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20 Tips and Tricks on Revit Architecture

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.

01 Split Wall w Gap.avi
02 Wall Joins Allow & Disallow.avi
03 Offsetting Wall Components.avi
04 Join Geometry.avi
05 Organize and Transfer System Families.avi
06 Copy and Paste System families.avi
07 Importing Multiple Cad Details.avi
08 Save and Reuse Drafting Views.avi
09 Copy Paste Detail Sheet.avi
10 Save & Reuse Schedules.avi
11 Revit Backup Cleanup.avi
12 Rename views F2 cntrl tab cycle views.avi
13 Nudge IT.avi
14 Move Components with Nearby elements.avi
15 Embed Walls.avi
16 Fill pattern orientation in Walls.avi
17 Spiral Stair greater than 360 degrees.avi
18 Revit Site.avi
19 Create Plan Views with True North Orientation.avi
20 orient 3d View .avi

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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)

 

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)