... Autodesk ➤ Autodesk RevitArchitecture2011 ➤ LicenseTransfer Utility.■ On Windows Vista or Windows 7, click Start menu ➤ All Programs ➤ Autodesk ➤ Autodesk Revit Architecture2011 ➤ License Transfer ... beam length tolerance■ Beam Coping Tool Revit Extensions■ Shared Parameters Converter■ Model Review■ Autodesk Revit DB LinkNew in RevitArchitecture2011 | 5Modifying Curtain Walls . . . ... design.Understanding Revit TermsMost of the terms used to identify objects in RevitArchitecture are common, industry-standard terms familiarto most architects. However, some terms are unique to Revit Architecture. ...
... Autodesk Revitarchitecture2011 : no experience required / Eric Wing. — 1st ed. p. cm. Summary: “Learn RevitArchitecture step by step with this project-based tutorial. RevitArchitecture ... to writing this book, Eric has written Revit Architecture No Experienced Required 2010 and Revit Structure Fundamentals, and he co-authored Mastering Revit Structure. Also, Eric is the manager ... Dear Reader,Thank you for choosing Autodesk RevitArchitecture 2011: No Experience Required. This book is part of a family of premium-quality Sybex...
... Solar Study 844Are You Experienced? 846ch A p t e r 20 Importing and Coordinating Revit Models 847Linking a Revit Structure Model 848Activating Copy Monitor 850Adjusting the Copy/Monitor Options ... Function 440Modifying Boundaries 443Adding Default Railings 445ContentsxviiPrinting from RevitArchitecture 691Are You Experienced? 694ch A p t e r 15 Creating Rooms and Area Plans 695Creating ... t A gl A n c eIntroduction xxiCHAPTER 1 The Revit World 1CHAPTER 2 Creating a Model 43CHAPTER 3 Creating Views 97CHAPTER 4 Working with the Revit Tools 155CHAPTER 5 Dimensioning and Annotating...
... Figure 1.1), or choose Start ➢ All Programs ➢ Autodesk ➢ Autodesk Revit Architecture2011 ➢ Autodesk RevitArchitecture2011 (see Figure 1.2).IntroductionxxivChapter 15: Creating Rooms ... door takes three times as long. The RevitArchitecture interfaceThe Project BrowserFile types and familiesChapter 1 • The Revit World2The RevitArchitecture InterfaceToto, we are ... families you have been working on.FIGURE 1.1 You can launch RevitArchitecture from the desktop icon.FIGURE 1.2 You can also launch RevitArchitecture using the Windows Start menu (this shows the...
... may also notice that Revit places an additional Options bar below the Ribbon for more choices.FIGURE 1.6 The Ribbon is the backbone of Revit Architecture. Chapter 1 • The Revit World6FIGURE ... Topics.”The RevitArchitecture Interface7an icon on the Ribbon, Revit will react to that icon with a new tab, giving you the specific additional commands and options you need. Revit also keeps ... the left of this toolbar is the Revit Home button. Clicking this button gives you access to more Revit functions that will be covered later in the book.The RevitArchitecture Interface13FIGURE...
... in your model, Revit starts to come alive. The benefits of using building information The RevitArchitecture Interface15FIGURE 1.19 The procedure for drawing a wall in Revit Architecture 4. ... You will also see an alignment line and a tangent snap icon appear as The RevitArchitecture Interface23well. Revit understands that perhaps you want an arc tangent upon the two lines you ... scale function. It gets small mention here, but it is a huge deal. In Revit, you change the scale of a view by The RevitArchitecture Interface17If you start a command, then focus immediately...
... The RevitArchitecture Interface25TIP When you change the view control in a view, it is not a temporary display. You are telling Revit how you want to plot this ... care. This could be the single worst item in Revit in terms of performance deg-radation. Your model will slow down with shadows on.The RevitArchitecture Interface29FIGURE 1.43 Shadows ... elevation will look like a sec-tion, and it will be hard to determine how the section occurred.The RevitArchitecture Interface27FIGURE 1.39 The standard zoom commandsThin LinesBack on the View...
... three separate Revit applications: Revit Architecture, Revit Structure, and Revit MEP. All three Revits share the same .rvt file extension. You can open a Revit file produced in any of these ... what Revit calls a family.un d e r s tan d i n g t h e re v i t ar C h i t e C t u r e Fi l e (.r v t )The extension for a RevitArchitecture file is .rvt. There are three separate Revit ... working knowledge of the RevitArchitecture inter-face and you understand how it differs from most other drafting applications, it’s time to move on to creating the Revit model.The first chapter...
... together. This behavior is inherent to Revit. For the previous procedure, however, you will be left with a gap between the bottom two walls. It was too far for Revit to realize these walls need ... the file called NER-01.rvt, which you can download from the book’s website at www.sybex.com/go /revit2 011ner. (You can also use your own building, but the dimensions specified here will not be consistent ... pick the second point, move your pointer to the right until Revit snaps it to the tangent radius. (You may not get a tangent snap, but Revit will hesitate when you have reached the tangency.) Once...
... cleanup. Although all of the modify commands will be featured in Chapter 4, “Working with the Revit Tools,” we can still use some here. Already, we have borrowed the Mirror command from that ... walls and then modifying them to conform to your needs is a huge part of being successful in Revit, but we are not done yet. The next few processes will involve dealing with different types...
... would show the specific construc-tion methods. But in some cases, you would want Revit to reveal this information. In Revit, you have three choices for the display:Clean Join Clean Join will join ... people to have fits with Revit. Let’s try to avoid those fits right now!Editing the Cut ProfileA plan view is simply a section taken 4′–0″ up the wall from the finish floor. In Revit, you can manually ... the intersection, you will see some additional lines show up. These additional lines expose how Revit is actually looking at the corner. 10. On the Options bar, you will now see some choices...
... Model88Loading FamiliesIt would be nice if the seven doors available in the Revit model were all you needed. They, of course, are not. Revit, like most other CAD and applications that use building information ... the wall you will place the opening into.Placing Doors and Windows87 3. As you know, in RevitArchitecture anything that turns blue can be edited. Click on the blue dimension that extends ... TagsNotice the tag that shows up? This is an automatic feature of Revit, as is the tag’s number. Under normal circumstances, Revit will number it incorrectly. Luckily you can renumber it: 1....
... done in AutoCAD is not helping you any in Revit. In Revit you may need to slow down a bit, and let Revit “do its thing.” After you get the hang of Revit s behavior, you can speed up again. ... new level in RevitArchitecture is quite simple. But you need to adhere to certain procedures in order to ensure you add the levels correctly.When you use the Level feature in Revit, two procedural ... relationship to the model. We will start with possibly the most important function in Revit: creating levels. The power of Revit comes with the single-model concept. By being able to add levels to a...