BIM- Revit Architecture 2026- From Zero to Advanced Level

Explore the Revit 2020 interface, from the quick access bar and ribbon to properties and project browser, learn to manage templates, families, views, and shortcuts.

Discover 2024 Revit changes, including dark mode, new canvas and UI colors, scope box cleanup, view placement icons, multi-discipline template, and updated samples to boost design workflows.

Explore Revit 2025 dark mode improvements, enabling dark themes for viewports and schedules by specifying exact canvas colors to activate backgrounds.

Explore Revit 2025 palette interface changes, showing how tab sizes now persist for both exterior and interior segments, and learn the new sorting options for pallets and the properties tab.

Explore wall types in Revit by drawing straight walls, using chain and offset, then shape corners with reduce, rectangle, polygons, and arcs, including tangent and fillet options.

The 2020 update introduces ellipse-shaped walls in revit architecture 2024. Learn how to split walls and apply the shown edits.

Master drawing walls in Revit by activating the wall tool, setting length and angle, using snaps, extensions, and selection methods to build connected walls across plan and 3d views.

Explore Revit editing tools such as offset, split, trim, extend, align, move, copy, rotate, mirror, and scale, with tips on shortcuts and behavior.

Explore the 2024 changes in Revit, focusing on how temporary dimensions and manage additional settings move into annotations and groups, with guidance on locating features in the updated pallet.

Apply one split and then trim the sides to quickly remove extra walls in Revit, while avoiding cutting walls of equal thickness and noting Navisworks execution codes.

Practice drawing in Revit Architecture 2024, compare your work, and master offset, trim, split, delete, extend, and fillet on walls while managing temporary dimensions from center line to faces.

Master drawing with temporary dimensions in Revit by measuring wall distances and offsets, entering numbers, and using the nearest value. Focus on technique, not exact sizes.

Apply the location line and finish face exterior to place wall thickness on one side. Copying a wall reduces the distance by a thickness, shown by temporary dimensions.

Declutter the project browser in Revit by removing subcategories to streamline discipline categories, then save a customized personal template with graphical and unit settings for future projects.

Control Revit backups by setting maximum backups to reduce file size and save space. With one backup, each save replaces the previous one. Use save as to archive a date.

Diagnose Revit shortcuts by checking keyboard language and defining shortcuts in the user interface. Export and import shortcuts to another system, choosing merge or overwrite to control duplicates and portability.

Explore floor detailing in revit by defining tos, tob, and ffl, and using level lines and naming conventions to place walls from tos in floor plans and views.

determine wall height by setting the base to the level name and the top to up to level or unconnected height; use up to level for most walls.

Develop skills in creating elevations in Revit by modeling exterior and interior walls across levels, adjusting heights, copying between levels, and using underlay and no-clip views.

Create a console from level three to level four using offset 1.8m, then apply fillet to connect levels; practice in 3D for floor and roof.

Master floor design in Revit by using the floor tool to create concrete slabs aligned with each level, manage underlays, and ensure walls sit correctly on the slab.

Learn to diagnose and fix floor errors in Revit, including open loops and overlap errors, edit boundaries, create voids and shelters, and design pools and gardens.

Master door and window placement in Revit, adjusting positions with temporary dimensions and okb, and load families with edit type and align to levels.

Adjust the VRange cut plane in Revit 2025 to restore window visibility, noting the issue may be caused by default templates and can be controlled manually.

Create a professional Revit template by configuring units (meters with two decimals), levels, walls, pen thickness, and colors, then save and load the template for new projects.

Explore Revit wall types—basic wall, curtain wall, and stacked wall—and learn to define wall type features by thickness and materials, including the layers' structure, finishing, insulation, substrate, and membrane roles.

Define multi-layer walls using two core boundaries to separate finish from structure, set layer placement relative to core boundaries, and select exterior stone and interior gypsum.

Define a five-layer wall in Revit by building brick core of 22 cm, adding stone and tile finishes on opposite sides, and organizing layers across the core boundary.

Learn how wall modeling evolves in Revit up to 2024, with slanted and tapered walls, variable layers, and global angles, plus doors, windows, and 3d measurement behavior.

Learn to connect walls to floors in Revit, mastering attach, join, manual join, and detach across levels while managing finishes and core boundaries.

Learn how to correct wall grooves by using base offset with the top wall, detach, or attach methods, join the floor, and ensure the wall and floor finish align.

Create architectural levels ten centimeters above the slab, then design a ten-centimeter thick stone flooring with mortar layers, using standard naming and no patterns for the floor.

Learn to hide and isolate elements and categories in Revit, using temporary and permanent methods in any view. Reveal hidden elements and unhide or reset visibility to review installations.

Master the Revit section box to create 3D cross-sections with manual control, view-based, or object-based methods, and save or duplicate views for efficient analysis of large projects.

Design a stacked wall by combining basic walls with distinct thicknesses and materials (concrete, white stone, red brick), arranging them in order and adjusting heights and offsets.

Model stairs in Revit using type properties and properties, set maximum riser height, minimum tread depth, minimum run width, and use location line and offset to manage multi-run stairs.

Master the run and landing components in Revit, including boundary, boundary points, riser, and stair path, and learn sketch-based edits, onjoin undo workflows.

Learn to design professional stairs in Revit with multiple ramps and landings, using one path and mirroring to create others, then connect runs and validate with 3D checks.

Practice building and modifying stairs in Revit by managing risers across ramps, using the spot, editing landings, and comparing automatic versus sketch mode workflows.

Learn to replicate stairs across multiple levels in Revit using linear arrays, multistory stairs, and connect/disconnect levels. Create floor holes with shaft openings and propagate edits to all stair instances.

Classify stairs into normal multiple run, formed multiple run, and designed or special stairs, and learn to draw each using run, edit, and sketch modes with boundaries and risers.

Practice designing stairs in Revit by sketching boundaries, setting risers and offsets, and refining stair paths in 3D. Learn to troubleshoot snaps, edit flow, and overlearn through deliberate practice.

Design a spiral staircase in Revit, using 3.6 m height, 60 cm radius, 20 risers, and 30 cm tread depth, while comparing sketch and radial array methods and adding landings.

Explore default stair models in Revit, including full step spiral and 360/720-degree options, plus L-shaped and U-shaped stairs; note radius, space in the middle, and width.

Explore assembled and cast in place stairs in Revit, analyzing run, landing, tread, riser, nosing, and supports, and convert between assembled and monolithic stairs.

Learn to fill the bottom space under stairs in Revit Architecture 2026 using monolithic stair edits, wall profiles, and model in place techniques for straight, double, and circular stairs.

Design and configure ramps in Revit by mastering type properties—shape, thickness, maximum incline length, and slope—and set height, width, and run boundaries for accurate ramp geometry.

Select the ramp, flip it with the arrow, and edit the sketch to adjust boundaries and risers, preserving vertical ends and noting how risers create landings and how slope changes.

Design helical ramps in Revit architecture 2024 by manually calculating slope from ramp length, drawing lines, setting boundaries and risers, using double risers with fake landings to prevent curve errors.

Create curved ramps in Revit by converting a straight ramp to an arc, setting width to 1.2 and slope to 7%, and customizing multi-part landings with boundaries and railings.

Learn to place and edit railings in Revit, choosing rails on supports or stairs, using sketch path and pick new host to align with stairs or ramps, and manage boundaries.

Discover new features and changes up to 2024 in Revit Architecture, focusing on railing workflows: draw, finish, split, delete, and change type instead of duplicating lines.

Explore curtain walls in Revit: work with store front, exterior glazing, and frameless curtain walls, design grids and mullions, set base and top constraints, and convert between curtain wall types.

Explore curtain wall settings in Revit, including type properties (exterior, embedded), curtain panel options, and mullion models. Adjust vertical and horizontal grids with join condition, offset, and spacing rules.

Practice constructing two curtain walls in Revit: set dimensions, apply interior and border mullions, and create a yellow five-centimeter liquor material wall with specified mullion types.

Design an eight-by-six meter storefront curtain wall in Revit, then edit and duplicate its type, configure curtain panel and join conditions, and set fixed grid distances for mullions.

Learn to design curtain walls from an unformed starting point, using curtain grid methods, grid placement rules, and dimension controls to create customizable, mullion-driven facades.

Learn to create curtain wall storefronts in Revit by using curtain grids, add/remove segments, and single-segment strategies to build, edit, and validate dimensions.

Learn to edit curtain wall panels by editing type, selecting by face, unpinning, and duplicating panels and materials, including storefront panels, then apply color strategies.

Learn to restore the empty curtain panel option by copying an empty panel from a sample file into your curtain wall, then paste, finish, and delete the extra panel.

Learn to place curtain wall doors and windows by replacing panels with curtain wall specific families, loading them correctly, and using grids and panels to control door size.

learn to edit curtain walls as modular storefronts by unpinning grids to move them, and add or remove grids to adjust the fixed modular base, avoiding redrawing from scratch.

Create a purple panel by duplicating the material, editing color and transparency, and applying it via edit type; pin the type to keep updates synchronized for all curtain wall panels.

Learn how to create separate curtain wall panels to prevent global changes, duplicating panel types, adjusting materials, and assigning a new panel for each curtain wall.

Learn to select middle-row panels in Revit using box filters, vertical or horizontal grids, and unpin for editing; then duplicate and apply green with adjusted transparency.

Design a store front partition in Revit Architecture 2024 using curtain wall elements, fixed distance 1.8, 2.6 m height, wooden bottom panels, aluminium top panels, and 45-degree mullions.

Master creating frameless spider curtain walls in Revit by loading spider panels, applying corner mullions, and using grid line selections to ensure proper connections.

Place curtain walls inside masonry walls using automatic embedding, then adjust mullions, panels, and curved curtain walls with divisions and alignments for accurate fits.

Learn to edit wall profiles and curtain walls in Revit Architecture 2024, shaping walls with edit profile, pick line, offset, trim, and aligning panels and doors.

Learn how newer Revit versions unlock edit profile for slanted walls, while curved walls remain without an edit profile, reflecting changes from 2021 to 2024.

Design curtain walls with curved and circular frames by editing profiles, duplicating elements, and adjusting mullions to create varied top, bottom, and vertical layouts.

Explore roof types in Revit, including footprint roofs with multiple slopes designed from plan and extrusion roofs from the view, plus eaves, overhang, holes, and join and edit profile techniques.

Explore vertical and shaft openings to cut through roofs or ceilings, adjust shapes in the site plan, and match openings to slope with biphase, circle, and ellipse.

Design a belt roof by nesting two rectangles, exterior slope, interior empty, and use cut off level with offset to trim at height when no level exists.

Learn to draw pagoda roofs in Revit 2024 by creating overlapped roofs, applying precise overhangs and offsets, and placing curtain walls between roofs with attach by face.

Learn to design roofs by height using the slope arrow, turning a flat roof into angled forms with tail and head elevations, verified by spot elevation, levels, and offsets.

Master Revit roof design with slope arrows, defined slope, and level controls; move and select components as a group, and apply edge and height rules.

Explore practical roof design with slope arrows in Revit, learning to define slopes, draft lines, split and trim walls, create flat and double-slope roofs, and use curtain walls.

Turn roofs into glass using slope glazing in Revit, configuring mullions, offsets, and division grids to create four-sided glazed roofs on both flat and sloped forms.

Explore how subelement provides vertex and segment control for roofs. Move roof vertices and segments, add split lines, and modify subelements in 3d to create roofs with heights and triangles.

Draw ramps with subelements to create multi-layer ramps, set heights and landings with split lines, and compare slope arrow design on floors and roofs for accurate height control.

Explore the 2024 updates to align and pattern management, including visibility graphics to show or hide patterns, and subelement workflows to add points and convert folding lines to split lines.

explore new features in revit architecture 2024, including the pick your plane option for setting reference planes with a single click and faster surface selection.

Explore hands-on techniques in Revit Architecture 2024 to create roofs by extrusion, mirror walls, set coordinates, and attach segments to roofs while mastering reference planes, arcs, and tangential constraints.

Form the roof using vertical openings and extrusion to cut shapes. Large openings destroy the roof; inner shapes remain, and you can edit the profile to resize.

Learn to design skylights in Revit by turning roof segments into glazed elements. Use curtain grids and mullions, adjust offsets, and set justification for a seamless fit.

Learn to add a dormer to a main roof in Revit by using the dormer tool, attaching it to interior wall edges, and ensuring proper spacing for a clean hole.

Design an entrance in Revit by extruding a roof, adjusting height, and attaching walls, with dormer and curtain wall options; learn roof attachment rules and precise modeling.

Import AutoCAD plans into Revit by cleaning layers, deleting extraneous elements, aligning to zero point, exploding blocks, and verifying units before choosing import or link CAD.

Explore new insert features in Revit 2024, including import and link PDF options with enable snaps, and compare image vs PDF behavior, including manage links and snapping.

Model an airport in Revit by importing AutoCAD plans, aligning origin, preparing levels and views, and creating walls, curtain walls, roofs, and spider panels using two division methods.

Master the visibility graphic palette to manage model and annotation categories, imported CAD files, and filters in 3D and plan views.

Learn to use non-core layers to hide finishes on walls for clearer structure. Master filter updates, including inactivate instead of delete and/or rules for multi-category visibility and graphics.

Learn how to manage AutoCAD imports in Revit, including pinned plans, unpinning, selective explosions, and using query and visibility graphics to hide, show, or delete layers.

Learn to use the room tool in Revit Architecture 2024 to create, name, and color spaces, and manage area, perimeter, and volume with tags and family edits.

Explore the area tool in Revit by creating area plans, drafting area boundaries, and coloring by department to calculate rentable or gross building areas for level one and level two.

Learn to model a structure in Revit, from defining structural levels (TLB and TLS) to placing girders, joists, walls, and slab systems with negative top offsets.

Configure axis grids in Revit, establish a fixed zero origin, and propagate grids across levels. Place vertical structural columns at grid intersections and manage foundation types.

Learn to create and place structural beams in Revit, load concrete beams, draw sloped and arc beams, adjust level offsets and end level offsets, and fix beam-column joints.

Load auxiliary beams and use the beam system to place automatic or sketch layouts with fixed distance or fixed count, including justification and trimming, then copy to the next level.

Learn to edit a beam system in Revit, adjusting spacing (e.g., 90 cm), beam type and sizes, and change beam direction via edit boundary and pick line.

Learn to create wind braces in Revit by using center lines as reference planes, setting the working plane, drawing braces between beams in plan and elevation, then trim intersections.

Master drawing beams in Revit Architecture 2024, from foundations and columns to diagonal and auxiliary beam systems, using 3D snapping and section views with reference planes.

Draw slabs in Revit across levels and align with the structural plan. Set slab thickness to ten centimeters and duplicate across levels as needed.

Explore building foundations in Revit, including structural foundation walls and foundation slabs, and learn to edit types, set dimensions, and model lean concrete foundations beneath walls.

Explore drawing trusses in Revit, load structural truss families, customize with edit type, set vertical webs and top/bottom chords, and attach trusses to roofs across levels.

Learn to create diagonal columns in Revit using elevation with a set working plane and grid, or plan drawing, then adjust base and top cuts and beams.

Place rebars in Revit by loading structural rebar shapes, selecting work planes, and adjusting covers, hooks, and constraints for columns and foundations.