Monday, 13 July 2009

Easy Revit (2009) ~ Video Tutorials by ddufon

http://www.youtube.com/user/ddufon#play/uploads

I found these Easy Revit (2009) Video Tutorials ~ Created by ddufon on YouTube.
The early vidoes are not as clear as the later ones but they cover the basics....

ddufon says "Easy Revit video tutorials for beginners like me: Walks through an entire simple project, step by step. More to come......"

-2- Draw Grid Lines
This Video: create grid lines, rename, modify grid heads, copy and array.

-3-Dimensioning Grid Lines
Place dimensions on Grid, drag to move, dimension strings, equally space objects.

-4-Drawing Walls
Draw walls, select wall types, use draw tools, align and lock to grids, trim tool.

-5-Dimensioning Walls
Place dimensions on wall, choose edges to dimension from, toggle detail levels and line weights, equally space walls/objects.

-6-Modify Walls
Change wall type, edit structure, change material, wall thickness.

-7 – Grouping
group elements together, copy groups into place, edit group.

-8- Placing Doors and Windows
Place doors and windows in walls, relocate, find edges to snap to, dimension doors and windows, equally space doors and windows in a wall.

-9-Modify Families: Doors And Windows
Modify family parameters, instance and type properties, and use match properties tool.

-9.2 - Create New Family (Fundamentals)
Create a new family from scratch, and apply your own parameters to it. The basics are covered in this video by creating a simple generic 3-d box, and creating parameters for its width, height, and depth.

-10-Create Curtain Walls
Create a curtain wall system, change mullions and spacing. Also - Dimension curved walls.

11-Create Sections and Elevations
Create sections and elevation views, place tags, and crop and modify what the views show.

12-Create Floor
Create a floor object by drawing lines or picking lines. Choose elevation levels to place the floor on. Change floor type, use the filter tool, and edit floor structure.

13-Place Components
Load/Place components in a project. Use different types of components, dimension, mirror, rotate and modify a components parameters

14- Call-Out Tags : Create Details and Enlarged Plans
Create enlarged plans, plan details, place call-out tags, change view's scale and detail level

15- 2D Drafting
Draw 2D details, use masking regions, create filled regions with hatch patterns, match line weights and change details order of appearance.

16- Create Drawing Sheets
Create new Sheets with title blocks, place views on sheets. Crop, change view scale, adjust title bar locations, remove titles from drawings.

17- Split a Plan
Duplicate and rename views, split a large floor plan to fit onto sheets. Create a key plan.

18- Room Tags
Create "room" objects, place room tags, create/label room areas without walls, delete/replace room tags. Also, use the "select all" tool.

19- Create Presentation Drawings : Visibility and Graphics
Duplicate plan drawing to create a presentation drawing, key plan or code plan. Add a colour scheme, remove unwanted tags, change line weights and add hatch patterns to walls.

20- Create Ceiling
Create Ceilings, change the view range to see it, align and rotate ceiling panels and change its structure.

21- Create Levels
Create levels, re-position, re-name, copy, connect to walls, and make non-referenced (dummy) levels.

22- Create Multi-Stories
Create multiple floors, attach them to levels, move them into place, use the filter tool, and edit a floor's structure.

23 - Create Roof (by footprint)
Create a roof by footprint, move it into position, attach it to a level, change its pitch, make it flat, attach walls to the roof and edit the roof's structure

24-Create Stairs
Create Stairs (using the "by Run" method. Define properties for a basic stair, and cut a shaft opening for the stairs.

25-Create Cover Sheet With 3D Image
Create a cover sheet, add a title, change text font and size, import images, create 3d views of the revit model, use the steering wheel tool and place on views on the sheet.

26-Create Drawing List
Create a drawing list, edit its properties and appearance, filter drawings in a list, include external sheets, and add to a cover sheet

27- Create Legends, Symbol or Material Keys and Window/Door Elevations
Create Legends, Symbol/Material Keys, and Window/Door Elevations.

28- Create Schedules
Create and edit Window or Door Schedules. Place on sheets, split schedules into multiple columns, and recombine.

29-Printing
Print pages individual or set up batch printing. Change print settings and options.

31- Design Options
Create new design option set, add options, make a design option viewable on a sheet, make a different option primary, add existing elements to a design option and accept a design option as a permanent part of the model.

32- Create Roof (by extrusion)
Use roof by extrusion tool to create more complicated roofs in section such as barrel vaulted, arched roofs, clerestory, or saw-tooth profiles. Also in this video: edit roof structure, and attach walls to the roof.

37- Create Stacked Walls
Create a stacked wall, edit layers and offset wall layers from each other.

Sunday, 12 July 2009

CADClips ~ Video Tutorials on YouTube

Click here to visit the CADclips web site
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Click Here to see the FREE CADClips on CADClips.com
Click Here to visit Revit Rocks!
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Listed below are the Video Tutorials on YouTube:-

CADclip - REVIT 2010 Parkade
CADclip - REVIT Architecture 2010 Walkthrough Up Stairs with 3D Edit Controls
CADclip - REVIT Architecture 2009 Tapering Roof / Floor by In-Place Solid Extrusion and Void Blend
CADclip - REVIT - Elevation View Tags
CADclip - HD - REVIT ARCH - Stair Constrain Opening
CADclip - HD - REVIT Architecture Flared Bottom Tread
CADclip - HD - REVIT Architecture Top Riser Cleanup
CADclip - HD - REVIT Architecture Stair with winder and no Railing
CADclip - HD - REVIT Stair Tutorial with a Winder
CADclip - REVIT Arch importing Images
CADclip - ARCAT BIM and Architectural Specifications
CADclip - REVIT Yes No Parameter to Control Visibility
CADclip - REVIT House Kit 2008 ~ Advert Only
CADclip - REVIT Architecture Keynote Schedules ~ Revit Architecture 2008
CADclip - REVIT Architecture Keynotes By Number
CADclip - REVIT Nested Scope Box Demonstration
CADclip - REVIT to Sketchup Video
CADclip - REVIT Structure - Dependant Views in Plan ~ using Revit Structure 2008
CADclip - REVIT Structure Annotation Crop Region ~ Using Revit Structure 2008
CADclip - REVIT Massing - Using Sketchup Skippy Files
CADclip - REVIT Architecture Massing Void Trick
CADclip - REVIT Sloped Flat Floor and Roof by Shape Handles
CADclip - REVIT Structure 2008 Coping Buttons ~ Revit Structure 2008 Update
CADclip - REVIT Keyboard Shortcuts Video Tutorial ~ Revit Structure 2008
CADclip - REVIT MEP 2008 - HVAC DEMO

CADclip - 7 free REVIT Custom Family Videos
CADclip - RAC Arch'l Beam Family Lesson 1 Introduction
CADclip - RAC Arch'l Beam Family Lesson 2 Parameters and Reference Planes
I Can't Find Lesson 3 but you can download from Revit Rocks see below
CADclip - RAC Arch'l Beam Family Lesson 4 Model the Abutments and Flex the Model
CADclip - RAC Arch'l Beam Family Lesson 5 Yes No Parameters to Control Visibility
I Can't Find Lesson 6 and 7 but you can download from Revit Rocks see below

Downloads from CADClips.com

Lesson 1: The Completed Beam Family Introduction
Lesson 2: Parameters and Reference Planes
Lesson 3: Modeling the Main Beam and Flex
Lesson 4: Modeling the Abutments and Flex
Lesson 5: Using Yes / No Parameters to Control Object Visibility
Lesson 6: Use Model Lines and the Linework Tools
Lesson 7: Mental Ray Materials and Rendering

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Saturday, 11 July 2009

Building Informed Models ~ Video Tutorials


I came across this web site recently
http://bimvids.blogspot.com/
There are a number of Video Tutorials including:-
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Enjoy..........

Friday, 10 July 2009

Revit Stop ~ Revit Architecture Video Tutorials


Only $9 to view all Revit Stop Tutorials ~ Lesson are for Revit Architecture
But you can view the first 10 lessons of the 31 videos for FREE
Click on Logo to link
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1. Introduction
2. Fundamentals
3. Drawing Walls
4. Steering Wheel
5. Viewport Details
6. Wall structure
7. Custom Wall Styles
8. Custom Wall Finish
9. Floors
10. Interior Walls
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Thursday, 9 July 2009

Tips and Tricks ~ Walls

As I surf my way around the internet and find tips and trick, articles, blog postings about walls in Revit that may be useful I'm adding links to them here as a reference resource.





Extending Walls - Wall Layers in Revit

Believe it or not, Revit will allow you to extend or contract selected wall layers above or below their base or top constraints!

This means that you can have one part of the wall assembly at a different height to the rest of the same wall. Let me demonstrate:



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Guidelines for wall thickness and materials in Revit

By Patrick Villella
Whats the Word on BIM


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So you’ve seen the endless possibilities for creating wall types that Revit allows and now you’re excited, right? In fact, Revit ships with many preloaded wall types for all sorts of walls – stud, metal stud, gyp, brick, block, and any combination of these materials. But now you have questions.



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Defining Wall Layers in Revit
Wall Structure/ Wall Assembly

by GMcDowellJr




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Brian Reneham ~ Revit Fix
Openings in Walls. - Revit 2010

It’s quite surprising the amount of different ways you can put an opening in a wall, and they all have slightly different properties in regard to how they behave and how surrounding elements behave. ~ Nice Tutorial





David Light ~ Revit
My staggered wall is not cleaning up!!!!
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Refer to movie example for clarification.


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Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Avatech Solutions Revit Online Tech Tips


Here is a list of just the Revit Online Tech Tips from the Avatch Solutions web site.

To see all the Online Tech Tips for all the products they support use this link

Revit Structure

Revit Structure: An Introduction Posted: 9/6/2009
See how to start a project and the best way to use tools such as templates, menu bars, walls, levels, design bar, shortcut keys, and the project browser.
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This tech tip shows the steps on how to create a 45 degree structural column tag and bring it into your Revit file.

Revit Structure 2008: Splitting Beams Posted: 28/03/2008
See how to split a beam and attach a column to the underside of the beam.

Revit Structure: Warped Slabs Posted: 24/10/2007
See how to create warped roofs and slabs.

Revit Structure: Curved Beams Posted: 27/9/2007
Explore the new curved beam feature in Revit Structure 2008. You will see examples of creating not only horizontal curved beams, but vertical curved beams as well. The creation of beam systems within the curved beam areas is also shown.

Autodesk Revit Structure: Mitered Steel Corners Posted: 19/9/2006
See how to create mitered steel corners utilizing the Reference Plane tool in Revit Structure 3.

Revit Structure: Beam Systems Posted: 17/8/2006
Take an introductory look into creating beam systems within Revit Structure 3. We will walk through the creation process, how to edit existing beam systems, and how these can be sloped including both the physical and analytical models


Revit Architecture
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Learn how to apply masking regions to dimensions. You’ll also see how to edit families to get masking regions to appear in door tags and section bubbles.
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Learn how to control the view range inside of views in this tech tip. See how to edit line styles and create plan regions
Learn how schedule keys can help you work smarter and faster by allowing you to place preset information based on a key, automatically within a large number of fields on a schedule.

Revit Architecture 2008: Wall Sweeps Posted: 28/3/2008
This technical tip will compare and contrast wall sweeps defined as part of a wall family and a hosted wall sweep. Hosted wall sweeps provide additional functionality that are not available with wall family sweep elements.

Revit Architecture: Visibility Parameters Posted: 27/9/2007
See how to add a visibility parameter to an image in Revit.

Revit Architecture: AutoCAD to Revit Details Posted: 27/9/2007
Migrate your AutoCAD details into Revit Details to make them easier to modify in the future. You will see how to link in an AutoCAD detail, convert it to Revit linework, and then save the new information out as a Revit detail that can be easily reused in other Revit projects.


Revit MEP

AutoCAD MEP: Pipe Size Display Settings Posted: 28/3/2008
This technical tip will illustrate the impact of Pipe Size Display Settings in a Pipe System Definition on the Rise/Drop symbols used in the piping layouts

Revit MEP 2008: Duct Routing Posted: 8/2/2008
Work with duct routing option and how you can manually modify these options to better fit your environment.

Revit MEP: Wire Tick Marks Posted: 17/8/2007
Review the graphical configurations for wire tick marks in Revit MEP 2008, including styles, families, and the visibility parameters of wiring systems and elements.


Revit

Revit: Uncommon Features Posted: 17/6/2008
This tech tip takes a look into some of the features of Revit MEP, Architecture, and Structure that are not common to each other - and how we can sometimes make them work together anyway.

Revit: Blended Sweeps Posted: 17/6/2008
Revit Architecture, MEP, and Structure 2009 added in a new feature called Blended Sweeps. This tech tip will show you how this new feature works.

Revit: View templates Posted: 6/5/2008
Usable in Revit Architecture, Revit MEP, and Revit Structure, Joe takes you through an introduction to View Templates and how they can be used to manage and standardize View Properties in Revit.

Revit Systems: The 0,0 Coordinate Posted: 22/3/2007
A common misconception is that Revit does not use a coordinate system and the overall screen center to center is its only binding location. The coordinate system in Revit products are hidden in the background -- in this tip, track down the elusive 0,0 Cartesian point inside of Revit Systems

Autodesk Revit Systems: Moving Objects Across Worksets Posted: 14/12/2006
Send objects on their pilgrimage to new worksets inside of Revit Systems, fast and efficiently with this tip.

Autodesk Revit Building: Expanding your Rendering Posted: 31/10/2006
Utilize features to maximize your rendering's visual punch, with components and decals

Autodesk Revit Building: Adding Details to your Families Posted: 18/7/2006
An introductory look at how we can control the level of detail that is being viewed inside our families through visibility settings.

Revit Building : Schedule Keys 101 Posted: 18/1/2006
An introduction to creating and using a schedule key “style” within Revit Building to help automatically populate fields in your schedule, rather than manually entering these values line by line.

Revit: Adding Shadows with the new Advanced Modeling Graphics Feature Posted: 13/1/2005
Use the new Advanced Modeling Graphics feature in Revit to cast shadows and add a sense of texture to your building information model. Create presentation views by changing the location, angle and intensity of the Sun.
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009

Autodesk Revit Structure 2010 Update 1 is available!


Wai Chu Product Manager for Revit Structure has just posted details about Update 1 for Autodesk Revit Structure 2010 now being available at http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=12856705.

Hop over to BIM and Beam for more information.
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The Revit Kid Video Tutorials Update July 2009


The Revit Kid (Jeff Pinheiro) started his Blog on the 12th February.

Jeffs blog has to be one of my top 5 to visit on a regular basis, I don't know how he finds the time to keep producing valuable vidoes but he does. Jeff, keep up the good work you are helping students and newbies of all ages (OK I will admit it I'm 51!)

I recently attempted my first Topo and found Jeffs' Videos invaluable
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The Revit Kid Video Tutorials

Section Heads and Tails
Family and Material
Glass vs Glazing
Attaching Walls to Roofs
Create Custom Render Materials
Introduction to Decals
Vertical Reveal (T1-11)
Rebar Detail Component
Angled Beam System
Door Frame (Plan View) - Masked Region
Brick Shelf (Stacked Walls)
Basic View Titles
Render Basics - Flower Vase

Curtain Wall Doors
Studio Topo Tip - Part 3
Studio Topo Tip - Part 2
Studio Topo Tip - Part 1A
Studio Topo Tip - Part 1
Brick Window Sill
Visibility Parameters
Parametric Arrays
Angled Wall Sweeps
Parametric Wall Sweeps
Render Basics - Interior, Sun Only
Calling Out Drafted Views
Change Text Case in Revit
Organizing Your Revit Sheets
Basic Detail Component Usage
Windows and Plan Appearance

The Revit Kid Student to Student Revit Guide:

Harbor House - Part 1 - Importing CAD
Harbor House - Part 1A - Source CAD Files
Harbor House - Part 2 - Levels
Harbor House - Part 3 - Foundation/Stepped Footing
Harbor House - Part 4 - Slab Basics
Harbor House - Part 5 - Slab Edge
Harbor House - Part 6 - Basic Floors
Harbor House - Part 7 - Advanced Floors Part 1
Harbor House - Part 8 - Modify Walls
Harbor House - Part 9 - Sill PLates and Rim Boards
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Video Tutorials on designreform.net

designreform.net Rocks!

This Web Site has Revit video tutorials that explain some of the basic aspects of Revit.

Where Levels are in the hierarchy. How walls constrain to levels , Coping in place or by level etc.

The sites author says "Please feel free to post Question as i can answer them in future posts." and that "Its important for students to get a sense of how we can trouble shoot some of the issues Revit throws back at us."

Not just students ;0)

Some videos are from open help sessions with student to work through some of the problems they are encountering. Other tutorials are on new features.

This is a site I can see myself visiting on a regular basis....enjoy


IFC from Rhino through Revit
Revit 2010 - Curtain Panel Pattern Based - Hexagons
Revit 2010 - Spline By Points
Revit 2010 - Pattern Based Curtain Panels
Revit 2010 - Revolve and New Surface Patterning / Paneling
Revit 2010 - Removing Edges and 3d Snapping
Revit 2010 - Make Form - Add Edge And Profile
Revit 2010 - Sweeping and Reference Points
Revit 2010 - Make Form Direct Manipulation
Revit Architecture 2010 New Features - Conceptual Mass Make Form
Revit - Custom Profiles in Curtain Systems
Revit - Family Basics, Modeling a Stool
Revit - Diamond Curtian Panels
Revit - Nested Families
Revit - Scheduling Explained
Rhino - Autocad - Revit - Linking Complex Form to Drive Massing
Revit - Using Tags to Drive Instance Parameters
NYC Revit User Group Presentation
Revit - Scheduling Curtian Panels with Conditional Statements
Revit - Scheduling with Conditional Staments
Revit - Missing Grids in Elevation
Revit - Parametric Truss System - Part 1
Revit - Shared Parameters and Scheduling
Revit - Student Project - Auditorium
Revit - Student Projects - Elipses
Revit - Student Project - Angled Stone
Revit 2009 - New Feature Sweep Blend
Revit - Student Projects - Spider Clip
Revit - Basics About the Program
Revit - Adding Folders to File Open Menu
Revit - Modeling Operations
Revit - Faced Based Families
Revit - Radial Geometry w/ Reference Lines
Revit - Exporting DWG - Solids and Mesh
Revit - Line Based Parametric Array
Revit - Angle Parameters

Sunday, 5 July 2009

Learning Curve ~ Piles and Ground Beams

After what feels like and is months of waiting, I finally have access to Revit 2010!

The company I work for have finally installed Revit 2010 on the network and booked formal training…… “yippee”

As soon as I discovered about the new ribbon and the change in user interface, I lost interest in playing with the trial version of Revit 2009 at home and wanted to wait until I could get my hands on 2010.

I knew I would be able to use a fully working copy. You can’t save your work with the trial version after 30 days, you can you can only go so far with learning on a trial version that can’t save what you have created.

After being set up with right to the subscription centre I harvested all the software and supporting material so our IT guy could install on the network as we have purchased four licences.

Not naming names but, the reseller who supplied our company sent 2009 boxes and we are still awaiting a boxed set of software for RST2010. In the mean time I have spoken to one of the older more established UK resellers that I’ve dealt with in the past who have very kindly sent me a trial box and software. You may have seen my posting about the getting started manual not being supplied in the box.

So the first thing I did was download the RST 2010 Tutorials (metric version) off the Autodesk web site

My objective is to play with Revit in advance of the course so that I can make sure I get answers to questions that have cropped up during my pre course play time and thus get the maximum out of the training.

In a discussion "Making the transition to REVIT" on the 2D and or 3D Top CAD Experts Group on Linked-In it’s been muted that Autodesk suggests the best way forward is

1. Self exploration in the program
2. Class room training
3. Establish standards/templates
4. Pilot Job (w/consultant if needed)
5. Refine standards/templates

Which I was very happy to see as this was the logical conclusion I had come too and is my approach to making the transition to Revit.

Looking at step 1. ~ It still begs the question “Why take the getting started manual out of the trial pack” ….. back to the plot…

I started working my way through the tutorials, but was itching to start modelling something real. I’m currently working on a few housing schemes and one is so none rectilinear that it begs attempting in Revit 2010. (there’s nothing like jumping in at the deep end)



I loaded the AutoCAD drawing and traced the layout, and made the piles short at the moment as normally in AutoCAD you would only show the tops and have a break (Ummm can this be done in Revit? note to self, must ask when on the training course)

I placed grid line along the centre of all the beams and turned off the bubbles both ends on those that I only wanted centre lines shown on.

For some reason there were occasions where intersections of grid line not at right angles to one another were not found when placing the columns (piles) (Check this when on the training course)
What I did not appreciate at the beginning was that the grid lines would not show because the elevation was not perpendicular to the grid lines, and I drew this layout a couple of times trying to find out what I was doing wrong, until my query was answered on AUGI forum (what a great resource for peer to peer support).

Next Learning Curve posting will deal with the problems I found with the shape of the beams on plan and walls and floors …..

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Saturday, 4 July 2009

Concrete Beam Hidden Line Display Parameter




There is a neat posting over at the Bim and Beam blog about how to control hidden lines in Autodesk Revit Structure by setting a parameter called: Display in Hidden Views

Click on the picture on the left to link to the posting.....

Monday, 29 June 2009

Revit Structure 2010 Shortcuts Quick Reference


There are many predefined keyboard shortcuts for Revit Structure 2010 commands.

This lists the shortcuts by Ribbon Item
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I have printed out two copies, placed them back to back, then encapsulated them in plastic using a laminating machine to keep nearby as a Quick Reference Card.
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This is version 2 of the 2010 Shorcuts Quick Reference