AutoCAD Revit Architecture Complete Levels 1 & 2 

Revit Architecture Complete Levels 1 & 2

128 Hours/6 Months/Instructor Support

Course Overview:

The REVIT architectural modeling program comprises intelligent building components, views, and annotations. This introductory course will lead the user through the basic procedures of designing an integrated building model. New topics will include: Project creation, navigation and display concepts, designing with components, working with levels, creating and editing walls, adding doors and windows, creating floor and roof objects, working with view properties, object styles, loading and modifying family components, adding dimensions and annotations, adding and modifying drawing sheets, and plotting procedures.

Course Outline:

• Create and modify wall types with Autodesk Revit
• Create and modify parametric components with Autodesk Revit
• Create and modify parametric, 3D building models with Autodesk Revit
• Work with the Revit display system to create floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, and presentation plans from a single building model.
• Extract and annotate Floor plan drawings from a 3D Building model.
• Extract and annotate Elevation drawings from a 3D building model.
• Extract and annotate Section and Detail drawings from a 3D building model.
• Generate rendered views of a 3D building model.

DELIVERY METHODS:

The delivery format of this course is DVD based video lectures and demonstrations with supplemental notes, samples, and other support files delivered electronically through internet access. Support is facilitated through email and website access.

ASSIGNMENT POLICY: (for each level)

• The Instructor will set the date, time and place for the assignments.
• There are four assignments, all of which will be clearly delineated in Handbooks.
• Students are to submit all assignments through the computer network, on predetermined due dates.
• Assignments to be submitted on the due date. Late assignments received after the course deadline will be penalized 10% for each week they are late.

Course Outline: Level 1

REVIT 1 –Lesson 1 94 minutes Disk 1

• Introduction to BIM and Revit Concepts (00:00)
• Exploring the Parts of the Revit Interface (15:49)
• Working with the Revit Interface Basics (43:35)
  

REVIT 1 –Lesson 2 116 minutes Disk 1

• Introduction to View Controls (00:00)
• Render, Crop and Visibility Settings (25:58)
• View Properties and Visibility Graphic Overrides (47:27)
• 3D Views, View Creation, and Navigation Controls (68:30)
• Assignment 1 – Office – View, Visibility and Graphics Overrides (82:34)

REVIT 1 –Lesson 3 97 minutes Disk 1

• Introduction to Dimensions and Constraints (00:00)
• Selecting and Manipulating Content (25:34)
• Editing Tools – Align, Trim, Split, and Offset (49:35)
• Assignment 1 – Office – Dimensions and Constraints (61:55)

REVIT 1 –Lesson 4 82 minutes Disk 1

• Categories, Families, Types and Instances (00.00)
• Family Libraries and Loading Families (13:18)
• Introduction to Sketching and Sketched Features (32:14)
• Assignment 1 – Office – Types, Families and Sketched Features (49:29)

REVIT 1 –Lesson 5 94 minutes Disk 1

• Creating and Working with Levels (00:00)
• Creating Perspectives with Camera Views (19:18)
• Introduction to Sheet Creation and Drawing Views (33:56)
• Assignment 1 – Office – Working with Levels, Perspectives and Sheets (54:36)
• Assignment 1 – Office – Perspectives and Sheets (76:29)

REVIT 1 –Lesson 6 84 minutes Disk 1

• Introduction to Section Views (00:00)
• Callout Views and Details (18:34)
• Assignment 1 – Office – Creating Sections and Callouts (30:49)
• Assignment 1 – Office – Completing the Sheets and Views (56:59)

REVIT 1 –Lesson 7 109 minutes Disk 1

• Project Templates and Customizing Project Settings (00:00)
• Project Settings – Fill Patterns, Materials and Object Styles (18:54)
• Project Settings – Line Settings and Annotation Settings (36:38)
• Assignment 2 – Custom Template and Project Setup (49:48)
• Assignment 2 –Laying out the Project Walls (79:28)

REVIT 1 –Lesson 8 75 minutes Disk 1

• Compound Structure and Custom Wall Types (00.00)
• Vertically Compound Walls (25:58)
• Assignment 2 – Custom Exterior Wall Types (40 :48)
• Assignment 2 – Adjusting Wall Conditions and Interior Walls (43:28)

REVIT 1 –Lesson 9 74 minutes Disk 2

• Creating and Modifying Footprint Roofs (00.00)
• Joining Roofs and Attaching Walls (16:58)
• Extruding Roofs and Dormer Roofs (26:30)
• Assignment 2 – Adding the Main Roofs (38:28)
• Assignment 2 – Adding the Low Roof and Dormer Roofs (54:28)

REVIT 1 –Lesson 10 96 minutes Disk 2

• Editing Wall Profiles and Joining / Cutting Geometry (00:00)
• Adding Wall Openings and Hosted Sweeps for Walls and Roofs (14:55)
• Assignment 2 – Wall Profiles, Wall Joins, and Joining Geometry (39 :28)
• Assignment 2 – Wall Openings and Bay Windows (61:58)

REVIT 1 –Lesson 11 88 minutes Disk 2

• Creating and Working with Floors and Floor Edges (00:00)
• Creating Foundation Walls and Footings (25:48)
• Assignment 2 – Adding Floors (38:38)
• Assignment 2 – Adding Foundation Walls and Footings (68:48)

REVIT 1 –Lesson 12 109 minutes Disk 2

• Creating Stairs by Sketching Runs (00:00)
• Creating Stairs with Boundaries and Risers (12:48)
• Stair Properties for Tread/Riser Stairs and Monolithic Stairs (24:18)
• Assignment 2 – Adding Exterior Steps and Stairs (56:38)
• Assignment 2 – Adding the Interior Stairs – Back Stair (66:45)
• Assignment 2 – Adding the Interior Stairs – Main Stair (80:45)

REVIT 1 –Lesson 13 71 minutes Disk 2

• Creating and Working with Railings (00.00)
• Working with Railing Type Properties (12:42)
• Assignment 2 – Creating the Main Stair Railings (31:58)
• Assignment 2 – Adding Walls below Stairs and the Back Stair (53:48)
  

REVIT 1 –Lesson 14 61 minutes Disk 2

• Creating and Working with Model lines and Detail Lines (00:00)
  Linework, Split Face, Paint Tools and Adding Text Notes (12:18)
  Assignment 2 –Element Overrides, Detail Lines, Notes and Split Faces (33:28)

REVIT 1 –Lesson 15 51minutes Disk 2

• Using Model In Place to create In Place Families (00:00)
  Sketching, Work Planes and Reference Planes (15:58)
  Assignment 2 – Creating In Place Families (29:43)

REVIT 1 –Lesson 16 71 minutes Disk 2

• Introduction to Site Components and Topographical Surfaces (00:00)
• Printing and Publishing a Revit Project (18:33)
• Assignment 2 – Adding a TopoSurface and Site Components (28:58)
• Assignment 2 - Perspectives and Rendering (50:58)
• Assignment 2 – Preparing and Printing the Manor House Project

Revit Architecture- Level 2

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This advanced course will lead the user through the Family Editor where they will learn to create custom component families and work with parameters. Students will learn to work within the Conceptual Design Environment, creating massing studies and developing complex, formula driven masses to be used as the basis for actual building elements. Curtain wall systems and curtain walls will be studied in depth including the creation of custom curtain walls, nested walls, custom panels, and adaptive components. To finish the course, students will spend time learning to create and work with advanced view and annotation techniques to create Schedule Views, Legend Views, Custom Tags, and Keynotes.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

• Create Component Families in the Family Editor
• Create and modify mass families in the Conceptual Design environment.
• Create and modify Formula driven masses.
• Create and work with Curtain Wall Systems.
• Create and work with Curtain Walls.
• Create and work with Schedule Views.
• Create and work with Legend Views.
• Create and work with Tags and Keynotes.

REVIT 2 –Lesson 1 95 minutes Disk 1

• Introduction to Revit Modeling Concepts (00:00)
• Creating Extrusions and Revolves (14:49) Creating Sweeps (35:35)
• Creating Blends and Swept Blends (48:35)
• Practice Exercise 1 – In Place Modeling Techniques (65:22)

REVIT 2 –Lesson 2 106 minutes Disk 1

• Overview of Families and the Family Editor (00:00)
• Creating a Loadable Family – Planning and Templates (19:48)
• Creating the Family Framework (32:53)
• Dimensioning and Flexing the Family Framework (51:50)
• Practice Exercise 2 – Editing Existing Families (65:32)
• Assignment 1 – Sofa Table Family - The Framework (82:34)

REVIT 2 –Lesson 3 102 minutes Disk 1

• Creating and Working with Family Types (00:00)
• Creating and Dimensioning Family Geometry (11:34)
• Creating Parameters and Sub Categories (25:15)
• Practice Exercise 3 – Editing Existing Families (44:02)
• Assignment 1 – Sofa Table Family – Geometry I (49:55)
• Assignment 1 – Sofa Table Family – Geometry II (78:25)

REVIT 2 –Lesson 4 86 minutes Disk 1

• Managing Family Visibility and Detail Level (00:00)
• Nested Families and Shared Component Families (13:58)
• Linking Family Parameters (26:14)
• Work Plane-Based and Face-Based Families (35:14)
• Assignment 1 – Office – Types, Families and Sketched Features (44:39)

REVIT 2 –Lesson 5 105 minutes Disk 1

• Introduction to Massing Studies and Conceptual Design (00:00)
• Exploring the Conceptual Design Environment (10:15)
• Conceptual Drawing Tools and Methods (23:56)
• Create Form Types (37:26)
• Assignment 2 – Center Square – In Place Masses (53:56)
• Assignment 2 – Center Square – Loadable Mass Families (72:49)

REVIT 2 –Lesson 6 94 minutes Disk 1

• Selecting and Manipulating Mass Forms (00:00)
• Modifying Mass Forms in X-Ray Mode (17:29)
• Mass Editing - Edges and Profiles (32:46)
• Practice Exercise – Modifying a Simple Mass (50:29)
• REVIT 2 –Lesson 7 69 minutes Disk 1 Mass Floors (00:00)
• Model by Face – Floors and Roofs (10:44)
• Model by Face – Walls and Curtain Systems (23:38)
• Assignment 2 – Center Square – Mass Floors and Model by Face (40:28)

REVIT 2 –Lesson 8 65 minutes Disk 1

• Surface Rationalization and Divide Surface (00:00)
• Surface Patterns (15:54)
• Assignment 2 – Center Square – Surface Rationalization I (31:08)
• Assignment 2 – Center Square – Surface Rationalization II (47:48)

REVIT 2 –Lesson 9 69 minutes Disk 1

• Dimensioning Forms in the Conceptual Design Environment (00.00)
• Using Parameters and Formulas with Conceptual Masses (12:18)
• Practice Exercise – Formula Complex – Parametric Mass (23:38)
• Assignment 3 – Formula Complex – Complex Tower (37:48)

REVIT 2 –Lesson 10 86 minutes Disk 2

• Creating Pattern Component Families (00:00)
• Applying and Modifying Pattern Component Families (24:55)
• Assignment 3 – Pattern Component Families (41:28)
• Assignment 3 – Alternate Panel Types in Component Families (65:58)

REVIT 2 –Lesson 11 89 minutes Disk 2

• Creating and Working with Reference Points (00:00)
• Adaptive Points and Stitching Border Panels (15:38)
• Adaptive Components (30:08)
• Assignment 3 – Stitching Border Panels & Adaptive Components (45:38)

REVIT 2 –Lesson 12 73 minutes Disk 2

• Creating Typical Curtain Walls (00:00)
• Working with Curtain Grids and Layouts (16:48)
• Assignment 4 – Center Square –Curtain Walls I (37:38)

REVIT 2 –Lesson 13 93 minutes Disk 2

• Creating and Working with Curtain Wall Panels (00:00)
• Curtain Wall Mullions, Corner Mullions, and Join Conditions (17:12)
• Assignment 4 – Center Square –Curtain Walls II (39:18)
• Assignment 4 – Center Square –Curtain Walls III (59:38)

REVIT 2 –Lesson 14 92 minutes Disk 2

• Custom Curtain Wall Mullions (00:00)
• Custom Curtain Wall Panels (12:18)
• Assignment 4 – Center Square –Curtain Walls IV (28:18)
• Assignment 4 – Center Square –Curtain Walls V (43:38)
• Assignment 4 – Center Square –Curtain Walls VI (63:58)
  

REVIT 2 –Lesson 15 75 minutes Disk 2

• Introduction to Schedule Views (00:00)
• Specifying Schedule Properties (11:58)
• Modifying Schedules and Adding Schedules to Sheets (37:13)
• Practice Exercise – Door Schedule (51:43)

REVIT 2 –Lesson 16 81 minutes Disk 2

• Legend Views (00:00)
• Tags (13:23)
• Keynotes (29:58)
• Practice Exercise – Tags, Keynotes, and Legends (50:23)
  

All necessary materials included.

Required Study Aid

• Revit Architecture 1 – Course DVD set 2011
• Revit Architecture 2 – Advanced Features - Training Video DVD Set
  

Hardware

• Virtually all Windows-Mac hardware configurations and processors are acceptable.
• 1 GB RAM recommended
• Software
• Operating Systems
• Windows XP or Vista and Mac OS X 10 and higher
• Web Browsers
• Mozilla Firefox 2 and 3 (previous versions will work also)
• Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8
• Safari is not currently recommended as it cannot display certain Moodle editing menus for both students and instructors
• Media Plug-ins (These may be required depending on your course media-click on the links below to download the latest versions)
• Adobe Flash Player
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Apple Quicktime
• Windows Media Player
• Real Player
• PowerPoint Viewer (use this if you don't have PowerPoint)