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martynlroberts

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I really want to up my skill set in Revit and stay ahead of the kids coming out of design school and become a Master of Revit.  I will give a brief outline of where we are at with learning the program.

In Revit 2016, we currently produce all Drawings:

Plans (including electrical), elevations, sections, detailing.  We prefer to model most if not all elements. We recently started using keynotes and will develop this further as projects progress

Documentation:

window, door and furnitur schedules etc. including legends for each types.

Rendering:

our renderings are getting pretty good now, anything that needs to be exceptional is done by our yound architect by exporting Revit to Max and then to Unreal Engine, and the guy runs around the clients building like a very high resolution video game (very impressive, but still not as useful as a good set of documents).

Worksets and Work Sharing:

We have not really done much on this, as all as most projects we do are relatively small, and none of the local engineers are conversant in Revit.

I would think that my most recent/ main advancement is keynotes, as this was the last step (in my mind) in the change over from CAD to BIM, because if you are still doing construction notes manually  that do not change with element changes then you might as well still be using CAD.

My question is what features have you all learned that really upped your Revit game? 

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martynlroberts

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Thanks in advance!

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learn to make parametric families, specialy things like louvres that can be use in different sizes and angles, that implies arrays. Then learn to model pipes and ducts. But first learn to extract quantities of materials, that's what offices need, that implies the proper clasification of elements, the use of "comment" field etc. You are not half the way yet. And dont forget the modeling of terrains with topo surfaces. ah, and the customization of stair railings...you still lack a lot.

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Thanks for the reply.

Attached (if it works) is the louvered shutter family I modelled last month which is fully parametric even down to the fact you can adjust the angle of the louveres (or blades as I labelled them).  It is restricted to 4 panels though 2 left and 2 right.  I started making it as a face based family so if you place it in front of a door/window of exactly the same size the you need to shift it likw 1mm sideways so it can cut the wall and be hosted.

I have also started using pipes, for modelling drainage, there is no call for that at present in Zim for all cold and hot pipes so I would be wasting company time, so that will come later when I have spare time in evenings, which is not easy with 7 month old twins. I definately need to hone my skills on the placing of the pipes.

All medium and large projects currently we use a QS so materials are calculated  outside of our office, but I will defo add it to my to-do list.

We have flat survey AutoCAD files from the land surveyors so I convert the lines into 3D CAD and then import into Revit and build the Topos.

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