Revit 2017-MEP

Revit is a design and documentation platform that supports the design, drawings, and schedules required for building information modeling (BIM), and allows for coordination among all team members.

BIM is an integrated workflow built on coordinated, reliable information about a project from design through construction and into operation. 

In the Revit model, every drawing sheet, 2D and 3D view, and schedule is a presentation of information from the same virtual building model.

Revit provides schedules, quantities, and material takeoffs to quantify and analyze the components and materials used in a project.

How many times you’ve changed your design, and start over again, and wishing if you have a tool to buy you more time?

Revit gives a tool to explore alternative designs in the building model and develop, evaluate, and redesign building components and rooms within the same project, which means you will get a collection of possible solutions for a particular design problem.

When you’re working on a design, you need a reference Code according to the system you’re designing, a software to calculate, and another one for modeling.

Fortunately, all of that is provided in the same environment in Revit.

Revit provides a great tool for Energy Analysis to generate an energy analytical model, run energy simulations, and calculate heating and cooling loads.

In plain AutoCAD, if you change an element in section view, you must change it in all views as well.

In Revit, parametric change engine automatically coordinates changes made anywhere—in model views, drawing sheets, schedules, sections, and plans.

Practice is needed to be sure that you understand all tips in the course, when you start design or work on a specific project, you may get an error, or trouble to carry on, sometimes you will figure out the solution, sometimes you cannot. That’s why it’s important to download the practice materials that I have prepared for this course.

Troubleshooting

I am using the Revit 2017 (student version). The problem is, when I am recording a lecture about Energy Settings, I couldn’t find the tool.

I've checked the User Interface settings: <<Energy Analysis and tools>> is checked.

And the panel appears as shown.

Actually, this issue related to the recent Revit 2017.1 update, Autodesk merged the old Energy Analysis with this new service called "Insight", which is cloud-based.

All what you need to do is, downloading a hotfix, which will be found at the downloadable materials, or at their Site.

Simply download, launch the executable, and restart Revit, then have fun!

If you were a user of Revit 2015, you might use an Autodesk Seek.

Autodesk Seek is a tool to search for product design content from AutoCAD® and Revit® products.

In 2017 release of Revit, the link to Autodesk Seek (seek.autodesk.com) now redirects to BIMobject.com.

BIMobject® Corporation provides free access to manufacturer-specific BIM objects.

First you need to download and install the BIMobject® App for Revit toolbar.

And log on, rather you create a new account on their site, or you can use your Autodesk account.

You can select the brand directly, and browse all families uploaded.

You can browse products and search for a Revit file directly in Revit without having to shift between windows. 

Type the word of the family, and click enter.

Click to select the family.

In the new page, you can know all info about that family.

Click Download.

Specify the file type, and click Download.

After loading is complete, a dialog appears to give you a chance to select the type you need.

You can use the filter to select it directly, then click to select the row, and click OK.

The family is created with 2015 release, and it should be upgraded.

Congratulations.

You’re ready now to insert the fan.

The BIMobject® App link: https://info.bimobject.com/apps/revit-app

See you in the next lecture.

Revit is a design and documentation platform that supports the design, drawings, and schedules required for building information modeling (BIM), and allows for coordination among all team members.

By the end of this chapter, you'll be able to:   

• Know about Revit and BIM technology.

• Starting the software and recognize user interface.

• Control the saving reminder, assign default view discipline, apply color theme, customize the keyboard shortcuts, control the working of double-click mouse, and place the location of ready-made templates and library files.

• The safe and easy way to open the standalone file.

• Assign a starting view.

• Recognize project user interface.

Let’s start Revit software.

Starting with user interface, on the left, Project section within the recent projects list.

Use Open when you can’t find the desired project in the recent projects list.

New to create project using template from installed libraries or you can pick up one of these ready-made templates, which can be changed as you desire, I select the Imperial ready-made templates for different disciplines.

On Families section within the recent families.

Use Open when you can’t find the desired family in the list.

Use New to create a family from scratch, or use a block made in another software, and Autodesk Seek to download product for use in your Revit projects. 

To access commands easily, use Quick Access Toolbar, at the upper left of the screen.

At the right, there’s an Info Center, for logging on Autodesk server, exchanging Apps, and searching for specific subject in the community.

Revit within release year and the file name can be found at the upper middle.

Press Help drop-down list, to read more about subjects, use Help button.

To know about the latest updates in Revit, click What’s New?

Also, Autodesk provides some tutorials, articles, and Apps to get more knowledge and functions for the software.

Be aware that “Resources list is needed the internet connection”.

In Revit, you can control the saving reminder alert, assign default view discipline to display, select discipline tool to display in the ribbon, apply color theme, customize the keyboard shortcuts, control the working of double-click mouse, improve performance of Graphics, place the location of ready-made templates and library files, choose where the rendering will be done, and specify its files location, and control appearance of tools such as: SteeringWheels and ViewCube.

It’s too risky to click the Revit file to open, probably the project will be crashed.

The safe and easy way to open the standalone file is using Open command. There’re many ways to do that:

You can select the file from the list.

Using the Application menu, click Open list, select Project.

Open dialog box appears, navigate to the location where you’ve saved your file, select the file, and click Open.

Or you can use Open in Project section

When you open a recent file, the last saved view will be displayed.

You can specify which view will be opened.

To access commands easily, use Quick Access Toolbar.

Quick Access Toolbar is located on the left side of the title bar.

In the Quick Access Toolbar, you will find tools such as open, save, undo, redo, tag, text, and switching to a 3D view.

Creating design geometry is often done parametrically in Revit, which means that the related elements in the design are defined by linked parameters defining the interaction between the two.

By the end of this chapter, you'll know about:

• The three different types of elements in Revit project.                                                 

• Making relations between elements using Constraints. 

• The difference between type properties and instance properties.

• Ways to select the various kinds of elements in a project.

• The function of TAB key.

• Create, save and modify a selection.

• How to control size of the element graphically.

Revit uses 3 types of elements in project: model elements, datum elements, and view-specific elements.

There are 2 types of model elements: Hosts and Model components.

In Revit, any element in the model has a parametric linked defines its relationship with other element.

As this view, a relationship is created between the Grid and Curtain, which means if the grid moves, curtain moves instantly, if the grid aligns to another element, the curtain follows the grid.

When a selection includes elements of different categories, you can use a filter to remove unwanted categories from the selection.

For example, if the selection includes walls, windows, and furniture, you can use a filter to omit the furniture from the selection.

You can select all of the elements that are similar to the selected element in the current view, or throughout the project.

One of the most important keys on the Keyboard is the Tab key, which can be used to speed up our work on a project.

When you need to control more than an element at once, you may need to create a selection, then save this selection in case you want to do changes again.

Filters provide a way to override the graphic display and control the visibility of elements that share common properties in a view.

You can add or remove elements to a saved selection. All what you need to do is, selecting the saved selection, and click Edit button in Selection Panel.

You can control size of the element graphically using drag points which will be displayed once you select the element.

If you need to navigate a model in the active view (2D or 3D), use navigation tools, which can be accessed by using the Navigation Bar.

The navigation bar will be found at the upper right in the drawing area, which is activated by default.

In Revit, you can create different views of the building model, such as plans, sections, elevations, and 3D views.

Revit provides many tools to control View (2D and 3D), for 3D view you can use Section Box.

Scope boxes are automatically visible in 3D views and in plan views whose associated Level intersects the scope box.

You can control the visibility of a scope box by resizing it, hiding it in a view, or setting its Views Visible property.

In Revit, you can use these techniques to modify and manipulate elements in the drawing area to achieve the desired design for the building model. Many of these tools are available on the Modify tab of the ribbon.

Copy tool is not to make a copy in the same view only, but paste the required items in any other view or several views according to the vision of the designer. Revit provides several methods to copy one or more selected elements.

The Delete tool removes selected elements from the drawing.

Through working on a project, you may get gaps or disconnected systems in a building model, which means poor design and calculations.

The Mirror tool reverses the position of a selected model element, using a line as the mirror axis.

In Plain AutoCAD, when you made any changes in section, you must update all other views manually, which costs you time and effort. In Revit, all what you need is, doing the changes, and it will be updated automatically.

By the end of this chapter, you'll know about:

• Creating a Revit project upon coordination type, the unit, and Discipline.

• Adding project information.

• Linking a Revit model to a host model.

• The new addition in Revit 2017, Project base point option.

• Copy and Monitor levels to track any changes in model.

• Creating floor and ceiling plan views

• Creating new views using 3 types of duplicating options.

• Arranging files in project browser.

Revit software provides you a ready-made templates to start your projects according to your preferred unit, discipline, and coordination type.

Create a project using no template

After watching the previous tutorial, answer the question

After creating the project, start adding project, client, and organization details.

There are multiple options of collaborating in Revit, one of them is linking one model to another, to create a complete building model for the project.

Link a model to another

After watching the previous tutorial, answer the question

There are multiple options of collaborating in Revit, one of them is linking model or many to a host one, to create a complete building model or site for the project. New changes in release 2017 is, improving workflow and productivity.

By the end of this lecture, you'll be able to:

• Position a Revit Model to another using Auto - Project Base Point to Project Base Point option.

• Display a project base point of the model using Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog.

• Open the linked model in a different screen.

• Reload the linked model.

To track any changes in model, you do need to Copy Monitor grids and levels. To do that, in the project browser, expand tree view until you find Elevations (Building Elevation), double-click to open the South – Mech elevation view.

After copied and monitored the linked model levels, start creating the Initial Plan Views.

In Revit, you can work on different disciplines in a project, to coordinate all systems in the same model. If you have main views, it’s easy to duplicate them using three types depending on the design phase you’re going through.

By the end of this lecture, you'll be able to create new views using:

• Duplicate.

• Duplicate with Detailing.

• Duplicate as a Dependent.

A family is simply a collection of elements with identical use, common parameters, and similar geometry. 

Working File: (rme_advanced_sample_project)

System families are defined within the Revit project file, not in an external family file. 

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Loadable families are families used to create building components such as doors,windows, furniture, and plumbing fixtures 

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Different elements belonging to a family may have different values for some or all of their parameters. These variations within the family are called family types.

The Family Editor is a graphical editing mode that allows you to create and modify families to include in your project.

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You load families that contain nested components or nested and shared components into a project using the same methods as any other family. Working File: (The Second Home)

A family that contains nested and shared families works as any other family within a project. Working File: (The Second Home)

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Create an instance of a family type in the project, or change the family type for an existing element. Working File: (rme_advanced_sample_project)

Use the Family Editor to make changes to existing families or to create new families.

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