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Autodesk Advance Steel

Revit Structure Fundamentals (2021)

Autodesk’s Advance Steel is the solution for precise steel design, modeling, detailing, fabrication, and construction. The software enables engineers to automate repetitive tasks, easily connect with other software in their workflows like Revit and Navisworks, collaborate on models using BIM 360, and much more.

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Learning Path Courses:

Introduction to Revit

Introduction to Revit
(Video Run Time: 25 minutes)
(Estimated Quiz Time: 5 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 30 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.

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Essential Skills Course

Essential Skills Course Introduction
(Video Run Time: 20 minutes)
(Estimated Quiz Time: 20 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 40 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.

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Views Course

Views Course
(Video Run Time: 65 minutes)
(Estimated Quiz Time: 15 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 80 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.

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Structural Project Setup Course

Structural Project Setup
(Video Run Time: 90 minutes)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 30)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 5 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 125 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.

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Walls Course

Walls Course
(Video Run Time: 60 minutes)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 55 minutes)
(Estimated Quiz Time: 25 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 140 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

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Floors Course

Floors Course Introduction
(Video Run Time: 25 minutes)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 25 minutes)
(Estimated Quiz Time: 15 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 65 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

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Trusses Course

Trusses Course Introduction
(Video Run Time: 10 minutes)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 15 minutes)
(Estimated Quiz Time: 5 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 30 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.

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Detailing Course

Detailing Course
(Video Run Time: 15 minutes)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 15 minutes)
(Estimated Quiz Time: 10 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 40 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

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Annotation Course

Annotation Course
(Video Run Time: 25 minutes)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 25 minutes)
(Estimated Quiz Time: 15 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 65 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

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Schedules Course

Revit Schedules Course
(Video Run Time: 50 minutes)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 60 minutes)
(Estimated Quiz Time: 25 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 135 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

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Deliverables Course

Deliverables Course
(Video Run Time: 50 minutes)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 35 minutes)
(Estimated Quiz Time: 15 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 100 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

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Worksharing Course

Worksharing Course
(Video Run Time: 15 minutes)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 35 minutes)
(Estimated Quiz Time: 10 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 60 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.

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Revit Materials

Revit Materials Course
(Video Run Time: 80 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 80 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

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Phasing Course

Phasing Course
(Video Run 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 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.

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Site Design

Revit Site Design Course
(Video Run Time: 35 minutes)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 50 minutes)
(Estimated Quiz Time: 25 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 110 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

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Model Coordination

Model Coordination Course
(Video Run Time: 45 minutes)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 90 minutes)
(Estimated Quiz Time: 25 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 160 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

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Beams Course

Beams Course Introduction
(Video Run Time: 10 minutes)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 25)
(Minimum Course Duration: 35 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.

CanBIM (Building Transformations) Accredited Course
Beams Course

AIA (USA) Accredited Course
Eagle Point Software AIA CE Provider Number 404109445.
Beams – Earn 1 AIA (USA) LU. This course is eligible for AIA Continuing Education Credits.

AIA (USA) Course Prerequisites
Prerequisite Knowledge: Understanding of Architectural and Structural terminology.
Learning Objective 1: Learn how to place beams and beam systems in the project.
Learning Objective 2: Understand how to work with beam families and types.
Learning Objective 3: Understand how to create a beam schedule.
Learning Objective 4 : Learn how to load families using catalogs.
Learning Objective 5: Learn how to label beams and beam systems.

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Foundations Course

Foundations Course
(Video Run 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 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.

CanBIM (Building Transformations) Accredited Course
Foundation Course

AIA (USA) Accredited Course
Eagle Point Software AIA CE Provider Number 404109445.
Foundation – Earn 1 AIA (USA) LU. This course is eligible for AIA Continuing Education Credits.

AIA (USA) Course Prerequisites
Prerequisite Knowledge: Understanding of Structural and Architectural terminology.
Learning Objective 1: Learn how to place isolated, wall, and slab foundations in the project.
Learning Objective 2: Recognize foundation element families and types.
Learning Objective 3: Learn how to create a schedule of the foundation elements.
Learning Objective 4 : Learn how to create a stepped offset wall foundation using a wall profile.

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Braces Course

Braces Course Introduction
(Video Run Time: 5 minutes)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 10 minutes)
(Estimated Quiz Time: 5 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 20 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.

CanBIM (Building Transformations) Accredited Course
Braces Course

AIA (USA) Accredited Course
Eagle Point Software AIA CE Provider Number 404109445.
Braces – Earn 1 AIA (USA) LU. This course is eligible for AIA Continuing Education Credits.

AIA (USA) Course Prerequisites
Prerequisite Knowledge: Understanding of Architectural and Structural terminology.
Learning Objective 1: Learn how to place braces.
Learning Objective 2: Understand braces families and types.
Learning Objective 3: Learn how to create brace schedules.
Learning Objective 4 : Learn how to tag braces.

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Structural Columns Course

Structural Columns Course
(Video Run Time: 10 minutes)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 20)
(Estimated Exercise Time: 10 minutes)
(Minimum Course Duration: 40 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.

CanBIM (Building Transformations) Accredited Course
Structural Columns Course

AIA (USA) Accredited Course
Eagle Point Software AIA CE Provider Number 404109445.
StructCol – Earn 1 AIA (USA) LU. This course is eligible for AIA Continuing Education Credits.

AIA (USA) Course Prerequisites
Prerequisite Knowledge: Understanding of Structural and Architectural terminology.
Learning Objective 1: Learn how to place columns in the project.
Learning Objective 2: Understand how to work with column families and types.
Learning Objective 3: Learn how to create a column schedule.
Learning Objective 4 : Learn how to create a graphical column schedule.

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