
Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014 : Autodesk Official Press.
Title:
Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014 : Autodesk Official Press.
Author:
Vandezande, James.
ISBN:
9781118719084
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1010 pages)
Contents:
Mastering Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2014 -- Copyright -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Who Should Read This Book -- What You Will Learn -- The Mastering Series -- What to Expect -- Part 1: Fundamentals -- Part 2: Understanding the Workfl ow -- Part 3: Modeling and Massing for Design -- Part 4: Extended Modeling Techniques -- Part 5: Documentation -- Part 6: Construction and Beyond -- Contacting the Authors -- Part 1: Fundamentals -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Basics of BIM -- What Is Revit? -- Understanding a BIM Workflow -- Leveraging BIM Processes -- Visualize -- Analyze -- Strategize -- Focusing Your Investment in BIM -- Staffing for BIM -- Project Roles -- Establishing a Work Plan -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 2: Principles: UI and Project Organization -- Understanding the User Interface -- Application Menu -- Quick Access Toolbar -- InfoCenter -- Ribbon -- Options Bar -- Properties Palette and Project Browser -- Status Bar -- Drawing Area -- View Control Bar -- Graphic Display Options -- Work Plane Viewer -- Navigation Methods -- Project Organization -- Datum Objects (Relationships) -- Content (Repetition) -- Views (Representation) -- Project Management (Restrictions) -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 3: The Basics of the Toolbox -- Selecting, Modifying, and Replacing Elements -- Selecting Elements -- Selection Options -- Filtering Your Selection -- Using Selection-Based Filters -- Selecting All Instances -- Using the Properties Palette -- Matching Properties -- Using the Context Menu -- Editing Elements Interactively -- Moving Elements -- Copying Elements -- Rotating and Mirroring Elements -- Arraying Elements -- Scaling Elements -- Aligning Elements -- Trimming or Extending Lines and Walls -- Splitting Lines and Walls -- Offsetting Lines and Walls.
Keeping Elements from Moving -- Exploring Other Editing Tools -- Using the Join Geometry Tool -- Using the Split Face and Paint Tools -- Copying and Pasting -- Using the Create Similar Tool -- Using Keyboard Shortcuts (Accelerators) -- Double-Click to Edit -- Modeling Site Context -- Using a Toposurface -- Creating a Building Pad -- Generating Property Lines -- Cut and Fill Schedules -- The Bottom Line -- Part 2: Understanding the Workflow -- Chapter 4: Configuring Templates and Standards -- Introducing Project Templates -- Customizing Project Settings for Graphic Quality -- Object Styles -- Line Settings -- Materials -- Fill Patterns -- Color Schemes -- Efficient View Management -- Organizing Views -- Creating and Assigning Filters -- Applying View Templates -- Creating Custom Annotations -- Tag Family Fundamentals -- Creating a Custom Door Tag -- View Tags -- Starting a Project with a Custom Template -- Strategies for Managing Templates -- Aggregating Template Data -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 5: Understanding Worksharing -- Understanding Worksharing Basics -- Enabling Worksharing on Your Project -- Types of Worksets -- Creating a Central File -- Selecting a Starting View -- Creating a Local File -- Worksharing Username -- Organizing Worksets -- Moving Elements between Worksets -- Managing Workflow with Worksets -- Saving Work -- Saving at Intervals -- Loading Work from Other Team Members -- Worksharing Visualization -- Workset Visibility in View Templates -- Closing Revit -- Disabling Worksharing -- Understanding Element Ownership in Worksets -- Editing Requests -- Placing an Editing Request -- Granting an Editing Request -- Relinquishing Permission -- Worksharing Monitor -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 6: Working with Consultants -- Preparing for Collaboration -- Managing the Coordination Process -- Linked Models -- Shared Positioning.
Using Project Base Point and Survey Point -- Using Worksets to Organize Linked Models -- Benefits and Limitations of Linked Models -- Exercises: Using Linked Models -- Coordination Tools -- Copy/Monitor -- Coordination Review -- Interference Checking -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 7: Interoperability: Working Multiplatform -- The BIM Curve -- Inserting CAD Data -- Predefined Settings for Inserted CAD Data -- Importing vs. Linking -- Options During Importing/Linking -- Manipulating Inserted CAD Data -- Using Inserted 2D Data -- Backgrounds for BIM Conversion -- Coordination -- Details -- Using Inserted 3D Data -- CAD Data as a Mass -- CAD Data as a Face -- CAD Data as an Object -- Exporting CAD Data -- Preparing for CAD Exports -- Export DWG Settings -- Exporting 2D CAD Data -- Exporting 3D Model Data -- Studies in SketchUp -- IFC Interoperability -- The Bottom Line -- Part 3: Modeling and Massing for Design -- Chapter 8: Advanced Modeling and Massing -- Massing UI and Functionality -- Intuitive and Formula Mass Creation -- In-Place Masses -- Family Component Masses -- Floor Area Faces and Scheduling Masses -- Intuitive Massing -- In-Place Surface -- Solids -- Formula-Driven Massing -- Simple Mass Family -- Generic Model Mass Family -- Complex Mass Family -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 9: Conceptual Design and Design Analysis -- Sustainable Analysis -- Create a Conceptual Mass -- Energy Modeling -- Conceptual Energy Analysis -- Energy Analysis Setup -- Detailed Energy Modeling -- Exporting to gbXML -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 10: Working with Phasing, Groups, and Design Options -- Using Phasing -- What Can Be Phased? -- Phase Settings -- Geometry Phase -- View Phase -- Creating and Using Groups -- Creating Groups -- Modifying Groups -- Creating New Groups -- Excluding Elements within Groups -- Saving and Loading Groups -- Creating Groups from Links.
Best Practices for Groups -- Making Design Options for Design Iteration -- Creating Design Options -- Editing Design Options -- Viewing and Scheduling Design Options -- Removing Design Options and Option Sets -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 11: Visualization -- The Role of Visualization -- Analytic Visualization -- Monochromatic Views -- Project Parameters -- User-Defined Parameters -- Identifying Design Elements -- Solar and Shadow Studies -- Photorealistic Visualization -- Visual Styles -- Section Box -- Rendering Settings -- Creating Your View -- Locking Your View -- Still Image Camera -- Creating a Walkthrough -- Rendering Sequence and Workflow -- Geometry and Cameras -- Sunlight -- Artificial Lighting -- Light Groups -- Materials -- The Bottom Line -- Part 4: Extended Modeling Techniques -- Chapter 12: Walls and Curtain Walls -- Using Extended Modeling Techniques for Basic Walls -- Creating Basic Wall Types -- Adding Wall Articulation -- Modeling Techniques for Basic Walls -- Creating Custom In-Place Walls -- Creating Stacked Walls -- Creating Simple Curtain Walls -- Designing a Curtain Wall -- Customizing Curtain Wall Types -- Creating Complex Curtain Walls -- Dividing the Surface -- Dividing the Surface with Intersects -- Applying Patterns -- Editing the Pattern Surface -- Surface Representation -- Adding Definition -- Creating Custom Patterns -- Limiting the Size of Pattern-Based Families -- Using the Adaptive Component Family -- Scheduling Pattern-Based Panels -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 13: Floors, Ceilings, and Roofs -- Understanding Floor Types -- Floor -- Structural Floor -- Floor by Face -- Pad -- Sketching for Floors, Ceilings, and Roofs -- Modeling Slab Edges -- Creating a Custom Floor Edge -- Modeling Floor Finishes -- Split Face for Thin Finishes -- Modeling Thick Finishes -- Creating Ceilings -- Understanding Roof Modeling Methods.
Footprint Roofs -- Roof by Extrusion -- Roof In-Place -- Roof By Face -- Sloped Glazing -- Slope Arrows -- Advanced Shape Editing for Floors and Roofs -- Creating a Roof with a Sloped Topping -- Applying a Variable Thickness to a Roof Layer -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 14: Family Editor -- Getting Started with a Family -- Understanding In-Place Families -- Choosing the Right Family Template and Category -- Hosted vs. Non-hosted -- Other Types of Families -- Understanding the Family Editor -- Creating the Framework for a Family Component -- Reference Planes, Lines, and Points -- Dimensions -- Type and Instance Parameters -- Model Organization and Control -- Family Modeling Techniques -- Creating an Extrusion -- Creating a Sweep -- Creating a Revolve -- Nesting Families -- Extended Family Management Techniques -- Visibility Check -- Parametric Arrays and Family Type Parameters -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 15: Stairs and Railings -- How to Approach Stairs and Railings -- Key Components of Stairs and Railings -- The Basic Rules of Stairs -- Components of Stairs -- Components of Railings -- Creating Railings -- Creating a Custom Railing -- Curtain Wall or Glass Railings -- Using the Railing Tool for Other Objects -- Creating Stairs -- Understanding the Stair Tools -- Components for Customizing Stairs -- Stairs outside the Box -- Annotating Stairs -- The Bottom Line -- Part 5: Documentation -- Chapter 16: Detailing Your Design -- Creating Details -- Detail Line -- Regions -- Components -- Insulation -- Detail Groups -- Linework -- Adding Detail Components to Families -- Adding Details to a Window Family -- Visibility Settings -- Learning Efficient Detailing -- Reusing Details from Other Files -- Linking vs. Importing -- Reusing Details from Other Revit Projects -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 17: Documenting Your Design -- Documenting Plans -- Room Objects.
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Abstract:
Learn Revit Architecture with expert instruction from this Autodesk Official Press guide The new edition of this bestselling Revit book is the most useful and approachable Mastering Revit Architecture yet. Thoroughly revised and updated, this comprehensive guide to Autodesk's industry-leading building information modeling (BIM) software features in-depth explanations, real-world examples, and practical tutorials help you grasp crucial tools, techniques, and concepts so you can quickly start doing real work in Revit. You will learn core BIM concepts and best practices for everything from putting together impressive building designs to producing solid documentation, creating visualizations that impress clients, and more. Hands-on exercises with downloadable before-and-after files provide plenty of opportunities to practice the real-world scenarios and hone all the crucial Revit skills. Explains the user interface, general concepts, best practices, and new features of Revit 2014 Teaches modeling, massing, and visualization with Revit Helps users develop extended modeling skills for walls, stairs, floors, and more Features detailed documentation and presentation techniques Provides detailed instruction, step-by-step tutorials, and numerous examples Includes downloadable starting and ending files and additional advanced content Offers information to help readers prepare for Autodesk's certification exams This detailed reference and tutorial is the perfect resource for becoming an expert with Autodesk's powerful BIM software.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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