Revit 2018. Building modelling, Building Information Modelling (BIM)

TEACHING UNIT 1. DESCRIPTION OF THE REVIT INTERFACE

1. Introduction
2. Revit terminology
3. Description of the user interface

TEACHING UNIT 2. PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

1. Selecting the template to use
2. Unit settings
3. Levels
4. Details of the project’s location
5. Topographic surfaces
6. Property lines
7. Construction platforms
8. Car park components
9. Site components
10. Draw a grid for the positioning of walls or the structure
11. Erecting walls
12. Floor plans
13. Fitting windows
14. Fitting doors
15. Copy the standard floor plan to the other levels
16. Create a sketch of a perimeter cover
17. Establish the use of space under the roof

TEACHING UNIT 3. CREATING SOLIDS AND HOLLOWS

1. Conceptual design
2. Creating shapes using mass elements
3. Methods of creating shapes
4. 3D worktop designs
5. Solid and hollow shapes
6. Unrestricted or reference-based forms
7. Manipulation of shapes
8. X-ray mode
9. Geometric cutting with solids
10. Creating construction elements from mass elements
11. ‘In situ’ elements’
12. Create dough ‘on the spot’

TEACHING UNIT 4. PLOT TREATMENT

1. Project reference point and survey points
2. Inserting point and elevation coordinate dimensions
3. Northern rotation of the project
4. Rotation of a true north view
5. Inserting north arrows
6. Adjustment of north arrows
7. Installation of car park components
8. Modification of site components

TEACHING UNIT 5. CONSTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS I

1. Using the visibility/chart options
2. Construction of wall foundations
3. Creating supports
4. Construction of isolated foundations
5. Construction of foundation slabs
6. Creating and editing floors
7. Creating and editing roofs
8. Creating and editing partition walls
9. Creating and editing doors
10. Creating and editing windows
11. Stairs
12. Handrails
13. Gaps
14. Ramps
15. Sections

TEACHING UNIT 6. INTRODUCTION AND EDITING FAMILIES

1. Introduction
2. Viewing families in a project or template
3. Displaying elements of a specific family type in a project
4. What are families?
5. System families
6. Dependent families
7. Families ‘on site’
8. The family editor
9. Creating families
10. Use of visibility parameters
11. Tips
12. Other options
13. Conclusion

TEACHING UNIT 7. CONSTRAINTS, PLANS AND REFERENCE LINES

1. Restrictions
2. Introduction to reference planes
3. Add reference planes
4. Naming reference planes.
5. 3D reference drawings
6. Add a reference line
7. Deploying components on another host

TEACHING UNIT 8. CREATING COMPLEX FAMILIES. NESTING FAMILIES

1. Definition of complex families
2. Creating a nested family
3. Drawing reference planes in the nested family

TEACHING UNIT 9. CONSTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS II

1. Curtain walls
2. Curtain wall systems based on mass faces
3. Editing ramps

TEACHING UNIT 10. FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT

1. Placing furniture. Selecting families and types
2. Listing items. Planning tables

TEACHING UNIT 11. SPACE PLANNING IN REVIT

1. Creating rooms
2. Room tables
3. Colour key

TEACHING UNIT 12. AREA DIAGRAMS

1. Calculating the total floor area
2. Obtaining lists of total floor area
3. Creation of rental areas
4. Creating formulas to calculate amounts
5. Adjusting the unit format

TEACHING UNIT 13. DOCUMENTATION PRODUCTION

1. Creation of diagrams and plans
2. Inserting planning tables into plans
3. Cropping, scaling and repositioning views
4. Design and production of custom boxes
5. Inserting parameters using tags

TEACHING UNIT 14. PARAMETERS IN ANNOTATION FAMILIES

1. Creating annotation families
2. Inserting tags with parameters into symbols
3. Saving custom symbol families
4. Loading custom symbols into project elements
5. Creating shared parameters for labels
6. Fix for errors when importing shared parameters for labels

TEACHING UNIT 15. STAGES OF CONSTRUCTION

1. Setting out construction phases
2. Allocation of elements to each phase
3. Creating views of construction phases
4. Phased changes to the chart
5. Lists of items by phase
6. Phase filters
7. Combining phases

TEACHING UNIT 16. WORKING WITH LINKED PROJECTS

1. Introduction
2. Organisation of work to link models
3. Linking one model to another
4. Selecting elements in a linked model
5. Reloading linked models
6. Mapping phases between linked models
7. Nesting of linked models
8. Control the visibility of linked models
9. Inclusion of elements from linked models in planning tables

TEACHING UNIT 17. DESIGN OPTIONS

1. Creating design options
2. Definition of each design option
3. Creating views with options
4. Editing each design option
5. Select elements in the layout options or in the base model
6. Move elements from the base model to design options
7. Notes and details on design options

TEACHING UNIT 18. WORKFLOWS

1. Saving project templates
2. Definition of units
3. Restore the true north in the template
4. Definition of levels
5. Definition of the plot – topographical area
6. Definition of the construction platform
7. Definition of the enclosure
8. Installation of a continuous foundation
9. Selecting the wall type
10. Installation of architectural supports
11. Installation of structural supports
12. Installation of an isolated foundation
13. Installation of beams
14. Installation of floor and roof slabs
15. Fitting of partition walls
16. Fitting doors
17. Inserting windows
18. Inserting covers
19. Installation of facilities
20. Installation of site components
21. Creating sections
22. Surface analysis
23. Using planning tables
24. Provision of information on plans
25. Conclusions – analysis of the execution sequence