Introduction to Revit

1: UI and Basics

• Revit concepts: file types, parametric objects, bi-directional associations, and the Category/Family/Type/Instance hierarchy
• Exploring the User Interface: Ribbon, Properties Palette, Type Selector, Project Browser, and View Control Bar
• Navigating a project: Zoom, Pan, 3D Orbit, and managing views
• Understanding Floor Plan views, View Range, and Callouts
• Visibility/Graphic Overrides, Object Styles, Detail Levels, and Line Weights
• Elevation, Section, and 3D views including Perspective cameras and the Section Box

2: The Habitat House

• Project setup: Levels, datums, and wall Location Lines
• Drawing exterior and interior walls, creating new wall types with Edit Type and Duplicate
• Using Aligned Dimensions and the Tab key for precise placement
• Adding doors and windows: hosted families, the Spacebar, the Align tool, and Plan Regions
• Creating floors and a sloped roof by footprint, and attaching walls
• Loading and placing component families from the Imperial Library
• Rooms, Room Tags, dimensions, and Roof Plan annotations
• Creating Sheets, placing views, and printing to PDF

3: The Office Building

• Establishing multiple Levels and placing Grid Lines with the EQ toggle
• Drawing exterior and interior walls using Split, Trim/Extend, Mirror, Offset, and Copy
• Editing wall profiles in 3D and using the Wall Joins tool
• Placing doors and windows across multiple levels with Copy to Clipboard and Paste Aligned
• Drawing curtain walls: Curtain Grids, Mullions, Add/Remove Segments, and storefront doors

4: Floors, Ceilings, and Roofs

• Drawing floor slabs with Draw Lines and Pick Walls methods
• Placing ACT grid and Gypsum Board ceilings and editing materials
• Creating a flat roof with Shape Editing tools for drainage slope
• Roof annotations with Spot Slope and Spot Elevation

5: Stairs, Components, and Groups

• Drawing stairs with automatic riser calculation and mirroring stairwells
• Loading furniture and plumbing fixture families and copying them between levels
• Creating and editing Model Groups for repeating layouts
• Placing Rooms, assigning Departments, and adding Color Fill Legends
• Section cleanup with Join Geometry and soffit elements

6: Graphics, Elevations, and Sheets

• Floor plan cleanup: Object Styles, stair visibility overrides, and Color Fill formatting
• Elevation and 3D graphics: Shadows, Silhouettes, Ambient Occlusion, and material appearance
• Creating presentation-quality Perspective views with Sketchy Lines
• Creating Sheets, arranging views, and adjusting Crop Regions and View Titles
• Final quality check and printing to PDF at scale

• Students may cancel up to 14 days before the class/program start date and receive a refund, less the registration fee (10% of the undiscounted course price). 
• Cancellations within 14 days are not permitted, but students may reschedule up to three business days before the class start date.
• For cancellations and reschedules, please email us at [email protected]

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.