Revit
- Project First Set-up
- Getting Started with Revit
- Getting Started with Revit Architecture
- Getting Started with Revit Structure
- Project North
- Simple Mass Modeling in Revit
- Mass Modeling (Revit Architecture)
- Mass Modeling Extrude
- Mass Modeling Blend
- Documenting a Project in Revit
- Documenting a Project I (Revit Architecture)
- Documenting a Project II (Revit Architecture)
- Create floor plan sheet (view template)
- Create Your Own Sheet Title Block Family (Revit Architecture)
- Creating Schedules (Revit Architecture)
- Revit Families: Creating a simple Wall Opening
- Revit Families: Creating a simple Window
- Revit Families: Nesting a Window Frame
- Revit Families: Nesting other Window Elements
- Revit Families: Adding details
- Advanced massing options
- Advanced Materials
- Analysis-Daylight-Revit
- Analysis-Solarstudy-Revit
- Panorama Rendering for Google Cardboard VR in Revit
- Revit bezonningsanalyse
- Revit daylight analysis
- Revit Energy Analysis
- Revit Export to Maya
- Revit Export to Rhino
- Revit In Place Mass
- Revit Mass Extrude 2
- Revit Mass Revolve
- Revit Modeling: Walls Floors Roofs
- Revit Opzet Woongebouw
- Revit Rendering
- Rhino Export to Revit
- Rhino.Inside
- Worksharing in Revit
Purpose-built for building information modeling (BIM), Autodesk® Revit® Architecture building design software helps architects and designers capture and analyze early concepts, and then better maintain designs through documentation and construction. It supports collaborative design, design analysis, clash detection, construction planning, and material fabrication.
Revit Structure is used to created detailed structural models. Revit MEP (Mechanical Electrical and Plumbing) is used for Building Systems, such as heating, HVAC and electrical installations. All three share a single Revit Project file-format, facilitating easy exchange and collaboration; no conversions or import/export is needed.
Revit topics
Links to specific Revit pages in the TOI-Pedia:
- Revit Interface
- Revit Modeling: Basic Elements
- Revit Modeling: Basic Elements - Advanced Concepts
- Revit Modeling: Openings
- Revit Modeling: Stairs
- Revit Modeling: Ramps & Railings
- Revit Tools, Drawing and Dimensions
- Revit Project Setup
- Revit Design Options
- Revit Views
- Revit Types
- Revit Materials
- Advanced Materials
- Basic mass form elements
- BK3OV3 leerstof opgave w5
- BK3OV3 week3-opgave
- BK4ON4 Using mass to create floors
- Revit bezonningsanalyse
- Revit Facade
- Revit In Place Mass
- Revit Mass Extrude 2
- Revit Mass Revolve
- Revit Modeling: Walls Floors Roofs
- Revit Opzet Woongebouw
- Revit Rendering
- Revit2
- Category:Tutorials Revit
What is BIM?
BIM: Building Information Modeling
Firstly, it is very important to highlight that BIM is not a software, BIM is a work methodology that allows generating complete, accurate and coordinated information on the life cycle of buildings: from conceptual design, construction and in some cases, even operation and maintenance.
BIM is a design approach that uses a building information model that consist of intelligent building objects. All information on all objects (building elements) is brought together in a single project database, which describes the complete building design.
BIM facilitates an integrated practice approach in multidisciplinary design environments by using a single information source (database) which allows each actor in the team to extract relevant information from and add specific information to the model as needed. For example: a structural engineer can store and retrieve specific data on structural elements in the design, while an electrical engineer can use information specific for his field of expertise.
BIM is a process based on intelligent models that aim to provide you with coordinated information to plan, design, construct and manage buildings.
This model is not only used in design and construction phase, but will be used during the complete life-cycle of the building. The users of BIM may vary at specific stages.
BIM uses a parametric structure. It facilitates complex interrelations between physical building elements and abstract objects like space. BIM creates links between geometry/data and behavior, e.g: a window has a specific behavior (role) and must be related to a wall or roof and has a specific position. You can also use parametric concepts to create intricate relations between dimensions or positions of several elements, so that for example when a floor-height changes, all walls will automatically change accordingly.
Why use BIM?
BIM (Building Information Modeling) is now viewed today as the tool of the future in the field of design and construction. In Europe and the United States, BIM has been progressively adopted by up to 75% of architects, engineers, contractors and owners. (Kaleem Ullah, 2019) In the specific case of England, the implementation of the BIM methodology is being promoted as the official engine of the construction industry, which was adopted to reduce the cost of construction in the public sector. BIM is a tool that aims to revolutionize the life cycle of buildings. Unlike CAD, which only aims to solve the documentation stage, with BIM it is possible to design and contemplate all the stages of a property, thus allowing unsurpassed efficiency in the management of resources and efforts.
Advantages of BIM
- Better team organization and design productivity.
- Optimization in the design, based on coordinated solutions.
- Better project quality and less repetition of work since the processes minimizes errors and omissions.
- Better final product for presentations since 3D model is built as a team and is exportable to other software for image post-processing.
- Built-in analysis tools to take better design decisions.
- Interference check. Clash detection capabilities between all disciplines.
- Realtime Multisciplinary work. BIM allows collaborative work through a single platform in which all disciplines are involved (architects, engineers, managers ...). The team is able work on the same tool, integrating and sharing information in real time.
- Integration of 2D and 3D documentation.
Other used BIM Modeling Software Tools:
- ArchiCAD - https://www.graphisoft.com/archicad/
- Autodesk Revit - https://www.autodesk.com/products/revit/overview
- VectorWorks - https://www.vectorworks.net/en-GB
- Bentley AECOSIM- https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/building-design-software/openbuildings-designer
- ALLPLAN - https://www.allplan.com/en/
The following link has a good summary of all available BIM software:
https://www.lodplanner.com/bim-software/
You are welcome to use any software of your preference yet keep in mind our support for other software might be more limited.
BIM during the design phase
BIM is mainly aimed at the later stages of building design and the life cycle of a built design and less at the very early stages of design (concept stage). Its main benefits emerge in large-scale or very complex designs. It's very useful to manage large amounts of information, typically from the final design phase and onwards. Special shapes and designs can be very challenging to embed in BIM, making it too time consuming to deploy BIM during the early concept phase, which requires agile tools to support the design process. During that phase the main benefits of BIM may not yet be applicable.
At the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft, students typically create designs up to the preliminary design / final design phase. It's important to note what role BIM can play in this specific environment. Here the main benefit is the correlation of 3D geometrical information and documentation, such as 2D drawings, that can be generated from this model and the parametric design options.
BIM enables you to quickly generate accurate building documentation, such as plans, elevations and sections. It eliminates the risk of mismatch between these drawings, because they are all generated from a single source (the building information model). In a traditional CAD environment each drawing has to be created by hand, introducing the risk that you make a mistake, for example that the location of a window in a plan drawing does not correspond with the elevation or section. It's difficult and tedious to check all drawings for these errors. Especially when you change your design, this issue becomes a real problem. When you change your BIM-model, all drawings are automatically updated and are guaranteed to be consistent. In traditional CAD (or hand drawing) environments, you must manually check and update all drawings to reflect the changed design and guarantee consistency.
BIM 360
BIM 360 is an online platform supported by Autodesk that allows for Revit to function seamlessly through cloud work-sharing. There are 4 products that Autodesk offers within BIM 360: Docs, Design, Coordinate and Build
https://www.autodesk.com/bim-360/
Each part is modular and aims to help the designer at a specific moment of the design process:
- BIM 360 Docs is mainly to share and view documents in the cloud. (Similar to Dropbox with visualization capabilities). Likewise, it allows you to compare versions of the documents.
- BIM 360 Design allows you to design in collaboration with the use of a central model generated in Revit. It functions in real-time. It allows you to use your Revit file as if it were in saved in a LAN (Local Area Network) environment.
- BIM 360 Coordinate serves as a coordination and clash-detection online software. It does the same as what Autodesk Navisworks software does but, in this case, in the cloud.
- BIM 360 Build includes three main parts: Field Management, Project Management and Cost Management. This package, as its name shows, is meant more for construction site management: Checklists, Site Diaries, Submittals, RFIs (Requests for information), Meeting Minutes and cost management.
For the purpose of this exercise, BIM 360 Design is recommended, yet be aware of the additional packages that are available for the whole project timeline.
https://www.autodesk.com/bim-360/bim-collaboration-software/design-collaboration/
For step by step process to set up your BIM 360 project go to:
http://wiki.bk.tudelft.nl/toi-pedia/Worksharing_in_Revit
Links
A complete guide to the basic use of Revit can be found here:
http://wiki.bk.tudelft.nl/toi-pedia/Revit
If you already know how to use the basics of Revit and wish to know how to set up the collaborative model directly on the cloud go to:
http://wiki.bk.tudelft.nl/toi-pedia/Worksharing_in_Revit
Revit Online Help:
The online Revit help is available at: wikihelp.autodesk.com/Revit