Author: Peter Gehring, Synergis Director of Building Solutions Type: AVI video files Date: February 2009 Details: One-minute tips and tricks videos to increase your knowledge of Revit Architecture.
If you experience problems viewing the tutorials, you may need to install the video codec TSCC. It can be downloaded from the TechSmith site.
Revit Families - Content Creation from Manufacturers
Author: Peter Gehring, Synergis Director of Building Solutions Type: PDF Date: May 2008 Details: One of the biggest concerns of firms adopting the Revit platform products is the availability of content specific to their needs. While the out-of- the- box libraries and Autodesk’s Web Library (Content Distribution Center) contain many families (some manufacturer specific), there is never enough for the variety of building systems, furniture, casework and equipment that is necessary to represent graphically and informationaly in building projects.
Author: Bill Knittle, Synergis Building Solutions Engineer Type: PDF Date: May 2008 Details: Did you ever notice that the content provided with Revit Architecture tends to shy away from how manufacturers offer their product? Take a door for example. A manufacturer offers a variety of sizes. A Revit door Family also offers a variety of sizes. They are known as Types. The difference lies in the panel styles. Revit families only offer one panel style.
Creating Revit Sections and Callouts with Detail Number, Sheet Number and Referencing
Sheet Annotation
Author: Peter Gehring, Synergis Technical Director,
Building Solutions Type: PDF Date: November 2007 Details: Although not widely used in the United
States, Revit’s section and callout bubbles can include a reference
to the sheet that the view they are annotating is placed on.
Creating a Revit Annotation Symbol for Exit Access
Author: Peter Gehring, Synergis Building Solutions Technical
Director Type: PDF Date: September 2007 Details:This article will show how to create an annotation
symbol for exit access in Autodesk Revit Platform Products.
Author: Bill Knittle, Synergis AEC Solutions Engineer Type: PDF Date: June 2007 Details: For centuries the AEC community has been built on a paper-based delivery process for the purposes of professional tradition, industry verbiage, and responsible liability. Budget, time, and other pressures facilitate a current disconnect between the players in a design team. Recently, there has been a surge in the design community to step up to the challenge of embracing new technology to deliver projects on time, at a higher quality, and with greater efficiency.
The Multiple Uses of the TAB Key in Revit Architecture, Revit MEP, and Revit Structure
Author: Peter Gehring, Synergis AEC Solutions Director Type: PDF Date: 5-16-07 Details: Autodesk Revit based products utilize
the keyboard TAB key for a variety of timesaving techniques. Many
users are familiar with using it to select chained collections
of walls or lines but there are other ways that it can aid with
object selection. TAB can be used to cycle between overlapping
or nearby objects in 2d or 3d views. It can be used to cycle through
alternate points to dimension to or through alternate running object
snaps.
Author: Bill Knittle, Synergis Building Solutions
Engineer Type: PDF document
Date: 4-3-07 Details: Adopting the Building Information Modeling
methodology is a big step. The typical workflow of an architectural
project will be noticeably different. The backbone of Revit’s power
is its use of a single database for the entire project. The single
database, while very powerful, provides many challenges for a project
team. The first and most obvious challenge is how to share the single
database among the project team. To achieve this feat, Revit uses
a process called Worksharing or Worksets.
Author: Bill Knittle, Synergis Building Solutions
Engineer Type: PDF document
Date: 4-3-07 Details: Adopting the Building Information Modeling
methodology is a big step. The typical workflow of an architectural
project will be noticeably different. The backbone of Revit’s power
is its use of a single database for the entire project. The single
database, while very powerful, provides many challenges for a project
team. The first and most obvious challenge is how to share the single
database among the project team. To achieve this feat, Revit uses
a process called Worksharing or Worksets.
Autodesk Revit Building's Linework and Paint Tools
Author: Peter Gehring, Synergis Director
of Building & Infrastructure Solutions Type: PDF document
Date: 5-4-06 Details: Many
architectural modeling tools make it difficult to change the visibility
or display of distinct plan object edges because we are dealing with
intelligent objects not separate lines and arcs. Changing the color,
linetype or lineweight usually applies to all edges not just one.
This article will cover a few tools in Autodesk Revit Building that
allow users to override the default line style applied to model objects’ edges.
We’ll also examine another technique that allows you to override
a face’s default material.
Author: Peter Gehring, Synergis Director
of Building & Infrastructure Solutions Type: PDF document
Date: 4-10-06 Details: Collaboration with consultants, clients and partners requires the ability to view, query
and print design data in software applications that are not compatible with the native
file format of the original application that created it. One of the fears of adopting new
software design tools is how you will share this data with others. Autodesk Revit
Building allows you to export 2D and 3D views from the File menu as DWG, DXF, DGN
or SAT files.
Mass Modeling Tools in Autodesk Revit Building 8.1
Author: Peter Gehring, Director of Building & Infrastructure
Solutions, Synergis Type: PDF Document Date: 2-3-06 Details: Some important features in
Autodesk Revit Building 8.1 are the massing tools. These
allow you to start a design with a conceptual mass modeling approach
that can then be further developed by converting the mass faces
into walls, curtain systems, floors and roofs. The volumes and
floor areas of the masses are also able to be scheduled early in
the design phase. Additionally, these are indispensable techniques
that are used to create the 3D representations in Revit Families.
This article
will cover some of the basics of creating and adding masses to a
project and mapping them to real world building elements. I use the
term mapping because
if you use the mass faces as the basis for the creation of walls,
curtain systems floors and roofs you can modify the mass and then
remake the architectural elements to map to the new form.
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