Introduction to Revit Architecture

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1. Introduction to Revit Architecture

June 11, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso7 Comments

This post is the first of Revit for beginners tutorial series. If you want to learn Revit, I hopethis tutorial will be useful. And I hope will be easy to follow. My English is poor, but I hope

understandable :D I will use metric for unit, common unit I use.

So lets get started. I will explain what is Revit first. Revit in a BIM application. Building

Information Modeling. Its beyond 3D modeling for visualization. You are creating a virtual

building, with all its properties. Just like you build a real building, but in real world, its in

your workstation.

Because you are building a real building (virtually, of course) you can extract any data from

it. Plan, elevations, sections, schedule is some of common data you can use. Its also easy to

create color fill, 3D perspective, rendering, detailed drawing, and limited walkthrough

animation. BIM also enable you to communicate your model to other applications, such as

structural analysis, green building analysis, heat load calculation, etc.

Revit architecture is built for architect. So architect can work with conventional way: by

creating building plan.
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You can draw as you draw a plan. But you are actually building a 3D model. So youll have

your plan and sections instantly. Sure, there are some 3D works to do to complete the

building. But its quite easy.

Other data you can collect from your model is your building schedule. You can create a

report wall length, number of doors and windows, and other schedule easily. Ive customized

this schedule below to my language. It is customizable to your language too!

And because you are actually creating it in 3D, visualization is easy to make. Just place yourcamera, tweak it a little bit, then youll have a nice perspective!
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Im not an architect. So dont judge the design. But I hope my tutorial will be useful. Next,

you will learn about Revit interface.

2. Revit Architecture User Interface


This is the second ofRevit tutorial serieson CAD Notes. If you new to Revit, you might

want to see the first tutorial:introduction to Revit Architecture.

I believe that first thing you should getting familiar with, when learning Revit is the

interface. Sure, all Windows compliant software might look and taste the same. But some

specific tools only available in Revit. Plus it has a specific workflow. Revit just change the

interface since 2010. So I decided to use it, not 2009 or older. If you use older version, you

might have to refer to manual or help file. But besides the ribbon bar, its not that different ;) First time you started Revit, you will see a startup page like this. No, it doesnt open a file at

startup. So click new under project category to start a new project.
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Here is how she looks like.

Lets explore the interface elements one-by-one.

1. Ribbon Bar

You might already familiar with ribbon interface. Microsoft Office 2007 use it. AutoCAD

use it since ACAD 2009. And now, looks like all Autodesk 2010 products use it.

Ribbon has several tabs. Each tabs contains specific tools. Home tab contain most used toolsin RAC. So if you want to place a wall, find wall tool in ribbon.

2. Contextual Bar

This is also something new. Each time you activate a tool or select an object, ribbon will

show contextual tab. This tab contains options related to that object. Like this example, you

can change the wall type in element section, or you can draw an arc wall by defining it in


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draw section.

3. Option Bar

Option bar only appear when you activate a tool. Option bar allows you to define how youwant an object to be placed. In this example, the wall height, wall location line, wall offset,

and radius (for arch walls).

I feel a little bit annoyed wondering why does this bar still exist. I wonder why dont

Autodesk just put it all together in contextual bar?

4. Project Browser

Project browser is the most important feature to access your project. You can access all of theviews, families, groups, and Revit links using this browser. If you want to see or modify floor

plan for level 2, just double click it in the browser. The current view will be highlighted in the

browser.

5. Drawing Area

Drawing area is where you can interact with your model. You can add, view, and select then

modify your model here.


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3.Understanding Views and View

Navigation


Lets continue theRevit Architecture tutorial series. We havelearned about Revit user

interface.The next thing you will learn is about understanding Revit views. How to

access it, and how to navigate through it. I have prepared a little tutorial file for you to use.

Download this file, extract it. Then open it with your RAC 2010. If you use older version,

you can try to open a sample file provided.

You will see similar view as above. We will model the same building in these tutorial series.

But first, lets explore the views and get familiar with the navigation tools.

Double click1st floor underfloor plans category. It will open the view. If you have problem

with using double click, just right click above 1st floor, the choose open from shortcut menu.

Now try to open the 2nd floor, bird eye elevations, and perspectives.

Each view represents the model. Every changes on the model will be updated instantly on

each views. We will get to this later.

Now, open 2nd floor plan again. On navigation bar, below magnifier icon, click the down

arrow. Choosezoom in region.
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We are going to magnify the stair to fit our view. Click once a little bit outside of the building

at the back, then click again below the stair. Use image below as reference.

Now scroll your mouse to front and back. You can also use scroll button to zoom in and out.Hold down your middle button, you should see your pointer changed to 4 arrows like this.

Move your mouse. You can use it to pan your drawing.

What if I dont have 3 button mouse? Well, you should consider of buying one :) But yes,

you still can use 2 button mouse. Click steering wheel on navigation bar to activate it. Or

press [shift] + W.

With steering wheel, you can pan and zoom. Just move your pointer above pan, hold your left

button, then move your mouse. Or hold it when your pointer above zoom.

Try to get familiar with these tools.


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Zoom to a wall until you can see the brick pattern. From your view control bar, click the

detail level button. Choose coarse. You should see the pattern is hidden now.

Now change the drawing scale from 1:100 to 1:200. Now you should see the annotations look

larger. Revit will automatically arrange the annotation size for you. Just define the right scale,

and may be you need to tidy it a little bit.

Open the standard 3d view {3D}. In 3D views, you will see the view cube. Click the front

face in the view cube to see the building from front. Try to click other faces and arrows you

see.

What else? Double click on the project browser, exterior views under 3D Views category.

Click on shadow and choose shadows off.

Try to change the model graphic style to shading with edges, wireframe, and shading.

Try to get familiar with them. Next we will discuss about levels then placing walls.

4. Defining LevelsJune 17, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso8 Comments

Lets get started. You already get familiarwith Revit Architecture interface,views, andnavigating views in Revit. Now, we will learn how to create a simple 2 story house with

Revit as you saw before. We will create it from scratch. We will create it in metric unit.

Create a new project. Use Revit menufile>new>project. Dont use new project from startup

page. We are going to create a new project in metric. Using startup page will use your default

template without further question. I will ensure that all of us using the same template.

Using the Revit menu will show you this dialog.
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Make sure you see dashed blue line, then click your mouse. Level 3 will be added.

Now we will rename the levels. Click modify on ribbon bar. Zoom until you see level 1 label

clearly. Click the label, wait until you see the label become editable, then rename it to 1st

Floor. Hit [enter] after you finish renaming.

You will see a warning box Would you like to rename corresponding views? Click yes.

You will see in project browser, all view named level 1 changed to 1st Floor. Includes floor

plan and ceiling plan.

Rename level 2 to 2nd Floor, and level 3 to Roof. In the next tutorial, we will place the wall.

Save your file.

*You can also change the level elevation by editing the level value.

5. Placing Exterior WallsJune 19, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso2 Comments

We havecreated new levels in our Revit project. Now we are going to place walls. Lets start

from exterior walls. If you are new to this site, you can seethe Revit tutorial contents list

here.

Open 1st Floor View. Double click 1st Floor under floor plan views, in project browser.

You will see an empty floor plan with 4 elevation views marks.
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On the ribbon, home tab, activate wall tool.

On the contextual bar, make sure your wall type is generic200 mm.

On option bar, change height to roof level. And make sure chain option is checked.

Start inside the 4 elevation marks. Start about in the middle of them. Click your mouse, move

your pointer to the left. You will see a temporary dimension. This dimension called listening

dimension.

Move until you see listening dimension show value 3500, then click your mouse. Now move

your pointer up, until you see dashed blue line. Now you should see tool tip say vertical and

extension or you could check it on your status bar. Type 7500 then press [enter]. Typing it is

easier and faster!

Continue to right. Type 3500 then [enter]. Down, type 500 then [enter]. Right once again,

3500 [enter].

Now your plan will look like this.


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Press [esc] once to finish at this point. Wall tool should be still active. Change wall height on

option bar to 2nd Floor. Add more walls with height up to 2nd floor as you see below.

Now add more walls with height up to roofbelow.


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Lets take a look what we have done. Click 3D at quick launch bar on upper left, above the

ribbon.

You will see your model like this. Exciting right?

Now open 1st floor plan again. Add more wall with height to the roof like below.

Move your pointer to 2nd wall from north. Move it to the right. Pay attention that temporary


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dimension snap to wall face. We dont want this. We want it snap to wall centerlines.

We will change Revit option a little bit. Open manage tab on Revit ribbon bar. Click

settings>temporary dimension.

Change temporary dimension measure from, in walls group to centerlines.

Now we can add more walls. Move your pointer above the previous wall again, until you see

temporary dimension from left wall. Type 2500 [enter]. Create vertical wall up, 2000mm.

Horizontal wall left 500mm. Then finally up until snap to northest wall.

Check your model in 3D view. Remember that we havent change the wall height? It created

to the roof, instead of only to 2nd Floor ouch! Dont worry, we will change it.

Open the 1st Floor plan. Select the 3 walls. You can hold [ctrl] and pick them one by one, or

drag a rectangle from right to left.


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Click element properties>instance properties from ribbon bar. A dialog box will be opened.

Find top constraint parameter, change it to Up to Level: 2nd Floor. Review your model in

3D view.

In designing with Revit, you dont have to follow this workflow. You can edit the levels later,

after you walls are placed. Or you can create all interior and exterior walls, then modifying it

properties later. There are a lot of options!

Nextwe are going to finish our walls.

6. Finishing Your Walls


In previous Revit tutorial,youve been introduced about placing exterior wall.Now, we willplace the remaining wall. If you are new to Revit, you may want tocheck our Revit tutorial

from the beginning.

Theres no difference between placing exterior or interior wall. Only the walls propertiesmight be different. And its easier to place interior wall after your building shell is defined.

Now lets continue our design. Activate your wall tool. Use the same wall type as before .

And change the wall height to unconnected. And change the height value to 3000.

Finish your 1st Floor level walls as below. Dont mind about the exact position yet. We will

correct this later.

Now we will fine-tune our wall position. Click modify tool from Revit ribbon bar. Pickinterior wall left most, 2nd from bottom of your model. You will see temporary dimension

appears. If you see the temporary dimension doesnt refer to bottom most wall, move the grip

by clicking and dragging it.
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Click on the dimension value, change it to 5000.

Now see wall on its right. These two walls should be aligned. Activate align tool. Its on

Revit ribbon bar, modify tab, edit section.

Pick the wall face youve moved as reference, then click the wall on its right. Not that

difficult, right? :)

Now, arrange all the wall to match this image. Dont worry about the dimension. I only put it

for your reference. You dont have to place them right now.


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Now lets move to 2nd floor. You should see several walls have been placed. This floor share

some walls with 1st floor. The others, shown in halftone (gray). It means there is no wall in

that location yet. It shows the 1st floor wall for your references.

Finish this 2nd floor plan. Place exterior walls with height up to roof level, and interior walls

with height unconnected, 3000 mm. Use this image below for your reference.


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How are you doing so far?

7. Placing Doors and Windows


In the previous tutorial,you have placed walls in Revit model. Now, we will placing doors

and windows to our Revit model. You will be introduced to instance parameters, so you can

have your own family type.

Doors and windows are Revit hosted components. It means you can only place them hosted

to other component: wall. No walls, then no doors, no windows.

Placing your doors

Understanding Door Placement

Lets continue our Revit model. Open your 1st floor plan. We will place them at location

shown below.
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Activate door tool from ribbon bar, home TAB. Select M_Single-Flush:08642134 asfamily type from type selector. Click change element type to choose other family type.

Deactivate tag on placementfrom option bar. We dont want the doors automatically tagged.

We will place them later.

Move your mouse pointer around, away from walls. You will see your mouse pointer like this

when its not find any walls, it cant find its host. Now move your pointer to locationshown before.

Now you can place your door. If the placement orientation not match image above, press

[space] to flip the door. Click your mouse to place it.

Now place all the remaining doors. Choose appropriate size if necessary. Very easy, right? Idont think youll find difficulties in placing them :)
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Creating New Door Type

Now activate modify, pick one of the door. You will see temporary dimension to modify theplacement. And also, flip symbol to modify the orientation.

Try to click that flip symbol to flip the door. Similar to placing walls, sometimes its easier to

place your door first, and fine tune its placement later.

Now select one door, any door that you want to change its size.

From contextual ribbon, select element properties>type properties.

Click duplicate on the dialog box that opened. Type 7002100 mm when Revit ask for the

type name. Click OK.

You just created a new type. Now, you have to change the dimension properties. Change thedoor height to 2100 and width to 700 in dimensions section.

Click OK to close the dialog box. See that the size of your door has changed. You also can

see in contextual tab, its using your new door type.Now we will load another door family. Activate door tool. From contextual tab, model

section, click load family.

In the opened dialog box, choose M_Double-Glass 1.rfa and M_Overhead-Rolling.rfa.

You can pick multiple files by holding [crtl] and pick the file.

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Now, open your 2nd floor plan and place all these doors.

Lets review our doors in our model. Open your 3D view by clicking the 3D View button.

Placing Windows

There is no difference between placing doors and windows. We will complete our model byplacing these two types of window: M_Fixed: 06101830 mm and M_Fixed: 0915x1830mm.

Feel free to use any other types of windows.

Here is my 1st floor windows.


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And here is my 2nd floor windows.

Lets check our 3D model now.

In next exercise,we will explore more about wall properties.

8. Understanding Wall StructureJuly 7, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso0 Comments
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Weve been placing wall in our Revit model. So far, we use generic type. It only has one

layer, so you might not notice that you can actually define exterior and interior wall.

Activate modify tool. Select one of your wall.

You should see arrow symbol to flip your wall. The arrows are supposed to be on theexterior side of your walls. You see some arrow in your model lies in the interior side?

Click the arrow to correct them. Save your file now. We will experiment by changing wall

types, to understand more about walls.

Open your 3D view. With modify tool active, select your whole model.

We only want to select walls, so we will filter out other kind of objects. Click filter in your

ribbon.

From filter dialog box, deactivate doors and windows. Click OK.

Now the only type of object we have in selection set now, are walls.

From element category, in your ribbon, click change element type. Select: Basic

Wall:ExteriorBrick on Mtl. Stud. If you see some error warnings, just ignore them for now.

Now see image below. I didnt correctly define exterior side for some walls. You can see that

some walls are not showing brick pattern. If you cant see the brick pattern, try to zoom in.
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Open your plan view. You should see your wall pattern looks like this.

If you cant see the patterns, change your detail level to fine.

In Revit, you are actually creating walls. Virtually, of course. But its not just lines. Your

walls have properties and structure that you can define. More about this later. In the nextexercise,we will define our own type of wall.

Try to experiment with other type of walls. Include curtain wall. After you finish playing

with walls, close your project file, but dont save it.

9. Creating Your Own Wall Type

July 12, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso4 Comments

Lets continue our tutorial.You have tried several wall types in the

previous Revit tutorial. You might find out that even Revit has many

types of walls, you need to define your own types. This is what we are

going to do now, creating our own wall types!

Type vs Instance Properties

First thing first. We will discuss the difference between instance and

type properties before creating your own types.

Whats an instance? Every objects in your model is an instance. Some of them might use a

same type. If you change a type properties, such as thickness, then every instance using it will

use the new property.But if you change instance property of a wall, it will not affect the others that use the same

type. For example, if you change a wall height. It wont affect other walls property. Try to

open type properties dialog and instance properties dialog and compare them.
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Creating a New Wall Type

Next, we will create a standard type of wall. This is the common type used in Indonesia, and Ibelieve in Malaysia too.

Activate wall tool. Click element properties, then select type properties. We dont want to

mess the original properties, so we will create a duplicate for this wall type. Click duplicateon type properties dialog box.

When Revit ask you for this type name, enter Brick wall 150mm then click OK. Now we

will edit this type structure properties. Click edit button next to structure. Its under

construction parameter.

You will see next dialog box: edit assembly. Right now, theres only one layer on this wall

type. Change the layer thickness value to 110.

Adding More Layers

Click insert twice to add 2 more layers. Change the 1st layer you added, its function to

Finish 1 [4] and the 2nd layer function to Finish [5]. Then change both thickness to 20.

Arrange the layers as you seen below. Select layer you want to move, then click up or down

button. Layers on top of core boundary will lie on the exterior side. And layers on the bottom

of it on the interior side.

You have finish adding new layers, now we will define their materials. Click

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Select default material, then click duplicate. Give this material name: brick wall structure.

Defining Pattern and Materials

Now, lets change how this material will appear in our model. Change the cut pattern to

Brickwork.

Click OK to close this dialog. Now do the same step above to define new materials for our

wall finish. Define interior finish and exterior finish material. For this two materials,

activate use render appearance for shading.

You dont need to define pattern for this two. But you will need to define how they would

look like when you render the model. Clickrender appearance tab.

Click replace button to select render material you wanted. There are a bunch of materials you

can use, without having to define it by yourself!

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Select all your wall, change their type to our new wall type definition. Review your model in

plan views. You might want to activate thin lines to see your model clearer. Its on view tab

of your ribbon.

Next, we are going to cover other type of Revit object.We will create floor.

10. Creating FloorsJuly 20, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso5 Comments

If you are followingthis Revit tutorial seriesfrom beginning, youve

already known aboutdefining level,placing walls,placing

doors/windows, define your own door type, andwall type.Now its

time to define floors in your Revit model. Creating floors is a bit

different than placing walls and doors. We have to use sketch to

define this type of building component. Do you notice that I use

create word for floors and place for wall and doors/windows?

But dont worry, its not difficult!

Creating sketch

Open your previous Revit file. Open your 1st floor plan view. We will add floor on this level.

Activate floor tool from your ribbon. Its on home tab, build section.

Now you should see your plan become half toned. It means you can only see it and use it as

reference for your floor sketch. Sketch? Yes, you have to define the boundary by sketching it.
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See your contextual ribbon tab, now it says: create floor boundary. And you will see

sketching tools such as lines, rectangle, circle, etc.

The default mode for this tool is pick wall. We will get to this later, now change your draw

mode to line.

Draw your boundary as below. Should be easy. Just snap to the points and use appropriate

size for offset value. Make sure you are creating a closed polygon. You cant create the

extrusion if its not closed.

After youve done, clickfinish.

Explore your Revit model in 3D view. Now lets move to 2nd floor plan.

Attaching walls to floors

Open your 2nd floor plan view, and activate wall tool. Now, lets do it a bit different. Make

sure the draw mode is pick wall

Check your option bar. Make sure the extend into wall (core) is active. This option will tell

Revit to find the wall core and snap to it.

Pick these walls below. Select on the exterior side of these walls.
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Change your drawing mode from pick walls to line. Add these lines to finish your our

boundary sketch.

Now examine your sketch. This is not a closed polygon. Lines created by picking walls might

extend at wall intersection. Lets fix this. Activate trim from your ribbon.

Pick lines to trim or extend your lines. After you finish, then clickfinish.

You will see some dialog box asking your confirmation.

First, Revit will ask if you want your walls to attach this floor bottom? If you select yes, then

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Next, Revit will ask if you want to join geometry and cut overlapping volume. We also want

this, so click yes.

After finish, lets review the effect of selecting yes in those confirmation dialog. We will

create a section view to this. Open view tab in your ribbon. Click section.

Place your section line at this position. Make sure you have your balcony and interior floor

get cut.

Right click at the section line, then select Go to View. Change your detail level to fine.

Wall is attached to floor Wall core is cut

The image on the left is wall below the balcony. It is lowered and attached to the floorbottom. On the right, we can see the wall core is cut where it met our floor. Try to change

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Create a void

Lets modify our 2nd floor. We will add some space for our stair later. Open your 2nd floor

plan.

Activate modify tool, then select your floor. Place your pointer above your floor edge, wait

for a while until you see the tooltip shown. If you see the tooltip sayingFloor Genericsomething, click your mouse. If you dont press [tab] until you see it in your tooltip. Click

edit boundary in your contextual tab of your ribbon bar.

Youll be back to sketch environment.

Edit your boundary to this. This will create an opening/void for our stair.

Clickfinish after youve done. Not that difficult right?

We will create another building component. See next tutorial:creating roofs in Revit model.

11. Creating RoofJuly 27, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso1 Comment

Lets go further with our Revit tutorial. In the last tutorial, we

learn aboutcreating floor. Now we are going to create roofs. There

are 3 ways to make this building component. By footprints,

extrusion, and by face. In this tutorial, we will discuss about

creating it by footprints.

In your Revit project, open your floor plan view: roof. We will

create two roofs at this level. First, a slab surrounding our building as concrete gutter, and asloped roof. (I hope I use the right term, not really familiar writing this in English).
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Creating slab

Using footprint method is similar with creating floor. We will have to sketch it. You canaccess this tool from your ribbon, build group. Clicking this will bring you to sketch mode.

What we will do is exactly the same with what we were doing when creating floor. You can

either using pick walls or by drawing lines. To create this slab, deactivate define slope.

Click properties button at your ribbon. Change your family type to Generic125 mm.

Draw your sketch as below. At this example, I create the left and right line by picking walls,

and finish the rest by using line sketch with 500mm offset. You can change the offset value

on option bar, then snap to your walls.

Dont worry about the exact size. You can change the values as you feel appropriate.

Remember: make sure its a closed polygon.

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After you finish, click finish. When Revit ask your confirmation to attach your walls to this

roof, select no. Review your model in 3D view if necessary.

Creating Sloped Roof

Next, we will add a sloped roof at this level. Open your roofs level plan.

Activate roof by footprint tool. This time, make sure define slope option is active. Click

properties, change Base Offset from Level value to 200. This will create your roof 200 mm

above the level.

Now, use the line mode for drawing your sketch. Change offset value in the option bar to

200. Create your sketch by snapping to the slab you created before.

Click finish roof, and review your model in 3D view. Very easy, right? Lets do some

modifications. Open your roof plan view, then select your sloped roof. Click edit footprint

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Make sure modify tool active. Hold [ctrl] key then click these lines below.

Turn offdefine slope in your option bar. You will see the slope symbol disappear from those

edges.

Now select two edges at the north (bottom) youve just modified. Hold [ctrl] for add objectsto your selection set, then click your edges. Activate move tool from ribbon.

Click any where on your screen, move your pointer down. Type 300 then [enter]. This will

add offset to these edges. Do the same with the other edge you modified. Move it to south for

300 mm. Click finish.

Lets review our model in 3D view.

You can see there are gaps between your walls and roof shown by the arrows. Lets fix this.

Select wall below the arrow, then click attach in your ribbon, modify wall group.

Select your sloped roof. Do this step for every wall below edges that weve modified.If you want to add pattern, you can read this tip:Add pattern to your roof.

In the next tutorial, we will createroof slab edges.
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Close this dialog box. Now, make sure the active fascia type is Roof Slab Edge. Change it if

necessary.

We have through the hard part, now we will do the fun part: placing the fascia. Placing fascia

is very easy, just click on the roof edges.

Click on every edge shown below. Its fun, right? ;)

Now, activate modify tools (do you realize you can activate it by pressing [esc] several timesdepends on which tool is active). Select the sloped roof, then click hide element from view

control bar. Its the one with sun glasses icon.

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these edges?

We have done with the roof. Next,we will create a staircase.

13. Creating StaircaseAugust 10, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso1 Comment

We completed ourRevit model exterior by creating roof. Now we start

working on the interior by creating staircase.

If you always create stairs by drafting it in AutoCAD, you will love stair

tool in Revit! Revit create stairs automatically, it will also calculate how

many risers you should create to the next level. Its pretty easy!

We have created 2 story house. So, we need to add a stair to connect this two levels. Openyour 1st floor level plan. We will start here.

First of all, lets put some references for our staircase so it will be easier to define our

staircase run. Activate Ref Plane from your ribbon bar.

Place your plane as below. You remember how to place objects in Revit right? It similar way

with placingexterior walls hereandinterior walls here.
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Now, lets do the magic. Activate stair tool. This also bring us to sketch mode, just like floorand roof tool.

By default, the active draw mode is run. We can also define it by drawing boundary and riser.

More about this later. For now, just make sure run is the active mode.

Now we have to define the points for this stair run. Click consecutively on point 1,2,3 then 4

as below.

When defining the stair run, you will see a preview of your future stair. It will also mention

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Now that we finish defining our stair run, click finish stairs.

Review your design. Open your 2nd Floor level plan. You should see the 2nd story floor

connected to our stair is not correct yet. Lets edit it. You do remember how to do it right?Reviewhow to do it here.

Lets review it by placing a camera. Open your 1st floor plan. Open your view tab on your

ribbon. Click the small arrow below 3D View, then click camera.

Now place your camera: first click define camera location, and second point define camera

target.

You might see that not all of your staircase shown. Select your camera view boundary, then

click and drag the view grip. Arrange until you see your staircase as you want to.
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Try to select your railing, and change the railing type!

14. Creating RailingsAugust 18, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso0 Comments

We have createdstaircase in our Revit model. But its not

finished yet. There are some open area we have to close by

adding railings. On the balcony at the front and back of the

building, and on the void next to our stair. We will finish this in

this session.

As this is a tutorial series, if you want to follow this tutorial, it

might be better if you follow thistutorial from the beginning.

Open your 2nd floor plan, and place a camera so you can see your stair. You should see your

void is wide open. Lets place railings here so no body will fall from the 2nd story.

Open your 2nd floor plan again. As we can see, our stair is already have railings. We will edit

the existing railing and add segments to the path. Activate your modify tool. Select the railing

as shown below. Press [tab] several times if you have difficulties in selecting it. When its

highlighted, click it to select.

Now from your ribbon, activate edit path.

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Finish this path like below. Two thing to consider:

1. Make sure your path is a continuous line. Revit wont allow if this line has gaps.2. The stair railing has different segment with the void railing. Dont lengthen the path.

Add a new segment. (You might want to try it to see the difference)

After you finish, click Finish from your ribbon bar.

Weve just edit an existing path. Now we will create a new one on the balcony, lets start

from the front. Activate railing tool.

Make sure chain check box is active, and change the offset value to 75.

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Change the type by accessing properties. Change it to 900mm Pipe. Clickfinish.

Create railing for the back side balcony, then you are finish in this tutorial.

15. Creating Ceiling in Revit ModelAugust 25, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso8 Comments

We learned how tocreate railings in Revit model. Now we will work on

different view type in this tutorial.

If youve noticed, in Revit Views we have several views groups. Until

now, the floor plans are the most views we use. But under floor plansthere is another plan view group: ceiling plans. We use this view in this

tutorial.We covered how to access Revit views in view navigation tutorial here.
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Now lets move to 1st floor ceiling plan. 1st floor requires more work. We have a void and astair. We are going to define ceiling in this area by sketching it. First, place ceilings in every

room in this plan, except for patterned area below.

After you finish, activate place ceiling. Find sketch tool on your ribbon.

Sketching hereis just the same with creating floor. Sketch it as closed polygon, and click

finish. Thats it :) Create sketch for like below.
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And after you finish with that railing, continue finishing 1st floor ceiling by creating another

one like below.

Next, we will discuss about creating ceiling edges, to close the gap between 2nd floor slab

and 1st floor ceiling.

16. Creating Floor Edge Slab andCustom Component

September 9, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso2 Comments

We have created ceiling in our Revit model. Now lets

take a look to our void in stair area. There is a gap

between floor at 2nd story and 1st floor ceiling. In thereal world, of course this is not right. We have to close

it.

There are several ways to do that, depends on your
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actual design. In this tutorial, we will add floor slab edge. But since the gap is too big, it cant

close all the gap. we are going to close the rest of it by creating custom ceiling component.

First thing first. We need to define whats our floor slab edge look like. We are going to

define it by creating a family.

From Revit menu, select new>family. Find Metric Profile-Hosted.rfa, and use it astemplate.

Lets create a profile like this. You can use your own shape and size if you like.

After you finish with this profile, save it. Give it a unique name so you can easily find it later.

Open the project that weve created. Load the profile to that project.You can do it from

ribbon>insert tab>load family.

Now we are going to define a floor slab edge. Open 2nd floor plan, then activate floor slab

edge tool.

From contextual tab, activate element properties>type properties. Click duplicate button.

Give it a new name.

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Click OK.

Now click on your floor edges at the void. You will see slab edges added. See this image

below as your guide.

Who said 3D is difficult? :)

But its not done yet. We still have gap from ceiling to our floor slab edges.

We are going to close it with custom component, a ceiling edge (I really dont know what its

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Lets open 2nd floor plan again. make sure you have a section that cut the void. If you dont

have one yet, create it.

From ribbon>home tab select component>model in-place.

Revit will ask you, what is this family category? Select ceiling, and click OK. Give it nameceiling edge then click OK.

We are going to create a solid sweep. Activate it from your ribbon.

There are two components you have to create to define a sweep: path and profile. Lets create

path first. Click sketch path from your ribbon.

Create a path at your floor edge. You will see a dashed line with red point on it. Thats where

you are going to draw your profile. If the dashed line is not in front of your section, drag it

until you can see it on your section view.

Click finish path.

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ask you a question: which view do you want to use to draw your profile? Select your section

view, click open view.

Now, draw your ceiling edge profile. draw a closed profile, similar too this. If this one looks

too ugly for you, create it as you like, as long as it close all the gap.

Shouldnt sweep profile and sweep path coincident? Apparently not.My path doesnt

coincident with my profile, and it still works :)

Click finish profile. Click finish sweep. Then click finish model. Thats the object hierarchy.

Inside your model, you have a sweep. Sweep is created from a profile (and path). Your need

to click finish several times to end this.

Now take a look to our floor slab edge and ceiling edge.

17. Introduction to Revit ComponentsSeptember 21, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso0 Comments

We have finished with modeling our building. We createdwalls,floors,roof,staircase,railings, andceiling. We can

consider it finished, but we will add some objects from

library to complete it.

Nothing is hard about Revit components. At the first time, I

didnt intend to write about this and just let you exploreabout this by yourself. But I feel this tutorial will be
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incomplete if we dont cover this topic.

Any objects than is not part of your building model is a component. It can be furniture, lights,

plants, entourage, etc.

Component Tool

You can place any components by using component button in home tab.

But you may use site component or parking component in massing & site tab> model site.

All of them will place the same component.

The differences are,

1. Using component button will enable you to place any object available in your Revit projectfile as generic component. While Site Component only allows you to place site objects such

as plants and parking component. When you have many types of objects, filtering them by

using different tool will be helpful.

2. Placing your object as site component will automatically set your site topography as its host.We are going to discuss about site later.

Find and Load Families

Placing component should be very easy. Just activate the component tool, select whatcomponent you want in type selector, and click on your model to place it. Simple. You might

want to load family if you need object thats not available in your Revit project.

Revit has some default families come with the installation. You can also find a lot of Revit

families on the internet. You can try search your component usingAutodesk seek. And of

course, you can create your own.

Placing Component

As I mention before, placing component is peace of cake. As easy as 1,2,3 : activate your

tool, select your component, then place it! However, there are several things you should

know.

Some of Revit families are hosted components. Lighting fixtures can be placed on ceiling or

wall. Site components can be hosted to your site topography. But the others can be placedanywhere.

You can place furniture without finding its host. But you only can place wall based lights on

walls. And you have to open your ceiling plan to place your ceiling based lights.
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For your exercise, place furniture, lighting fixtures, and site components to your Revit model.

Shouldnt be hard :)

Next, we will start to annotate our views.We will start with dimensions.

18. Revit Annotations: DimensionOctober 5, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso0 Comments

We have done with modeling our building for now. Afterwe placed

Revit components, now we can produce descent drawings. Well, we

havent learn about curtain wall and site/topography which I plan to

write later. But lets have fun for a while. We are going to discuss

about the other modeling technique in Revit later, not in this tutorial

series.

Now we are going to annotate our Revit model.

Annotation is a very important component in your design. Doesnt matter if you model it in

3D, you will still need to plot it to 2D drawing. And you need to provide information with

annotations. There are many types of annotations in Revit, like dimensions, tags, building

elevation symbols, sections symbols, etc. Some annotations added automatically when you

created a view. Now lets discuss about dimensions.

Arranging Elevation View Symbols

First, lets arrange our elevation views symbols. Open your 1st floor plan. Select west and

east view in your drawing. Delete it. We wont need it since our model only have two faces:

from front (south) and back (north).

Now select south elevation. We are going to move it closer to our model. If we dont do this,

we will have a lot of empty space when placing this model to sheets. Elevation view symbol

consists 2 (or more) elements. To make sure we select all of them, drag your window

selection from right to left. This will select all objects that touch our window selection.

Activate move from your ribbon

Move it up closer to our model. Do the same with north elevation view.

Why using move? Why not just drag them? Sure you can move objects by dragging it. Butusing move will restrict the movement to vertical (or horizontal). Not freely as using drag.
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Adding Dimensions

Adding dimension is very easy. Open your annotation tab. Activate aligned dimension.

By default, the options to place dimension are by wall centerline and individual reference.

Lets just use it. Move your pointer to a wall, you should see the centerline is highlighted.

Select walls as shown below, consecutively from 1 to 4.

After selecting those 4 walls, move your pointer down. You should see your dimension now.

Click where you want to place it. Add one more dimension to show the distance from wall 1

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Now with linear dimension still active, change in your option barpick:Entire Walls. Click

option button on its right.

Activate intersecting walls, then click OK.

Select wall no 1 (on previous dimensioning). See what happen. We dont need to select

dimension individually anymore! Now you can finish your entire dimension right?

Turning Underlay Off

Open your 2nd floor plan. You might see your first floor plan here in grayscale (opaque). Its

on by default, make us easier to use level underneath it as reference. But we dont need it

anymore.

Open you view tab in ribbon, activate View Properties. Or you can press VP consecutively.

Find underlay parameter, and change the value to none.

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Just in case you need other type of dimension, you can see it in dimension group.

19. Working with Door and WindowTags

October 12, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso1 Comment

Tags is also annotation. This time, we are going to create a viewwith less details to show door and windows tag. To do this, we

need to create additional view.

Revit doesnt allow us to put a view to sheets more than once. So if we have different

representations, we need to create several views. Open your training file. On your project

browser, right click on 1st floor in floor plans group. Select duplicate view>duplicate. Revit

will create a duplicate named Copy of 1st Floor. The active view is also changed to this new

view. Right click on the view name, select rename from context menu. Give it name

something like 1st floor door schedule. Pay attention that we dont copy dimensions to this

view. If you also need the dimensions, you should choose duplicate with detailing. But we

dont need them right now. Now lets tweak the visibility a bit. Open view tab on your Revit

ribbon. Clickvisibility/graphics in graphics tools group.
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Uncheck under visibility column for these following items:

casework entourage furniture furniture systems planting

Now check halftone column for these items:

floors railings stairs

Still in visibility/graphics dialog, click the annotation categories tab. Uncheck visibility for

sections and elevations. Click OK to apply changes.

Open your original 1st floor plan, and compare to this one. This is how you representdifferent views for your model. Either in plans, elevations, sections, etc. Now lets add tags.

You can manually add tags one-by-one by using tag by category.

But instead of selecting objects one-by-one, lets just tag all our doors and windows. Activate

Tag All. First, lets check if we already have our tag families loaded. Click tag group title toexpand this panel. Select Loaded Tags.
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Check ifdoor tag and window tagare already loaded. If its not loaded yet, click load on the

right side of this dialog. You can find those tag families in annotations>architectural folder.

Click OK to close the dialog. ClickTag All. Hold [ctrl] and click on door tags & windows

tags. Make sure both of them are highlighted. At the bottom of this dialog, leader section,

check on create option. Use length 10 mm. Left the orientation to horizontal. Click OK. Your

tags may obstruct each other. You can fine tune tags placement by turning off the leader or

change the other options on option bar.

You can also click and drag your to new position.

And of course, you can arrange the tag leader!

Here is the finished door and windows schedule plan.
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In next Revit tutorial,we will work with room and room legend.

20. Defining Room and Room LegendOctober 18, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso0 Comments

Room is one type of information you can add to your Revit model.Thats why we call it building information modeling (BIM). Its not just

lines and text. It can hold a lot of information in your building model.

This time we will define rooms in our design, and create a room

schedule.

Lets open again your project file. Open 1st floor plan view.

Defining Rooms

Activate room tool from ribbon> home tab> room & area panel. Move your pointer to

your floor plan. you will see its highlight your rooms. Revit will automatically recognize

your rooms separated by walls. Define rooms for rooms as you see below. Simply move your

pointer inside a room, and click your mouse. Revit will place the tag automatically. If you
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dont likeit, uncheck the tag on placement option on option bar.

Room Separation Line

Theres one room left. We dont want the living room defined as one large room from front

through the back. And we want to exclude the stair area from living room. But Revit cant

recognize them as separate room because we dont place wall there.

We can separate them by placing room separation line.

This will activate sketch tool. Simply draw lines that separate the rooms. Snap the line to

existing wall, and draw it to the next wall. Feel free to define your own room.

After you finish, try to activate room tool again. Place the room definition when you feel its

correct. Pretty easy, right?
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Renaming Rooms

By default, Revit will name your rooms by Room, and tag it sequentially from the 1st roomyou define. This is not correct of course. Who wants to have all rooms named by Room?

We can rename it by clicking the room tag to select it. Then click again on room name (or tag

number) to rename it. After youve done, hit [enter].

So what if I dont place room tag? How can I rename the room? Easy, select the room (not

room tag, you might need to press TAB to cycle between objects). Click on element

properties from ribbon, contextual tab.

You can change the room name, room number, and other data available.

Room Legend

Lets try to place room legend. But first, right click on your 1st floor plan name on project

browser. From context menu, select duplicate view>duplicate with detailing. Renameduplicate with something like 1st floor legend view. Its already active by default.

Activate legend tool on yourribbon, room & area panel. You will see the legend on your

pointer. Find a place where you feel appropriate, click to place it there.

Revit will ask you which scheme do you want. Change the color scheme to Name, click OK.

You will see your floor plan become like this.
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Do you want to try this tool to your 2nd floor plan?

21. Creating Schedule from Revit ModelOctober 26, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso0 Comments

Creating schedule from your Revit model basically is just the same.

Onceyou are finished with your Revit model, you can count any data

from your model. It can be door/window schedule, where you can

show how many doors/windows. Or it can be wall schedule, to show

wall length, wall area, or wall volume. You can also showing rooms

area in your design. Almost everything! In this tutorial, we will

create a door schedule. You can try to create different types later. Theyre all just the same

steps!

If you havent open your Revit model, open it now.

Schedule basically is also a view. So you can find the tool in View tab, create panel.

Click on schedules, you will see several tools related to create schedules. Lets just select

schedule/uantities.

A dialog box will open. There are many categories you can select in this dialog. Select door

from category. Click OK.
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On the next dialog, Revit will ask you which fields you want to include. Add these fields:

Level Family type Count Cost

You may add several more if you wanted to. You can add them by selecting them then click

Add>. You can arrange their order by clicking move up/move down.

You can finish here. Click OK.

We will arrange it further. Before we continue further, input the door cost. You can change it

directly by clicking and typing in the table cells. Revit will ask you a confirmation, whether

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Now you will see your schedule like this.

Every door instance is reported here. Our schedule hasnt group and sum the same item yet.

We will fix this. Right click on your table, select view properties.

Revit will open a dialog box. Find sorting/grouping under Other category, and clickeditbutton right next to it.

Lets sort our table. Select sort by Level for the first category. Checkblank lineoption for this category.

And then for 2nd category, select then by family and type.

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Now lets move to formatting tab. Select count field. Then checkcalculate totals to activateit. Why not, we want to see total number of our doors! Do the same for cost. Our schedule

should show the total cost, isnt it?

Click OK. You should see the final result now grouped nicely like this.

Try to play more with available settings. You can also try to create different types of schedule

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22. Placing Views to SheetNovember 2, 2009 ByEdwin Prakoso4 Comments

We are getting to the end of this tutorial. We have created our

Revit model. We have the plan views, elevation views, section

views, schedules, and you might already experiment with

perspective views. This is the basic information we can present in

a sheet.

I consider the basic tutorial ends here. There are more, but we will

discuss them separately. I will post them under Revit tips, not in

tutorial anymore.

Now, we will prepare our views, and placing them to a sheet. Then, we will plot it.

Preparing your Views

Lets make a check list. There are 3 things you need to consider before placing your view to a

sheet. Open your 1st floor plan.

1. Check your view name. This view name will be used as your view title.2. Check your view scale, change the scale if necessary. We use 1:100 at the moment. But if

you want to use other scale, change it now.

3. Check your annotations. If you changed your scale, you might see the annotation dontappear properly. Either too close to each other, or too far.

4. Check your view crop region.Checking your Crop Region

You can show/hide your crop region by clicking the button under your views.

Click and drag the crop region control until you get what you want. This is similar to arrange

your viewport in AutoCAD. Make the crop region close enough to your model.
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Do it for every view you want to place on sheet.

Placing Views on Sheet

Before we place views on our sheet, we need to create a sheet. You can create new sheet fromview tab, sheet composition panel.

Revit will open a dialog box, asking you to select a title block. By default, you will only see

one title block: A1 Metric (or A1 maybe, if you use imperial). Select it, and click OK.

Revit will automatically open the new sheet, and the view button in sheet composition panel

become available. Click it, select your view. Lets place 1st Floor Plan. Click add view to

sheet, and click your pointer at your desired location. Easy right?

But its not fun. People always like to show some magic, especially when you are doing a

presentation. You can also click and drag a view name to your sheet from project browser!

Place every view you want. Plans, 3D, schedules, etc!
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