Revit Architecture Essentials Plus

This 3-day Revit Architecture Essentials Plus training course will cover all of the content in our 2-day Revit Architecture Essentials course, with the addition of extra subject areas listed with a (+) sign below. This course has a greater focus on how Revit works in real industry situations and will better prepare you for work on live projects.

Course content for Revit Architecture Essentials Plus

• Introduction to the Revit user interface, views and cameras
• Best techniques for selecting / manipulating / hiding objects
• Learn the right way to create a new project and avoid mistakes later on
• Dimension an entire wall in just 2 clicks
• Use copy, align, move, mirror, trim, offset, fillet and split tools
• Link or import CAD files and use as a basis for developing a design
• Understand multi-segment grids for more complex modelling
• Set up levels, hide columns (+)
• Discussion of Revit modelling techniques - pros and cons
• Create your own wall type to see how Revit works
• Sketch and modify floor boundaries
• Create shaft openings and sloped floors (+)
• Insert doors and windows, create door and window sizes
• Load door and window types from the Revit library
• Learn different methods for creating roofs, from simple pitched to bespoke commercial
• Clean up wall and roof intersections (+)
• Create curtain walls, add curtain grids (+)
• Work with curtain wall panels (+)
• Attach mullions to curtain grids (+)
• Best methods for creating and organising new views
• Two types of tools for creating staircases
• Create a staircase that meets building regulations in just 4 clicks
• Create ramps, work with railings (+)
• Add ceilings by selecting a room boundary or by sketch
• Add ceiling components, including lighting and fixtures (+)
• Add simple furniture, understand families and hosted families
• Use the technique of aligning model elements to different floors to avoid repetitive tasks and ensure accuracy
• Modify components (+)
• Produce a near-photorealistic rendering in just 4 clicks
• Why schedules in Revit are 100% accurate
• Work with schedules - formatting, filtering, publishing to sheets (+)
• Add tags, display an object's value using tag labels (+)
• Define a room and add important room information, such as occupancy, department, wall / floor finishes, create room schedules (+)
• Add a graphical representation of a model element to a legend view (+)
• Set up detail views and add detail components, repeated detail components, detail lines, filled regions
• Keynotes, keynote legends and patterning (+)
• Add text notes to views and sheets, add detail lines and symbols
• Add sheets with title blocks and project views, print to scale

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