Goals
- Go further in the creation of more complex objects, such as curtain walls, customized staircases, the use of conceptual volumes
- Understand the logic and work with parametric families
- Organize projects by phases
- Get a deeper understanding of 3D presentations and renderings
Program
Manage project information
Create a project template
Customize the location of template files
Indicate geographic north in the project
Geolocate the project in relation to a cadastral plan in DWG
Workshop: reposition a Revit project relative to the coordinates of a DWG plan, indicate the geographic north of the project
Create new constructions
Manage existing phases
Customize the creation / demolition phase
Work with the phase filter
Create your own phase filters
Modify the appearance of the phases
Workshop: create a small building composed of existing wall, demolished and new constructions, modify the appearance of the phases
Differentiate project settings and shared settings
Add a new parameter
Customize parameter properties
Use categories
Use parameter data
Workshop: add a parameter indicating the address of the building in the project information
Create a file for shared parameters
Discover the parameter groups
Create a parameter
Insert a shared parameter in a Revit project
Workshop: create a shared parameter indicating the doors’ fire resistance
Use labels
Create or edit a label
Create a label
Insert a field
Manage the label parameters
Modify the type of label
Workshop: create a door label with new wording indicating the fire resistance of the previous workshop
Modify the Revit directory tree in the browser
Prepare new view titles
Organize the directory tree
Create a new directory tree
Filter the directory tree
Sort or group the directory tree
Organize the views
Workshop: build a new project directory tree sorting by phases, type of plan, levels and names
Customize the insert tab in Revit
Link RVT files
Link IFC files
Link CAD files
Explore point clouds
Import and redraw from DWG
Workshop: redraw a building from a DWG
Use basic curtain wall, exterior glazing, showcase
Understand the characteristics of curtain walls
Work on the grid with modifying the properties and type
Choose distance or fixed number
Manage maximum or minimum spacing
Justify horizontally and vertically
Offset horizontally and vertically
Manage the horizontal and vertical angles
Add horizontal and vertical mullions
Choose the type of profile for each edge
Position the horizontal and vertical grid on the fly
Adjust via the temporary dimensions
Subdivide a plane of a grid glazing
Add mullions
Work independently on mullions, plans or grid
Workshop: create a glazed facade. Create interior partition walls with solid panels and glazing
Choose a staircase type
Define the lower floor plan
Define the upper floor plan
Sketch the boundary of the staircase
Draw the risers
Indicate the staircase direction
Convert an existing staircase to a sketched staircase
Modify the sketch
Workshop: make a custom staircase by sketching
Choose your family category
Create reference planes
Use model lines
Extrude
Blend
Make revolutions
Sweep
Sweep blend
Apply material
Finalize creation
Workshop: create a desktop or table type component using the in-situ component tools
Create a conceptual volume
Define a work plane
Use the model lines
Draw the profile in 2D, volumize it
Load the volume into a project
Use the mass floor tool
Use the wall by face tool
Test the floor by face tool
Create a curtain wall system
Modify or adapt family
Workshop: make a wooden cladding using the in-situ volumes
Workshop: construct a complex building on several floors
Create your own families
Choose a template
Use the reference level
Create reference planes
Create equidistance constraints
Create alignment constraints
Lock constraints
Create parameters
Master the properties of parameters
Use type / instance parameters
Model with the creation tools
Create family types
Use linked geometries
Use conditional geometries
Use the conditional visibility of an object
Manage the different types of parameters or categories
Add a material parameter
Add a subcategory – family / project report (identification data / line color)
Workshop: create several parametric architectural elements (door, window, storage furniture)
Place points
Import an existing terrain
Simplify a toposurface
Split a surface
Work subregions
Draw the building pad
Modify the type of building pad
Offset the building pad in relation to the level
Control the property lines
Workshop: create a terrain from an import, simplify it and apply a building pad to it
Create an area plan
Rentable
Gross
Separation of surfaces
Create a surface
Label a surface
Workshop: draw up rentable floor plans for a building
Customize the path of the sun
Place a camera
Modify the camera
Use the navigation disc to adjust the camera
Customize the focal length
Adjust the quality and the output parameters
Adjust the different lighting conditions
Integrate a background
Adjust the exposure
Activate the indoors lighting and renderings
Workshop: create an exterior rendering and an interior rendering from a Revit project
Create the callout views
Insert legend components
Label the legend
Use pattern and color legends
Use view templates
Create a title block family
Draw the title block
Place labels
Use the different types of labels
Discover the relationship between labels and project properties
Configure printing
Use the batchprint
Workshop: create a detailed view using the mark tool
Workshop: create a component legend
Duration
5 days
Price
£ 1385
Audience
Draftsmen – designers / Engineers / Architects
Prerequisites
Knowledge of CAD software (Autocad / Autocad Architecture / Archicad)
Reference
CAO934-F
Sessions
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