REVIT STRUCTURE

BIM Modelling

MULTI AXIS INNOVATIONS

RAJKUMAR ROAD, BANGALORE
Contents
Session 1 ................................................................................................................................................. 3
Basic of BIM ............................................................................................................................................ 3
Session 2 ................................................................................................................................................. 3
View model ............................................................................................................................................. 3
Session 3 ................................................................................................................................................. 4
Managing Views and Properties ............................................................................................................ 4
Session 4 ................................................................................................................................................. 4
Build elements: Wall, Door, Window and Datum Elements ................................................................. 4
Session 5 ................................................................................................................................................. 5
Floor, Roof and Ceiling ........................................................................................................................... 5
Session 6 ................................................................................................................................................. 5
Curtain Wall, Stair, Ramp, Railing and Baluster: ................................................................................... 5
Session 7 ................................................................................................................................................. 6
Session 8 ................................................................................................................................................. 7
Modify Elements, Selection and View Elements in Link ....................................................................... 7
Session 9 ................................................................................................................................................. 7
Annotation.............................................................................................................................................. 7
Session 10 ............................................................................................................................................... 8
Collaborate ............................................................................................................................................. 8
Session 11 ............................................................................................................................................... 8
Insert and Link ........................................................................................................................................ 8
Session 12 ............................................................................................................................................... 8
Manage Models ...................................................................................................................................... 8
Session 13 ............................................................................................................................................... 9
Massing, Site Elements and Project Location .................................................................................... 9
Session 14 ............................................................................................................................................. 10
Material and render ............................................................................................................................. 10
Basic of Massing ................................................................................................................................... 10
Session 15 ............................................................................................................................................. 10
Create Schedules .................................................................................................................................. 10
Session 16 ............................................................................................................................................. 10
Families ................................................................................................................................................. 10
Presentation of Documents and Printing ............................................................................................ 11
Session 17 ............................................................................................................................................. 11
View elements in Link and View Template ......................................................................................... 11

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Session 18 ............................................................................................................................................. 12
SAMPLE PROJECT.................................................................................................................................. 12
LOD 100 Project .................................................................................................................................... 12

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Session 1

Basic of BIM
➢ Introduction to BIM
➢ Create a project file from template
➢ Understanding of user interface
➢ Create a simple room with four walls
➢ Place floor, roof for room
➢ Place door and windows
➢ Create section and elevation views
➢ Place all views in defaults sheet
➢ Make changes in door positions
➢ Delete few doors and see change in schedule and views

Session 2

View model
➢ Change scales and duplicate views
➢ Duplicate of views
➢ Detail view creation
➢ Visual style view creation
➢ Place Section views
➢ Place Elevation views
➢ Using view cube create different views
➢ Understand Navigation panel
➢ Use Section box for creating view
➢ Hide and Unhide elements
➢ Temporary hide elements
➢ Shortcuts in Revit

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Session 3

Managing Views and Properties

➢ Create Duplicate Views
➢ Duplicate view as dependent
➢ Create Match line
➢ Add Reference to views
➢ Create Call out view
➢ Place in Sheets
➢ View Crop Properties
➢ Visual graphics
➢ Filters in view
➢ View range
➢ Plan region view
➢ Scope box properties
➢ Modifying view controls
➢ Discipline
➢ Under Lay of View
➢ Selection of Objects
➢ Hide and Unhide Elements

Session 4

Build elements: Wall, Door, Window and Datum Elements

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➢ Place Walls
➢ Draw grids
➢ Draw levels and modify Existing levels
➢ Reference Planes
➢ Wall Instance Properties
➢ Wall Type Properties
➢ Wall Attach and Detach

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 ➢ Wall Location line
➢ Change Wall type
➢ Adding wall layers
➢ Joining walls
➢ Stacked Walls
➢ Wall with dimensions
➢ Door type and Instance properties
➢ Window type and Instance properties
➢ Wall Sweep and reveals

Session 5

Floor, Roof and Ceiling

➢ Basic floor creation by sketch
➢ Editing floor Boundary
➢ Editing floor layers
➢ Floor properties
➢ Basic Ceiling creation by sketch
➢ Adjusting Ceiling Tiles
➢ Roof Creation
➢ Sloped Roof creation
➢ Roof by Extrusion
➢ Adding slope for Ceiling and floor
➢ Floor opening and Shaft
➢ Dormer Roof
➢ Managing Hatch for Ceiling Patter

Session 6

Curtain Wall, Stair, Ramp, Railing and Baluster:

➢ Curtain Wall place grid and mullion
➢ Curtain wall grid editing

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 ➢ Curtain wall profile editing
➢ Add monolithic stairs by sketch method
➢ Different type of stairs
➢ Stair properties
➢ Thread, riser and stair supports
➢ Add railing to host
➢ Modifying Railing
➢ Place and modify ramp
➢ Baluster properties
➢ Using profiles in Railing and Baluster Assignment
➢ Draw Stair between two levels
➢ Change landing positions
➢ Add Railing to Stairs
➢ Model Ramp between two Levels

Session 7
Column, Beam, Truss
➢ Column, Beam, Truss
➢ Structural Footings
➢ Different types of Footing
➢ Structural Column Properties
➢ Structural beam Properties
➢ Structural Stress, Beam System
➢ Structural Joins
➢ Openings in Structural Elements
➢ Placing Rebar
➢ Rebar Shapes
➢ Bar Bending Schedule
➢ Connections in Rebar

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Session 8

Modify Elements, Selection and View Elements in Link

➢ Pin & Unpin Elements
➢ Paint Element
➢ Rotate, Move & Scale Elements
➢ Polar and Rectangular Array Elements
➢ Align, Split, Joint Elements
➢ Manage Selection of elements
➢ Viewing Elements in Linked Files
➢ Selection set of Elements
➢ Select and Un-Select Elements in Link
➢ Use of Create similar
➢ Clip board Options: Paste from clipboard, align to selected levels, align to selected
views
➢ Modify Select Options

Session 9

Annotation
➢ Tag by Category, Room tag and tag all
➢ Spot elevation/Spot Co-ordinate/Spot Slope
➢ Place text,justification,find and replace
➢ Leaders
➢ Dimension Linear/Radial/Diameter Elements
➢ Detail line /Regions
➢ Revision Cloud
➢ Key notes
➢ Title block edit
➢ Symbols
➢ Custom Title Book

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Session 10

Collaborate
➢ Create Worksets
➢ Create Central File
➢ Backup of Central File
➢ History of Central File
➢ Copy monitor Elements
➢ Co-ordination Review
➢ Worksets assign to Elements
➢ Clash Detection With in File
➢ Clash Detection With, Linked Elements
➢ Save Views with Worksets
➢ Worksets options

Session 11

Insert and Link

➢ Insert AutoCAD File
➢ Insert Revit File
➢ Understand Options of insert Revit
➢ Add images in project
➢ Manage Link File
➢ Manage Decal
➢ Insert views from other Revit files
➢ Insert 2D Elements from other files

Session 12

Manage Models
➢ Topics
➢ Transfer properties from other files

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 ➢ Object Styles
➢ Line Style/Fill pattern Create and Manage
➢ Project Information and Parameters
➢ Shared Parameters
➢ Project Location and Properties
➢ Element ID and Search
➢ Warnings in Model
➢ Macros in Revit
➢ Units, Snap in Model
➢ Project Parameters
➢ Material

Session 13
Massing, Site Elements and Project Location
➢ Basic of Massing
➢ Curtain System in Massing
➢ Create Floor, Wall and roof from Mass
➢ Top Surface and Building Pad
➢ Site Components
➢ Sub Region
➢ Split and Merge Region
➢ Project Location
➢ Project Base point
➢ Survey Point
➢ True north and Project North

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Session 14
Material and render

Basic of Massing
➢ Curtain System in Massing
➢ Create Floor, Wall and roof from Mass
➢ Top Surface and Building Pad
➢ Site Components
➢ Sub Region
➢ Split and Merge Region
➢ Project Location
➢ Project Base point
➢ Survey Point
➢ True north and Project

Session 15

Create Schedules
➢ Add Filed in Schedule
➢ Use Sorting and Grouping in schedule
➢ Use Filter in Schedule
➢ Format Field in schedule
➢ Calculate Totals
➢ Format header and schedule lines/Fonts
➢ Phases in Schedule
➢ Schedule from Linked file

Session 16
Families
➢ Loading of Families
➢ View Families in Project browser

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 ➢ Types of Families
➢ Editing annotation family
➢ Create model in place family
➢ Elements of Family
➢ Family Category and Parameters
➢ List of websites providing Revit families
➢ Modelling in Family using Extrusion Blend, Resolve, Sweep
➢ Void in Family
➢ Visibility in Family
➢ Reference plane and assigning Parameters
➢ Create Symbolic lines Family

Presentation of Documents and Printing

➢ Align grid
➢ Guide grid
➢ Consistence in line styles
➢ Using view templates
➢ Printing options
➢ Saving print sets
➢ Margins in Sheets
➢ Title on Sheet Value
➢ View List
➢ Sheet List

Session 17

View elements in Link and View Template

➢ View elements according to Host
➢ View elements according to link
➢ View elements according to custom
➢ Worksets for viewing model
➢ Using Filters List in View
➢ Using View Template and Assign
➢ Managing Starting View
➢ Project Browser Management

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 ➢ Title on Sheet View
➢ Managing View Title Family

Session 18
SAMPLE PROJECT
LOD 100 Project
➢ Single Floor Project With 7 Rooms of total 200 Square meter
➢ Project Should have all Family name and View names
➢ Warning Should be minimum
➢ All the Sheet view should be places in Sheet
➢ Create Schedule for Wall , Door and Window with Count
➢ Project Information to be filled
➢ All the Floor plan should be dimensioned and tagging
➢ Develop Four Elevations and Dimension them
➢ Develop two Sections of the Building
➢ Show 3D View for all the Rooms
➢ Minimum 10 Sheets in the project

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