BIM: Software Tool

We will talk today about one of the most important software which help us to work with BIM design technology. It's called "Autodesk Revit" created by known company "Autodesk", but in common many of those programs which help in BIM technology had many similar tools, we can use it in creating architectural models, Software tools that convert 2D to 3D models (At this time, this type of tool is custom developed based on specific requirements.While many of the 3D tools will import 2D drawings, 3D tools may not be able to update the 2D drawing.).

We have 3 levels users must learn it gradually to reach the top of program, you can after it put your first step in BIM world.

1. Certified User

   Content
   Introduction 
   
   • The concept of BIM
   • Revit user interface
   • Levels
     
    Wall
   
   • Basic wall drawing, modifying tools,editing types
   • Compound walls "construction & usage"
   • Attaching wall to roofs and floors
   • Creating & using stacked walls 
   • Creating curtain wall types
   • Drawing & editing curtain walls
   • wall finishes
   • custome wall shapes
   Doors & Windows & other Components
   
   • Learn to place door and windows, to edit its parameters like size and finishes, to load new types from library.
   • Learn to place furniture, plumping and planting components, edit parameters and load types.
   Floors & Roofs
   
   • Creating (regular, sloped) floors
   • Creating (regular , sloped) roofs by foot print
   • Editing boundaries 
   • Creating roofs by extrusion
   • Creating floor and roof types
   Leveraging other file types
   
   • Attach images into project and use it as underlay 
   • Link & import CAD
   • Use the cad drawing as underlay to convert 2d CAD drawing into 3d BIM model
    Stairs, Ramps & Railings
   
   • Modeling standard and cutom stair shapes like staight, L shaped, U shaped, L winder, U winder, spiral and other types.
   • Using the out of box types like cast in place stair, industrial stair, assembly stair and making new types for custom shapes.
   • Modeling straight and spiral ramps
   • Modeling railings for stairs and ramps and fences for floors and balconies
   • Editing out of box types, creating custom railing types and loading railings from library

   2. Certified Professional 

   Content
   Site & Topography
   
   • Adding site within revit, modifying a toposurface
   • Split surface and subregions 
   • Adding site components and building pad
   • Adding contour lines and property lines
   Conceptual Massing
   
   • Creating in-place mass
   • Using mass editor interface
   • Creating form and conceptual designs
   • Converting the form into real building elements
   • Wall by face for custom wall shapes 
   • Creating custom floor shapes by floor by face
   • Creating custom roof shapes by roof by face
   • Curtain system
   Structural elements
   
   •  Structural gridds
   • Structural columns and structural walls
   • Beams, slabs and foundations
   • Structural plans, framing elevations
   • Graphical column schedules
   Ceilings & Interiors
   
   • Creating ceiling 
   • Creating ceiling openings and soffits
   • Adding light fixture to ceiling
   • Materials and finishes
   • Creating sweeps (corniches & trims) and reveals
   Visualization 
   
   •  Creating prespectives
   • Creating walkthroughs and exporting movies
   • Render still images
   • Render 2d views
   • Solar studies
   Views
   
   • Creating floor plans reflected ceiling plans sections sliced section elevation callout views
   • Creating 3d section 3d view
   • Control visibilty "what elements to see in the view?"
   • Controlling the appearance of the elements in the views (line weights, line types, line colors).
   • Controlling the appearance of the pattern "hatches" in the views (color, type of pattern, transparency, scale making new ones)
   • Export to autocad, 3d max, showcase, excel and design review
   schedules
   
   • Learn how to do cost calculations based on areas as wall finishes, floor finishes
   • Learn how to do cost calculations based on volume as concreate cost
   • Learn how to do cost calculations based onlength as sweep cost
   • Learn how to do cost calculations based onnumbers as doors and windows
   • Learn extracting data from element and scheduling it into tables
   • Using schedules as drafting and editing tool
   Rooms
   
   • Creating rooms
   • Color schemes, color fill legends
   • Tagging rooms
   • Area & volume calculation
   Tags
   •  Tagging doors, windows, walls, floors, romms and other elements
   • Editing tags
   • Making custom tags for custom purposes
   Documentation 
   • Making sheets
   • Editing title block and making new ones
   • Using detail line, detail components
   • Using legend views
   • Using dimension, dimension styles
   • Using text, text styles

   3. Advanced user

   Content
   Collaboration 
   
   • Linking arch cad files
   • Linking revit arch models
   • Using "copy monitor" tool to maintain coordination between disciplines
   Strctural elements
   • Structural columns and slanted columns
   • Beams, beams systems
   • Trusses and editing trusses for custom shapes 
   • Structural floors and shaft openings
   • Placing footings, slab foundations and wall foundations
   Reinforcement tools
   
   • Adding rebar in columns and beams
   • Setting rebar cover
   • Area and path reinforcement
   • Scheduling rebar, calculating rebar cost based on volume or bar length
   Structural analysis tools
   • placing point, line and area loads
   • Placing boundary conditions
   • Send models to ROBOT structural analysis
   • Export to SAB, ETABS, other structural analysis packages
   Conceptual massing
   • Using mass editor interface
   • Advanced tools for creating forms
   • Dividing surface
   Parametric family modeling
   • Using reference planes parameters, constraints
   • Creating solid and void features using (extrude, revolve, blend, sweep) tools
   • Importing furniture and other components from 3ds max and sketch up
   • Modeling in-place 
   
   
   Good luck with BIM