Revit 3 Constructing, Sharing and Collaborating - Training Course

• Introducing Groups
• Creating a Model Group
• Creating and Managing Model and Detail Groups
• Attaching Annotation Detail Groups
• Creating Detail Groups
• Editing Groups
• Making Parameters Vary Between Groups
• Excluding Elements from Groups
• Converting Groups to Links
• Saving and Loading Groups
• Understanding Best Practices for Working with Groups
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• Introduction to In-Place Modeling Tools
• Creating In-Place Family Objects Using Solid Extruded Forms
• Creating In-Place Family Objects Using Solid Blended Forms
• Creating In-Place Family Objects Using Solid Revolved Forms
• Creating In-Place Family Objects Using Solid Swept Forms
• Enhancing In-Place Families
• Understanding Adaptive Components
• Using Adaptive Components to Create Building Elements
• Creating Curved Sloped Walls
• Creating a Fire Place
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• Introducing Worksharing Concepts
• Understanding Worksharing Terminology
• Enabling Worksharing in a Project File
• Creating the Central Model
• Creating a Local Model
• Creating Worksets
• Understanding Workset Visibility
• Understanding How Central and Local Files Communicate
• Closing a Workshared Project
• Understanding Editing Requests
• Understanding the Active Workset
• Understanding Worksharing Display Modes
• Specifying Open Worksets
• Managing Worksets in Linked Revit Files
• Working Offline and Editing at Risk
• Viewing the Workshared Project History
• Rolling Back Workshared Projects
• Detaching a File from Central
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• Linking Revit Models
• Controlling the Coordinates in Linked Revit Models
• Controlling the Display of Elements in a Linked Model
• Scheduling Elements from a Linked Model
• Tagging Elements in a Linked Model
• Monitoring and Coordinating Changes Within a Single Project
• Using Copy and Monitor in a Single Project
• Using Copy and Monitor with Linked Projects
• Performing a Coordination Review with Linked Models
• Checking For Interferences
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• Introducing Phases
• Understanding Phases
• Managing Phases
• Understanding Phase Filters and Graphic Overrides
• Assigning Phases and Phase Filters to a View
• Understanding the Impact of Phases on Documentation
• Demolishing Elements
• Establishing Phases in Project Templates
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• Introducing Design Options
• Working with Design Options and Option Sets
• Editing Design Options
• Duplicating and Deleting Design Options
• Creating Design Option Views
• Understanding the Impact of Design Options on Documentation
• Promoting and Accepting Design Options
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• Creating and Modifying Parts
• Controlling the Visibility
• Dividing Parts
• Merging and Excluding Parts
• Scheduling Parts
• Understanding Wall Joins and Parts
• Creating Parts from Linked Models
• Creating Assemblies
• Placing and Modifying Assembly Instances
• Creating Assembly Views
• Acquiring Assembly Views
• Modifying Assembly Views
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• What is LOD? Definitions and purpose
• Overview of AIA/NBIMS-US LOD framework: LOD 100 to LOD 500
• Examples and illustrations of each LOD:
  • LOD 100 – Conceptual Massing
  • LOD 200 – Approximate Geometry & Systems
  • LOD 300 – Precise Geometry and Location
  • LOD 350 – Connections and Interfaces
  • LOD 400 – Fabrication and Assembly Details
  • LOD 500 – As-Built Conditions
  • Download LOD 2019 Specifications
• How LOD affects project phases and coordination
• Managing LOD in Revit views and families
• Common pitfalls when using LOD in Revit models

🔶 Section 2: Using Templates for Consistency and Efficiency

• What are Revit templates (.RTE and .DWT)?
• Creating and customizing templates
• Embedding view templates, filters, and object styles
• Preloading families, line styles, and annotations
• Creating LOD-specific templates for different disciplines
• Company standards and project startup templates

🔶 Section 3: Working with Point Clouds in Revit

• Introduction to point clouds: formats and sources
• Use Autodesk ReCap to Simplify the Point Cloud
• Open the original .RCP/.RCS in Autodesk ReCap
• The ✅ Clean & Organize panel
• Exporting
• Importing point clouds into Revit (RCP/RCS)
• Point cloud visualization and clipping
• Using point clouds to create existing condition models
• Aligning point clouds with project base points and survey points
• Best practices for modeling from point clouds
• Tools and plugins for enhanced point cloud processing

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• Managing Project Information
• Specifying the Location and Site
• Managing Project Browser View Organization        
• Using Parameters and Filters for Browser Organization
• Managing Project Browser Sheet Organization
• Working with Coordinate Systems
• Relocating a Project
• Rotating True North and Project North
• Mirroring a Project
• Understanding Project Template Files
• Transferring Project Standards
• Deleting Unused Items
• Setting the Starting View
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• Enabling the Sun Path Diagram
• Creating a Solar Study
• Understanding Energy Settings
• Performing an Energy Analysis with a Mass Model
• Performing an Energy Analysis with Building Elements
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• Creating Walkthroughs
• Playing Animations
• Exporting
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• Creating a Family Skeleton
• Family Parameters and Types
• Create 3 bookcase types
• Creating Panels
• Creating Back Panel
• Add Base Thickness
• Creating and Assigning Subcategories
• Adding Shelves
• Assign the Shelves subcategory
• Managing Visibility
• Adding a Masking Region
• Assigning Materials
• Creating material Parameters
• Controlling Door Visibility
• Creating a Type Catalog
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• Creating a New Family File
• Creating the Steel Plates
• Creating Brackets to Connect the Steel Plates
• Defining and Assigning Materials
• Testing the New Family
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• The Mounting Plate
• Geometry for Hung and Braced Support
• Create the Solar Shade family
• Louver for the Solar Shade
• Finishing the Solar Shade
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• Window Frame
• Window Sash
• Window Glass
• Window Mullion
• Assign new Material
• Define new Window Types
• Wall Closure
• Controlling The View
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• Creating a Void Opening in the Wall
• Using Void Sweeps to Change Wall Shapes
• Creating the Window
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• Creating the Repeating Plate
• Nesting Families
• Using Array to Create the Repeating Geometry
• Adding Parameters
• Testing the Family
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• Overview of Massing Studies
• Placing Mass Elements
• Creating Conceptual Massing
• Setting Workplanes
• Creating Mass Forms
• Dynamic Editing for Conceptual Massing
• Working with Profiles and Edges
• From Massing to Building
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• Understanding the Conceptual Design Environment
• Working in 3D in the Conceptual Design Environment
• Creating Conceptual Mass Solid Forms
• Creating Conceptual Mass Surfaces
• Creating Conceptual Mass Void Forms
• Creating Forms from Imported CAD Files
• Creating Reference Planes and Reference Lines
• Creating Forms from Model Lines versus Reference Lines
• Using Reference Points
• Creating Dimension and Parameter Constraints
• Modifying Form Profiles
• Modifying Forms with Add Edge and Add Profile
• Sketching on Forms
• Creating Divided Paths
• Creating Divided Surfaces
• Adding Patterns to Divided Surfaces
• Creating a Panel Family for Conceptual Massing
• Creating Adaptive Components
• Repeating an Adaptive Component Along a Divided Path
• Loading a Conceptual Mass into the Project Environment
• Understanding How to Place Mass Elements and Control Their Visibility
• Creating an In-Place Mass
• Creating Mass Floors
• Working with Mass Type Properties to Place Tags and Create Schedules
• Creating Model by Face Elements
• Modifying Elements with Update to Face and Edit Face Selection
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