Revit: Optimize Your BIM Workflow

Introduction

• Working with building information modeling (BIM)
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. BIM in Industry

• Using Revit as a primary BIM modeling and drafting tool
• The industry-wide use of BIM
• The UK Government Construction Strategy
• The BIM Overlay to the RIBA Outline Plan of Work
• The US definition of BIM

2. Working with CAD Drawings

• Working with suitable project units
• Removing unnecessary layers in the CAD drawing
• Removing unnecessary blocks in the CAD drawing
• Removing all other unnecessary entities in the CAD drawing
• Using PURGE to remove any other entities

3. CAD Drawings: Standards

• Working to your own standard
• Working to a recognized standard
• Working with British standards (BS 1192 and ISO 19650)

4. CAD Drawings: Importing CAD Files

• Importing a CAD drawing
• Hiding the imported CAD drawing

5. CAD Drawings: Linking CAD Files

• Linking a CAD drawing
• Hiding the linked CAD drawing

6. Worksharing in Revit

• Creating a central model
• Checking linked CAD files
• Worksharing locally or in the cloud
• Setting up worksets
• Workset ownership and permissions

7. Sheets and Sheet Views

• Using sheets in Revit
• Scaling views in sheets
• Tagging elements and views in sheets
• Working with sheet families
• Adding project information to sheets
• Adding sheet revisions

8. Detail and Drafting Views

• Setting up and scaling a view
• Importing and exploding DWG details
• Converting DWG text to Revit text
• Using Revit-filled regions to replace DWG hatches

9. Scheduling

• Creating a schedule
• Adding the schedule to a sheet
• Creating a legend view to go with a schedule on a sheet

10. Publishing a Revit Project

• Publishing from Revit
• Viewing the published project sheets in PDF format

Conclusion

• Next steps