Revit Structure Advanced

Options Dialogue

Templates

• Changing a Template.
• Setting Default template used.
• Setting Options – File Locations – for “file Favourites”

Titleblocks

• Revisions
• Using Labels
• Using Shared Parameters
• Adding new linetypes – Settings > Object Styles.

DWF Publishing

• Import/Link Markup Set (for Sheets)

Detailing and Views

• Show/Obscure Hidden Lines tool
• Override Host Layers – Lineweight/function – View props -> Visibility Overrides.
• Change Level Lines & Section Tags
• Change View Title.
• Annotation Crop Region
• View Templates – Creating & Applying – Settings -> View Templates – to change existing ones.
• View Range & Cut Plane – Create Foundation Plan
• Plan Region -> for Split levels.
• Cut Profile on Sections : Roof & Wall
• Invisible Line with Linework tool – Show Foundations Example

Keynotes

• Settings -> Keynote.txt file
• Keynote Legend. (filter by sheet )

Schedules

• Calculating Bricks – Exporting Schedule to Excel.

Legend Views

• Legend Component

Assemblies

Displaced Views

Advanced Scheduling

• Key Schedules – Fast way to change text on multiple Tags.
• Multi Category Room Schedule – door belong to Room it opens to.
• View List – as Drawing Index
• Material Takeoff
• Using Project Parameters

Materials and Modelling

• Physical Properties
• Paint Tool
• Import Hatch C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Revit 2013\Program\Data
• align with element.
• Editing .pat files.
• Stairs – Component Based Stairs.
• Trusses
• Rebar

Rendering

• Size of Camera View,
• Turn Section box on for perspective camera view.
• Plants – RPC files.
• Rendering with Daylight Portals

Solar Study

• Day Month etc. – Exporting

Walkthrough

• Exporting

Worksets

• Basic Stages of Project Sharing
• Worksets
• Creating a Central File
• Creating a Local File
• Selective Open
• Saving Your Work
• Tips and Common Scenarios
• Leave Workset1 as Holding Place
• Moving a Central File
• Project Rollback
• Backup Versions
• Working Off-site and Off-line
• Multiple Users Logging-in Remotely
• Using Links in a Shared Project
• Removing an Absent Users

Project Phasing

• Process : 1. Create Phases, 2. Create View per Phase, 3. Draw
• Phases and Phase Filters
• View Properties and Phases
• Applying a Phase to a Schedule
• Phase Properties for Modelling
• Phase Conditions and Settings
• Creating and Combining Phases
• Creating Overrides – to highlight the phase.

Design Options

• Use with Interior Scenarios rather than Exterior scenarios.
• Visibility Graphics for Design Options

Groups

• Save/import + bind group
• Attached Detail Group

Project Linking

• Importing / Linking / Copy Monitor /Reconcile Hosting.
• Linking RVTs
• VG Visibility Graphic Settings for Linked RVTs
• V/Graphics of Design Options within Linked RVTs
• Query Linked Drawings
• File – Manage Links
• Can also Bind Linked RVTs – Imports as Group – Can explode/edit.

Large Files

• File Size is not Linear throughout project. Geometry is large not Detailing.
• Working in concept mode
• Model Patterns for Railings
• Model Patterns for Curtain Walling

In-place Family

• Extrusion, Blend, Revolve, Sweep, swept blend
• Interact with normal elements – Using Cut Geometry with In-place Void
• Editing the In-Place Family
• Tag – in-place family

Family Basics

• Creating using templates. ie. 2d tags, 2d profile, 3d Column,
• Using 2d Symbolic Lines, Setting Object Visibility

Massing

• Principles
• Cutting Levels
• Adding floors, walls, roof, curtain system
• Floor Mass Schedule
• Massing don’t print if on sheets

Modelling with Massing

• Creating Non-Vertical Walls, Tensile Roof.

Family Editor

• Family Editor Command Basics. Family Types and Templates
• Guidelines for Creating Families
• Maintain Relationships with Ref planes
• Then Map solids to Ref planes
• Adding Parameters for Variables ie. Length Width Height.
• Creating Formulas – use Family Types
• Material Parameter for solid objects
• Setting up a Yes/No parameter for component Visibility
• Nested Array – Array Parameter

Use of 2D Symbolic Lines

• Lines
• Categories and sub-categories – Object Styles
• Setting Detail Line Visibility
• Visibility control of Solids/Lines
• Use of Ref Lines instead of Ref Planes (Angles) ie. Truss

Family Creation Techniques

• Creating Object with nested Detail Component in section–Create a section in family and then insert DC
• Add nested Detail to Host Sweep.

Shared Parameters

• Go File – Shared Parameters.
• Create .txt with Parameters.
• Add these parameters into, say a family
• When using this family containing the Shared Par. In your .RVT file – Goto “Settings” – Project Parameters and select/link this Shared Parameter to the current drawing.

Adaptive Components

Type Catalogues

• Create .txt file with same name.
• 1^st Line : ,parameter name##type##unit
• 2^nd Line : Name, value,value
• 3^rd Line : Another name, value,value

Extras

• Structural Settings
• Analytical Model/Adding Loads
• Revit Extensions / Robot Extensions / AutoCAD Structural Detailing