Revit Architecture 2008

Autodesk Revit Tutorials, Revit Families, BIM Revit

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Home CHAPTER 1 Intrduction What to expect from BIM Where can you go from here The bottom ine CHAPTER 2 Introduction Working with Revit Parametric Elements The Revit User Interface Using the Project Browser The Bottom Line CHAPTER 3 Introduction Selecting, Changing, and Replacing Elements Editing Elements Interactively Other Useful Tools The Bottom Line CHAPTER 4 Introduction Starting a Project with a Custom Template Settings for Graphic Consistency Creating Custom Annotation Tags Creating Custom Title Blocks Creating a Custom Title Block with the Family Editor The Bottom Line CHAPTER 5 Introduction Wall Types Floor and Roof Types Ceiling Types Door and Window Types Stair Types Types and Type Catalogs Graphic Overrides of Host Objects with Complex Structure Additional Global Project Settings The Bottom Line CHAPTER 6 Introduction Modeling with Revit Principles of Modeling in Revit Where Can You Go From Here? The Bottom Line CHAPTER 7 Introduction Massing Studies The Bottom Line CHAPTER 8 Introduction Conceptual Design and Early Studies The Bottom Line CHAPTER 9 Introduction Revit Design Options The Bottom Line CHAPTER 10 Introduction Modeling Parametric 3D Families Choosing the Right Family Template Types of Families Smart Workflow: Nesting One Family into Another Parametric Arrays in the Family Editor Encoding Design Rules Building a Parametric 3D Family The Bottom Line CHAPTER 11 Introduction Basic Walls: Advanced Modeling Techniques Curtain Walls: Advanced Design Techniques Roofs Roofs and Slabs: Advanced Shape Editing Railings and Fences The Bottom Line CHAPTER 12 Introduction Drawings with Shadows Color-Coded Plans and Sections Elevations That Convey Depth Working with Perspective Views Rendering Creating Animated Walkthroughs Exporting to Other Formats The Bottom Line CHAPTER 13 Introduction Preliminary Design Tools Calculating Areas Schedules Using Schedules for Preliminary Cost Estimates The Bottom Line CHAPTER 14 Introduction Sustainability in Architecture Preliminary Design Tools Tracking Recycled Materials Window Surface Percentage vs. Room Area Energy Analysis The Bottom Line CHAPTER 15 Introduction Annotating Your Views Displaying Information about Rooms Schedule Keys Tags Shared Parameters Text and Keynotes The Bottom Line

Selecting, Changing, and Replacing Elements

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Copy/Paste
Copying and pasting is a familiar technique used in almost all software applications, and Revit pro- vides the basic features you’d expect with a copy-paste interaction (Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V). It also has some additional time-saving options that are specific to working on a 3D building model. To copy any element to the Clipboard, select it and press Ctrl-C. Elements are now ready to be pasted. To paste, press Ctrl-V. In the majority of cases, Revit pastes the elements with a dashed bounding box drawn around them. You then determine where to place the elements by clicking. In the Options bar, you can also choose Quit to abandon the operation, Finish to complete the paste, or Edit Pasted Elements to move the element prior to finishing the paste.
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Paste Aligned
Once you’ve copied elements to the Clipboard, you can paste them into other views with a variety of options. This allows you to quickly duplicate elements from one view to another (from one floor to another floor, for example) while maintaining a consistent location in the XY coordinate plane. After selecting elements and copying them to the Clipboard using Ctrl-C, choose Edit Paste Aligned from the main menu, as shown in Figure 3.3
Figure 3.3 Paste Aligned options
Five options are available. Depending on the view from which you copy and what elements you copy, the availability of these options will change. For example, if you select a model element in a plan view, you’ll have all the options shown in the figure. The options are as follows
Current View This pastes the elements from the Clipboard into the currently active view, in the same relative spatial location. For example, if you copy a series of walls in one view, switch to another view, and choose Current View, Revit pastes the walls into exactly the same XY locations in that view.
Same Place This option places an element from the Clipboard in the exact same place from which it was copied or cut. One use for this tool is copying elements into a design option; see Chapter 9 for an explanation of design options
Pick Level Graphics This is a mode you can use to copy-paste elements between different floors. Once you select the elements and choose this option, you’re placed into a pick mode where you can select a level in section or elevation. You must be in an elevation or section view to have this option available. The level you select determines the Z location of the paste and preserves the XY location. You might use this type of paste to copy balconies on a façade from one floor to another.
Select Levels by Name This method is similar to the previous one, but the selection of levels doesn’t happen graphically. Instead, you choose levels from a list in a dialog box, and you can paste to multiple levels at once. This is useful when you have a multistory tower; in such a case, manually selecting levels in a view can be tedious. Similar to other options, the XY position is maintained, and the pasted elements are translated in the vertical dimension
Select Views by Name This option allows you to copy elements to other views by selecting views in a dialog box. In the list available for selection, you don’t see levels listed but rather a list of parallel views. For example, if elements are copied from a plan view, all other plan views are listed. Likewise, if you copy from an elevation view, only elevation views appear as possible views to paste into.