TABLE OF CONTENTS This section is addressed to managers, supervisors, and team leaders in design firms. College professors or those leading courses of instruction will also find the concepts covered and exercises useful.
Students will benefit from examining content and structure in template files, importing a CAD file, creating a custom titleblock, and exporting a file to CAD.
Understand the mechanics and value of template files in Revit Building
Experience Revit Building's input/output interface with AutoCAD and other applications
Discuss Revit Building's file management systems: import/export, linking, worksets
If your responsibilities include deploying the design software your organization uses, keeping designers equipped with software tools, organizing files, and maintaining standards, you have headaches enough without having to adopt (or worse, half-adopt) a new standard. As your company or institution considers using Revit Building, what does Revit Building have in store for you?
The bad news is that Revit Building is different enough from AutoCAD and Architectural Desktop that even the people who listen to you and make an effort to follow your directives, instructions, specifications, and standards will be confused at times by this new software. The good news is that Revit Building is much simpler than AutoCAD and ADT in significant ways not having to use layers to govern the appearance of objects on screen and paper, for example, does away with an entire, often complicated, set of standards that nobody ever follows completely anyway.
Revit Building does contain many of the same mechanisms that you...
