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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Introducing the Autodesk Revit Architecture Interface | |
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| Understanding the Interface | |
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| Properties Palette | |
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| Project Browser | |
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| Status Bar | |
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| View Control Bar | |
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| ViewCube | |
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| Options Bar | |
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| Understanding the Interface Workflow | |
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| Creating a Simple Layout | |
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| Using Filter, Mirror, and Trim/Extend | |
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| Adjusting Datums | |
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| Changing Element Types | |
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| Using Common Modifying Tools | |
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| Using Dimensions for Modifying Designs | |
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| Aligning Elements | |
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| Rotating, Grouping, and Arraying | |
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| Aligned Copying and Group Editing | |
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| The Essentials and Beyond | |
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| Walls and Curtain Walls | |
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| Understanding Wall Types and Parameters | |
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| Basic Walls | |
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| Stacked Walls | |
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| Curtain Wall Types | |
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| Creating Numerous Wall Configurations | |
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| Sketching Walls | |
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| Picking Walls | |
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| Hosting Elements in Walls | |
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| Modifying Walls | |
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| Instance Parameters | |
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| Editing Profiles | |
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| Attaching and Detaching the Top and Base | |
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| Resetting Profiles | |
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| Cutting Openings | |
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| Splitting Walls | |
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| Swapping Walls | |
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| Creating Curtain Walls | |
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| Curtain Grids | |
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| Adding Mullions | |
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| Embedding Curtain Walls | |
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| Modifying Curtain Walls | |
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| Editing the Elevation Profile | |
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| Adding and Modifying Grids and Mullions | |
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| Unpinning and Toggling Mullions | |
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| Modifying Curtain-Grid Segments | |
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| Modifying Curtain Panels | |
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| Going Beyond the Basics | |
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| The Essentials and Beyond | |
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| Floors, Roofs, and Ceilings | |
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| Creating Floors | |
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| Sketching | |
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| Editing the Boundary | |
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| Creating Sloped Arrows and Floors | |
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| Creating Sloped Floors via Shape Editing | |
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| Creating Openings by Sketching | |
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| Creating Openings with Shafts | |
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| Picking Walls | |
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| Laying Out Roofs | |
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| Picking Walls | |
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| Creating Slope Arrows | |
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| Creating Extruded Roofs | |
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| Adding Ceilings | |
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| Creating Automatic Ceilings | |
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| Sketching Ceilings | |
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| Dealing with Bulkhead Conditions | |
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| Adding Lights and Rotating the Grid | |
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| Changing the Ceiling | |
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| Sloping the Ceiling | |
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| The Essentials and Beyond | |
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| Stairs, Ramps, and Railings | |
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| Creating Stair Configurations | |
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| Creating the Generic Railing | |
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| Creating Your Design Stair | |
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| Creating a Straight-Run Stair | |
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| Creating a Straight-Run Stair with Landing | |
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| Creating Multistory Runs | |
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| Setting the Host Function for Railings | |
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| Designing Ramps | |
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| Creating a Straight-Run Ramp | |
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| Editing Boundary Conditions | |
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| Building Railings for Level and Sloped Conditions | |
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| Using the Set Host Function | |
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| Editing the Top Rail | |
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| From Basics to Creative Art | |
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| The Essentials and Beyond | |
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| Adding Families | |
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| Understanding the Model Hierarchy | |
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| Assigning Families to Categories | |
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| Working with System Families | |
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| Loading System Families | |
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| Placing System Families | |
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| Working with Component Families | |
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| Loading Component Families | |
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| Using Hosted Families | |
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| Using Face-Based Families | |
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| Using In-Place Component Families | |
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| Finding Content | |
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| The Essentials and Beyond | |
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| Modifying Families | |
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| Editing View Display and Detail Level | |
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| View Scale and Detail Level | |
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| Level of Detail | |
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| Changing the Family Category | |
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| Editing the Family Category | |
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| Editing the Insertion Point | |
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| Modifying Family Geometry | |
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| Editing the Family | |
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| Editing Profiles | |
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| Detail Components | |
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| Repeating Details | |
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| Title Blocks | |
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| Hosted Components | |
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| Family Tips and Best Practices | |
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| The Essentials and Beyond | |
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| Schematic Design | |
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| Working from a Sketch | |
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| Importing Background Images | |
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| Accurately Scaling Images | |
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| Using Reference Planes and Levels | |
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| Creating and Placing Groups | |
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| Modeling In-Place Masses | |
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| Modeling the Base Mass | |
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| Modeling the Middle Mass | |
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| Modeling the Upper Mass | |
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| Working in 3D | |
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| Creating Mass Floors | |
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| Scheduling Mass Floors | |
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| Updating the Massing Study | |
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| The Essentials and Beyond | |
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| Rooms and Color-Fill Plans | |
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| Defining Rooms in Spaces | |
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| Room Tags | |
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| Room Boundaries | |
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| Room Separation Lines | |
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| Deleting Rooms | |
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| Generating Color-Fill Room Plans | |
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| Adding a Color Legend | |
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| Modifying Color Schemes | |
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| Adding Tags and Fill Colors in Section | |
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| The Essentials and Beyond | |
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| Materials, Rendering, and Visualization | |
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| Using Materials | |
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| Editing Material Properties of Walls | |
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| Using Graphic Display Options | |
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| Presentation Elevation Drawing | |
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| Presentation 3D Isometric Drawing | |
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| 3D Exploded View | |
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| Rendering Graphics | |
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| The Essentials and Beyond | |
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| Worksharing | |
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| Enabling Worksharing | |
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| Preparing the Central File | |
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| Creating Central and Local Files | |
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| Creating the Central File | |
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| Creating the Local File | |
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| Adding Worksets | |
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| Workset Visibility | |
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| Assigning Elements to Worksets | |
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| Saving to the Central File | |
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| Creating New Elements | |
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| Opening and Closing Worksets | |
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| Worksharing Display Modes | |
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| Editing Requests | |
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| Worksharing Best Practices | |
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| The Essentials and Beyond | |
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| Details and Annotations | |
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| Creating Details | |
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| Detail Line | |
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| Region | |
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| Component | |
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| Creating a Detail | |
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| Insulation | |
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| Detail Groups | |
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| Linework | |
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| Annotating Your Details | |
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| Dimensions | |
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| Tags | |
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| Text | |
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| Using Legends | |
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| The Essentials and Beyond | |
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| Creating Drawing Sets | |
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| Creating Schedules | |
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| Understanding Schedules | |
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| Making Schedules | |
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| Creating a Window Schedule | |
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| Creating a Room Schedule | |
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| Creating a Sheet List | |
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| Placing Views on Sheets | |
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| Adding Floor Plans to the Sheet | |
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| Adding the Schedules | |
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| Printing Documents | |
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| Exploring the Print Dialog Box | |
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| Exploring the Print Settings | |
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| Exploring the Print Range | |
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| The Essentials and Beyond | |
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| Workflow and Site Modeling | |
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| Understanding a BIM Workflow | |
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| Staffing a BIM Project | |
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| Project Roles Using Revit Architecture | |
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| Adding Team Members to Fight Fires | |
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| Modeling a Site | |
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| Using a Toposurface | |
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| Creating a Building Pad | |
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| Performing Quality Control on Your Model | |
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| Keeping an Eye on File Size | |
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| Dealing with Warnings | |
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| The Essentials and Beyond | |
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| Repeating Objects, Best Practices, and Quick Tips | |
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| Repeating Objects | |
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| Optimizing Performance | |
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| Utilizing Best Practices | |
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| Using Quick Tips and Shortcuts | |
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| Finding Additional Resources | |
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| The Essentials and Beyond | |
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| Appendix: Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014 Certification | |
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| Index | |