Revit Architecture Certificate

Full overview

The delivery format of this course is via self-directed, video lectures and demonstrations, PDF manuals, and online support via web-based discussion groups and email support.

Upon successful completion of this course, the students will have reliably demonstrated the ability to:

Students can get a receive a free copy of the latest version Revit from Autodesk (valid for one year) by going here .

Students will be prepared to take the Autodesk Certified User (ACU) certification exam.

Exploring the parts of the Revit interface and using basic Revit element creation procedures.

Setting view properties and using Visibility/Graphic overrides. Exploring 3D view navigation controls. Introduction to view creation.

Accessing family libraries and loading families into a project. Introduction to sketching and sketched features.

Creating 3D perspectives with Camera Views. Introduction to sheet creation and drawing views.

Introduction to Sections and methods for creating building sections, wall sections, and detail sections. Using callout views.

Joining roofs and attaching walls to roofs. Extruding roofs and creating dormer roofs.

Joining and cutting geometry. Adding wall openings. Using hosted sweeps and sweep profiles with walls and roofs.

Creating stairs by sketching boundaries and risers. Using stair calculation rules and modifying stair properties.

Introduction to Site components and adding a simple topographical surface. Printing and publishing a revit project.

Creating and dimensioning family geometry. Working with parameters and sub-categories.

Manipulating mass forms and modifying mass forms with X-Ray mode, Edge editing, and Profile editing.

Creating Mass floors and using the Model by Face tool to generate Floors, Roofs, Walls, and Curtain Systems.

Introduction to Surface Rationalization with the Divide Surface and Surface Pattern tools.

Dimensioning forms in the Conceptual Design Environment and developing Dynamic, complex masses with Formulas and Parameters.

Creating and working with Adaptive Components, reference points and stitched border panels.

Creating and working with Curtain Wall panels, Curtain Wall mullions, corner mullions, and mullion join conditions.

Creating and working with Custom Curtain Wall mullions, custom Curtain Wall panels, and developing Custom curtain wall assemblies with nested curtain walls and custom parametric panels.

Students will be prepared to take the Autodesk Certified User (ACU) certification exam.

This course is designed for the full, Windows version of Revit. Regarding running Revit on a Mac, the best solution is to use the Mac's Bootcamp utility and have a copy of Windows installed on its own partition. Parallels Desktop will also work and will allow you to install the full PC version of Revit on your Mac. Although there is an "Revit for Mac" version available, it is not widely used and is missing many of the features found in the full Windows version of Revit. The current Mac version will work for the level one course but if you continue your training with the intermediate and advanced courses, the further you go the more you will run into features that simply do not exist on the Mac software.

To ensure software stability and optimal performance during your coursework, all students must verify that their hardware meets the Autodesk Revit System Requirements .

Using a computer that falls below these specifications can lead to software crashes and data loss. Please compare your system against the official requirements below before beginning this course:

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system. This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections. Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.