Advanced Revit Architecture 2016 Training

Learn to recategorize Revit families using the family editor, set the correct category (doors or windows), and load the updated family into the project for accurate schedules.

Adjust and manage door parameters at the project and family levels using instance and type properties, and edit or create door types in the family editor.

Learn how to use architectural templates in revit to save initial project settings, including default sheets, schedules, and views, and tailor line styles and dimension settings to affect final outputs.

Explore how to customize a title block in Revit by editing the family, adding labels and custom parameters, and linking project parameters to automatically display file paths and consultant names.

Learn how to add a title block seal in Revit, using a generic annotation family with an embedded image and an instance visibility parameter to toggle it on or off.

Edit the view title by modifying its title family, locate it in the project browser, and load changes back into the project.

Learn to customize Revit dimensions in advanced architecture training by editing linear dimension properties, leader types, tick marks, center lines, and units, then save settings to templates.

Learn to manage levels and structural grids in Revit by editing level head symbols, line weights, and line patterns, then load updates into the project across views.

Discover how to adjust elevation tag properties in Revit, choosing between elevation tag and call out tag, and use the family editor to modify the elevation mark body and arrows.

Learn to assign and modify the section head and tail of a section symbol via the type properties dialog, swapping the section head filled and section tail filled families.

Learn to customize Revit callouts by editing the call out head and bubble, adjust corner radius, duplicate types, and propagate changes across views and the project browser.

Learn how to create and modify line styles in Revit, setting weight, color, and pattern for detail lines. Use the line styles dialog and manage settings to update drawings.

Learn to set and customize line weights in Revit, mapping numbers 1–16 to print thickness at scales, add new scales, and apply weights across model, perspective, and annotation.

Learn to create and modify line patterns in Revit, including dash, dot, and space sequences, and apply them to grid lines via the manage tab line patterns settings.

Create and edit fill patterns in revit by using new and edit to import autocad hatch files or modify patterns, with drafting or model types, and apply to filled regions.

Learn to manage materials in revit with the material browser. Set identity, graphics, and appearance properties, including brick patterns like common brick and soldier course for elevations and sections.

Configure object styles in Revit from the manage tab to set default line weights, colors, and patterns for model and notation objects, including projection versus cut details.

Set up a Revit project by establishing the origin, adding levels and grids, and aligning the project base point at the grid intersection with zero coordinates and a 100-foot elevation.

Create a drafting view named starting, add project information with text and notes, then use the Manage tab to set it as starting view so the project opens to it.

Learn how to link an architectural model into your Revit project using auto center, auto origin, or shared coordinates, publish coordinates back, and verify alignment in elevations.

Copy a linked family into your project, monitor it for changes, and use coordination review to update grids and ensure alignment.

Create and name project phases in Revit, existing, new construction, and a demo phase, and use the manage tab to insert and apply these periods to objects and views.

Duplicate level 1 views, rename them to existing, demo, and new, and assign the corresponding phase in each view's properties.

Assign walls to phases, reassign creation or demolition across phases, demolish interior walls in the demo phase, and add new walls for construction.

Control view display with phase filters, show all, show previous plus demo, or show complete to reveal existing and new construction, using visibility by category.

Learn how to map phases between your project and a linked project in Revit, create a demo phase, and ensure correct phase mapping.

Organize the project browser by configuring views and sheets, creating a new browser organization. Filter and group by discipline and level to keep views and sheets orderly in Revit.

Create and apply predefined view templates from the current view to standardize visibility graphics, rendering, lighting, and scale, and assign templates directly to views so changes propagate project-wide.

Learn to create and apply view filters in Revit to control how objects like columns and pipes appear by properties, visibility, halftones, and color or pattern overrides.

Prepare an AutoCAD site file by cleaning extraneous data, switch to architectural units, verify scale, scale 12x, move to 0,0,0, and align contours before saving.

Learn how to link a CAD site file into Revit, align origin points using project base and survey points, adjust elevations, and verify scale for accurate site geometry.

Import CAD contours with Create from import, select correct layers, and generate a toposurface by adding endpoint elevations; then apply shaded view and hide the CAD file in 3D.

Use split surface and sub region commands to subdivide the site top surface into road and parking areas, then assign asphalt and other materials.

Create a building pad in Revit by tracing the perimeter with the picket lines tool and finishing with check mark, then plan foundation walls to prevent water intrusion and puddling.

Place site components, including trees, on a sloped site with 3d views to avoid burial. Orient and copy parking components from floor plan view to ensure proper surface alignment.

Label contours across the site, adjust text size and font, set major contour intervals and additional contours, and view earth hatch patterns 10 feet below the topography in sections.

Explore graded region in Revit to compare existing and new construction sites, set phased filters, and edit surfaces by adjusting contour points for drainage.

Explore conceptual design in Revit by creating and merging massing shapes, adjusting levels, adding voids to sculpt a dome-like entrance, and viewing the 3D mass in context.

Apply architectural walls to the exterior of a mass in Revit, using a generic 8 inch wall, then add curtain walls on the sides with a curtain system and mullions.

Add levels in the elevation view and apply mass floors to preview each level's square footage. Create a mass floor schedule to display level, floor area, and perimeter.

Render a mass design in Revit from a plan view by placing a camera. Isolate mass floors, add real floors and curtain wall system, then render at medium quality.

Explore basic wall types, stacked walls, and curtain walls in Revit, showing brick and CMU, how stacked walls embed two basic walls into one unit and manage height and edits.

Learn how wall joins control interactions in Revit by adjusting priority numbers, using the wall joints tool to disallow or clean up joins, and applying mieder or square off options.

Add wall sweeps and reveals to walls by wall type in horizontal or vertical orientation, preview with section views, and adjust with profile shapes from a list for clean finishes.

Explore wrapping wall materials around the exterior edge using edit type options, choosing interior or exterior wrap, and adjust returns for sweeps and reveals to create brick and CMU transitions.

Use base extension in Revit to extend exterior materials below the wall by setting a negative base extension distance and unlocking the material to stretch in a section view.

Explore how to clean up wall, roof, and floor joins in Revit using the join geometry tool, guided by a 1-5 hierarchy that controls material cleanup.