Autodesk Revit Structure - The Complete Guide

This course gives you a solid understanding of Revit Structure, its features, and capabilities, from the basics to the most advanced and complex topics.

Intermediate, and Advanced

English, French, Spanish, German

Course Length: 25 Hours

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What you'll learn

What’s New for Revit
Revit Structure Improvements
Introduction to Revit Structure
Getting Started
Setting up a Structural Project
Structural Columns and Walls

From Foundations to Open Web Joists
Editing Tools
Documenting Models and Creating Families
Standard Views, Details and Schedules
From 3D Views to Massing

Course Description

Autodesk Revit Structure The Complete Guide is designed to give you a solid understanding of Revit Structure, its features, and capabilities, from the basics through to the most advanced and complex topics. This course covers Setting the Structural Project, Editing Tools, Standard Views, Details and Schedules, and 3D views.

Autodesk Revit allows professionals to create detailed reinforcement designs, connect steel design and detailing workflows. It is software for architectural design, MEP, and structural engineering, and a solution for collaborative BIM; its powerful tools let you use the intelligent model-based process to plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure.

Autodesk Certification Objectives: The “!” Symbol indicates an Autodesk Certification Exam Objective. Focus on these areas to prepare for your certification exam.

Course Outline

Revit Structure Course Outline

What’s New for Revit

Slant Walls
Managing Links
Template Dropdown
Section Head Markers
Filters
Categories

Revit Structure Improvements

General Upgrades

Introduction to Revit Structure

User Interface
Project Browser

Getting Started

Starting a New Structural Project
Settings
Saving your project

Setting up a Structural Project

Setting the Project
Levels and Grids

Structural Columns and Walls

Structural Columns
Walls

From Foundations to Open Web Joists

Understanding Foundations
Floors
Beams

Editing Tools

Selection
Moving and Copying
Other Editing Tools

Documenting Models and Creating Families

Dimensioning
Adding, Tagging and Annotating

Standard Views, Details and Schedules

Standard Views
Schedules

From 3D Views to Massing

3D Views
Sheets
Analysis
Reinforcements
Massing

Certification Objectives

Autodesk Revit Professional Certification Exam Objectives

COLLABORATION

Copy and monitor elements in a linked file
Use Worksharing
Import DWG and image files
Use Worksharing Visualization
Assess review warnings in Revit

DOCUMENTATION

Create and modify filled regions
Place detail components and repeating details
Tag elements (doors, windows, etc.) by category
Use dimension strings
Set the colors used in a color scheme legend
Work with phases

ELEMENTS AND FAMILIES

Change elements within a curtain wall (grids,
panels, mullions)
Create compound walls
Create a stacked wall
Differentiate system and component families
Work with family Parameters
Create a new family type
Use Family creation procedures

MODELING

Create a building pad
Define floors for a mass
Create a stair with a landing
Create elements such as a floors, ceilings, or roofs
Generate a toposurface
Model railings
Edit a model element’s material (door, window,
furniture)
Change a generic floor/ceiling/roof to a specific type
Attach walls to a roof or ceiling
Edit room-aware families

VIEWS

Define element properties in a schedule
Control visibility
Use levels
Create a duplicate view for a plan, section,
elevation, drafting view, etc.
Create and manage legends
Manage view position on sheets
Organize and sort items in a schedule

Navigation Strategies

Beginners: Complete the course in order from beginning to end. Once any topic is completed, you will have full access to it at any time for one year after registration, to use as a resource.

Intermediate/Advanced Users: Use the course as a flexible resource tool to find what you need, whenever you need it. Try the assessment tests first, if you get 80%+ you can move to the next level, if you get less than 80% you should complete the lecture. This gives you a pre and post-assessment score, which can be used to track your skills improvements.

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