Exercise duration: ~20 minutes

Modeling in Revit
This exercise allows you to practice modeling
techniques available within Revit. Not all
concepts or techniques are shown. The primary
goal is to provide the basic details of each of
these modeling techniques and for you to use
the tools and understand how they are used.

Learning objectives:

• Work with walls and wall types.

The completed exercise
• Create and modify floors, roofs, and
ceilings.

1. Open the Lesson 02 Practice

exercise.rvt start file (created in Revit
2019).

Figure 1. Opening the Lesson 02 Practice

exercise.rvt file

2. Create a basic wall type (Exterior –

Brick on Metal Stud) with the layers Material Thickness
shown in Figure 2. Brick 3 5/8"
Air 3"
Air Infiltration Barrier 0"
Plywood Sheathing 3/4"
Metal Stud Layer 6"
Vapor Retarder 0"

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 Gypsum Wall Board 1/2"

Figure 2. The layers required in the new wall

type

3. Create a stacked wall type using the

following two basic walls:
• Exterior – Brick on Metal Stud
(Variable height)
• Exterior – CMU on Metal Stud (3’
0”)

Using the stacked wall type, create a

building exterior that is 150' wide x 75'
deep. Walls should be from Level 1 to
Top of parapet.

Figure 3. The Wall icon on the Architecture

ribbon tab

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4. Using the Interior – 4 7/8ʺ Partition
basic wall type (shown in Figure 4),
create eight offices on Level 1 inside
the building.

Figure 4. The required wall type

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5. Add ceilings to the offices created on
Level 1.

Figure 5. The Ceiling icon on the

Architecture ribbon tab

6. Model a roof at the Roof level and add

two low points using the shape editing
tools. The elevation of these points
should be -10". Refer to the image in
Figure 6 for the location of the points.

Figure 6. The finished roof in Revit

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