Revit book

Over 200 pictorial pages with step by step instructions of how to master Revit from setup, controlling views, editing families and using the software.

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The book contents are as follows

• Revit project setting

Chapter 1  – Environment settings

• Browser Organization
• Revit options recommendations
• Shortcut keys
• Managing electrical characteristics and settings
• Managing font styles
• Electrical Family Parameters
• Setting up line weights and styles as a template

Chapter 2  – Customizing Revit

• Setting up proper voltage requirements for projects
• Modifying or importing pattern files from AutoCAD used for hatch patterns
• Creating internal macros with VB or C#
• Creating new project template files
• Creating shared parameters
• Loading shared parameters into a project
• Computer programming API
• Revit Internet resource links

Chapter 3  – Setup MEP models

• Begin a model using a template file
• Starting from an architectural model
• Loading the latest base model
• Project base points
• Template loading
• Beginning a project from a template
• Link other Revit models into your new project
• Controlling the view of column lines and bubbles
• Importing other disciplines models into a fresh or new Revit base model
• Anchoring referenced objects to a specific point
• Copy/monitor for light fixtures procedure
• Importing CAD files
• Loss of network paths are lost
• Understanding new views

Chapter 4  – MEP views in a central file

• Step 1 (when using the same file as architects)
• Creating view templates
• Creating discipline view templates
• Overhead objects that block out lines within a model
• Setup views
• Setting plans for visibility
• Duplicate a view and move it to a slot under views
• Working in more than two areas of a plan at the same time
• Displaying more than one level in a view
• To display structural grid members on a floor plan
• Detaching central model as your own
• Setting up 3d views for clipping
• Coordination Review

Chapter 5  – Create and control MEP model views

• Controlling objects visibility in linked models
• Components hidden by underlying elements
• Objects blocked out of view by overhead elements
• Room/Space tagging
• Rules for viewing space tags on a ceiling plan
• Controlling floor patterns visibility in linked models
• Creating smaller views for detailed areas for sheet layouts
• Section height markers or levels
• Setting up section views with multiple height markers or levels
• Setting a roof plan for visibility

Chapter 6  – MEP 3D views

• Section box and 3D views
• Unwanted lines that show up from family objects
• Slicing 3D Views
• Hiding elements or categories in views
• Working with sections and space area volumes
• Selecting objects in a section view
• How to rotate a view using a scope box
• Setup

Chapter 7  – Worksets

• Worksets visibility
• Mange phasing filters

Chapter 8  – Phasing

• Phasing filters to control appearance of existing devices on plan
• Filters bug
• Limits of work regions

Chapter 9 –  Annotation

• Fonts and definitions
• Defining areas for room tags in MEP model
• Inserting space tags
• Space tags not visible when analyzing
• Setting up tags from other linked files
• Showing space tags in construction phases

Chapter 10 – Editing families

• Setting Project Units
• Finding families in the project browser
• Project properties
• Shared versus type parameters
• Advanced family editing and shared parameter understanding
• Electrical connectors
• Annotation (symbolic) versus model family
• Annotation (symbolic) versus model family
• Differences between model and symbolic lines
• Family parameter types
• Template types
• Template types
• Visibility of objects on model views
• Layer control or line thickness (subcategory)
• Shared parameters
• Properties of electrical connectors
• Connectors for switches, junction box and normal
• Electrical connectors setup, type vs instance
• Assigning a connector to a family object
• Electrical connectors for electrical devices
• Placing electrical connectors in any desired location
• Understanding differences between family types and parameters in annotation members
• Building new 3d families from templates
• Beginning new family objects
• Control photometric data type
• Rotating objects with a redefined base point
• Assigning parameters that can change dimensions of a family element
• Creating 2d family object as an annotation
• Creating 2d family object for use in 3d families as visibility fills
• Add shading to upper level family elements
• Creating half round fill regions with a dimensional radius
• Controlling shading in family for visibility
• Adding annotation to a 3d family for solid fills and text
• Placing family on another surface
• Create a nurse call family with multiple sub sets
• Overview of assigning visibility parameters to objects
• Alternate method for building a complex family object
• Preventing text from rotating in annotation family
• Revit error, element is too small on screen
• To edit home run tags for circuits
• Naming reference lines
• Circuit tag annotation
• Writing simple formula to calculate total wattage in fixture
• Advanced parameter editing with lookup tables

Chapter 11 – Family Visibility

• Families should always be discipline specific
• Family graphics elements that may not be visible
• If families show up as the elevation view on a floor plan
• Creating fire wall ratings
• Assigning family objects more detail

Chapter 12 – Electrical Section

• Electrical settings for a model
• Manage and edit panel schedules
• Increasing number of circuits in panelboard
• Setting up view for Electrical ceiling plan
• Setting a working view for plotting sheets
• Setting a working view for plotting sheets

Chapter 13 – Inserting MEP elements

• Placing elements on model that do not show up
• Placing elements on phasing layouts
• Creating an alternate to cable trays
• Give families a dashed line on a demo phase element
• Setting up reference planes for light fixture placement
• Placing lights on plan with no ceiling tile or surface
• Placing lights on a ceiling grid
• Exit lights
• Placing devices on a model view
• Calculating foot candles for a space
• Replacing devices inserted on a model
• Moving an object back onto a wall that has been abandoned
• Duplicating views from architectural floor plans and Exporting to AutoCAD

Chapter 14 – Viewing the model

• Line weights of objects
• Setting up panels and transformer

Chapter 15 – Circuiting devices

• Arrowheads and circuit numbers wiring method
• When connecting to panelboards, Revit may display a warning or error
• Electrical circuiting procedures
• Procedures for spaghetti wiring circuiting
• Making wires dashed
• Annotating two types of tags for devices

Chapter 16 – Schedules

• Grouping schedules
• Grouping
• Editing panel schedule templates
• Creating new light fixture schedules
• Exporting electrical equipment schedule to tab delimited files
• System browser

Chapter 17 – Sheet layouts

• Creating new sheets
• Browser Organization
• Inserting view on a sheet
• Modify views that are to large for a layout sheet
• Creating & placing notes on a drawing
• Place external files onto a plotting sheet
• Revision clouds

Chapter 18 – Removing Objects from model

• Removing family objects from a project

Chapter 19 – General programing and parameters

• Removing family objects from a project
• Export settings

Chapter 20 – Export

• Export to another project
• Exporting to DWG
• Export to AutoCAD

Chapter 21 – Massing site plan

• Starting a new civil massing plan

Chapter 22 – Notes and future articles

Chapter 23 – AutoCAD

• Bedit
• Creating multiple object blocks symbols
• Setting up drawings for Civil
• Creating Border and tag fields from sheet sets