February 8, 2012

Creating Floors

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In this Revit tutorial, we will add more building components. We will create floors in our Revit model.

Creating Your Own Wall Type

Let’s continue our tutorial. You have tried several wall types in the previous Revit tutorial. You might find out that even Revit has many types of walls, you need to define your own types. This is what we are going to do now, creating our own wall types! Type vs Instance Properties First thing first. [...]

Understanding Wall Structure

We’ve been placing wall in our Revit model. So far, we use generic type. It only has one layer, so you might not notice that you can actually define exterior and interior wall. Activate modify tool. Select one of your wall. You should see arrow symbol to flip your wall. The arrows are supposed to [...]

Placing Doors and Windows

In the previous tutorial, you have placed walls in Revit model. Now, we will placing doors and windows to our Revit model. You will be introduced to instance parameters, so you can have your own family type. Doors and windows are Revit hosted components. It means you can only place them hosted to other component: [...]

Finishing Your Walls

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In previous Revit tutorial, you’ve been introduced about placing exterior wall. Now, we will place the remaining wall. If you are new to Revit, you may want to check our Revit tutorial from the beginning. There’s no difference between placing exterior or interior wall. Only the wall’s properties might be different. And it’s easier to [...]

Placing Exterior Walls

We have created new levels in our Revit project. Now we are going to place walls. Let’s start from exterior walls. If you are new to this site, you can see the Revit tutorial contents list here. Open 1st Floor View. Double click 1st Floor under floor plan views, in project browser. You will see an [...]

Defining Levels

Let’s get started. You already get familiar with Revit Architecture interface, views, and navigating views in Revit. Now, we will learn how to create a simple 2 story house with Revit as you saw before. We will create it from scratch. We will create it in metric unit. Create a new project. Use Revit menu file>new>project. [...]

Understanding Views and View Navigation

Let’s continue the Revit Architecture tutorial series. We have learned about Revit user interface. The next thing you will learn is about understanding Revit views. How to access it, and how to navigate through it. I have prepared a little tutorial file for you to use. Download this file, extract it. Then open it with [...]