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Revit Beginners: Some thoughts on Revit

Revit Beginners

Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. Some people have to be reminded that the project file is a database and like any database the more and accurate information about the project you put into the model the more analytical modeling and scheduling you can get out of the model. Revit Beginners.

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Revit Beginners: When is a Family Parametric?

Revit Beginners

Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. Labels: Dimensions , Families , Parameters , Practice , Schedules. Having built a few parametric families, here is my experience: The dimensions that are variable or can flex need to be modeled before any actual geometry. Architectural Desktop. Revit Beginners.

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Revit Beginners: Cost Estimating

Revit Beginners

Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. If you want to estimate the total cost of the project per square foot then setup an Area Plan scheme and Area schedule: 1. Schedule/Quantities. Now you can type in the cost for each material in the schedule. Schedule/Quantities. Labels: Schedules.

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Revit Beginners: Communicating your data

Revit Beginners

Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. One of the things Ive learned about Revit that some beginners may not know is that scheduling combined with 2D & 3D representation makes communicating an idea much easier. For instance you can combine custom room schedules with color fill plans (drafting.

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Revit Beginners: Applications

Revit Beginners

Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. The more accurate the information in your Revit model the more you can do with it. Models from different consultants (who use software other than Revit to model) can be combined for analysis and clash detection. Revit Beginners. Thursday, December 07, 2006.

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Revit Beginners: Head & Sill Height Behavior

Revit Beginners

Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. Did you model a rough opening height for your window that has say a sloping sill and now your head height is not accurate in your schedule? They will also schedule wrong unless you do the following. Architectural Desktop. Tuesday, September 12, 2006.

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Revit Beginners: In-place Cavity Walls

Revit Beginners

Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. You'd then have consistent walls to schedule, etc. Plus in-place families detract from performance of the team, model and file. We would have to build separate models by different standards (less accurate for CDs) if we wanted to take advantage of that.

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