... Wing, Eric, 19 70 Autodesk Revitarchitecture 2 011 : no experience required / Eric Wing — 1st ed p cm Summary: “Learn RevitArchitecture step by step with this project-based tutorial RevitArchitecture ... Autodesk® RevitArchitecture 2 011 No Experience Required Autodesk® RevitArchitecture 2 011 No Experience Required Eric Wing Senior Acquisitions ... Even with no experience, RevitArchitecture and its accompanying Web site will support you as you learn Revit at your own pace.”— Provided by publisher ISBN 978-0-470- 610 11- 4 (pbk) ISBN 978-0-470-90465-7...
... Autodesk RevitArchitecture 2 011 ➢ Autodesk RevitArchitecture 2 011 (see Figure 1. 2) The RevitArchitecture Interface After you start Revit, you see the Recent Files window shown in Figure 1. 3 The ... using the software; the book is organized as follows: Chapter 1: The Revit World hapter introduces you to the RevitArchitecture C 2 011 interface and jumps right into modeling your first building ... xxii Introduction Who Should Read This Book Autodesk® RevitArchitecture 2 011 : No Experience Required Does that mean if you have used Revit you won’t find this book advanced enough? No This...
... are the items you have selected The Properties Dialog The Properties dialog is new to RevitArchitecture 2 011 As just mentioned, the Properties dialog will display the Instance Properties of the ... you click The RevitArchitecture Interface an icon on the Ribbon, Revit will react to that icon with a new tab, giving you the specific additional commands and options you need Revit also keeps ... of the next exercise is to start placing walls into the model: Open RevitArchitecture using the default template The RevitArchitecture Interface On the Home tab, click the Wall button In...
... type 16 , and hit Enter Press the Esc key Do your walls look like Figure 1. 21? If not, try it again You need to be comfortable with this procedure (as much as possible) 15 16 C hapter • The Revit ... dashed-line composition (see Figure 1. 22) 17 18 C hapter • The Revit World Boxes A box is an object selection method that will only select the items that are 10 0 percent inside the window being ... matter which one Right-click on the wall Select Create Similar, as shown in Figure 1. 29 N O T E ew to Revit 2 011 , when you right-click on an item, you can N choose to repeat the last command...
... RevitArchitecture This topic is addressed in Chapter 13 3D View The 3D View icon brings us to a new conversation Complete the following steps that will move us into the discussion on how a Revit ... bar, select Shadows Off and turn the shadows on, as illustrated in Figure 1. 43, and again in Figure 1. 45 The RevitArchitecture Interface F i g u r e Shadows create a nice effect, but ... shown in Figure 1. 39 Of course, if you have a mouse with a wheel, you can zoom and pan by either holding down the wheel to pan or by wheeling the button to scroll in and out The Revit Architecture...
... are three separate Revit applications: Revit Architecture, Revit Structure, and Revit MEP All three Revits share the same rvt file extension You can open a Revit file produced in any of these three ... what Revit calls a family U n d e r s ta n d i n g t h e R e v i t A r c h i t e c t u r e F i l e ( r v t ) The extension for a RevitArchitecture file is rvt There are three separate Revit ... daily basis when you use Revit Note that when a family is loaded into Revit Architecture, there is no live path back to the file that was loaded Once it is added to the Revit model, it becomes...
... did not complete that chapter, open the file called NER- 01. rvt, which you can download from the book’s website at www.sybex.com/go /revit2 011 ner (You can also use your own building, but the dimensions ... wrong orientation, so tap the spacebar to flip it if it is 12 Move your cursor up and to the left at a 13 5° angle (Revit will snap at 45° intervals) Using Reference Planes 13 After you move your ... Allow Revit to guide you in the placement of walls 14 After you pick this point, draw a horizontal wall to the left 25′ 15 From the left point of that wall, draw a wall up 25′ 16 From the...
... i g u r e Both the Men’s and Women’s lavatories The actual rooms will be added in Chapter 15 , “Creating Room and Area Plans” We now need another corridor running north and south, as shown ... the midpoint of the bottom exterior wall Click the Measure Between Two References button Make 10 0 percent sure this is the center of the building You are going to rely heavily on this line ... inside face of the top, horizontal corridor wall, offset the reference plane up (see Figure 2. 41) T I P t can be tricky to get the reference plane going in the correct I direction If it is...
... like anything else in Revit, once you get the method down, you will find your groove Either continue working in your current model, or go to www.sybex com/go /revit2 011 ner and navigate to the ... these items to the model Chapter 17 , “Creating Families,” will drill down into the specifics of creating these custom families Adding Doors Placing a door in RevitArchitecture can seem annoying ... people to have fits with Revit Let’s try to avoid those fits right now! Editing the Cut Profile A plan view is simply a section taken 4′–0″ up the wall from the finish floor In Revit, you can manually...