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Our Revit courses
Duration: 3 days
The Revit Architecture Fundamentals training course equips you with the key skills to create a full 3D architectural project in Revit. Learn essential drafting tools and concepts while establishing a solid foundation for future development.
Topics covered include:
- Introducing Revit as a BIM tool
- UI tour, project navigation and view creation
- Element selection and manipulation
- Visibility control and categorisation
- Model development methodology
- Wall creation and manipulation
- Floors, roofs and ceilings
- Window, door and component use
- System family editing
- Basic schedules and legends
- Geometry formation and in-place families
- Massing tools and the building maker
- Stairs, ramps and railings
- Basic curtain walls
- Room data and colour-fill
- 2D draughting and annotation
- Sheet compilation and publication
- Basic subdivision and collaboration
- Introduction to the principles of family editing
Prerequisites:
An understanding of architectural design, drafting, and documentation terminology would be beneficial for attendees, but no prior CAD experience is required. Experience with the Windows operating system is required.
Certification:
Once attendees complete a course evaluation, an Autodesk certificate of completion is issued. You must complete the evaluation within thirty days of the course to receive the certification.
Duration: 3 days
In the Revit Structure Fundamentals course, you will create a full 3D structural project model in Revit. The course includes an exploration of the Revit user interface, learning core and essential drawing, editing, and viewing tools, as well as creating construction documents.
Topics covered include:
- Introducing Revit as a BIM tool
- UI tour, project navigation and view creation, selecting a template and linking CAD and Revit files as the basis of a project
- Element selection and manipulation
- Visibility control and categorisation
- Model development methodology
- Establishing a project
- Modelling basics - walls, columns, beams and bracing
- Foundations and piling
- System family editing
- Basic schedules and legends
- Geometry formation and in-place families
- Slab and roof tools
- Stairs, ramps and railings
- Beam and truss systems
- Construction sequencing (phasing)
- 2D draughting and annotation
- Sheet compilation and publication
- Basic subdivision and collaboration
- Introduction to the principles of family editing
- Considering options and alternatives
Prerequisites:
An understanding of structural terminology is favourable, and experience with the Windows operating system is required.
Certification:
Once attendees complete a course evaluation, an Autodesk certificate of completion is issued. You must complete the evaluation within thirty days of the course to receive the certification.
Duration: 3 days
This training course introduces attendees to the user interface and core HVAC, electrical, piping and plumbing tools in Revit. The class will familiarise you with the tools required to create, document, and print a parametric model. Examples and practices are designed to guide users through the basics of creating a comprehensive MEP project, from linking an architectural model to construction documents.
Topics covered include:
- Introducing Revit as a BIM tool
- UI tour, project navigation and view creation
- Element selection and manipulation
- Visibility control and categorisation
- Model development methodology
- Establishing a project
- Introduction to building elements
- Equipment, fixtures and fittings
- Introducing systems
- Basic schedules and legends
- Geometry formation and in-place families
- Mechanical systems
- Electrical systems and circuits
- Plumbing systems
- Spaces, zones, areas and volumes
- 2D draughting and annotation
- Sheet compilation and publication
- Basic subdivision and collaboration
- Introduction to the principles of family editing
Prerequisites:
Experience and knowledge of MEP engineering and terminology are highly recommended. Experience with the Windows operating system is required.
Certification:
Once attendees complete a course evaluation, an Autodesk certificate of completion is issued. You must complete the evaluation within thirty days of the course to receive the certification.
Duration: 3 days
The Revit Fundamentals for Interior Design training provides you with the essential skills needed to create a complete 3D interior design project using non-structural objects, including interior walls, doors, windows, components, floors, and ceilings. You will learn essential drafting tools and concepts that will help you build a solid foundation for further development. Additionally, this training will equip you with the skills necessary to produce construction documents that effectively present your designs to stakeholders.
Topics covered include:
- Introduction to Autodesk Revit software and navigating the Revit interface
- Start an interior design project, including setting up levels and creating plan views
- Understand the project browser and working with views
- Understand Revit families and components, including adding component features and creating groups
- Work with basic sketching and modifying tools to create accurate interior design models
- Create materials and apply them to elements in a project
- Create walls, interior glazed partition walls, windows, and doors
- Lay out rooms and work with an area analysis
- Add floors, ceilings, soffit walls and ceiling fixtures
- Create and display design options for a project
- Set up sheets for plotting with text, dimensions, details, tags, and schedules
- Annotate views to communicate design intent
- Capture design information using tags and schedules, including key schedules, to provide finish information
- Create interior design details
Prerequisites:
An understanding of architectural design, drafting, and documentation terminology would be beneficial for attendees, but no prior CAD experience is required. Experience with the Windows operating system is required.
Certification:
Once attendees complete a course evaluation, an Autodesk certificate of completion is issued. You must complete the evaluation within thirty days of the course to receive the certification.
Duration: 3 days
This Revit Landscape Architecture Fundamentals training course equips you with the key skills to create 3D models for your urban design projects. Learn essential drafting tools and concepts while building a strong foundation for further development.
Topics covered include:
- Introducing Revit as a BIM tool
- UI tour, project navigation and view creation
- Element selection and manipulation
- Visibility control and categorisation
- Model development methodology
- Create a terrain model
- Working with other disciplines
- Preparing the plot
- Working with slabs
- Kerbs and profiles
- Adding site components
- Remodelling the site
- Contextual massing
- Scheduling elements
- Hatching regions
- 2D draughting and annotation
- Sheet compilation and publication
- Rendering
- Introduction to the principles of family editing
Prerequisites:
An understanding of landscape design and its terminology is recommended for attendees. Experience with the Windows operating system is required.
Certification:
Once attendees complete a course evaluation, an Autodesk certificate of completion is issued. You must complete the evaluation within thirty days of the course to receive the certification.
Duration: 2 days
This training course helps Revit users leverage the software’s additional 3D reinforcing and steel connection features. Designed for users at an intermediate level, this course covers how to create more accurate models and improve quantity takeoffs. This will enable better model coordination to prevent clashes with other disciplines.
Topics covered include:
Reinforcing
- Reinforcing setup
- Placing reinforcing & structural rebar
- Placing shape-driven rebar
- Sketch planar rebar
- Rebar hooks & end treatment
- Structural area reinforcement
- Structural path reinforcement
- Structural fabric area reinforcement
- Free-form rebar
- Modify rebar sets
- Propagate rebar
- Documentation
- Rebar annotation
Steel connections
- Placing steel connections
- Custom steel connections
- Filters for connection
- Propagate connections
Prerequisites:
Attendees should be comfortable with the fundamentals of Autodesk Revit and must have completed a Revit Fundamentals course. An understanding of structural detailing practices and documentation is beneficial. Experience with the Windows operating system is also required.
Certification:
Once attendees complete a course evaluation, an Autodesk certificate of completion is issued. You must complete the evaluation within thirty days of the course to receive the certification.
Duration: 1 day
Specifically designed for project managers and Revit collaborators, this training course gives you an overview of Autodesk Revit’s architecture, structure, and MEP functionality. You will learn how to leverage Revit’s accelerated design process, utilising data-rich 3D models with high-end visualisations. Create, evaluate, and better communicate 3D site plan proposals for faster approvals.
Topics covered include:
- The purpose of Building Information Management (BIM) and how it is applied in Revit
- Navigating the Revit workspace and interface
- Working with the basic modifying and modelling tools
- Troubleshooting elements in projects
- Various viewing tools, including creating sections
- Working with sheets for plotting
- Exporting files to CAD Formats and DXF
- Working with schedules
- Linking and importing CAD files and Revit models into projects
- Using worksets in a collaborative environment
- Creating details (optional)
Prerequisites:
An understanding of industry terminology is favourable, and experience with the Windows operating system is required.
Certification:
Once attendees complete a course evaluation, an Autodesk certificate of completion is issued. You must complete the evaluation within thirty days of the course to receive the certification.
Duration: 2 days
In this training, learn about additional tools and family creation in Autodesk Revit. With practical, task-based, step-by-step examples, we will guide you through various features and functionalities, exploring topics related to BIM methodology, industry best practices, standards, and protocols.
Topics covered include:
- Create custom templates with annotation styles, title blocks, and custom element types
- Create schedules, including material takeoff schedules with formulas
- Create custom wall, roof, and floor types, as well as MEP system families
- Set up a component family file with a parametric framework
- Create family geometry
- Create family types
- Modify the visibility of components and incorporate additional family items such as controls, MEP connectors, and nested components
- Create specific families, including in-place families, profiles, annotations, and parameters.
- This guide also contains discipline-specific practices for families, including doors, windows, railings, pipe fittings, light fixtures, gusset plates, and built-up columns.
Prerequisites:
Attendees should be comfortable with the fundamentals of Autodesk Revit software as taught in Cadpro’s Revit Fundamentals courses. Knowledge of basic techniques, such as creating a standard element, copying and moving elements, and creating and working with views, is required.
Certification:
Once attendees complete a course evaluation, an Autodesk certificate of completion is issued. You must complete the evaluation within thirty days of the course to receive the certification.
Duration: 3 days
In this training, you will learn the core and essential coordination tools in Autodesk Revit. Through a series of exercises, our instructors will guide you in correctly preparing DWG files for Revit, linking RVT and DWG files, and setting up coordinates.
Topics covered include:
- The recommended file structure for setting up projects in Revit
- An introduction to the BIM Execution Plan (BEP)
- The differences between Revit and AutoCAD with coordinates
- Project north and true north
- The project base point, survey point and internal origin
- How to prepare a DWG file before linking into Revit, and issues that can arise without proper preparation
- Introduction to worksets
- Understand the differences between importing and linking
- Linking a DWG and RVT file into Revit
- How to apply coordinates to a Revit project
- How to apply coordinates to and from other Revit files
- How to export DWG’s with coordinates from Revit
Prerequisites:
Attendees should have experience and knowledge of the fundamentals of Autodesk Revit software.
Certification:
Once attendees complete a course evaluation, an Autodesk certificate of completion is issued. You must complete the evaluation within thirty days of the course to receive the certification.
Duration: 2 days
The Dynamo for Revit training course is a comprehensive course designed to provide participants with an understanding of the core and essential tools and features of Autodesk Dynamo. You will explore the software’s capabilities through illustrative examples and gain valuable insights into AEC visual programming. Through a hands-on approach, we will learn how to understand and create practical, basic, and intermediate Dynamo scripts.
Topics covered include:
- Introduction to visual programming
- Introduction to Dynamo
- Dynamo user interface
- Dynamo programming logic
- Revit Dynamo communication
- Dynamo packages
- Best practices
- Code blocks essentials
- Introduction to Python nodes
- Dynamo player
- Generative design
- Introduction to Revit API
Prerequisites:
Those attending will require an in-depth knowledge of Autodesk Revit software with either a Revit certification or one year of continuous work experience in Revit. A basic understanding of algebra is beneficial but not required.
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