4 Days

Objective

The objective of the Revit Architecture 2012 Advanced course is to enable students who have worked with Revit to expand their knowledge in setting up office standards with templates that include annotation styles, preset views, sheets, and schedules, as well as creating custom element types and families. This course will also cover techniques to increase productivity while working with other people on a team, either in the same firm or with other firms, and while working with Revit files or other CAD files.

As architects and designers start a project, they frequently think about the overall massing of a building or the area of the footprint. This course covers tools for creating mass elements that can be modified into many shapes. Students then apply walls, roofs, and floors applied to the mass elements. This course also covers space planning tools for setting up areas for rooms and also applying colors to them to show the connections. For presentations and analysis, this course teaches you how to create and render perspective views and create walkthroughs and solar studies

Revit Architecture’s main purpose is to design buildings – walls, doors, floors, roofs, and stairs. However, architects also frequently need to add site and structural information. This course covers the elements and tools in Revit Architecture that are used to create topographic surfaces for site work and to add structural elements.

Who Should Attend
Experienced users of Autodesk Revit Architecture wanting to leverage the power of Autodesk's BIM solution.

Description

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an approach to the entire building life cycle. Revit Architecture is a powerful BIM program that supports the ability to coordinate, update, and share design data with team members throughout the design, construction, and management phases of a building’s life. A key component in managing the BIM process is to establish a company foundation for different types of projects by creating standard templates and custom elements. Having this in place makes the process of any new project flow smoothly and efficiently.

Topics include:

• Create schedules, including material takeoff schedules with formulas
• Create custom wall, roof, and floor types
• Set up a family file
• Create family geometry
• Create family types
• Create standard and custom stairs
• Create specific families, including custom doors and windows, in-place families, profiles, railings, and shared parameters
• Set up project phasing
• Create and display a variety of design options
• Use groups
• Link Revit files
• Import and export files, including exporting for energy analysis
• Understand, use, and set up worksets
• Use multi-discipline coordination
• Creating In-Place Conceptual Mass elements and Conceptual Mass families
• Creating building elements from massing studies
• Using Rooms and Areas for space planning and analysis
• Creating perspectives, walkthroughs, and solar studies
• Understanding the concepts of rendering and lighting
• Create topographic surfaces
• Add property lines and building pads
• Modify toposurfaces with subregions, splitting surfaces and grading the regions
• Annotate site plans and add site components
• Work with Shared Coordinates
• Create structural grids and add columns
• Add foundation walls and footings
• Add beams and beam systems
• Create framing elevations and add braces
• Copy and monitor elements across disciplines
• Check Interferences

Prerequisites

Students should be comfortable with the fundamentals of Revit as taught in the Revit Architecture 2012 Fundamentals course. Knowledge of basic techniques is assumed, such as creating walls, roofs, and other objects, copying and moving objects, and creating and working with views, etc.

Class Outline
The topics covered will vary slightly with each class based upon the pace of the students. As an Autodesk Authorized Training Center, we adhere to the strict quality control procedures established by Autodesk to consistently deliver the highest caliber learning experience possible.

• BIM Management
  • Creating Custom Templates
  • Schedules
  • Custom Walls, Roofs and Sections
  • Family Concepts and Techniques
  • Creating Specific Families
• Collaboration Tools
  • Project Phasing and Design Options
  • Groups and Links
  • Importing and Exporting
  • Project Team Collaboration
  • Multi-discipline Coordination
• Conceptual Design and Visualization
  • Massing Studies
  • Space Planning and Area Analysis
  • Visualization
  • Rendering
  • Concept Mass Families
• Site and Structural Design
  • Site Design
  • Structural Tools

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This class meets the requirements of the American Institute of Architects for non-HSW Learning Units Hours. Additionally, some state licensing boards and other professional societies may recognize training from an Autodesk ATC as valid continuing education credits. Please check with your state licensing board or professional association.

*If you have 4 or more students for this course and/or want to have the class held at your location, refer to Custom & On-Site Training.

 Published class dates are subject to change as circumstances warrant, call for confirmation of all class dates. Cancellations must be made within 10 working days of the scheduled course to qualify for a refund. “No-shows” or late cancellations will forfeit all tuition and fees. D|C|CADD reserves the right to reschedule or cancel scheduled courses, whereupon all fees will be refunded or applied to training at a later date. D|C|CADD is liable for course fees only