Autodesk Revit Architecture 2016 No Experience Required E-Book

Eric Wing

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

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Go from beginner to guru quickly with the ultimate Revit Architecture 2016 guide

Autodesk Revit Architecture 2016 No Experience Required is your ultimate hands-on guide for mastering this essential BIM software. With step-by-step instruction and a continuous tutorial approach, this invaluable guide walks you through the design of a four-story office building. You'll be led through the entire design, documentation, and presentation process with expert instruction and helpful tips, so you can quickly become confident and productive. You'll follow a real-world workflow as you jump right into modeling, first placing doors and windows, then building floors layer-by-layer, adding roofs and ceilings, stairs, ramps, and railings. Coverage includes crucial information on detailing, view and match line information, and printing, plus advanced topics like curtain walls, sweeps, embedded families, and formulas. You'll delve into site considerations including grading and topsurface features, and integrate them into your design at the rendering stage. The companion website provides downloadable tutorial files so you can jump in at any point and compare your work to the pros.

Revit is the industry-leading Building Information Management software, hailed for its power and sophistication. This guide helps you get the most out of the software, with expert instruction and plenty of practice.

• Master the interface, tools, views, and editing capabilities
• Work with structural objects, text, dimensions, and multi-story buildings
• Generate construction documentation, schedules, and material takeoffs
• Explore phase management, work sharing, and working with various formats

BIM is the emerging paradigm for architects and others in the construction and engineering fields. Revit is the industry leader, and is quickly becoming a mandatory skillset. Autodesk Revit Architecture 2016 No Experience Required provides everything you need to get up to speed and down to work.

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

Titlepage

Copyright

Credits

Dedication

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

Who Should Read This Book

What Is Covered in This Book

Contacting the Author

Chapter 1: The Autodesk Revit World

The Revit Interface

The Project Browser

File Types and Families

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 2: Creating a Model

Placing Walls

Using Reference Planes

Adding Interior Walls

Editing Wall Joins

Placing Doors and Windows

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 3: Creating Views

Creating Levels

Creating and Modifying Building Sections

Adding Wall Sections

Creating Detail Sections

Creating Callouts

Creating and Modifying a Camera View

Creating an Elevation

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 4: Working with the Autodesk Revit Tools

The Basic Edit Commands

The Array Command

The Mirror Command

The Align Tool

The Split Element Command

The Trim Command

The Offset Command

Copy/Paste

Creating the Plans

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 5: Dimensioning and Annotating

Dimensioning

Using Dimensions as a Layout Tool

Placing Text and Annotations

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 6: Floors

Placing a Floor Slab

Building a Floor by Layers

Splitting the Floor Materials

Pitching a Floor to a Floor Drain

Creating Shaft Openings

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 7: Roofs

Placing Roofs by Footprint

Creating a Sloping Roof

Creating Roofs by Extrusion

Adding a Roof Dormer

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 8: Structural Items

Adding Structural Grids

Adding Structural Columns

Using Structural Framing

Understanding Foundation Systems

Adding Structural Footings

Using Structural Views

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 9: Ceilings and Interiors

Creating Ceilings

Creating Ceiling Openings and Soffits

Adding Interior Design

Adding Alternate Floor Materials

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 10: Stairs, Ramps, and Railings

Creating Stairs by Using the Rise/Run Function

Creating a Winding Staircase

Creating a Custom Railing System

Creating Custom Stairs

Adding Ramps

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 11: Detailing

Working with Line Weights

Drafting on Top of the Detail

Adding Notes

Creating Blank Drafting Views

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 12: Creating Specific Views and Match Lines

Duplicating Views

Creating Dependent Views

Adding Match Lines

Using View Templates

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 13: Creating Sheets and Printing

Creating and Populating Sheets

Modifying a Viewport

Adding Revisions to a Sheet

Addressing Project Parameters

Generating a Cover Sheet

Printing from Revit Architecture

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 14: Creating Rooms and Area Plans

Creating Rooms

Adding a Room Schedule

Adding a Color-Fill Plan

Adding Room Separators

Creating an Area Plan

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 15: Advanced Wall Topics

Creating Compound Walls

Adding Wall Sweeps

Creating Stacked Walls

Creating Curtain Walls

Adding a Wall to a Massing Object

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 16: Creating Families

Creating a Basic Family

Using a Complex Family to Create an Arched Door

Creating an In-Place Family

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 17: Site and Topography

Adding a Site in Revit

Splitting the Surface

Creating Subregions

Adding Site Components

Adding Building Pads to Displace Earth

Adding a Property Line

Creating a Toposurface by Instance

Creating a Graded Region

Are You Experienced?

Chapter 18: Rendering and Presentation

Creating an Exterior Rendering

Creating an Interior Rendering

Creating Walkthroughs

Creating a Solar Study

Are You Experienced?

End-User License Agreement

List of Tables

List of Illustrations

Figure 1-1: You can launch Revit Architecture from the desktop icon.

Figure 1-2: The Recent Files window lists any recent projects or families on which you’ve worked.

Figure 1-3: The New Project dialog allows you to start a new project using a preexisting template file, or you can create a new template file.

Figure 1-4: The Ribbon is the backbone of Revit.

Figure 1-5: The Options bar allows you to have additional choices for the current command.

Figure 1-6: The Ribbon breakdown showing the panels

Figure 1-7: Click the Properties button to display the Properties dialog. Typically, the dialog is shown by default.

Figure 1-8: The Properties dialog gives you access to many variables associated with the item you’re adding to the model.

Figure 1-9: Dragging the Properties dialog onto the Project Browser

Figure 1-11: The type properties, when modified, alter every occurrence of this specific wall in the entire model.

Figure 1-12: The Edit Type button allows you to access the type properties.

Figure 1-13: The type properties modify the wall system’s global settings. Click the Preview button at the bottom of the dialog to see the image that is displayed.

Figure 1-14: By selecting Finish Face: Exterior, you know the wall will be dimensioned from the outside finish.

Figure 1-15: You can draw any shape you need.

Figure 1-16: The view window collects the results of your actions.

Figure 1-17: The procedure for drawing a wall in Revit Architecture

Figure 1-18: How Revit Architecture works is evident in this procedure.

Figure 1-19: Working with Revit starts with the ability to work with the view window and learn the quirks and feel of the interface.

Figure 1-20: Using a crossing window to select two walls

Figure 1-21: To select only objects that are surrounded by the window, use a box. This will leave out any item that may be partially within the box.

Figure 1-22: The Ribbon adds the appropriate commands.

Figure 1-23: There are options you must choose for every command in Revit.

Figure 1-24: Revit has snaps similar to most CAD applications. In Revit, you’ll get snaps only if you choose the Draw icon from the Options bar during a command.

Figure 1-25: Mirroring these walls involves (1) picking the midpoint of the vertical wall and (2) picking a horizontal point along the plane.

Figure 1-26: Your building should look like this illustration.

Figure 1-27: You can select any item in Revit and create a similar object by right-clicking and selecting Create Similar.

Figure 1-28: Just because you started the command from the view window doesn’t mean you can ignore your options.

Figure 1-29: Select the top corner of the wall to start your new radial wall.

Figure 1-30: The completed exterior walls should look like this illustration.

Figure 1-31: The View Control bar controls the graphical view of your model.

Figure 1-32: The Scale menu allows you to change the scale of your view.

Figure 1-33: The Detail Level control allows you to set different view levels for the current view.

Figure 1-34: The View tab allows you to turn on and off the Navigation bar.

Figure 1-35: You can use the steering wheel to navigate through a view.

Figure 1-36: Because Revit doesn’t include zoom commands in the Undo function, you can rewind to find previous views.

Figure 1-37: The standard zoom commands

Figure 1-38: Clicking the Thin Lines icon lets you operate on the finer items in a model.

Figure 1-39: The 3D View icon will be used heavily.

Figure 1-40: The Visual Style button enables you to view your model in color. This is typical for a 3D view.

Figure 1-41: Shadows create a nice effect, but at the expense of RAM.

Figure 1-42: The ViewCube lets you look freely at different sides of the building.

Figure 1-43: The model with shadows turned on

Figure 1-44: The Project Browser is your new BIM Windows Explorer.

Figure 1-45: Symbols for elevation markers in the plan. If you need to move them, you must do so by picking a window. There are two items in an elevation marker.

Figure 1-46: You can close a view by clicking the X for the view. This doesn’t close Revit—or an actual file for that matter—it simply closes that view.

Figure 1-47: The Switch Windows menu lists all the current views that are open.

Figure 1-48: The traditional Save icon brings up the Save As dialog if the file has never been saved.

Figure 1-49: The Options button in the Save As dialog lets you choose how the file is saved.

Figure 1-50: The options in the File Save Options dialog box let you specify the number of backups and the view for the preview.

Figure 1-51: You can load an

.rfa

file during the placement of a hosted family.

Figure 1-52: Each family

.rfa

file contains multiple types associated with that family.

Figure 1-53: Inserting a hosted family (

.rfa

)

Figure 1-54: All the families are listed in the Project Browser.

Figure 1-55: A new Revit model is based on an

.rte

template file.

Figure 1-56: The creation of a family starts with templates.