Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 Essentials E-Book

Ryan Duell

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Your step-by-step guide to learning Autodesk Revit Architecture

This detailed introduction to Revit Architecture features straightforward explanations and real-world, hands-on tutorials to teach new users the software's core features and functions.

Presented in the context of real-world workflows, and using real-world projects, each chapter contains a discussion of the "why" and "how" that is reinforced with a step-by-step tutorial so you'll gain practical and applicable experience with the core features of Revit Architecture. The new pedagogical approach emphasizes learning skills to help you prepare for the Revit certification exams.

• Learn at your pace with step-by-step exercises, illustrated with full-color screenshots and downloadable Revit tutorial files
• Work with floors, ceilings, walls, and curtain walls
• Use modeling and massing to explore design ideas
• Use the Family Editor to create and manage families
• Understand effective worksharing, BIM workflows, and file management
• Use rendering and visualization techniques to make your design come alive
• Prepare for Revit certification exams

With Autodesk Revit Architecture Essentials, you are only a step away from better, faster building design.

Leseprobe

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1: Introducing the Autodesk Revit Architecture Interface

Understanding the User Interface

Creating a Simple Layout

Chapter 2: Walls and Curtain Walls

Understanding Wall Types and Parameters

Creating Wall Configurations

Modifying Wall Parameters

Editing and Resetting Wall Profiles

Cutting Openings

Creating Curtain Walls

Chapter 3: Floors, Roofs, and Ceilings

Creating Floors

Creating Roofs

Adding Ceilings

Chapter 4: Stairs, Ramps, and Railings

Creating a Generic Railing

Creating Stair Configurations

Designing Ramps

Chapter 5: Adding Families

Understanding the Model Hierarchy

Working with System Families

Working with Component Families

Working with In-Place Component Families

Chapter 6: Modifying Families

Modifying 3D Families

Family Categories

Modifying 2D Families

Family Tips and Best Practices

Chapter 7: Schematic Design

Importing a 2D Image

Designing with a 3D Sketch

Creating Revit Elements from a Mass

Chapter 8: Rooms and Color Fill Plans

Defining Rooms in Spaces

Generating Color Fill Room Plans

Chapter 9: Materials, Visualization, Rendering

Materials

Graphic Display Options

Rendering

Chapter 10: Worksharing

Configuring Worksharing

Saving to the Central Model

Worksharing Display Modes

Editing Requests

Worksharing Best Practices

Chapter 11: Details and Annotations

Creating Details

Annotating Your Details

Creating Legends

Chapter 12: Drawing Sets

Schedules

Placing Views on Sheets

Printing Documents

Chapter 13: Workflow and Site Modeling

Understanding a BIM Workflow

Staffing a BIM Project

Project Roles Using Revit Architecture

Modeling a Site

Performing Quality Control on Your Model: Keeping an Eye on File Size

Chapter 14: Repeating Objects, Best Practices, and Quick Tips

Repeating Objects

Optimize Performance

Utilize Best Practices

Use Quick Tips and Shortcuts

Locate Additional Resources

End User License Agreement

List of Illustrations

FIGURE 1.1 Revit Architecture user interface

FIGURE 1.2 Preview of docking the Properties palette to the left side

FIGURE 1.3 Project Browser search results for

Kitchen

FIGURE 1.4 The View Control Bar for a 3D view

FIGURE 1.5 The Show Crop Region tool and the View Control Bar

FIGURE 1.6 Floor sketch lines based on reference planes

FIGURE 1.7 Floor sketch lines after trimming the corners

FIGURE 1.8 Walls placed inward from the floor edge

FIGURE 1.9 Highlighted walls of a chain selection

FIGURE 1.10 Tiled windows show the result of modifying the top constraints of the walls.

FIGURE 1.11 Use the Ctrl key to manually select multiple items in your model.

FIGURE 1.12 The interior walls

FIGURE 1.13 Results of Trim/Extend Multiple Elements

FIGURE 1.14 Results of the Align tool

FIGURE 1.15 The doors swing into the rooms.

FIGURE 1.16 The Windows for the rooms

FIGURE 1.17 The dimensions of the interior walls

FIGURE 1.18 Doors equally spaced relative to the walls

FIGURE 1.19 Windows equally spaced

FIGURE 2.1 Masonry structural region of a basic wall

FIGURE 2.2 Compound walls consist of several layers of functional materials.

FIGURE 2.3 Wall sweep as part of a wall

FIGURE 2.4 Type properties of a stacked wall

FIGURE 2.5 Curtain wall type definitions

FIGURE 2.6 Generic configurations for walls

FIGURE 2.7 Results of the Tangent-Fillet Walls steps

FIGURE 2.8 Result of Pick Lines

FIGURE 2.9 Hosting doors in a wall

FIGURE 2.10 Modifying the wall length

FIGURE 2.11 Shape handles and instance parameters displayed in the Properties palette

FIGURE 2.12 Adding new sketch lines

FIGURE 2.13 Edited wall profile

FIGURE 2.14 Attach Top/Base setting

FIGURE 2.15 Creating wall openings

FIGURE 2.16 Splitting walls, before and after

FIGURE 2.17 Swapping wall type before and after

FIGURE 2.18 Completed curtain grid lines

FIGURE 2.19 Mullions and selecting the grid line

FIGURE 2.20 Final instance-based curtain wall

FIGURE 2.21 Curtain wall grids added

FIGURE 2.22 Curtain wall panels and mullions specified

FIGURE 2.23 Mullions selected on grid line

FIGURE 2.24 Curtain wall corner condition

FIGURE 2.25 Edit wall profile

FIGURE 2.26 Curtain wall selected in wall

FIGURE 2.27 Curtain wall elevation view complete

FIGURE 2.28 Removed curtain wall grids and mullions

FIGURE 2.29 New grids and mullions

FIGURE 2.30 Finished mullions

FIGURE 2.31 Curtain wall door condition

FIGURE 2.32 Final curtain wall

FIGURE 3.1 The finished floor by sketching

FIGURE 3.2 The finished floor by picking walls

FIGURE 3.3 Modifying the floor sketch

FIGURE 3.4 The modified floor

FIGURE 3.5 New floor 1′-0″ (300 mm) above Level 1

FIGURE 3.6 New floor at Level 1

FIGURE 3.7 Slope arrow parameters

FIGURE 3.8 Completed sloped floor

FIGURE 3.9 Adding split lines

FIGURE 3.10 Editing the shape handle

FIGURE 3.11 The finished depression

FIGURE 3.12 The finished opening

FIGURE 3.13 Completed openings of the same size and dimensions

FIGURE 3.14 Pasted geometry

FIGURE 3.15 Creating a multistory shaft

FIGURE 3.16 The finished multistory shaft

FIGURE 3.17 Roof sketch and slope properties

FIGURE 3.18 Adjusting the wall height