Revit architecture beginners course2023-06-11T15:42:00+05:30

The Complete Revit Beginners Course.

Learn Autodesk Revit Architecture right from scratch with project based tutorials, exercises and quizzes.

183 Video lessons

15.7 Hours of video

2 Student Projects

18 Practice exercises

Certificate of completion

90 MCQ Quizzes

Beginner and intermediate level

Downloadable lesson files

About this course

This course is expertly crafted to provide you with a solid foundation in Revit, a prominent tool used by professionals in architecture, engineering, and construction globally.

This course meticulously covers all key aspects of Revit.

We commence with an introduction to the software, understanding its versions, backwards incompatibility, configuration, and basic navigation. This primer sets the stage for your journey into architectural design using Revit.

You’ll then dive into the practical realm, exploring how to create projects, draw and modify walls, add doors, windows, stairs, and understand the crucial concepts behind BIM.

By working through both residential and commercial projects, you’ll gain a firm grasp of modeling techniques and will be introduced to the manipulation of various architectural elements, including floors, ceilings, stairs, ramps, and railings.

The course continues to advance as you explore the creation of custom families, detailed modeling of rooms and spaces, advanced wall designs, and effective utilization of tags and schedules.

You’ll learn how to use annotation tools and handle view, object, and annotation visibility to create professional and detailed project documentation.

Worksharing, an essential aspect of Revit for team-based projects, is also covered, teaching you how to set up, manage and synchronize shared projects.

The course also introduces the practice of linking separate models and details, key for consistency across projects.

The concluding modules of the course focus on the production of compelling presentation graphics, mastering various exporting options, and the customization of title blocks and sheets to prepare your work for professional presentation or print.

Complementing these instructional modules, the course provides a series of quizzes and practical exercises at the end of each chapter, designed to consolidate your learning and provide hands-on experience in applying the concepts taught.

Who should take this course

This course is designed every step of the way with beginners in mind.

You don’t need to have any prior knowledge or experience with Revit to enrol in this course.

Additionally, you will have access to a wealth of resources, including a Q&A forum, live sessions, and downloadable project files, that will help you reinforce your learning and troubleshoot any issues that you encounter.

Upon completion of this course, you will have gained a comprehensive understanding of Revit and will be well-prepared to apply your new skills in the professional world of architecture and design.

Pre-requisites

Revit Architecture 2023 or later versions on the Windows operating system are recommended for the course.

Course projects

These are the projects included with this course, you can make these projects after finishing the course.

Penthouse Interiors

Making the interior details of the penthouse in Revit architecture.

Spiral Stairs

Making a spiral staircase with complete details for our Revit architecture project.

Table of Contents.

  1. Welcome
  2. Choosing a Revit version (6:00)
  3. Revit’s backward incompatibility (6:30)
  4. Configuring options (3:44)
  5. Differentiating objects with color (4:46)
  6. Creating a template with color (8:18)
  7. Making and restoring backups (5:58)
  8. About imperial and metric units (3:25)
  9. Practice exercise (2:21)
  10. Quiz

  1. Creating a new project using a template (4:14)
  2. Drawing detail and model lines (6:56)
  3. Dimension snaps (11:14)
  4. Object snaps (7:41)
  5. Drawing geometric shapes with lines (9:43)
  6. Using move, rotate and scale with lines (7:56)
  7. Using additional modify tools (11:08)
  8. Practice Exercise (3:49)

  1. Drawing and modifying generic walls (9:59)
  2. Refining walls (6:16)
  3. Inserting doors, windows and openings (7:43)
  4. Adding stair and editing wall profile (9:21)
  5. Sketching floors and attaching walls (9:48)
  6. Building second floor walls (5:17)
  7. Drawing roofs by footprint (11:17)
  8. Creating rooms and attaching tags (8:48)
  9. Editing rooms and tags (4:37)
  10. Making and editing a schedule (7:38)
  11. Seeing inside with sections and cameras (6:18)
  12. Creating sheets and output (8:52)
  13. Practice Exercise (4:18)

  1. Comparing BIM and CAD (7:53)
  2. Understanding BIM object hierarchy (4:24)
  3. Editing items in the hierarchy (10:06)
  4. Design strategy – general to specific (3:13)
  5. Practice Exercise (2:49)

  1. Understanding Revit’s interface and jargon (10:50)
  2. Navigating views (6:35)
  3. Starting the project (6:25)
  4. Drawing the building envelope (6:56)
  5. Adjusting wall layers (5:04)
  6. Designing a column grid – imperial (5:00)
  7. Designing a column grid – metric (3:20)
  8. Moving walls in relation to grid (5:47)
  9. Permanent dimensions and constraints (5:39)
  10. Architectural and structural columns (5:49)
  11. Transfer project standards (2:14)
  12. Practice Exercise (4:04)

  1. Adding components and creating groups (8:46)
  2. Drawing interior walls and editing types (4:30)
  3. Using temporary dimensions to position (8:29)
  4. Copying groups and excluding elements (5:35)
  5. Designing a conference room (10:54)
  6. Designing concentration spaces (8:49)
  7. Designing collaborative spaces (6:32)
  8. Curved, slanted, and tapered walls (8:53)
  9. Modifying existing elements (9:32)
  10. Drawing walls of the building core (8:54)
  11. Reception, elevator, and break room (9:46)
  12. Washrooms and plumbing wall (7:09)
  13. Practice Exercise (3:07)

  1. Creating ground floor and its type (9:57)
  2. Adding thickened slab edge on perimeter (3:45)
  3. Creating sidewalk and new floor type (4:10)
  4. Shaping sidewalk ramps (5:25)
  5. Creating profile family and curbs (9:08)
  6. Modeling curbs along ramps in place (8:18)
  7. Copying elements to second floor (3:35)
  8. Redesigning specific spaces for Level 2 (7:47)
  9. Sketching the second floor (7:08)
  10. Special floor, roof, and wall surfaces (9:26)
  11. Creating reflected ceiling plans (9:55)
  12. Parapet, roof, and penthouse (7:12)
  13. Creating a complex roof (7:58)
  14. Practice Exercise (4:54)

  1. Creating stairs (8:13)
  2. Editing railings and their paths (6:02)
  3. Creating a ramp to act as a catwalk (9:07)
  4. Modifying railings on a ramp (5:34)
  5. Aligning, painting, and editing linework (5:55)
  6. Practice Exercise (6:31)

  1. Creating profile family and ref planes (9:34)
  2. Sketching profile and creating types (6:36)
  3. Using the custom profile in wall sweep (4:46)
  4. Cleaning up curved wall (8:06)
  5. Accessing readymade families (3:19)
  6. Starting furniture family from template (6:27)
  7. Modeling curved support frames (5:13)
  8. Modeling casters and flexing family (8:08)
  9. Modeling frame and whiteboard (4:32)
  10. Visibility settings and symbolic lines (6:50)
  11. Associating material family parameters (6:28)
  12. Adjusting type properties (4:32)
  13. Adding decal to whiteboard (5:08)
  14. Practice Exercise (5:39)

  1. Correcting window-ceiling conflict (6:17)
  2. Adding cap to the top of exterior walls (5:03)
  3. Splitting layer for new material (6:32)
  4. Sweeps added to exterior wall type (7:02)
  5. Adding sweep objects to exterior walls (6:00)
  6. Adding sweeps and reveals to interiors (5:19)
  7. Understanding stacked walls (5:55)
  8. Understanding curtain wall types (5:59)
  9. Creating central curtain wall from scratch (6:23)
  10. Create flanking curtain walls (4:37)
  11. Forcing exterior walls to wrap at curtain walls (8:52)
  12. Adding curtain grids (5:30)
  13. Customizing curtain mullions and panels (10:38)
  14. Practice Exercise (8:24)

  1. Tagging doors and windows (9:08)
  2. Separating the floor into parts (6:42)
  3. Designing a floor finish tag (6:40)
  4. Adding room separators, rooms, and tags (8:19)
  5. Customizing the room tag (6:36)
  6. Creating a room schedule (7:12)
  7. Accessing readymade schedules (4:01)
  8. Practice Exercise (4:57)

  1. Creating annotation text and leaders (9:07)
  2. Using model text for signage (4:17)
  3. Dimensioning individual references (10:17)
  4. Editing dimension and arrowhead types (6:12)
  5. Dimensioning entire walls (9:51)
  6. Driving dimensions with global parameters (4:47)
  7. Adding symbols (2:40)
  8. Using color schemes and fill legends (3:01)
  9. Multiline text (2:19)
  10. Practice Exercise (9:12)

  1. Underlays, linework, and detail lines (6:20)
  2. View range and plan regions (8:07)
  3. Hiding and revealing hidden elements and categories (4:41)
  4. Detailing slopes, elevations, and element display (6:39)
  5. View extents in plans, elevations and sections (8:29)
  6. Level of detail and detail families (7:27)
  7. Resetting object styles by transferring standards (3:05)
  8. View-specific visibility/graphics overrides (6:19)
  9. View templates and view properties (9:13)
  10. Duplicating plans with and without annotation (7:01)
  11. Practice Exercise (8:04)

  1. Inserting SketchUp model of landscape (6:30)
  2. Converting imported mesh into topo object (9:51)
  3. Developing separate Revit model (7:02)
  4. Linking spatially separate models (3:52)
  5. Using shared coordinates (5:51)
  6. Controlling the visibility of Revit links (1:35)
  7. Linking AutoCAD details (7:01)
  8. Practice Exercise (9:52)

  1. Creating custom detail line styles (3:29)
  2. Drawing a detail from scratch (10:12)
  3. Creating longitudinal section and callout (8:15)
  4. Customizing model within detail (5:56)
  5. Detail components and annotation (8:58)
  6. Creating legend views and components (7:15)
  7. Practice Exercise (8:37)

  1. Refining camera views with steering wheels (8:06)
  2. Graphic display options and view templates (9:48)
  3. Depth cueing in elevations and sections (9:27)
  4. Using RPC entourage (6:29)
  5. Rendering within Revit and in Autodesk’s cloud (10:03)
  6. Set location and true north (3:32)
  7. Exterior renders (7:47)
  8. Walkthrough animation (8:03)
  9. Practice Exercise (8:33)

  1. Customizing your title block (6:01)
  2. Create sheet and add view (9:43)
  3. Prepare placeholder sheet list (6:14)
  4. Configuring sections on sheets (10:02)
  5. Configuring elevations on sheets (10:31)
  6. Understanding keynotes (6:07)
  7. Designing your own keynotes (8:15)
  8. Designing custom note family (7:30)
  9. Displaying note blocks on sheets (11:27)
  10. Exporting to AutoCAD (4:51)
  11. Exporting to PDF and printing (5:29)
  12. Practice Exercise (4:20)

  1. Setting up worksharing (7:18)
  2. Changing element workset membership (9:18)
  3. Opening and synchronizing when worksharing (9:21)
  4. Practice Exercise (4:06)

Scott Onstott

About the author.

Scott Onstott is a renowned author and educator with over two decades of experience in teaching computer-aided design (CAD), building-information modeling (BIM), and 3D visualization software to architects, engineers, and builders. Having worked with top firms, Scott has authored 24 books and created numerous commercial video courses. His expertise covers industry-leading software such as AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, 3ds Max, Unity, and Photoshop.

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