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What is the course about?
This course will teach you the fundamentals of documenting a set of architectural construction drawings in Revit. Revit is a BIM modelling software, and we can use the power of information in BIM to create intelligent drawings of our 3D model.
As you start producing 3D model in Revit, you would realize that Revit works in a very systematic way. The same applies to working your model up to the next step, which is to start generating drawings and schedules as outputs of the very same model that you have previously prepared.
This course is based on how architectural practices typically work with Revit, which will provide you with best practice approaches for managing information in BIM, and using this information to create a consolidated set of construction drawings.
What will you learn in each video?
- 11 tutorials
- 1hr
- Revit
This lesson will explain the concept of cascading drawing sets in architectural documentation, and how different types of drawings relate to one another.
Views can be created in Revit in a number of different ways. This lesson will explore different view types and browser organisation, how to manually crop views, and how to use scope boxes.
Sheets are where views are collated in drawing sets. This lesson will explore how to setup a titleblock with parameters, how to add views to sheets with titles and how to setup grid guides.
Building Information Modelling is considered as ‘smart’ modelling, but it is the ‘I’ in BIM that sets up the framework for this intelligence. This lesson will explore the concept of information in Revit, and apply the logic with rooms and walls
Annotations are descriptive icons or text that are added to drawings to explain things about an architectural project. This lesson will explore concepts of annotation in Revit, and will teach how to use dimensions, tags, sport elevations and text annotation.
Details are commonly understood in architecture as callouts from other drawings. This lesson will explore how to create these callouts & add information using regions, detail components and detail lines.
Drafting Views are a special type of view in Revit which are independent to Model Space that can be used in place of modelling smaller details in 3D. This lesson will explain how to setup drafting views.
Legends can be used in Revit to provide extra information related to categories in drawings. This lesson will explain how to create a legend and place it on a sheet.
View control in Revit is critical to controlling what detail can and can’t be seen in a drawing. This lesson will explore view templates & filters that can be used to give greater control over drawing sets.
Schedules use the power of information in BIM to quickly automate schedules and totals that can be used to understand totals and costs of elements in a BIM model. This lesson will explore how to create sheet lists and door schedules.
Once sheets are setup in Revit, they need to be exported to external software to be shared with external stakeholders. This lesson will explore how to export sheets to PDF and DWG file formats.
What are the learning objectives for the course?
- Understand the concept of linked cascading construction drawing sets
- Demonstrate an ability to setup views on sheets in Revit
- Understand what information is in BIM, and why it is important when documenting
- Have the ability to draft, annotate, label and schedule when documenting in Revit
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to export a documentation set from Revit