Revit exercise 29Nov2009

An apple shape created through revit mass loaded into revit project for rendering.
Floors are created through floor by face after mass floors created. Walls and curtain system created through selecting mass face. Rendering is just a click of the teapot icon with medium rendering settings.

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Special Thanks to Naveen from Autodesk & Innocom here for the help for the tutorials and on going support.
There are lots of YouTube videos available for new learners who progress your learning path at your own pace through viewing online videos and I hope this blog can assist you in anyway as well, links are useful at the sidebar.

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006-Revit Mass & Revit worksets

1. How to turn off room areas in plan view?
VP> uncheck rooms
2. How to change color scheme in legend?
Select Legend> Edit scheme > Change color accordingly
3. How to create parametric façade?
Create Concept Mass Model > Create a Curtain panel pattern base.rtf > Insert
4. How to work with simple model building?
Autocad2010 is as powerful as max to create mesh smooth model to be import into Revit for mesh forms
5. Revit Worksets
Collaborate>worksets>create user>synchronize all> synchronize now ( to update all)
>reload to update >relinguish all mine to release authorities to others to work on your file> create new local must be checked
6. Revit Mass
New>Conceptual Mass>Metric Mass/Metric Generic Model > Create mass through ‘create form’ by lines similar to nurbs modelling
7.How to insert Mass into Project?
Massing & Site > Place Mass > Load Family > Place on work Plane
After Mass loaded into Project, rendering can be done

005-Issues encountered for revit BIM

1. How to import existing revit file into BCA template?
Open BCA template file > Manage > transfer project standard > link revit > select file > bind>ungroup>adjust objects accordingly to levels

2. How to create façade shading device?
Home>component>model in place>name your component> sweep>path>edit profile>close loop>finish
[The component is considered as a family and it is required to be categorized under certain categories to have certain entity properties]

3. The families divisions?
There are three families :
i. system families (walls/floors/roofs/stairs…)
ii. loaded families (doors/windows/curtain panels…)
iii. In place families ( file particular components)

4. How to establish detailing?
3d details can be omitted to avoid enlarging the file size. Callout created to adopt detailing at big scale drawings.
Annotate>mask region> drawing to establish details accordingly or cad import possible

5. How to establish legends?
Rooms> create rooms with tags > create Legend by room numbers > select legend > edit scheme > adjust title/ legends accordingly to intensions

6. How to establish area schedules?
View>schedules > schedules& quantities > new schedules> create name > insert intended items> finish and schedules are created at sidebar

7. How to attach wall with beams?
Attach beams with floors (one by one ) > attach walls to beams

8. How to insert car parking lots?
Massing & Site > Parking Component> Load component to insert

9. Schedules properties
The schedules created cannot adopt graphics/colors in revit2010