Synergis Tutorials
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.
DOWNLOAD: Revit Families - Content Creation from Manufacturers (PDF - 1.85MB)
Simplify your Families, Nest it
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.
DOWNLOAD: Simplify your Families, Nest it (PDF - 712KB)
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.
DOWNLOAD: Creating
Revit Sections and Callouts (PDF - 429KB)
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.
DOWNLOAD: Creating
a Revit Annotation Symbol (PDF - 225KB)
Multi-Discipline Collaboration in Revit
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.
DOWNLOAD: Multi-Discipline Collaboration in Revit (PDF
- 187KB)
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.
DOWNLOAD: Multiple
Uses of the TAB Key in Revit Architecture (PDF
- 187KB)
Sharing the Work in Revit
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.
DOWNLOAD: Sharing
the Work in Revit (PDF - 615 KB)
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.
DOWNLOAD: Autodesk Revit Building's Linework and Paint Tools (PDF - 154 KB)
Autodesk Revit Building Export Options
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.
DOWNLOAD: Autodesk Revit Building Export Options (PDF - 446 KB)
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.
Check out what's new with Peter Gehring, Synergis Design Applications
Engineer.
DOWNLOAD:
Mass Modeling Tools in Autodesk Revit Building 8.1 (PDF - 682 KB)
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