Revit Beginners

AUGUST 3, 2010

Anyone who has developed a custom remodel residential project can tell you its not as simple, clean, or intuitive as a custom new construction residential project. Plans require additional cleanup, but this approach reduces the frequency and types of cleanups required, particularly obvious when you move on to elevations and sections.

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Construction Cost Estimating

MARCH 11, 2015

Plan Review Fee 2. Zoning Fee 14. Town Building and Planning Dept., Full waterproofing of foundations is more expensive, but worth considering depending on the soil characteristics and how you plan to use the space. Newer materials like LVL and Glulams have created steel beams less common on residential building sites.

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Revit Beginners

JUNE 24, 2010

A placeholder is a family that has just enough geometry to illustrate the component in your plans, elevations, and sections. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Question: So what do I do with highly complex and custom families that will likely change from week to week?

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Revit Beginners

AUGUST 21, 2006

Using Revits 2D Drafting tools: Because beginners are not completely familiar with all of Revits tools and because they are often faced with a deadline, beginners will likely rely on detail lines and filled regions to piece together plans, sections, and elevations for their first few projects. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone.

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Revit Beginners

APRIL 16, 2009

and you might notice that Revit has a new slope annotation that works in plan and elevation view. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Go to Annotate.

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Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 21, 2006

While in plan view draw a floor plan callout. and select your floor plan callout from the list of views. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Instant Section Box. Scott Brown posted this on Zoogdesign ages ago but I thought it was pretty useful so Ill post it.

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Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Edward Borg of Precision Drafting LLC has a dedicated FTP site for sharing cool Revit Project Templates and Families. I’ve tried using split regions to show these areas in plan and internal elevations as well as adding another wall or floor of tiles. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting.

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Revit Beginners

JULY 11, 2006

Interior elevation tags from the first floor plan were mysteriously showing up on the second floor plan. Thats because if the top of the crop region for an interior elevation view intersects the primary range (bottom clip plane) of the floor plan above, then the interior elevation symbol will show in the floor plan above.

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Revit Beginners

JUNE 19, 2006

Youll notice you can select a Floor Plan or Detail View callout. Select Detail View and draw a callout in plan view. Now place a building section in plan view that intersects the callout region. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Change it to "Intersecting views."

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

You might notice that when you move the endpoint of a gridline in plan A it moves in plan B as well. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Surveys and Site Plans. Friday, September 29, 2006. 2D vs 3D Datum. Same goes for Reference Planes and Levels. Subscribe To.

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Revit Beginners

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Go to a floor plan view and add four new elevations looking in all directions. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. This is where having radar comes in handy. If I just imported a project and I cant seem to locate the imported model the first thing I do is setup my radar.

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Revit Beginners

APRIL 16, 2007

Here is a list of some of the new and perhaps less obvious features in Revit Architecture 2008: Plan Regions are now always visible and easier to find. The element graphics of Section Boxes, Plan Regions, Crop Regions, Titleblocks, and Schedules can now be overridden once placed. We design traditional, high-end residential work.

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Revit Beginners

JUNE 7, 2006

Draw a wall in plan view. Select the wall in plan view. This tool works in Plan, Section, and RCP views. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Do you want a niche cut out of your wall for a soap dish or other amenity? Goto Tools. Edit Cut Profile. Subscribe To.

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Revit Beginners

AUGUST 23, 2006

If you want to estimate the total cost of the project per square foot then setup an Area Plan scheme and Area schedule: 1. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Revit's Drafting Machine. There are 3 ways weve found to estimate the cost of a project in Revit.

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

Lets say you have an office standard for how doors and windows should appear in plan view and you want to incorporate this or any other standard as part of your door and window templates. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Surveys and Site Plans. Family Templates.

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Revit Beginners

APRIL 20, 2009

Go to a floor plan view and hit the light bulb to reveal the two new coordinate system icons (the survey point triangle and the project base point circle). We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Monday, April 20, 2009. Revit 2010: New Coordinates Icons. Subscribe To. David Duarte.

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

Goto Drafting. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Surveys and Site Plans. Detail Component and import your DWG into your new Detail Component. Place a masking region behind your imported text (as shown). Load this Detail Component into your project. Repeating Detail.

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Revit Beginners

JANUARY 12, 2007

Check for Plan Regions if in a floor plan view. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Try changing the detail level of the view. Are all your worksets opened? (it it may be hiding in a closed workset). Check View Range in View Properties (VP). Set your view to wireframe.

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Surveys and Site Plans. Subscribe To. David Duarte. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. I was introduced to Revit 4.5 in 2002 and am currently a member of AUGI. View my complete profile. Laiserin Letter Debate.

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Surveys and Site Plans. Subscribe To. David Duarte. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. I was introduced to Revit 4.5 in 2002 and am currently a member of AUGI. View my complete profile. Laiserin Letter Debate.

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2006

We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Surveys and Site Plans. Subscribe To. David Duarte. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. I was introduced to Revit 4.5 in 2002 and am currently a member of AUGI. View my complete profile. Laiserin Letter Debate.

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2006

We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Surveys and Site Plans. Subscribe To. David Duarte. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. I was introduced to Revit 4.5 in 2002 and am currently a member of AUGI. View my complete profile. Laiserin Letter Debate.

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Revit Beginners

JULY 20, 2006

We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Stepped Foundation Plans. Subscribe To. David Duarte. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. I was introduced to Revit 4.5 in 2002 and am currently a member of AUGI. View my complete profile. BIMtroublemaker.

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Revit Beginners

JULY 10, 2006

We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Stepped Foundation Plans. Subscribe To. David Duarte. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. I was introduced to Revit 4.5 in 2002 and am currently a member of AUGI. View my complete profile. BIMtroublemaker.

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Revit Beginners

JULY 21, 2006

If you go to View Properties youll notice that for orientation you only have a choice between Project North and True North, but what if you need to work in plan views that are orthagonal to each building? Just setup duplicate floor plan views for each building and turn on your crop regions. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone.

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Surveys and Site Plans. Subscribe To. David Duarte. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. I was introduced to Revit 4.5 in 2002 and am currently a member of AUGI. View my complete profile. Laiserin Letter Debate.

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 22, 2006

We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Surveys and Site Plans. Subscribe To. David Duarte. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. I was introduced to Revit 4.5 in 2002 and am currently a member of AUGI. View my complete profile. Laiserin Letter Debate.

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Surveys and Site Plans. Subscribe To. David Duarte. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. I was introduced to Revit 4.5 in 2002 and am currently a member of AUGI. View my complete profile. Laiserin Letter Debate.

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Revit Beginners

MARCH 6, 2007

Place an existing wall and door in any existing plan view. We want the demolished jamb line to show up in plan for clarity. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Demo your door in the new construction phase. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe To. Revit 24/7.

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Revit Beginners

JULY 23, 2006

We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Stepped Foundation Plans. Subscribe To. David Duarte. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. I was introduced to Revit 4.5 in 2002 and am currently a member of AUGI. View my complete profile. BIMtroublemaker.

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Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 4, 2006

Lets say a box that in 3d is orange, in elevation is orange and in plan is white ? In the material properties change your surface pattern to Solid fill[Drafting] and select a default color. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. David Duarte. Yes you can. Subscribe To.

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Surveys and Site Plans. Subscribe To. David Duarte. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. I was introduced to Revit 4.5 in 2002 and am currently a member of AUGI. View my complete profile. Laiserin Letter Debate.

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Revit Beginners

JULY 29, 2009

You can also just select all the rows in your schedule, then hit the show (or tile a floor plan next to your schedule). We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. From what I can tell Revit already has this capability. Travis Johnson. Subscribe To. David Duarte. BIMtroublemaker.

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Revit Beginners

JUNE 20, 2006

In the options bar youll notice that you can "Reference other view" (for referencing a drafting view that is already present). Lets say you wanted a section at a very specific angle and at a very specific place in plan view that is not orthogonal. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting.

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Revit Beginners

JANUARY 20, 2010

This wall is the sum of two 9 tall extruded shapes in plan view. Many residential Architects out there will find this very useful. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. one for the overall mass of the wall (thicker line) and one for the stud layer (blue). Subscribe To.

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Revit Beginners

JULY 19, 2006

We design traditional, high-end residential work. Marathon Drafting. Revit Zone. Stepped Foundation Plans. Subscribe To. David Duarte. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. I was introduced to Revit 4.5 in 2002 and am currently a member of AUGI. View my complete profile. BIMtroublemaker.

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Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 13, 2006

Your post on pads has come at an opportune time for me, have you come across a situation where toposurface sub regions & pads appear in plan views where the site is cut. These sub regions and pads are on a higher level than the plan view cut height and cut earth should be what is seen. We design traditional, high-end residential work.

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