Put Autodesk Revit Architecture 2016 to work for you with this real-world focused guide Autodesk Revit Architecture 2016 Essentials helps you get acquainted and quickly become productive with the leading Building Information Modeling software. With a real-world focus and a tutorial-based approach, this invaluable guide features concise, straightforward explanations and hands-on exercises that walk you through the entire design process. Each chapter opens with a quick discussion of concepts and learning goals, and then briskly moves into step-by-step instruction illustrated by compelling full-color screen shots. This new edition includes expanded information on rendering and visualization, and a new discussion surrounding effective work sharing, details and annotations, drawing sets, and professional workflows. The companion website features additional tutorials, plus downloadable data sets that allow you to jump in at any point and compare your work to the pros.
Revit Architecture 2016 is a powerful, sophisticated BIM application designed to boost productivity with automated documentation for every design and update. This guide takes you through the entire design process, and shows you how to get the most out of Revit every step of the way.
Design walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, stairs, ramps, railings, and more
Work with families, groups, and phasing, and add color fills and rendering
Create compelling drawing sets with details and annotations
Learn the tips and tricks experts use to get the most out of Revit
Autodesk Revit Architecture 2016 Essentials gets you up to speed quickly, so you can win more bids and expedite the project approval process.
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About the Authors
Ryan Duell is a principal quality assurance analyst for Revit at Autodesk, where he previously spent several years providing Revit support for end users and enterprise accounts. He also teaches Revit at the Boston Architectural College. Tobias Hathorn is a licensed architect and user experience designer for Autodesk. He is currently working on Autodesk FormIt, a conceptual design tool to aid in the early stages of a BIM workflow. Tessa Reist Hathorn is a licensed architect and a LEED Accredited Professional with 10 years of architectural experience using Autodesk Revit. She presently works as an architect at Faenas Architecture in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in custom homes.
Foreword xvii Introduction xix
Chapter 1 Introducing the Autodesk Revit Architecture Interface 1
Understanding the User Interface 2
Exercise 1.1: Use the Properties Palette to See Dynamic Updates of Properties 2
Exercise 1.2: Explore the Content of Your Project with the Project Browser 5
Exercise 1.3: Use the View Control Bar to See Frequently Used View Properties 6
Exercise 1.4: Navigate with the ViewCube 8
Creating a Simple Layout 10
Exercise 1.5: Create a Floor 10
Exercise 1.6: Create Walls 12
Exercise 1.7: Create Levels 13
Exercise 1.8: Change Wall Type 15
Exercise 1.9: Place Interior Walls 18
Exercise 1.10: Place Doors and Windows 20
Exercise 1.11: Space Elements Equally 22
Now You Know 26
Chapter 2 Walls and Cur tain Walls 27
Understanding Wall Types and Parameters 27
Basic Walls 28
Stacked Walls 30
Curtain Wall Types 31
Hosting Elements in Walls 32
Creating Wall Configurations 33
Exercise 2.1: Create Wall Configurations 33
Exercise 2.2: Host a Door in a Wall 35
Modifying Wall Parameters 36
Exercise 2.3: Modify Wall Parameters 36
Editing and Resetting Wall Profiles 38
Exercise 2.4: Edit and Reset the Wall Profile 39
Exercise 2.5: Attach and Detach the Top/Base 40
Cutting Openings 42
Exercise 2.6: Cut Openings in a Curved Wall 42
Splitting Walls 43
Swapping Walls 44
Creating Curtain Walls 44
Exercise 2.7: Create and Customize a Curtain Wall 45
Exercise 2.8: Modify Curtain Wall Type Properties 48
Editing Wall Profiles 51
Embedding Curtain Walls 52
Exercise 2.9: Embed and Edit Curtain Wall Profile 52
Curtain Panels 54
Adding and Removing Grids and Mullions 54
Exercise 2.10: Add and Remove Curtain Grids and Mullions 54
Exercise 2.11: Customize Curtain Panels 56
Now You Know 58
Chapter 3 Floors, Roofs, and Ceilings 59
Creating Floors 59
Exercise 3.1: Create a Floor by Sketch and Pick Walls 60
Exercise 3.2: Edit the Floor Boundary 62
Exercise 3.3: Create Sloped Floors 64
Exercise 3.4: Create an Opening with the Opening by Face Tool 68
Exercise 3.5: Create an Opening with the Shaft Opening Tool 69
Creating Roofs 72
Exercise 3.6: Create a Roof by Footprint 72
Exercise 3.7: Create a Roof by Extrusion 75
Exercise 3.8: Create Slope Arrows 79
Exercise 3.9: Create Multiple Roof Slopes 81
Adding Ceilings 84
Exercise 3.10: Add Automatic and Sketch Ceilings 85
Exercise 3.11: Create a Bulkhead 88
Exercise 3.12: Add Lights and Rotate the Grid 90
Exercise 3.13: Slope the Ceiling 92
Now You Know 93
Chapter 4 Stairs, Ramps, and Railings 95
Creating a Generic Railing 95
Exercise 4.1: Create a Generic Railing 96
Creating Stair Configurations 99
Exercise 4.2: Create a Stair by Component 100
Exercise 4.3: Create a Stair by Sketch 104
Exercise 4.4: Customize and Create a Component Stair Landing 106
Exercise 4.5: Create a Multistory Stair 109
Exercise 4.6: Modify Level and Stair Height 111
Exercise 4.7: Host a Railing to a Stair 114
Exercise 4.8: Edit Railing Top Rail and Slope 116
Designing Ramps 119
Exercise 4.9: Create a Ramp and Edit the Boundary 119
Now You Know 122
Chapter 5 Adding Families 123
Understanding the Model Hierarchy 123
Exercise 5.1: Exploring the Model Hierarchy 124
Working with System Families 127
Loading System Families 127
Exercise 5.2: Transfer Project Standards 128
Exercise 5.3: Place System Families 129
Working with Component Families 130
Exercise 5.4: Create a New Family and Load It into a Project 131
Exercise 5.5: Save Out and Reload Families from Project 134
Working with Hosted Families 136
Exercise 5.6: Work with Hosted Families 137
Exercise 5.7: Place Face-Based Families 139
Exercise 5.8: Shared Nested Families 141
Working with In-Place Component Families 144
Exercise 5.9: Modify an In-Place Family 145
Finding Content 146
Now You Know 148
Chapter 6 Modif ying Families 149
Modifying 3D Families 149
Exercise 6.1: View Scale and Detail Level 150
Exercise 6.2: Assign Visibility to Detail Levels 154
Family Categories 157
Exercise 6.3: Edit the Family Category 158
Exercise 6.4: Update a Family Origin 160
Exercise 6.5: Enable and Modify the Room Calculation Point 164
Exercise 6.6: Modify Hosted Components 167
Exercise 6.7: Incorporate Nested Families 172
Modifying 2D Families 176
Exercise 6.8: Edit a Tag Family 176
Exercise 6.9: Edit a Profile Family 178
Exercise 6.10: Update Detail Components 181
Exercise 6.11: Modify the Title Blocks 183
Family Tips and Best Practices 186
Now You Know 188
Chapter 7 Schematic Design 189
Importing a 2D Image 189
Exercise 7.1: Import and Scale a 2D Image 190
Designing with a 3D Sketch 192
Exercise 7.2: Use a 3D Sketch from FormIt 193
Exercise 7.3: Create Mass Floors 195
Exercise 7.4: Update a Mass 196
Creating Revit Elements from a Mass 197
Exercise 7.5: Create Floors from a Mass 197
Exercise 7.6: Create Walls from a Mass 198
Exercise 7.7: Create a Curtain System 200
Exercise 7.8: Create a Roof from a Mass 201
Now You Know 202
Chapter 8 Rooms and Color Fill Plans 203
Defining Rooms in Spaces 203
Room Tags 204
Room Boundaries 205
Room Separation Lines 205
Deleting Rooms 206
Exercise 8.1: Add Rooms and Room Tags 206
Exercise 8.2: Modify a Room Boundary 210
Exercise 8.3: Delete a Room Object 212
Generating Color Fill Room Plans 214
Exercise 8.4: Add and Modify a Color Scheme 214
Exercise 8.5: Add Tags and Color Fills in Section 217
Now You Know 219
Chapter 9 Materials, Visualization, Rendering 221
Materials 221
Exercise 9.1: Define a Material 222
Exercise 9.2: Assign a Material 224
Graphic Display Options 225
Exercise 9.3: Presentation Elevation View 226
Exercise 9.4: Presentation 3D View 228
Exercise 9.5: 3D Exploded View 230
Rendering 231
Exercise 9.6: Render a View 231
Exercise 9.7: Interactive Rendering 234
Exercise 9.8: Cloud Rendering 235
Now You Know 237
Chapter 10 Worksharing 239
Worksharing Options 239
Configuring Worksharing 240
Exercise 10.1: Enable Worksharing 241
Exercise 10.2: Create a Local File and Worksets 243
Exercise 10.3: Assign Elements to Worksets and Control Visibility 245
Saving to the Central Model 248
Exercise 10.4: Two-User Workflow 251
Exercise 10.5: Open and Close Worksets 253
Worksharing Display Modes 255
Editing Requests 258
Worksharing Best Practices 259
Now You Know 260
Chapter 11 Details and Annotations 261
Creating Details 261
Detail Line 262
Region 263
Component 263
Arranging Elements in the View 264
Repeating Detail Component 265
Insulation 266
Detail Groups 267
Linework 268
Exercise 11.1: Enhance a Detail with Regions 269
Exercise 11.2: Add Detail Components and Detail Lines 272
Exercise 11.3: Create a Repeating Detail Component 275
Annotating Your Details 277
Dimensions 278
Tags 278
Text 278
Exercise 11.4: Add Dimensions to Your Detail 278
Exercise 11.5: Add Tags and Text to Your Detail 283
Creating Legends 286
Exercise 11.6: Create a Legend 287
Now You Know 289
Chapter 12 Drawing Sets 291
Schedules 291
Understanding Schedules 292
Exercise 12.1: Create a Window Schedule 292
Exercise 12.2: Create a Room Schedule 296
Exercise 12.3: Create a Sheet List 299
Placing Views on Sheets 301
Exercise 12.4: Arrange Plan Views on a Sheet 301
Exercise 12.5: Adjust Crop Regions 306
Exercise 12.6: Add Schedules to Sheets 308
Printing Documents 310
Exercise 12.7: Explore the Print Dialog Box 310
Now You Know 314
Chapter 13 Workf low and Site Modeling 315
Understanding a BIM Workflow 315
Staffing a BIM Project 318
Project Roles Using Revit Architecture 318
Architect 319
Modeler 320
Drafter 320
Adding Team Members to Fight Fires 321
Modeling a Site 322
Toposurface 323
Building Pad 324
Exercise 13.1: Model a Toposurface 325
Exercise 13.2: Create a Building Pad 327
Performing Quality Control on Your Model: Keeping an Eye on File Size 328
Purging Unused Families and Groups 329
Managing Links and Images 330
Cutting Down on the Number of Views 330
Dealing with Warnings 331
Now You Know 333
Chapter 14 Repetition in Revit 335
Repeating Geometry 335
Component Families 335
Exercise 14.1: Create and Apply Family Types 336
Groups 338
Exercise 14.2: Create and Edit a Group 338
Exercise 14.3: Create Variation in Groups 341
Assemblies 343
Exercise 14.4: Create and Edit an Assembly 343
Exercise 14.5: Create Assembly Views 345
Revit Links 347
Exercise 14.6: Create Revit Links 348
Utilize Tips and Shortcuts 349
Now You Know 356
Appendix Autodesk Revit Architecture 2016 Certification 357
Index 367
