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Practical projectsFree Revit course about 150 min

Project 1: Model a small residential building

Model a single-storey, one-bedroom house from scratch: set up levels, build walls, place doors and windows, add a floor and a roof, furnish it and create a floor plan and 3D view.

By the end of this project you will

  • Set up a project with levels
  • Model walls, openings, floor and roof accurately
  • Furnish the house with components
  • Produce a clean floor plan and 3D view

Project brief

Objective

Produce a complete Revit model of a small house with a clean floor plan view and a 3D view.

Skills you need

The brief

A single-storey house with internal dimensions of about 9000 × 7000 mm: living/kitchen, one bedroom and a bathroom. Ceiling height 2700; a gable roof at 22.5° with 600 overhangs.

Use your own external and internal wall types from the Walls lesson, 920 entry door, 820 internal doors, and windows sized to the rooms.

A rectangular plan about 9 metres by 7 metres divided into a living and kitchen area, a bedroom and a bathroom, with door swings, window openings in the outer walls and overall dimensions.LIVING / KITCHENBEDROOMBATH90007000entry
Figure: A simple one-bedroom floor plan. Original KitWren diagram.

Step 1 — Project and levels

  1. 1New project from the Architectural Template; set units to mm.
  2. 2In the South elevation, rename Level 1 to Ground (0) and Level 2 to Roof at 2700.
  3. 3Save as P1-small-house.rvt.

Step 2 — Walls

  1. 1On Ground, draw the external walls clockwise with Finish Face: Interior location line, Up to level: Roof, as a 9000 × 7000 internal rectangle.
  2. 2Draw the living/bedroom and bedroom/bathroom walls with the internal wall type.
  3. 3Check room sizes with temporary dimensions; adjust with Align or by typing dimension values.

Step 3 — Openings

  1. 1Place doors with DR, flipping swings sensibly; set distances with temporary dimensions.
  2. 2Place windows with WN; set sill heights (900 living, 900 bedroom, 1500 bathroom).
  3. 3Tag doors and windows.

Step 4 — Floor and roof

  1. 1Create the floor by picking the external walls.
  2. 2On the Roof level plan, create a Roof by Footprint picking the walls with 600 overhang; untick Defines Slope on the two short ends for a gable.
  3. 3Attach the external walls' tops to the roof.

Step 5 — Furnish and present

  1. 1Place kitchen, bathroom fixtures and furniture.
  2. 2Place rooms and name them.
  3. 3Duplicate the Ground plan as Ground - Presentation with furniture and room colour fill.
  4. 4Create a 3D view with a nice orbit angle and shaded style.
  5. 5Save.

Your task

Variation

  1. Change the roof to a hip roof and check the walls.
  2. Raise the Roof level to 3000 and confirm walls and roof follow.
  3. Swap a window type and see it update everywhere.

You should end up with: Confidence that the model behaves parametrically.

Completion checklist

0 of 7 checked · saved on this device

Project quiz

1 / 4

If you raise the Roof level, walls constrained to it get taller.

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