Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 21, 2006

While in plan view draw a floor plan callout. and select your floor plan callout from the list of views. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. An ArchiCAD Blogger. Instant Section Box. Scott Brown posted this on Zoogdesign ages ago but I thought it was pretty useful so Ill post it.

Revit 40

Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan ArchiCAD 40

Revit Beginners

APRIL 16, 2009

and you might notice that Revit has a new slope annotation that works in plan and elevation view. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Thursday, April 16, 2009. Spot Slope.

Revit 40

Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan BIM 40

Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Edward Borg of Precision Drafting LLC has a dedicated FTP site for sharing cool Revit Project Templates and Families. I’ve tried using split regions to show these areas in plan and internal elevations as well as adding another wall or floor of tiles. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software.

Revit 40

Revit CAD BIM ArchiCAD 40

Revit Beginners

AUGUST 21, 2006

Using Revits 2D Drafting tools: Because beginners are not completely familiar with all of Revits tools and because they are often faced with a deadline, beginners will likely rely on detail lines and filled regions to piece together plans, sections, and elevations for their first few projects. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Knowledge Base.

Revit 40

Revit CAD BIM nemetschek AllPlan 40

Revit Beginners

JULY 11, 2006

Interior elevation tags from the first floor plan were mysteriously showing up on the second floor plan. Thats because if the top of the crop region for an interior elevation view intersects the primary range (bottom clip plane) of the floor plan above, then the interior elevation symbol will show in the floor plan above.

Revit 40

Revit CAD BIM nemetschek AllPlan 40

Revit Beginners

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Go to a floor plan view and add four new elevations looking in all directions. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. This is where having radar comes in handy. If I just imported a project and I cant seem to locate the imported model the first thing I do is setup my radar. Knowledge Base. CAD Digest.

Revit 40

Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan BIM 40

Revit Beginners

JUNE 19, 2006

Youll notice you can select a Floor Plan or Detail View callout. Select Detail View and draw a callout in plan view. Now place a building section in plan view that intersects the callout region. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Select the callout and goto its properties. CAD Digest.

Revit 40

Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan nemetschek Vectorworks 40

Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

You might notice that when you move the endpoint of a gridline in plan A it moves in plan B as well. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Surveys and Site Plans. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit.

Revit 40

Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan BIM 40

Revit Beginners

DECEMBER 5, 2006

For instance you can combine custom room schedules with color fill plans (drafting. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. A parameter is basically any characteristic of a space or component that you want to illustrate, analyze or communicate. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation.

Revit 40

Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan BIM 40

Revit Beginners

APRIL 16, 2007

Here is a list of some of the new and perhaps less obvious features in Revit Architecture 2008: Plan Regions are now always visible and easier to find. The element graphics of Section Boxes, Plan Regions, Crop Regions, Titleblocks, and Schedules can now be overridden once placed. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting.

Revit 40

Revit CAD BIM nemetschek AllPlan 40

Revit Beginners

JUNE 7, 2006

Draw a wall in plan view. Select the wall in plan view. This tool works in Plan, Section, and RCP views. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Do you want a niche cut out of your wall for a soap dish or other amenity? Goto Tools. Edit Cut Profile. This tool is view specific (ie.

Revit 40

Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan BIM 40

Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

Lets say you have an office standard for how doors and windows should appear in plan view and you want to incorporate this or any other standard as part of your door and window templates. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Surveys and Site Plans. Wednesday, September 20, 2006. Knowledge Base.

Revit 40

Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan BIM 40

Revit Beginners

JULY 10, 2006

ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Stepped Foundation Plans. IFC/ODBC Software. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. Request Manuals. Revit Content Library. Subscription Center. Suggestion Box. Revit Forums & News. AECBytes Reviews. AUGI Revit Forum. CAD Digest.

Revit 40

Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan Autodesk 40

Revit Beginners

AUGUST 23, 2006

If you want to estimate the total cost of the project per square foot then setup an Area Plan scheme and Area schedule: 1. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Revit's Drafting Machine. There are 3 ways weve found to estimate the cost of a project in Revit. Goto Settings. Area Schemes.

Revit 61

Revit Estimating CAD Schedule 61

Revit Beginners

APRIL 20, 2009

Go to a floor plan view and hit the light bulb to reveal the two new coordinate system icons (the survey point triangle and the project base point circle). ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Monday, April 20, 2009. Revit 2010: New Coordinates Icons. here is the simplest way I can put it: 1.

Revit 40

Revit CAD BIM Autodesk 40

Revit Beginners

JULY 23, 2006

ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Stepped Foundation Plans. IFC/ODBC Software. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. Request Manuals. Revit Content Library. Subscription Center. Suggestion Box. Revit Forums & News. AECBytes Reviews. AUGI Revit Forum. CAD Digest.

Revit 40

Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan BIM 40

Revit Beginners

JULY 21, 2006

If you go to View Properties youll notice that for orientation you only have a choice between Project North and True North, but what if you need to work in plan views that are orthagonal to each building? Just setup duplicate floor plan views for each building and turn on your crop regions. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting.

Revit 40

Revit CAD BIM nemetschek AllPlan 40

Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Surveys and Site Plans. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. Request Manuals. Revit Content Library. Subscription Center. Suggestion Box. Revit Forums & News. AECBytes Reviews. AUGI Revit Forum. CAD Digest. CadPlan Resource List. Revit Frappr.

Revit 40

Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan nemetschek Vectorworks 40

Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Surveys and Site Plans. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. Request Manuals. Revit Content Library. Subscription Center. Suggestion Box. Revit Forums & News. AECBytes Reviews. AUGI Revit Forum. CAD Digest. CadPlan Resource List. Revit Frappr.

Revit 40

Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan nemetschek Vectorworks 40

Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2006

ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Surveys and Site Plans. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. Request Manuals. Revit Content Library. Subscription Center. Suggestion Box. Revit Forums & News. AECBytes Reviews. AUGI Revit Forum. CAD Digest. CadPlan Resource List. Revit Frappr.

Revit 40

Revit CAD Autodesk nemetschek AllPlan 40

Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2006

ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Surveys and Site Plans. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. Request Manuals. Revit Content Library. Subscription Center. Suggestion Box. Revit Forums & News. AECBytes Reviews. AUGI Revit Forum. CAD Digest. CadPlan Resource List. Revit Frappr.

Revit 40

Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan nemetschek Vectorworks 40

Revit Beginners

JANUARY 12, 2007

Check for Plan Regions if in a floor plan view. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Try changing the detail level of the view. Are all your worksets opened? (it it may be hiding in a closed workset). Check View Range in View Properties (VP). The object may have been moved to a new elevation.

Revit 40

Revit CAD BIM nemetschek AllPlan 40

Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

Goto Drafting. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Surveys and Site Plans. Detail Component and import your DWG into your new Detail Component. Place a masking region behind your imported text (as shown). Load this Detail Component into your project. Repeating Detail. Properties. CAD Digest.

Revit 40

Revit CAD BIM nemetschek AllPlan 40

Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 4, 2006

Lets say a box that in 3d is orange, in elevation is orange and in plan is white ? In the material properties change your surface pattern to Solid fill[Drafting] and select a default color. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. An ArchiCAD Blogger. David Duarte. Yes you can. CAD Digest.

Revit 40

Revit Materials CAD BIM 40

Revit Beginners

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Models from different consultants (who use software other than Revit to model) can be combined for analysis and clash detection. e-Plan Check – This program takes Revit data exported in IFC format and tests the model for building code violations. It will apply palettes to DWG layers in plan and perspective. Knowledge Base.

Revit 40

Revit Autodesk CAD BIM 40

Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Surveys and Site Plans. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. Request Manuals. Revit Content Library. Subscription Center. Suggestion Box. Revit Forums & News. AECBytes Reviews. AUGI Revit Forum. CAD Digest. CadPlan Resource List. Revit Frappr.

Revit 40

Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan BIM 40

Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 22, 2006

ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Surveys and Site Plans. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. Request Manuals. Revit Content Library. Subscription Center. Suggestion Box. Revit Forums & News. AECBytes Reviews. AUGI Revit Forum. CAD Digest. CadPlan Resource List. Revit Frappr.

Revit 40

Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan BIM 40

Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Surveys and Site Plans. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. Request Manuals. Revit Content Library. Subscription Center. Suggestion Box. Revit Forums & News. AECBytes Reviews. AUGI Revit Forum. CAD Digest. CadPlan Resource List. Revit Frappr.

Revit 40

Revit CAD Architectural Desktop Los Angeles 40

Revit Beginners

JULY 19, 2006

ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Stepped Foundation Plans. IFC/ODBC Software. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. Request Manuals. Revit Content Library. Subscription Center. Suggestion Box. Revit Forums & News. AECBytes Reviews. AUGI Revit Forum. CAD Digest.

Revit 40

Revit CAD BIM nemetschek AllPlan 40

Revit Beginners

MARCH 6, 2007

Place an existing wall and door in any existing plan view. We want the demolished jamb line to show up in plan for clarity. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Demo your door in the new construction phase. Go to the Filters tab in the Visibility/Graphic Overides of your new construction view.

Revit 40

Revit CAD BIM nemetschek AllPlan 40

Revit Beginners

AUGUST 3, 2010

The problem with this method starts to reveal itself after 2-3 design iterations when the as-built model, now split into many parts, degenerates into useless plans and elevations. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. So what do you do with partial demos? copy, demo, paste, reshape. Knowledge Base.

Remodeling 49

Remodeling Revit BIM CAD 49

Revit Beginners

JULY 29, 2009

You can also just select all the rows in your schedule, then hit the show (or tile a floor plan next to your schedule). ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. From what I can tell Revit already has this capability. Travis Johnson. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. Request Manuals.

Revit 40

Revit CAD BIM Autodesk 40

Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Surveys and Site Plans. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. Request Manuals. Revit Content Library. Subscription Center. Suggestion Box. Revit Forums & News. AECBytes Reviews. AUGI Revit Forum. CAD Digest. CadPlan Resource List. Revit Frappr.

Revit 40

Revit CAD BIM nemetschek AllPlan 40

Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 13, 2006

Your post on pads has come at an opportune time for me, have you come across a situation where toposurface sub regions & pads appear in plan views where the site is cut. These sub regions and pads are on a higher level than the plan view cut height and cut earth should be what is seen. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting.

Revit 40

Revit CAD BIM Autodesk 40

Revit Beginners

JUNE 20, 2006

In the options bar youll notice that you can "Reference other view" (for referencing a drafting view that is already present). Lets say you wanted a section at a very specific angle and at a very specific place in plan view that is not orthogonal. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software.

Revit 40

Revit CAD BIM Autodesk 40

Revit Beginners

JANUARY 20, 2010

This wall is the sum of two 9 tall extruded shapes in plan view. True, our senior management spent so many years getting graphic standards right in their previous software they were less willing to give that up much with Revit. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Knowledge Base. CAD Digest.

Revit 40

Revit CAD BIM Autodesk 40

Revit Beginners

JUNE 9, 2006

Quite often we need to organize our plots for different submittal package sets (Schematic Design Presentation, Land Use Permit, Plan Check, Construction Admin, etc). ArchiCAD vs Revit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Friday, June 09, 2006. Sort by Submittal Package. Revit has the built-in ability to do this.

Revit 40

Revit CAD Drawings BIM 40