Mastering Autodesk Revit 2018

Lance Kirby is a Customer Success Manager and Business Consultant Lead-AEC with Autodesk. He joined Revit Technologies in 2000, where he helped develop Revit. Lance has trained and mentored thousands of architects and engineers in the use of BIM. Eddy Krygiel is an Autodesk Authorized Author, registered architect, and Principal Business Consultant with Autodesk Consulting. He implements BIM on large scale projects working to adapt new BIM Users and helping to drive BIM adoption. Marcus Kim is a Business Consultant for Autodesk Consulting, where he provides enterprise-level BIM consulting and training. He has served as BIM Manager at the Chicago office of Skidmore Owings and Merrill as well as in lead roles at other AEC firms for competitions, design visualization, and design and technical architecture.

Foreword xxvii Introduction xxxi Part 1 * Fundamentals 1 Chapter 1 * Understanding the Principles of BIM 3 The Fundamentals of a BIM Approach 3 The Management People Inside a BIM Project Team 4 Staffi ng for BIM 5 Understanding Project Roles 6 Establishing a BIM Execution Plan 9 Optimizing BIM Processes 10 Identifying and Planning BIM Uses 12 Gather 13 Generate 14 Analyze 16 Communicate 17 Realize 20 Integrating Tools Inside a BIM Workfl ow 22 What Is Revit? 22 The Bottom Line 23 Chapter 2 * Exploring the UI and Organizing Projects 25 Understanding the User Interface 25 Accessing and Using the Application Menu 26 Using the Quick Access Toolbar 27 Using the InfoCenter 28 Getting to Know the Ribbon 28 Using Other Aspects of the UI 32 Navigation Methods 40 Defi ning Project Organization 42 Introducing Datum Objects 44 Using Content 54 Working with Views 56 Managing Your Project Model 70 The Bottom Line 71 Chapter 3 * Th e Basics of the Toolbox 73 Selecting, Modifying, and Replacing Elements 73 Selecting Elements 73 Selection Options 75 Filtering Your Selection 75 Using Selection-Based Filters 76 Selecting All Instances 76 Using the Properties Palette 77 Matching Properties 79 Using the Context Menu 79 Editing Elements Interactively 80 Moving Elements 80 Copying Elements 84 Rotating and Mirroring Elements 85 Arraying Elements 87 Scaling Elements 90 Aligning Elements 90 Trimming or Extending Lines and Walls 91 Splitting Lines and Walls 92 Offsetting Lines and Walls 93 Preventing Elements from Moving 94 Exploring Other Editing Tools 96 Using the Join Geometry Tool 96 Using the Split Face and Paint Tools 97 Copying and Pasting from the Clipboard 98 Using the Create Similar Tool 100 Using Keyboard Shortcuts (Accelerators) 100 Double-Click to Edit 101 Sharing Models with the Cloud 101 Modeling Site Context 105 Using a Toposurface 106 Creating a Toposurface from a Points File 109 Creating a Building Pad 113 Generating Property Lines 115 Cut/Fill Schedules 118 The Bottom Line 120 Chapter 4 * Confi guring Templates and Standards 121 Introducing Project Templates 121 Customizing Project Settings for Graphic Quality 122 Discovering Object Styles 123 Using Line Settings 125 Defining Materials 129 Defining Fill Patterns 137 Preconfiguring Color Schemes 144 Increasing Effi cient View Management 146 Organizing Views 146 Creating and Assigning Filters 149 Using View Templates 152 Creating Custom Annotations 155 Introducing Tag Family Fundamentals 156 Creating a Custom Door Tag 157 Customizing View Tags 159 Starting a Project with a Custom Template 165 Strategies for Managing Templates 166 Aggregating Template Data 166 The Bottom Line 171 Part 2 * Collaboration and Teamwork 173 Chapter 5 * Collaborating with a Team 175 Understanding Worksharing Basics 175 Enabling Worksharing on Your Project 177 Types of Worksets 179 Creating a Central File 179 Selecting a Starting View 182 Creating a Local File 183 Using Worksharing Usernames 186 Organizing Worksets 187 Moving Elements Between Worksets 189 Managing Workfl ow with Worksets 193 Saving Work 195 Saving at Intervals 196 Loading Work from Other Team Members 197 Using Worksharing Visualization 197 Managing Workset Visibility in View Templates 200 Closing Revit 200 Disabling Worksharing 201 Understanding Element Ownership in Worksets 202 Understanding Editing Requests 204 Placing an Editing Request 204 Granting an Editing Request 205 Relinquishing Permission 207 Using the Worksharing Monitor 207 Collaborating in the Cloud 208 Collaboration for Revit 209 The Bottom Line 211 Chapter 6 * Working with Consultants 213 Preparing for Collaboration 213 Managing the Coordination Process 214 Using Linked Models in Revit 218 Shared Positioning 219 Using Project Base Point an