I had this question a few days ago: can we add tags to Revit walls? This question come up because the user always automatically tag his doors and windows. Door tags can be placed automatically during door placement. But not for walls. For many type of objects, we  need to add tags manually. You can [...]

Curtain wall in Revit basically is a wall. It just use a different family type. Revit Architecture already has 3 curtain wall types. You can find them in type selector, after activating wall tool. The curtain wall type is a curtain wall with single panel. We need to define the grids and the mullions after [...]

We have defined the wall structure horizontally. Now we are going to make another wall type that define how is the wall defined vertically. Activate wall tool. We are going to make some modification to wall type we created in this tutorial. We are going to make a different type of wall for them. With [...]

We are getting to the end of this tutorial. We have created our Revit model. We have the plan views, elevation views, section views, schedules, and you might already experiment with perspective views. This is the basic information we can present in a sheet. I consider the basic tutorial ends here. There are more, but [...]

Creating schedule from your Revit model basically is just the same. Once you are finished with your Revit model, you can count any data from your model. It can be door/window schedule, where you can show how many doors/windows. Or it can be wall schedule, to show wall length, wall area, or wall volume. You [...]

Room is one type of information you can add to your Revit model. That’s why we call it building information modeling (BIM). It’s not just lines and text. It can hold a lot of information in your building model. This time we will define rooms in our design, and create a room schedule. Let’s open [...]

In this Revit tutorial, we will create a view for doors and windows plan. We will hide some details and add door and windows tags.