Revit for intermediate users

Turn your model into drawings: plans, sections and elevations, dimensions and tags, rooms and areas, materials, families, schedules, sheets and view templates.

10 lessons · about 2.8 hours · free

Views and documentation

1. 1. Views: plans, 3D and view range

   Every drawing in Revit is a view of the model with its own settings. Learn how plan views cut the building, how to control what appears, and how to create useful 3D views.

   • • Understand view range and the cut plane
   • • Control visibility with VG, hiding and filters
   • • Set scale, detail level and visual style

   20 min

2. 2. Sections and elevations

   Sections and elevations are generated automatically from the model. Learn to place them, control their depth and extent, and create callouts for enlarged details.

   • • Create building sections and control their depth
   • • Create exterior and interior elevations
   • • Crop and annotate them

   16 min

3. 3. Dimensions in Revit

   Revit dimensions are annotation in a view, always reading true values from the model. Learn to dimension walls and openings fast, and to use dimensions as design constraints.

   • • Place aligned and linear dimension strings
   • • Choose wall faces, cores or centres
   • • Use EQ and locks as constraints

   16 min

4. 4. Tags and annotation

   Tags display information from elements — a door number, a wall type, a room name. Because they read parameters, they are always correct. Learn to tag quickly and consistently.

   • • Tag elements by category
   • • Tag all untagged elements at once
   • • Load and choose tag families

   14 min

5. 5. Rooms and areas

   Rooms are spaces bounded by walls and floors. They carry names, numbers, areas and finishes, drive room schedules and colour-fill plans, and are central to building data.

   • • Place rooms and understand room bounding
   • • Use room separation lines
   • • Name, number and tag rooms

   16 min

6. 6. Materials

   Materials control how elements look in drawings, in rendered views and in schedules. Learn how a material is built and how to assign and manage materials cleanly.

   • • Navigate the Material Browser
   • • Set graphics for drawings and appearance for rendering
   • • Assign materials through types and families

   15 min

7. 7. Families

   Everything in Revit is a family. Understanding the family hierarchy and the three kinds of family is the key to working efficiently — and to building your own later.

   • • Explain category, family, type and instance
   • • Tell system, loadable and in-place families apart
   • • Use type and instance parameters

   18 min

8. 8. Schedules

   Schedules are live tables of model data — doors, windows, rooms, quantities. Edit a value in a schedule and the model changes. They’re one of Revit’s biggest time savers.

   • • Create a schedule and choose fields
   • • Filter, sort, group and total
   • • Format and add calculated values

   20 min

9. 9. Sheets

   Sheets are where views become a drawing set. Learn to add title blocks, place views and schedules, manage sheet numbers and revisions, and export PDFs.

   • • Create sheets with title blocks
   • • Place and align views and schedules
   • • Manage sheet numbers, names and revisions

   18 min

10. 10. View templates

    View templates store view settings — scale, detail level, visibility, filters — and apply them to many views, so every plan in a set looks the same and stays that way.

    • • Create a view template from a set-up view
    • • Understand apply vs assign
    • • Choose which settings a template controls

    14 min