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  • Foundations Course

    Foundations Course

    (Video Play Time: 20 minutes)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 20 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 10 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 50 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    In this course, you will learn how to work with the building foundation elements in the Revit model.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course help you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Placing isolated, wall, and slab foundations in the project

    · Foundation element families and types

    · Creating a schedule of the foundation elements

     

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should have the following:

    · Understanding of structural and architectural terminology.

    · Understanding of Revit levels, grids and views.

    · Revit installed in the machine.

     

    TIPS:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

  • Braces Course

    Braces Course Introduction

    (Video Play Time: 10 minutes)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 10 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 5 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 25 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    In this course, you will learn how to add bracing to the structural model in Revit.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course help you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Placing Braces

    · Braces Families and Types

    · Creating Brace Schedules

     

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should have the following:

    · Understanding of structural and architectural terminology.

    · Understanding of Revit levels, grids and views.

    · Revit installed in the machine.

     

    TIPS:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

  • Structural Columns Course

    Structural Columns Course

    (Video Play Time: 15 minutes)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 20 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 10 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 45 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    In this course, you will learn how to work with columns in the Revit model.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course help you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Placing columns in the project

    · Working with column families and types

    · Creating a column schedule

    · Creating a graphical column schedule.

     

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should have the following:

    · Understanding of structural and architectural terminology.

    · Understanding of Revit levels, grids and views.

    · Revit installed in the machine.

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

  • Beams Course

    Beams Course Introduction

    (Video Play Time: 15 minutes)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 20 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 5 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 40 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    In this course, you will learn how to work with beams in the Revit model.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course help you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Placing beams and beam systems in the project

    · Working with beam families and types

    · Creating a beam schedule

     

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should have the following:

    · Understanding of structural and architectural terminology.

    · Understanding of Revit levels, grids and views.

    · Revit installed in the machine.

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

  • Introduction to Revit

    Introduction to Revit

    (Video Play Time: 30 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 5 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 35 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    · This course is intended to give you a high-level overview of the concepts behind Building Information Modeling and Revit as a BIM tool. It is also a primer to understand Revit’s user interface such that you can navigate through a project.

    ·  

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course helps you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Introduction to BIM

    · Introduction to Revit

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should have the following:

    · Understanding of Architectural or MEP or Structural terminology.

    · Revit installed in the machine.

     

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

  • Essential Skills Course

    Essential Skills Course Introduction

    (Video Play Time: 30 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 20 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 50 minutes)

     

     

    Course Description

    · This course is intended to give you an overview of placing and editing objects in a Revit project.

    ·  

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course helps you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Placing elements in Revit

    · Basic and helpful modifying tools

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should have the following:

    · Revit installed in the machine.

     

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

  • Views Course

    Views Course

    (Video Play Time: 1 hour 20 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 15 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    · This course is intended to give you a high-level overview of the concepts behind model views, view properties and the visibility of the elements in those views.

    ·  

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course helps you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · View Types

    · Plan, Elevation, Section and Schedule View Creation and Properties

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should have the following:

    · Understanding of Architectural or MEP or Structural terminology.

    · Revit installed in the machine.

     

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

  • Structural Project Setup Course

    Structural Project Setup

    (Video Play Time: 1 hour 35 minutes)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 30 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 5 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    This course will step you through the process of starting a structural project. You will learn about template selection, project settings, coordinate systems, linking files and setting project datum.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course helps you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Template selection

    · Project settings

    · Coordinate system

    · Linking CAD and Revit files

    · Adding levels, datum references and grid lines

    · Copy/Monitoring levels and grids if working with an architect

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should have the following:

    · Understanding of architectural or structural terminology.

    · Revit installed in the machine.

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

  • Walls Course

    Walls Course

    (Video Play Time: 1 hour 5 minutes)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 55 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 25 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 2 hours 25 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    This course will help you understand how to create basic, stacked, and curtain wall types, place wall instances, and modify existing wall geometry.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course helps you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Placing walls in the project

    · Modifying wall instances with sweeps, reveals, and openings

    · Creating wall types with integral sweeps, reveals, and split regions

    · Modifying wall joins

    · Creating canted and other non-vertical walls

    · Placing and modifying rule, ad hoc, and pattern based curtain walls

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should complete the following courses:

    · Introduction to Revit

    · Introduction to Views

     

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

  • Floors Course

    Floors Course Introduction

    (Video Play Time: 30 minutes)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 25 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 15 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 40 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    This course will help you understand how to create floor types, place floor instances, and modify existing floor geometry.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course helps you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Understanding floors as system family

    · Placing floors

    · Creating floor types

    · Modifying floors

    · Placing floor openings

    · Creating sloped floors and depressions

    · Adding thickened slab edges

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should complete the following courses:

    · Introduction to Revit

    · Introduction to Views

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

  • Trusses Course

    Trusses Course Introduction

    (Video Play Time: 15 minutes)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 15 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 5 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 35 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    This course will teach you how to place and modify trusses for the structural project in Revit.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course helps you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Place and Modify Trusses

    · Truss Properties and Truss Element Properties

    · Truss Families

    · Schedule Truss Elements

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should have the following:

    · Understanding of structural terminology.

    · Completed the essential skills and project setup courses.

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

  • Detailing Course

    Detailing Course

    (Video Play Time: 20 minutes)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 15 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 10 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 45 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    This course will help you understand how to work with the detailing tools in Revit.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course helps you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Common usage and best practices for working with detail lines, components, and groups

    · Placing and modifying filled and masking regions

    · Detailing in model views and drafting views

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should complete the following courses:

    · Introduction to Revit

    · Introduction to Views

    · Architectural Project Setup

     

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

     

     

  • Annotation Course

    Annotation Course

    (Video Play Time: 35 minutes)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 25 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 15 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    This course will help you understand how to add dimensions and text to views.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course helps you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Common usage and best practices for placing dimensions and text

    · Placing, modifying and leveraging dimensions

    · Placing and modifying text

    · Working with note blocks

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should complete the following courses:

    · Introduction to Revit

    · Introduction to Views

    · Essential Skills

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

  • Schedules Course

    Revit Schedules Course

    (Video Play Time: 1 hour)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 1 hour)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 25 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 2 hours 25 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    The material presented in this course helps users understand how to create a variety of schedule types and manage schedule formatting and appearance.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course includes:

    · Creating category and multi-category schedules

    · Adding schedule fields

    · Adding schedule filters

    · Sorting and grouping in schedules

    · Working with schedule formatting and appearance

    · Creating material takeoffs

    · How to create and use key schedules

    · Creating view lists

    · Creating sheet lists

    · Creating graphical column schedules

    · Working with note blocks

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should have completed one of the following courses:

    · None

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

     

  • Deliverables Course

    Deliverables Course

    (Video Play Time: 1 hour)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 35 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 15 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    This course will help you understand how to print and export content from Revit.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course helps you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Working with sheets

    · Placing views on sheets

    · Working with sheet lists

    · Using matchlines

    · Printing views and sheets to hard copies and electronic formats

    · Managing print setups

    · Working with revisions

    · Exporting to DWG/DXF formats

    · Exporting to IFC

    · Exporting schedules and reports

    · Exporting Images and Animations

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should complete the following courses:

    · Introduction to Revit

    · Introduction to Views

    · Architectural Project Setup

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

     

  • Worksharing Course

    Worksharing Course

    (Video Play Time: 20 minutes)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 35 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 10 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    This course will give you an understanding of team collaboration in Revit through Worksharing. It will teach you how Worksharing works in Revit, how to create and setup a Central Model, create a Local copy, work with the elements in the local copy and synchronize work with the central file as progress is made.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course help you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Worksharing concepts

    · Creating a Central Model file and setting up Worksets

    · Creating and working on a Local Copy

    · Synchronizing with the Central Model

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should have the following:

    · Understanding of Architectural or MEP or Structural terminology.

    · Revit installed in the machine.

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

  • Revit Materials

    Revit Materials Course

    (Video Play Time: 1 hour 30 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    The material presented in this course helps users understand how to work with and create materials for use in the Revit model.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course includes:

    · Loading materials into the project

    · Customizing materials

    · Working with material appearance

    · Applying materials to walls, floors, ceilings and roofs

    · Using the Paint tool

    · Understanding the graphics, appearance, physical and mechanical properties of materials

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should have completed one of the following courses:

    · None

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

    ​ 

  • Phasing Course

    Phasing Course

    (Video Play Time: 30 minutes)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 15 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 10 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 55 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    This course will help you understand and work with phasing in Revit.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course help you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Phase states

    · Phase filters

    · Phasing graphic overrides

    · Phasing workflow

    · Other considerations when working with phasing

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should have the following:

    · Understanding of Architectural or MEP or Structural terminology.

    · Revit installed in the machine.

    ​ 

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

     

  • Site Design

    Revit Site Design Course

    (Video Play Time: 55 minutes)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 50 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 25 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    The material presented in this course helps users understand and employ tools to create toposurfaces, hardscapes and softscapes that communicate design intent for sitework in the Revit platform.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course includes:

    · Setting up the site project

    · Establishing file exchange between building, site and civil models

    · Adding property lines

    · Creating toposurfaces and understanding point placement

    · Modification of toposurfaces via splitting, merging and adding subregions

    · Working with building pads

    · Adding site components

    · Placing annotative elements in site views

    · Creating graded regions

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should have completed one of the following courses:

    · None

     

    ​Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

  • Model Coordination

    Model Coordination Course

    (Video Play Time: 55 minutes)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 1 hour 30 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 25 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 2 hours 50 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    The material presented in this course helps understand how to use the Model Coordination tools in Revit.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course provides instruction on:

    · Copy/monitoring datum elements between discipline models

    · Copy/monitoring geometry between MEP and Architectural models

    · Performing coordination reviews

    · Interference checking

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should have completed one of the following learning paths:

    · None

     

    Tips:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

     

     

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