Cert Prep: Revit for Architectural Design Professional

Introduction

• Being an Autodesk Revit Architecture Certified Professional
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files
• Using the Revit 2020 interface
• The Revit Recent Files screen

1. Autodesk Certified Professional (ACP)

• What is Autodesk certification?
• Certiport: The Autodesk exam provider

2. Modeling and Materials

• Working with walls
• Working with wall types
• Working with floors, roofs, and ceilings
• Working with circulation elements: Stairs, ramps, and railings
• Working with columns: Architectural, structural, and structural grids
• Understanding the functions and limitations of model and detail groups
• Using massing elements
• Using site and topography
• Associating a material with an object or a style
• Creating and editing a basic material and its properties
• Loading a material library
• Creating, editing, and loading selection sets
• Working with rooms
• Working with areas

3. Families

• Understanding and configuring family types
• Differentiating between different kinds of families
• Transferring families between projects
• Creating or deleting an instance or type parameter
• Determining the appropriate parameter, discipline, type, or grouping
• Modifying a room calculation point
• Selecting the appropriate family template
• Creating a simple family: Geometry, lines, reference planes, and dimensions, part 1
• Creating a simple family: Geometry, lines, reference planes, and dimensions, part 2
• Working with hosted and non-hosted elements in a model

4. Documentation

• Dimensions and annotation families
• Using tags and tag categories
• Using a matchline and a view reference
• Loading and creating a detail component family
• Defining a repeating detail
• Understanding how to work with phases
• Understanding how to work with design options
• Understanding sheet issues, revisions, and revision clouds
• Configuring export settings for other projects and CAD drawings
• Configuring custom print setups
• Creating and using color scheme legends for areas and rooms

5. Views

• Understanding browser organization and view properties
• Visibility and graphic overrides
• Applying and editing view templates
• Creating and managing callout views
• Setting up a view for rendering
• Setting up a sheet
• Duplicating views
• Developing and customizing schedules
• Manipulating schedule data
• Applying worksharing display modes

6. Revit Project Management

• Managing imported and linked files
• Managing a linked file
• Understanding the concept of copying and monitoring elements from a linked file, including interference checking
• Understanding how to use worksharing features
• Modifying level and grid types
• Transferring and reviewing project standards
• Editing object styles
• Understanding and using Purge
• Using the Audit and Compact tools, and assessing review warnings
• Understanding shared, project, and global parameters

Conclusion

• Next steps