Revit for Architectural Design Professional Certification Prep

Discover what you'll learn in this course and download the software and resources you need. 

• Course overview
• Get the software
• Exam objectives
• Tips for the exam

Before you begin this course, test your skills by taking the following assessment to see where you stand. 

• Pre-test

Learn the key aspects of modeling, including creating wall types and applying materials to the layers. Get an in-depth review of architectural elements and learn how to configure system and loadable families.

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

•    Create and control advanced model views, visibility, and graphics.
•    Configure and manage annotative elements.
•    Configure rooms.
•    Use document revisions.
•    Create topography.
•    Create and manage legends.
•    Create and control detail and drafting views.
•    Create and configure basic 2D parametric families.
•    Create, modify, and manage detail groups.

• Create and edit wall types
• Practice Exercise: Create a wall type
• Create and modify curtain walls
• Create roofs, floors, and ceiling types
• Configure stairs
• Configure railings
• Create openings in building elements
• Create and modify columns
• Create relationships between components
• Create materials and material libraries
• Apply materials
• Paint materials
• Configure rooms
• Create families
• Configure family geometry
• Recognize family workflows
• Practice Exercise: Adjust family visibility
• Create topography
• Create model groups
• Challenge Exercise: Create a basic 3D parametric family

Documenting your Revit project is a foundational skill for architectural professionals. This module explores creating and manipulating views and adjusting view properties. You’ll also learn to master annotation and work with tags and keynotes.

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

•    Create and control advanced model views, visibility, and graphics.
•    Configure and manage annotative elements.
•    Use document revisions.
•    Create and manage legends.
•    Create and control detail and drafting views.
•    Create and configure basic 2D parametric families.
•    Create, modify, and manage detail groups.

• Create and use view templates
• Practice Exercise: Create a view template
• Create and apply filters
• Apply and use visibility overrides
• Use the tools in the View Control Bar
• Apply and use object styles
• Create view types
• Create duplicate views
• Configure view properties
• Control crop boundaries
• Create and configure plan regions
• Configure and manage annotative elements
• Use document revisions
• Practice Exercise: Create revisions
• Create and manage legends
• Create and control detail and drafting views
• Create and configure 2D families
• Create detail groups
• Challenge Exercise: Create a room tag family

Most architectural professionals work in a team and with other design professionals. For this reason, it's important that desigers can collaborate within a Revit project with other team members as well as coordinate with other discplines. This module explores Revit worksharing, linking and importing files, basic model maintenance, phasing, design options, and the Copy/Monitor workflows.

After this module, you'll be able to:

• Configure worksets and initiate worksharing.
• Link and manage various file formats.
• Perform basic model maintenance.
• Manage and configure phasing.
• Create, configure, and manage design options.
• Use the Copy/Monitor process and features.

• Configure worksets and initiate worksharing
• Practice Exercise: Use worksharing
• Link and manage various file formats
• Perform basic model maintenance
• Manage and configure phasing
• Practice Exercise: Configure phasing
• Create and manage design options
• Use the Copy/Monitor process and features

Getting Revit customized to meet your workflows is essential for every Revit user. Additionally, establishing project standards and settings is key to a successful building model. This module covers both user-specific settings for Revit as well as project-specific settings and standards.

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Configure custom Revit UI settings.
• Configure and manage project settings and location.
• Use and manage the project browser.
• Manage and configure phasing.
• Configure print and export settings.

• Configure custom Revit UI settings
• Configure project settings and location
• Practice Exercise: Select project location
• Use and manage the project browser
• Practice Exercise: Organize the browser
• Configure print and export settings

Managing and analyzing the information in a model is critical to the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process. This module explores creating and manipulating various types of schedules. This allows architectural professionals to view the information in a tabular form. Learn to use area schemes, area plans, and sun and shadow studies.

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Create and manage advanced schedules.
• Create and edit area schemes and area plans.
• Create sun and shadow studies.

• Create and manage advanced schedules
• Practice Exercise: Create schedules
• Create a note block and place it on a sheet
• Create and use a key schedule
• Create and edit area schemes and area plans
• Practice Exercise: Create area plans
• Create sun and shadow studies

Now that you've completed the learning material in this course, you can take the challenge exercise to measure your skills on the topics covered in this course. 

• Challenge exercise

• Start your practice test