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Revit Beginners: Journal of Building Information Modeling

Revit Beginners

Journal of Building Information Modeling. Read what some of the industry experts have to say about BIM in the relatively new Journal of Building Information Modeling. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Journal of Building Information Modeling. Monday, September 15, 2008. David Duarte. at 3:27 PM. Newer Post.

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Can We Make Home Building a Little Less ‘Interesting?’

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The Colorado Springs model for bringing back trade skills training in high schools is spreading. Be honest with yourself: Can you describe your startups as a finely honed process with all plans, specification, selections, options, colors, and sales collateral materials complete before construction of the first model begins?

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Revit Beginners: Communicating your data

Revit Beginners

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. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. BIMtroublemaker. Design Reform.

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Revit Beginners: Editable Worksets and Workset Ownership

Revit Beginners

Lets say you have a project with worksets enabled and the whole model is on Workset 1 by default. No one else is going to be able to edit ANY modeled elements that are on that workset. or do a save to central and relenquish user-created worksets so other users can work on the model too. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone.

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Revit Beginners: Phases & Worksets

Revit Beginners

Always Be Phase Aware In every project file your modeled components have a phase created and a phase demolished parameter whether you like it or not. If you place a model component in a view that is set to the New Construction phase (under View Properties), that component automatically gets placed in the New Construction phase.

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Revit Beginners: Using Radar

Revit Beginners

You just linked a developed Revit model into a new project file and you cant seem to find it. If I just imported a project and I cant seem to locate the imported model the first thing I do is setup my radar. Open each view individually and zoom all (ZA) until you find the model you are looking for. Marathon Drafting.

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Revit Beginners: The Revit Experiment II

Revit Beginners

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. The Revit 3D model is just a place to start.

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