Revit Architecture Essentials Plus

This 3-day Revit Architecture Essentials Plus training course will cover all of the content in our 2-day Revit Architecture Essentials course, with the addition of extra subject areas listed with a (+) sign below. This course has a greater focus on how Revit works in real industry situations and will better prepare you for work on live projects.

Course content for Revit Architecture Essentials Plus

  • Introduction to the Revit user interface, views and cameras
  • Best techniques for selecting / manipulating / hiding objects
  • Learn the right way to create a new project and avoid mistakes later on
  • Dimension an entire wall in just 2 clicks
  • Use copy, align, move, mirror, trim, offset, fillet and split tools
  • Link or import CAD files and use as a basis for developing a design
  • Understand multi-segment grids for more complex modelling
  • Set up levels, hide columns (+)
  • Discussion of Revit modelling techniques - pros and cons
  • Create your own wall type to see how Revit works
  • Sketch and modify floor boundaries
  • Create shaft openings and sloped floors (+)
  • Insert doors and windows, create door and window sizes
  • Load door and window types from the Revit library
  • Learn different methods for creating roofs, from simple pitched to bespoke commercial
  • Clean up wall and roof intersections (+)
  • Create curtain walls, add curtain grids (+)
  • Work with curtain wall panels (+)
  • Attach mullions to curtain grids (+)
  • Best methods for creating and organising new views
  • Two types of tools for creating staircases
  • Create a staircase that meets building regulations in just 4 clicks
  • Create ramps, work with railings (+)
  • Add ceilings by selecting a room boundary or by sketch
  • Add ceiling components, including lighting and fixtures (+)
  • Add simple furniture, understand families and hosted families
  • Use the technique of aligning model elements to different floors to avoid repetitive tasks and ensure accuracy
  • Modify components (+)
  • Produce a near-photorealistic rendering in just 4 clicks
  • Why schedules in Revit are 100% accurate
  • Work with schedules - formatting, filtering, publishing to sheets (+)
  • Add tags, display an object's value using tag labels (+)
  • Define a room and add important room information, such as occupancy, department, wall / floor finishes, create room schedules (+)
  • Add a graphical representation of a model element to a legend view (+)
  • Set up detail views and add detail components, repeated detail components, detail lines, filled regions
  • Keynotes, keynote legends and patterning (+)
  • Add text notes to views and sheets, add detail lines and symbols
  • Add sheets with title blocks and project views, print to scale

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Benefits of Revit Architecture Essentials Plus Training

Understand how to create BIM enabled architectural models
Develop best practice modelling techniques following industry standard workflows
Document your project through drawings, details and schedules
Issue high quality documentation direct from your Revit project

Expected Outcome

As a result of attending this training, you will understand Revit’s interface and terminology, how to setup a new project and define project datums. You will learn how to create a building model using architectural components such as walls, floors, roofs, doors, and windows. Discover how to add stairs and railings and create dynamic schedules. Learn the concept of creating drawings, adding annotation, construction detail, and publishing via drawing sheets. Take your first steps to producing accurate and efficient projects in Revit with the Symetri Revit Architecture Essentials Plus training course.

After completing the course, you can log in to your personal student account and download a personal certificate.

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