Revit Architecture(BIM) Building Information Modeling Program

Getting Started with…The House Project

Getting Started

Find the Revit icon on your desktop, right click and Pin to the Taskbar

To open click once from the Taskbar

Under Projects click New…

Getting Started

Now arrow down and choose “Architectural Template”

This is a look at some of the places you will be on the Revit

Interface ***make sure you know the names of these items listed

The Screen

STATUS BAR

4 ELEVATION MARKS

PROJECT BROWSER

TYPE SELECTOR

VIEW CONROL BAR

PROPERTIES PALETTE

RIBBON PANEL

OPTION BAR: Note that this will

change which each Ribbon Tool selected

RIBBON TOOLRIBBON TAB

VIEW CUBE

Making Exterior Walls

Under the Architectural Tab, click

on Wall > Wall: Architectural

In the Type Selector choose Basic Wall: Exterior – Brick and CMU on MTL. Stud

In the Options Bar choose: Level 2 and make sure the rest of the items are selected as below

FYI Making Exterior Walls You can customize the wall selected (or anything else)

or create a new wall type inside the Properties Panel by selecting the Edit Type button. For this exercise do not change anything…..

Making Exterior Walls

Now click a point in the View window, inside of the Elevation marks, and head right. Type in 50 and hit enter and you have completed a wall 50’ in length. ***Make sure you are going Horizontal

Pick a beginning point

and head right, type 50

then enter.

Be sure to stay inside

the elevation marks.

**** NOTICE THE DASHED

BLUE LINES AND THE

NOTES WHEN DRAWING

WALLS

Making Exterior Walls

Now head straight down and type in 30 and press enter. ***Make sure you are going Vertical

Head straight down,

type 30 and press

enter.

Making Exterior Walls

Now head left and snap to the

Intersection point , click

(you could have typed 50 & enter)

Then up and snap to the Endpoint to complete the four walls of your house, hit the Modify button to exit the wall command (or Esc twice)

(you could

have typed

30 & enter)

Making Interior Walls

Click on Wall and in the Type Selector choose Basic Wall: Generic – 5” then select the midpoint of the exterior wall and draw a vertical wall down 30.

Making Interior Walls

Select the midpoint of the exterior wall on the right and make a new horizontal wall going to the center wall

Now select the midpoint of the wall you just made and make a new vertical wall going up to the exterior wall

DONE -you have now

created walls in Revit!

Center Your Walls

If your walls are not in the center of your Elevation Marks; left click and drag a box around your walls. Then drag it to the center as shown below.

Adding Doors Under the Architectural Tab, click on Door

Make sure Tag on Placement

is selected

In the Type Selector choose Single-Flush 36” x 80”

Place the doors as shown

Modifying Doors Select the “Flip Arrows” to change the swing or

position of any door if necessary

Click on the dimension to change

the door position to 3’-0”

Change Door 2 position to 3’-0” as well

Both doors have the correct swing and position

Adding Additional Doors Select Door again and then click on Load Family

Select the Doors folder

For the front door, double click on Double-Glass 2

In the Type Selector change door size to 72” x 82”

(Notice the Preview

of what you select)

Adding Doors

Place the front door in the middle, as shown

Adding Doors

Select Load Family again

In the Doors folders, select Double-Panel 1 and place as shown.

Click on the door and change the size to 72” x 82”

Adding Wall Openings

Select Component>Place a Component

Then Load Family

Under the Openings folders select Passage Opening-Elliptical Arch

Adding Wall Openings

The opening is too small so we will make it bigger

In the Type Selector click on Edit Type

Change the width from 3’ 0” to 8’ 0”

Then click OK (Type 8-0)

Adding Wall Openings

The Passage Opening is shown below make sure it is in the center of the wall; if not click on the opening, select one dimension and type 7-6

Adding Windows Under the Architectural Tab, click on Window

Make sure Tag on Placement is

STILL selected then click Load Family

Go to Windows folder and open the Archtop with Trim option

In the Type Selector change the

size to 36” x 48”

Place this window as shown if the front right corner

Make sure window

is facing out, use

“Flip Arrows” to

change if it isn’t

Adding Windows Add more windows of your choice as shown

BE SURE when you add windows, you select close

to the outside of the wall as the placement

Notice all the window tags are on the outside of the walls….so are the windows….IF NOT flip windows and move tags outside of windows as shown

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1

3D View

Select the 3D button to see the house, review these other options

ROTATE THE

HOUSE

CHANGE FROM WIRE FRAME

TO REALISTIC

3D BUTTON

CLICK TO GO BACK

TO PLAN VIEW

ON THE VIEW CONROL BAR

IN THE PROJECT BROWSER

WITH THE VIEW CUBE

Lets try some other quick movement skills:

Hold down the mouse wheel + Ctrl (what happens?)

Hold down the mouse wheel + Shift (what happens?)

Hold down the mouse wheel & drag the mouse left and right (what happens?)

Scroll the mouse wheel (what happens?)

Double click the mouse wheel (what happens?)

To get your house back to a specific alignment:

Hover over the VIEW CUBE and click the little house (what happens?)

Click on each side and the top corners of

the View Cube (what happens?)

3D View Movement

Adding a Roof

Double click Level 1 to go back to the plan view

Click on Roof, then the

option Roof by Footprint

Click YES for the Lowest Level Notice.

In the Options Bar, change the Overhang: from 0’ 0” to 2’ 0” and keep Defines slope checked

Adding a Roof

Select the top wall, the dashed lines preview that your is roof 2’-0” outside your wall

Continue selecting all walls, when you are done click

on the green check

Viewing Your Roof

Click the + on 3D Views in the Project Browser

and double click on {3D}

Click on the workspace and you should

see your roof.

Editing Your Roof

Select your roof (it will turn blue) and Edit Footprint

Click on the purple line next

to the slope (purple) triangle

on the door wall

Uncheck Defines Slope

Click the Green Check

Editing Your Roof

Rotate your house to look at the front door view

Touch the front wall and select Attach Top/Base

Now touch the roof

How do you fill in the

small voids on both

sides of the front wall

so that the brick wall

goes to the roof?

DO

THAT

NOW.

3D House View

GABLE ROOF

HIP ROOF

You have created two different types of roofs

Elevation Views

In the Project Browser: click onto the

4 different elevation views to see a 2D

view of the house.

On the View Control Bar, change the visual style to Consistent Colors

East

Elevation Views

North

South

Elevation Views

West

Print Out Your House Click to get the house into a 3D view, rotate to a desirable angle close

to what you see below, change the Visual Style to Consistent Colors.

From the Annotate Tab, add your name with the Text Tool- click on screen and type your name in ALL CAPS under the front door, then click Modify

Go to the big purple at the top left and Print to

Set and select Preview (ALWAYS), if happy select Print

Adding Components

If time permits, go to Level 1 floor plan and add some components to the following rooms.

Adding Components

Go to Component > Place a Component

Then Load Family

Components for your rooms can be found under some of these folders:

KITCHEN APPLANCES