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Best regards, Neil Edde Vice President and Publisher Sybex, an Imprint of Wiley 44831.book Page v Friday, October 12, 2007 12:31 AM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. To my dad Aleksander and my brother Igor who I miss so much. To all the authors who are brave enough to write books that live much longer than themselves. And to a part of my life that went into writing this book. —Tatjana To all my students over the years ; you make this worth the effort. —Greg To all my critters . —Eddy 44831.book Page vi Friday, October 12, 2007 12:31 AM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Acknowledgments Hats off to the innovators who conceptualized, designed, and made Revit happen. You have changed the world! Huge thanks to all the faithful followers! Without you, Revit wouldn’t be what it is today. Personal thanks to the Grand Master Philippe Drouant, without whose expertise, generous help, and amazing illustrations we wouldn’t have been able to make this book. Many thanks to Guillermo Melantoni and Erik Egbertson, whose participation was crucial to getting this book out the door. To all our friends who have contributed to this book, the inspirational leaders Mario Guttman and Ken Sanders for their contributions and to the development of Revit, we wish to extend our sincerest gratitude. And finally, huge thanks are due to our excellent support team at Sybex: Jim Compton, for his great editorial insight and patience; Craig W. Johnson at Happenstance Type-O-Rama, copy editors Tiffany Taylor and Judy Flynn, and proofreader Ian Golder for making us look good in print; Eric Charbonneau for managing the schedule; and our friend Willem Knibbe for his constant support and positive attitude in the face of our deadlines. Janet Chang and Pete Gaughan also helped out behind the scenes. 44831.book Page vii Friday, October 12, 2007 12:31 AM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. About the Authors Tatjana Dzambazova was the product manager for Revit Archi- tecture in Autodesk for the last two years and has recently moved into a new position where she explores emerging technologies, immersive experiences, and the impact of the Web 2.0 on our lifestyles. Before joining Autodesk in 2000, she practiced architec- ture for 12 years in Vienna and London. At Autodesk, she has focused on evangelizing technology and established herself as an internationally renowned speaker who has fostered relation- ships with architects and industry leaders around the globe. Powered with seemingly unlimited resources of energy, Tanja manages to make three days out of one, and when she is not working (is that ever?) or coauthoring technology books, she is advocating wildlife conservation and sustainability, reading books like a maniac, and getting inspired at the theater. If you’re lucky enough to be in the Bay Area, you might catch a glimpse of Tanja cruising the streets on her Ducati Monster. Greg Demchak is a designer, technology advocate, urban explorer, and post-apocalyptic webisode producer. He holds architectural degrees from the University of Oregon and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a product designer for Revit Architecture and has been working with Revit since the year 2000 (Release 2.0, if anyone’s counting). He has been teach- ing Revit and BIM technology at the Boston Architectural College since 2003. He currently lives in Massachusetts. Eddy Krygiel is a registered architect, a LEED Accredited Profes- sional, and an Autodesk Authorized Author at BNIM Architects. He has been using Revit since version 5.1 to complete projects ranging from single-family residences to office buildings as large as 1.12 million square feet. Eddy is responsible for implementing BIM at his firm and consults for other architecture and contract- ing firms looking to implement BIM. For the last three years, he has been teaching Revit to practicing architects and architectural students in the Kansas City area and has lectured around the nation on the use of BIM in the construction industry. Eddy also coauthored a paper on sustainability and BIM that was presented at the 2006 AIA Technology in Architectural Practice conference. 44831.book Page viii Friday, October 12, 2007 12:31 AM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Contents at a Glance Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi Chapter 1 • Understanding BIM: From the Basics to Advanced Realities . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 2 • Revit Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Chapter 3 • Know Your Editing Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Chapter 4 • Setting up your templates and Office Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Chapter 5 • Customizing System Families and Project Settings in Your Template . . 127 Chapter 6 • Modeling Principles in Revit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Chapter 7 • Concept Massing Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Chapter 8 • From Conceptual Mass to a Real Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Chapter 9 • Working with Design Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Chapter 10 • Creating Custom 3D Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Chapter 11 • Extended Modeling Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 Chapter 12 • Presenting Your Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 Chapter 13 • Fine-Tuning Your Preliminary Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 Chapter 14 • Evaluating Your Preliminary Design: Sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 Chapter 15 • Annotating Your Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471 Chapter 16 • Developing the Design with Smart Workflows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515 Chapter 17 • Moving from Design to Detailed Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541 Chapter 18 • Advanced Detailing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581 Chapter 19 • Tracking Changes in Your Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601 Chapter 20 • Worksharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 44831.book Page ix Friday, October 12, 2007 12:31 AM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. x CONTENTS AT A GLANCE Chapter 21 • Troubleshooting and Optimizing Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635 Appendix A • The Bottom Line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667 44831.book Page x Friday, October 12, 2007 12:31 AM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi Chapter 1 • Understanding BIM: From the Basics to Advanced Realities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Advantages of Building Information Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A Brief History of Design and Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Building Information Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 What to Expect from BIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Be Creative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Every Element in Revit Has Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Elements Interact with Other Elements—All the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Duplicating a View Takes Two Clicks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Problem-Solve Your Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 You Create a Full Range of Documents with BIM, Not Just a 3D Model . . . . . . . . . . 7 Embrace the Family Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Forget About Layers and X-References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 BIM Is More Than a Technology: It’s a Change in Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Revit Is Relatively New Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Where Can You Go From Here? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 The Bottom Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Chapter 2 • Revit Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Working with Revit Parametric Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Model Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Annotation Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Subcategories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Imported Categories/Subcategories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Type and Instance Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Bidirectional Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Revit Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Overriding the Representation of Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 The Revit User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 The View Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 The Design Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 The Options Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 The Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Using the Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Working with Views and View Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 The Bottom Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 44831ftoc.fm Page xi Friday, October 12, 2007 8:09 AM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. [...]... 13 5 13 5 13 5 13 9 14 0 14 0 14 0 14 2 14 3 14 5 14 5 14 6 14 7 14 7 15 1 Chapter 6 • Modeling Principles in Revit 15 3 Modeling with Revit Sketch-Based Design Working with Work Planes Principles of Modeling in Revit ... 397 399 4 01 4 01 402 405 408 408 409 410 411 411 412 414 415 416 419 422 423 xv 44831ftoc.fm Page xvi Friday, October 12 , 2007 8:09 AM xvi CONTENTS Creating Animated Walkthroughs 423 Exporting to Other Formats 424 The Bottom Line 425 Chapter 13 • Fine-Tuning... The Bottom Line 515 516 516 517 517 5 21 523 524 525 525 528 529 5 31 5 31 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 539 Chapter 17 • Moving from Design to Detailed Documentation 5 41 Advancing the Design Creating Drafting Views ... 10 0 Creating Custom Annotation Tags 10 1 View Tags 10 2 Customizing Element Tags 11 6 Keynotes and Text Notes 11 9 Creating Custom Title Blocks 12 1 Creating... Where Can You Go From Here? The Bottom Line 15 3 15 4 16 2 17 0 17 2 19 6 19 7 19 8 Chapter 7 • Concept Massing Studies 2 01 Massing Studies Massing Study Workflows Massing... Other Revit Projects Exporting Details from Revit Projects Importing Views into Revit Projects The Bottom Line 5 81 583 584 585 586 5 91 592 594 594 595 599 Chapter 19 • Tracking Changes in Your Model 6 01 Adding... Ceiling Types Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark 12 7 12 8 13 3 13 4 44831ftoc.fm Page xiii Friday, October 12 , 2007 8:09 AM CONTENTS Door and Window Types Stair Types ... Keynotes The Bottom Line 489 489 4 91 5 01 502 502 503 504 505 505 506 507 508 512 513 Chapter 16 • Developing the Design with Smart Workflows 515 Working with Repetitive Elements Groups ... Disjoining Walls Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark 309 309 311 312 313 44831ftoc.fm Page xv Friday, October 12 , 2007 8:09 AM CONTENTS Stacked Walls Adding Wall Articulation Wall Wrapping... Setting Up Rail Structure The Bottom Line 313 315 319 319 324 325 326 330 330 330 332 332 336 337 338 343 345 370 3 71 374 374 375 378 380 380 393 Chapter 12 • Presenting Your Design 395 Drawings with Shadows Analytical . Inc. Mastering ™ Revit ® Architecture 2008 Tatjana Dzambazova Greg Demchak Eddy Krygiel 448 31. book Page iii Friday, October 12 , 2007 12 : 31 AM Please. Data Krygiel, Eddy, 19 72- Mastering Revit architecture 2008 / Eddy Krygiel, Tatjana Dzambazova, Greg Demchak. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-470 -14 483 -1 (pbk.) 1. Architectural