Autodesk Revit 2023: Fundamentals for Structure

Objectives
• Introduction to the Autodesk Revit software, including navigating the Revit interface
• Starting a structural project based on a linked architectural model and creating levels and grids as datum elements for the model
• Understanding the project browser and working with views
• Understanding Revit families and components
• Working with the basic sketching and modifying tools
• Adding structural columns to a project and copying and monitoring elements from linked models
• Adding foundations and footings
• Creating structural framing, including beams, trusses, and framing systems
• Creating slabs for foundations, structural floors, and roofs
• Creating structural reinforcement, including placing rebar and adding fabric reinforcement
• Setting up sheets and placing and modifying views on sheets
• Working with dimensions, text, annotations, and legends
• Adding tags and working with schedules
• Setting up detail views and adding detail components

Target Audience
• Civil Engineer
• Interior Designer

Course Outline

1) Introduction to Revit
• BIM and Revit
• Overview of the Interface
• Opening and Saving Projects
• Viewing Commands

2) Starting a Structural Project
• Selecting a Project Template
• Linking and Importing Files
• Linking in Revit Models
• Modifying ImportedLinked Files
• Setting Up Levels
• Creating Grids

3) Working with Views
• Understand the Project Browser • Duplicating Views • Modify How the View Displays • Adding Callout Views • Creating Elevations and Sections

4) Revit Families • About Revit Families • Loading Components • Modifying Components • Creating Additional Family Types in a Project

5) Basic Sketching and Modify Tools • Adding General Model Elements • Working with Basic Modify Tools • Working with Additional Modify Tools

6) Adding Columns • Adding Columns • Adding Isolated Footings • Copying and Monitoring Elements • Coordinating Linked Models

7) Foundations • Modeling Walls • Modifying Walls • Adding Wall Footings • Adding Isolated Footings

8) Structural Framing • Modeling Structural Framing • Modifying Structural Framing • Adding Trusses

9) Adding Structural Slabs • Modeling Structural Slabs • Creating Shaft Openings

10) Structural Reinforcement • Structural Reinforcement • Adding Rebar • Modifying Rebar • Reinforcing Walls Floors and Slabs

11) Creating Construction Documents

• Setting Up Sheets

• Placing and Modifying Views on Sheets

• Swapping Views on a Sheet

• Modifying Views and View Titles

• Printing Sheets

12) Working with Annotations

• Working with Dimensions • Working with Text
• Adding Detail Lines and Symbols
• Creating Legends

13) Adding Tags and Schedules
• Adding Tags
• Working with Schedules
• Graphical Column Schedules

14) Creating Details
• Setting Up Detail Views
• Adding Detail Components
• Annotating Details