding BIM • Understanding the Difference between BIM and CAD • Understanding Revit Concepts

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• Working with the Different Versions of Revit • Understanding Bidirectional Associativity

• Offsetting Objects • Pinning Objects in Place • Deleting Objects

• Modifying Door and Window Properties • Creating Curtain Walls • Placing Doors in Curtain Walls

• Recognizing Parametric Relationships

• Cutting and Joining Geometry • Splitting the Face of an Element

• Understanding Families

• Creating Curtain Grids and Mullions

• Applying Materials as Paint

• Placing Model Elements

• Creating Floors

• Sketching Model Elements

• Measuring versus Dimensioning Objects

• Modifying Floor Properties

• Placing View-Specific Elements

• Understanding Element IDs

• Creating Sloped Floors by Sketching

• Working with Datum Elements

• Understanding and Reviewing Warning Messages

• Creating Sloped Floors by Shape Editing

• Reporting and Displaying Coordinates

• Creating Floor Openings

• Placing Elements from the Project Browser • Loading Families and Using Type Catalogs

• Creating Shaft Openings

Modeling Essentials

• Creating a Roof by Footprint

• Creating and Modifying Levels

• Creating a Roof by Extrusion

• Creating and Modifying Grids

• Joining and Unjoining Roofs

Basic Modify and Reporting Tools

• Creating and Modifying MultiSegment Grids

• Understanding Roof Properties

• Selecting Objects

• Controlling Datum Visibility

• Creating Sloped Roofs by Sketching

• Modifying Selection Settings

• Limiting Visibility of Datum Using Scope Boxes

• Creating Sloped Roofs by Shape Editing

• Copying and Moving Objects

• Setting and Showing the Active Work Plane

• Managing Complex Roof Conditions Using Align Eaves

• Rotating Objects

• Creating Reference Planes

• Creating Roof Soffits

• Creating Linear Arrays

• Modeling Accurately with Length and Angle Snap Increments

• Creating Fascias

• Finding Families Using Autodesk Seek • Editing Families within a Project

• Saving Selection Sets

• Creating Radial Arrays • Scaling Objects

• Working with Object Snaps

• Creating Dormer Openings • Creating Roof Openings

• Mirroring Objects

• Using Visualization Aids When Working in 3D Views

• Using the Clipboard for Copy and Paste

Core and Shell

• Splitting Objects

• Understanding Wall Drawing Aids

• Creating Elements Consistently with Match Type Properties and Create Similar

• Creating Exterior Building Walls • Creating Building Core Walls

• Understanding Wall System Families and Types

• Aligning Objects

• Creating Doors

• Creating Walls by Picking Lines

• Trimming and Extending Objects

• Creating Windows

• Creating a Wall by Face

• Modifying Roof and Wall Joins and Controlling Roof Visibility • Creating Gutters and Downspouts

Walls - An In-Depth Look

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• Understanding Wall Properties

• Creating In-Place Wall Sweeps

• Changing the Wall Type as Your Design Evolves

• Creating In-Place Reveals

• Understanding Curtain Wall Types • Creating a Curved Curtain Wall

• Creating Joined Walls for Complex Assemblies

• Creating Stairs by Sketching the Run • Modifying Sketched Stairs • Understanding Stair by Sketch Properties

Building Structure

• Sketching Stairs with Landings

• Managing Structural Symbolic Representation Settings

• Creating Stairs by Sketching Boundaries and Riser Lines

• Creating Structural Columns

• Creating Spiral Stairs

• Working with Curtain Wall Grids

• Creating Isolated Foundations

• Selecting Curtain Wall Components

• Creating Wall Foundations

• Creating Multi-Story Stairs and Shafts

• Creating Stepped Foundations

• Creating Ramps

• Modifying Curtain Wall Panels

• Creating Foundation Slabs

• Placing Railings on a Host

• Understanding Curtain Wall Corner Conditions

• Creating Structural Floors

• Creating Railings by Sketch

• Creating Slab Edges

• Modifying Railings

• Understanding Structural Beam Types

• Understanding Railing Properties

• Embedding a Curtain Wall in Another Wall • Creating Curtain Walls that Turn Corners

• Modifying and Customizing Curtain Wall Mullions • Creating a Stacked Wall • Creating Walls with Modify Tools • Modifying Wall Profiles • Creating Wall Openings • Introducing Wall Layer Functions • Overriding Host Layer Display • Understanding Layer Join Cleanups • Understanding Wall Layer Wrapping • Understanding Compound Structures • Customizing Vertical Wall Structure by Splitting Regions • Customizing Vertical Wall Structure by Adding Sweeps • Customizing Vertical Wall Structure by Adding Reveals • Customizing the Base and Top Extension of Walls • Creating Embedded Walls

• Creating Beams • Creating Sloped Beams • Creating Beam and Column Joins

• Customizing Railing Properties

Building Interiors • Creating Interior Partitions

• Modifying Elements with Coping

• Creating Interior Storefront Glazing

• Creating Beam Systems

• Creating Rooms

• Creating Structural Walls

• Creating Room Separation Lines

• Creating Structural Braces

• Placing Components

• Creating Trusses

• Placing Hosted Components

Stairs and Railings

• Creating Architectural Columns

• Creating Stairs by Component

• Creating Ceilings

• Creating Landing Components

• Placing Building Components in Ceilings

• Creating Support Components • Creating Stair Components by Sketching

• Creating Ceiling Openings • Creating Area Plans

• Modifying Stair Components

• Creating Area Boundary Lines

• Customizing Stair Documentation

• Creating Areas and Area Schedules

• Understanding Stair by Component Properties

• Creating and Managing Color Schemes

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• Modifying the Schedule Appearance

• Working with Permanent Dimensions

• Placing Schedules on a Sheet

• Modifying Dimensions

• Introducing Site Tools

• Working with Room and Area Schedules

• Modifying Dimension Graphics

• Creating a Toposurface Using Points

• Working with Key Schedules

• Managing Area and Volume Computation Settings

Site Tools

• Creating a Toposurface from CAD • Creating a Toposurface from a Points File

• Working with Calculated Values and Conditional Formatting in Schedules

• Modifying Dimension Text Appearance • Creating and Modifying Dimension Styles • Locking Dimensions

• Managing Site Settings

• Creating and Managing a View List

• Creating Toposurface Subregions and Split Surfaces

• Working with Material Takeoff Schedules

• Creating a Building Pad

• Importing and Exporting Schedule Views

• Dimensioning Entire Walls

• Creating Site and Parking Components

Annotation

• Working with Spot Coordinates

• Working with Text Annotations

• Working with Spot Slopes

• Creating Property Lines and Contour Labels

• Using Keyboard Controls to Add Symbols to Text

Drafting and Detailing

Schedules and Tags

• Checking Spelling in a View

• Understanding Parameters

• Finding and Replacing Text

• Loading and Placing Detail Components

• Creating Project Parameters

• Modifying Text Type Properties

• Placing Repeating Details

• Creating Shared Parameters

• Creating Keynotes

• Creating a Repeating Detail

• Understanding Schedules and Tags

• Modifying Keynotes and Keynote Settings

• Creating Detail Lines

• Placing Element Tags

• Creating a Keynote Legend

• Placing Room and Area Tags

• Working with Symbols and Note Blocks

• Creating a Graded Region

• Working with Material Tags

• Controlling Dimensions Using Equality Constraints • Controlling Dimension Units

• Working with Spot Elevations

• Understanding Detailing

• Specifying Draw Order • Showing Hidden Lines in a Detail View

• Working with Legends

• Modifying the Cut Profile of Model Elements

• Managing Arrowheads

• Overriding Linework in a View

• Modifying Schedules with Filters

Dimensions and Constraints

• Creating Filled Regions

• Modifying Schedules with Sorting and Grouping

• Understanding Dimensions and Constraints

• Creating Masking Regions

• Modifying the Formatting of Schedule Titles and Headers

• Using Temporary Dimensions

• Placing Annotations in Detail Views

• Creating a Schedule and Specifying Fields

• Modifying Schedule Formatting

• Modifying Temporary Dimension Settings

• Creating Batt Insulation

• Leveraging Detail Groups • Saving Views to a File

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• Inserting Views and 2D Elements from a File • Creating Model Text and Model Lines

View Graphics • Working with Visual Styles • Understanding Scale and Detail Level • Understanding Plan View Range • Understanding View Discipline • Understanding View Templates • Creating View Templates • Applying and Assigning View Templates

• Creating Interior Elevation Views

Managing Your Projects

• Creating Framing Elevation Views

• Managing Project Information

• Changing the Elevation Symbol

• Specifying the Location and Site

• Creating Section Views

• Managing Project Browser View Organization

• Segmenting Section and Elevation Views • Creating Callout Views

• Using Parameters and Filters for Browser Organization

• Sketching a Callout View

• Managing Project Browser Sheet Organization

• Creating Drafting Views

• Working with Coordinate Systems

• Creating a Reference View

• Relocating a Project

• Duplicating Views

• Rotating True North and Project North

• Creating Matchlines and View References

• Mirroring a Project

• Creating View Types

• Creating Additional View References

• Understanding Project Template Files

• Understanding Object Styles

• Creating and Using Sheets

• Transferring Project Standards

• Understanding Visibility and Graphic Overrides

• Working with Viewports on Sheets

• Deleting Unused Items from a Project

• Creating Element and Category Overrides in a View • Creating Filter Overrides • Using Temporary Hide or Isolate and Viewing Hidden Elements • Using Temporary View Properties • Understanding Crop Regions • Creating a Non-Rectangular Crop Region • Understanding Annotation Crop Regions • Configuring System Family Coarse Scale Cut Patterns

Views and Sheets • Creating Plan Views and Reflected Ceiling Plan Views • Creating a Plan Region • Creating Building Elevation Views

• Aligning Views on Sheets with a Guide Grid

• Setting the Starting View

• Using a Sheet List and Placeholder Sheets

Managing Settings

• Creating Custom Titleblocks

• Understanding Model and Drafting Patterns

• Creating a Key Plan • Managing Sheet Issues and Revisions • Creating Revision Clouds and Tags • Adding a Revision Schedule to a Titleblock • Creating Supplemental Drawings

• Managing Fill Patterns • Managing Materials and Material Libraries • Managing Material Properties and Material Assets • Managing Line Styles • Managing Line Weights

Printing and Publishing

• Managing Line Patterns

• Understanding Printing and Publishing

• Managing Halftone and Underlay Settings

• Printing and Managing Print Settings

Conceptual Design

• Printing to PDF

• Understanding the Conceptual Design Environment

• Publishing Files to Buzzsaw

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CADLearning for Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014

• Working in 3D in the Conceptual Design Environment • Creating Conceptual Mass Solid Forms

• Working with Mass Type Properties to Place Tags and Create Schedules • Creating Model by Face Elements

• Viewing the Workshared Project History • Rolling Back Workshared Projects • Detaching a File from Central

• Creating Conceptual Mass Surfaces

• Modifying Elements with Update to Face and Edit Face Selection

• Creating Conceptual Mass Void Forms

Design Analysis

• Linking Revit Models

• Creating Forms from Imported CAD Files

• Enabling the Sun Path Diagram

• Controlling the Coordinates in Linked Revit Models

• Creating Reference Planes and Reference Lines

• Understanding Energy Settings

• Controlling the Display of Elements in a Linked Model

• Performing an Energy Analysis with a Mass Model

• Scheduling Elements from a Linked Model

• Using Reference Points

• Performing an Energy Analysis with Building Elements

• Tagging Elements in a Linked Model

• Creating Dimension and Parameter Constraints

Worksharing

• Monitoring and Coordinating Changes within a Single Project

• Modifying Form Profiles

• Introducing Worksharing Concepts

• Modifying Forms with Add Edge and Add Profile

• Understanding Worksharing Terminology

• Sketching on Forms

• Enabling Worksharing in a Project File

• Creating Forms from Model Lines versus Reference Lines

• Creating Divided Paths • Creating Divided Surfaces • Adding Patterns to Divided Surfaces • Creating a Panel Family for Conceptual Massing • Creating Adaptive Components

• Creating a Solar Study

• Creating a Local Model

• Checking For Interferences

• Creating Worksets

Groups

• Understanding Workset Visibility

• Introducing Groups

• Understanding How Central and Local Files Communicate

• Creating a Model Group

• Loading a Conceptual Mass into the Project Environment

• Understanding the Active Workset

• Creating Mass Floors

• Using Copy and Monitor with Linked Projects

• Creating the Central Model

• Closing a Workshared Project

• Creating an In-Place Mass

• Using Copy and Monitor in a Single Project

• Performing a Coordination Review with Linked Models

• Repeating an Adaptive Component Along a Divided Path

• Understanding How to Place Mass Elements and Control Their Visibility

Collaboration

• Understanding Editing Requests

• Understanding Worksharing Display Modes

• Creating and Managing Model Groups and Attached Detail Groups • Attaching Annotation Detail Groups • Creating Detail Groups

• Specifying Open Worksets

• Editing Groups

• Managing Worksets in Linked Revit Files

• Making Parameters Vary Between Groups

• Working Offline and Editing at Risk

• Excluding Elements from Groups • Converting Groups to Links

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• Saving and Loading Groups • Understanding Best Practices for Working with Groups

Phases

• Dividing Parts with Gaps and Profiles • Merging and Excluding Parts • Scheduling Parts

• Working with Component Families • Introducing Form Creation • Creating Solid Extrusions and Blends

• Introducing Phases

• Understanding Wall Joins and Parts

• Understanding Phases

• Creating Parts from Linked Models

• Creating Solid Sweeps and Swept Blends

• Managing Phases

• Creating Assemblies

• Creating Void Forms

• Understanding Phase Filters and Graphic Overrides

• Placing and Modifying Assembly Instances

• Creating Reference Planes and Reference Lines

• Assigning Phases and Phase Filters to a View

• Creating Assembly Views

• Creating Dimension and Parameter Constraints

• Understanding the Impact of Phases on Documentation • Demolishing Elements • Establishing Phases in Project Templates

Design Options • Introducing Design Options • Working with Design Options and Option Sets

• Acquiring Assembly Views • Modifying Assembly Views

Advanced Modeling

• Creating Solid Revolves

• Creating Family Geometry • Understanding Family Geometry Display Settings

• Introducing the In-Place Modeling Tools

• Creating Family Types

• Creating In-Place Family Objects Using Solid Extruded Forms

• Working with Hosted Families

• Creating In-Place Family Objects Using Solid Blended Forms

• Working with Families in a Project

• Creating a Hosted Family • Creating and Grouping Family Parameters

• Editing Design Options

• Creating In-Place Family Objects Using Solid Revolved Forms

• Duplicating and Deleting Design Options

• Creating In-Place Family Objects Using Solid Swept Forms

• Understanding Reporting Parameters

• Creating Design Option Views

• Enhancing In-Place Families

• Understanding the Impact of Design Options on Documentation

• Understanding Adaptive Components

• Creating Symbolic and Model Lines

• Promoting and Accepting Design Options

Construction Modeling • Understanding Construction Modeling

• Creating Shared Parameters

• Creating Controls

• Using Adaptive Components to Create Building Elements

• Creating a Masking Region

Family Creation

• Managing Nested Families

• Understanding Loadable Families

• Creating Linked Parameters

• Introducing Family Creation

• Creating a Type Catalog

• Creating Parts

• Understanding the Family Editor

• Modifying Parts

• Working with Tag Families

• Controlling the Visibility of Parts

• Creating a Custom Annotation Tag

• Dividing Parts

• Creating a Custom View Tag

• Creating Parameter Formulas

Presentation Views • Creating 3D Views • Understanding 3D View Properties

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CADLearning for Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014

• Specifying the Background for a 3D View

• Creating Lights with Photometrics and IES Files

• Rotating a 3D View

• Understanding Lighting Best Practices

• Using Section Boxes in 3D Views • Creating a Perspective 3D View

• Defining the Rendering Background

• Modifying the Perspective Camera Position

• Working with the Rendered Appearance of Materials

• Storing a 3D View Home and Front Orientation

• Creating New Materials for Renderings

• Orienting 3D Views to Other Views

• Modifying the Appearance of Rendered Materials

• Locking 3D Views for Annotation

• Aligning Render Textures with a Material Surface Pattern

• Creating an Exploded View • Creating Decals • Managing Decal Types • Managing Photographic Exposure

• Adding Plants and Entourage to the Scene • Running a Test Render

• Editing Walkthrough Frames • Controlling Walkthrough Playback • Exporting a Walkthrough

Interoperability • Importing and Managing Image Files • Linking and Importing CAD Files • Controlling Line Weights in Imported CAD Files • Controlling the Coordinates of a Linked CAD File • Using CAD Files to Create Building Model Objects • Working with Autodesk Exchange Files • Working with Point Clouds

• Managing Shadows

• Understanding Render Quality Settings

Renderings and Walkthroughs

• Creating a Rendered Image

• Working with DWF Markups

• Introducing Rendering Workflow

• Rendering in the Cloud

• Exporting to 2D CAD Formats

• Understanding the Render Settings

• Understanding Exposure Controls

• Exporting to 3D CAD

• Saving and Displaying Renderings in the Project

• Exporting Views to Image Files

• Simulating Ambient Occlusion in Renderings

• Exporting to 3ds Max

• Preparing a View for Rendering • Choosing a Lighting Scheme • Defining the Sun Settings

• Exporting to DWF

• Exporting to gbXML

• Exporting Room and Area Reports

• Using Lighting Fixtures

• Using View Templates to Manage Render Settings

• Managing Lighting with Groups

• Creating a Walkthrough Path

• Exporting to ODBC

• Editing a Walkthrough Path

• Exporting Family Types

• Exporting to IFC

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