Revit Architecture 2014 Advanced

Course details

The goal of this course is to enable students to learn a wide range of advanced topics in Revit Architecture 2014, building on the concepts introduced in the Revit Architecture 2014 Essentials course. Students learn about site design, advanced rendering techniques, phasing and design options, creating families of custom components, and collaborating on a design. This course is delivered in a classroom environment, using hands-on exercises, to give participants experience in using and understanding the features and functionality of the product and the changes in the new version of the product.

COURSE CONTENT:

Importing and Exporting Files

• Importing Vector & Raster Data
• Exporting to External Files
• Export Views to AutoCAD

Linking Files

• Linked Projects
• Managing Shared Coordinates
• Linked Locations
• Acquiring and Reporting Shared Coordinates
• Monitoring and Coordinating Linked Projects
• Project Collaboration

Conceptual Design

• Working with Massing Shapes
• Converting Massing Shapes to Building Components
• Creating Advanced Components
• Creating and Modifying Parametric Families
• Creating Nested Families
• Creating and Modifying In-Place Families
• Working with Component Groups

Design and Analysis

• Designing in Phases
• Using Design Options
• Working with Design Option Sets
• Checking and Fixing Interference Conditions
• Using Area Plans and Colour Schemes

Revit Architecture Worksharing

• Project Sharing Using Worksets
• Process of Project Sharing
• About the Central File
• Managing Worksets and Multiple Users
• About Local Files

Working with Professionals

• Working on a Site Design
• Creating Toposurfaces
• Site Tools & Components
• Working with a Structural Engineer
• Project Sharing
• Interference Checking

Advanced Rendering Techniques

• Creating Realistic PresentationsPhotometric Lights
• Process of Using Material Styles
• Enhance a Scene with Non-building Components and Decals
• Ambient Occlusion
• Rendering Interior Views
• Specifying Settings for Rendering Interior Views
• Lighting & Materials
• Render Quality Settings

Advanced Lighting

• Global Illumination
• Lighting an Interior Scene
• Using Sky Portals
• Lighting with Photometric lights & IES files
• Lighting a Scene with the Sun System and specifying a Geographical

Location, Time & Date to Interactively visualize the impact of natural

light and shadows on buildings and sites