Revit Architecture 2008

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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

Chapter 12 • Presenting Your Design

As design professionals, we are deeply rooted in the art of representation and expression. Our drawings are not just communication methods, they gain personal expression at our hands: Color, contrast, light, and shadow are manipulated to give a drawing life and dramatic poise. From the loose napkin sketch to the photorealistic rendering, we imbue our designs with a sense of purpose and intent. This intent is a driving force in architecture and critical to its progression. Without models and drawings that challenge the senses, that make us imagine the otherwise unimaginable, where would we be today. For a moment, consider the drawings of Piranesi, Boullée, Wright, Woods, and Hadid. Each is distinct, thoughtful, evocative—at times utopian. Consider your own practice and your techniques—your role in shaping the built environment. Think about how your drawings are interpreted, received, and understood. How do they shape the evolution of a design. How have digital tools changed the way you present and evaluate a design. Keep these questions in the back of your mind as we move through this chapter. Consider how the techniques we look at can help you, and also think of how you might push some bound-aries and extend your creativity using the tools available in Revit. You’ve seen with Revit that many traditional documentation drawing types are generated on the fly with little or no effort. With a few clicks of the mouse, you can generate entire building sections and elevations. A perspective view takes a few seconds to generate. Revit does a fairly good job of producing these drawings, but it can’t fully replace the skill and decision-making pro-cess of an artist--design intent and the message still need to be considered by the designer, despite the afforadaces provided by technology. Knowing this, Revit provides some tools to help you make your drawings more legible and expressive. If need be, you can export a drawing as vector lines (.dwg, .pdf) or as pixels (.jpg, .png, and so on) and further refined to meet your design requirements. In this chapter you’ll learn the following techniques:
Using shadows for presentation purposes Creating quality presentation plans and sections Creating elevations that convey depth Creating quality rendered perspective views

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