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Revit Project Setup and Tools Guide

This document provides instructions for using various tools and functions in Revit, including: - Opening existing projects or starting new ones - Importing furniture families - Using shortcuts like the move tool - Drawing lines, walls, floors, doors, windows, and setting cameras - Changing the unit of measurement - Modifying elements using offset, connecting, and aligning lines - Extruding walls and changing wall spacing - Changing materials and uploading custom materials - Modeling building exteriors and adding site elements like trees - Rendering and adjusting render settings - Changing window sizes and roof design - Adding text The document is a manual that outlines Revit tools over 4 days for tasks like modeling

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Revit Project Setup and Tools Guide

This document provides instructions for using various tools and functions in Revit, including: - Opening existing projects or starting new ones - Importing furniture families - Using shortcuts like the move tool - Drawing lines, walls, floors, doors, windows, and setting cameras - Changing the unit of measurement - Modifying elements using offset, connecting, and aligning lines - Extruding walls and changing wall spacing - Changing materials and uploading custom materials - Modeling building exteriors and adding site elements like trees - Rendering and adjusting render settings - Changing window sizes and roof design - Adding text The document is a manual that outlines Revit tools over 4 days for tasks like modeling

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Revit manual

By:marwah alomari

To open a previous project


or to start a new project.
Families referred to
furniture that has been
already imported.

Move button: short cut (MV)

These four icons are the


camera, you have to draw
inside them

To change the
unit (UN)

Level 1 and 2: Referred


for the levels of the
floors.
Ceiling: Referred for the
ceilings of each floor.
Elevations: Referred
elevation from each
side.

To draw a line (LI)

To draw a wall(WL)

To change the view as a realistic.

To put a roof:

The same process for the flooring

To put a floor:

1. Click on floor button

2. Click on (pick lines)and


select each wall

3. Click on the (wright )


button

To draw a door:
Choose the door icon and
place it in the required
place.

To draw a window:
Choose the window icon and
place it in the required
place.

To set a camera:
View< 3d< camera.

Click on the floorplan and make sure that the


camera is outside the walls.

Day 2
1. Changing the materials
2. Exterior
3. Rendering

To start a new project:

Default Metric

Modifications:

offset

1) Offset a line
2) Write the required number.

Connect a line by choosing the


button

Connect two lines

Align:
1. Select the line that you want your
line to be aligned with it.
2. Select the other line.
3. Escape.

To extrude a lines:

1. select wall
2. choose pick lines
3. select the walls
4. it will be extruded

To change the spacing between the


panels:

1. Select the dashed lines


2. Edit type
3. Change the spacing from the spacing

To change a wall to certain wall:

1. Select the wall


2. From walls section change it

To change materials:

Wall<edit type<category<change from the selected types.


From the button below <create new material<rename it <choose from appearance library.

To change the size of the material <doable click on the material<scale.

To upload your material:


Tab on the source and choose your
material.

To model an exterior:
Select the(site)<massing and site< topo surface < put the point outside the building

Place lines< insert 4 other lines inside the square


Click right button

To add trees:

Site component
Select trees
Place them

To add other
component:

Load them
Such as
trees,people,,et
c

Render:
Settings to medium to have higher quality
You can change the settings

Day 3
1. Change the window size
2. Adjust the roof design

To change the roof structure:


Select the walls<undo (define slopes)

To change the window size:


Edit type<category< change the size

To write a text:
Model text<ok<tab on what you
want to write in <ok

Day 4

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