Engaging AutoCAD & Revit lessons with practical problem solving

Student and Tutor worked through various challenges in Revit, including managing viewports, inserting families, and organizing design options. They focused on modifying element heights, resizing views on sheets, and troubleshooting visibility issues related to design options and crop regions. No specific homework was assigned, but a follow-up session was not scheduled for the following week.

The Student and Tutor engaged in a comprehensive Revit session, focusing on creating and refining a 3D interior view of a shower room. They practiced essential skills such as setting up perspective views, utilizing scope boxes for model cropping, and modeling custom ceilings and soffits. The session also covered modifying existing families, adjusting tile patterns, ensuring consistent material application across elements, and introduced the use of design options to manage different design alternatives. For follow-up, the Student planned to render views, make further adjustments and create a handle for the door.

The Student and Tutor focused on creating a custom Revit family for a U-shaped floor transition strip, exploring appropriate family templates (Floor-Based vs. Line-Based) and modeling commands like Sweep and Extrusion. They then practiced creating a shop drawing by placing the family into a project's section view, adding detail lines and hatch patterns, and setting up the sheet for presentation.

Student and Tutor worked on advanced Revit functionalities, focusing on family creation and modification. They practiced creating new family types for varied dimensions, importing CAD details to create custom window components, and generating multi-sheet PDFs from Revit projects. The session also covered techniques for marking up drawings and applying filled regions.

The Student and Tutor worked on advanced Revit modeling, focusing on structural and site elements. They practiced creating and manipulating sections, adding and modifying structural walls and footings, adjusting element alignments and heights, and generating site topography with slopes. The session concluded with an introduction to creating detailed callouts for architectural documentation.

Student and Tutor focused on creating a custom Revit family for a metal threshold, covering the steps from sketching extrusions and applying materials to establishing parametric controls for its dimensions. They practiced loading the new family into a project and adjusting its parameters to fit an existing door. The next session will address an issue with missing levels in project views.