Software : Revit Architecture 2009
Level : Beginner

Description : This Revit Architecture 2009 video tutorial covers how to create and control schedules.  In this tutorial we schedule different wall types to manage the quantities of a buildings facade. Here is a link to the source files on the forum.

Topics Covered
-Creating a schedule
-Controlling schedules
-Sorting and grouping schedules
-Filtering schedules.

Here is a link to the source files on the forum

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Software : Rhino 4, Autocad 2009, and Revit Architecture 2009
Level : Intermediate

Description : This Revit Architecture 2009 video tutorial covers how to import geometry from Rhino via Autocad.  Really this technique will work for any program that can output a .sat.  Even if the program cannot, Rhino imports many formats (such as .step or .iges) which you can then export as a .sat for Autocad.  The basic logic in this tutorial is to create a tower which has geometry too complex to build in Revit. We then pass it through Autocad to export a closed solid .dwg.  As of now Rhino only exports .dwg files as meshes (which do not work very well for massing objects) . We then run a few simple Massing operations such as scheduling, creating floors, and creating walls.  Lastly, we create a new mass from Rhino and re-import the geometry to have all our schedules update and will a few steps our geometry as well. Here is a link to the source files on the forum.

Topics Covered
-Exporting from Rhino
-Import .sat to Autocad
-Importing geometry for Massing in Revit
-Creating floors from a Massing in Revit
-Simple Massing schedule
-Creating walls from a Mass
-Updating the Mass by re-importing geometry

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Software : Revit Architecture 2009
Level : Beginner - Intermediate

Description : This Revit Architecture 2009 video tutorial covers how to use tags as drivers for parameters rather than just for display.  The idea here is to use “working tags”. The Tags can easily be cleaned up for display on working drawings later, the intent here is to avoid having to go to the properties of an object to change parameters.   Here is a link to the source files on the forum.

Topics Covered
-Creating shared parameters
-Creating a generic tags
-Tagging shared parameters
-Using tags to modify parameters

Here is a link to the source files on the forum

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Image Provided by Milan Dale & Micah Roufa

A few student and i were invited by James Vandezande to speak at this weeks NYC Revit User Group Meeting  .  We presented the work from the workshop and discussed a few different ways to use Revit.

Here is the PDF presentation we gave (it’s big 30mb) - you might want to right click and do “save link as”

You can follow the students work on the forum.  Here are links to the students that presented on Thursday:

Adam Mercier and Leonidas Trampoukis

Taihung Chen & Chingyi Chou

Milan Dale & Micah Roufa

Please credit the student and Columbiai University GSAPP if you post links or use any of the images.

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Software : Revit Architecture
Level : Beginner - Intermediate

Description : This Revit Architecture 2009 video tutorial covers how to use conditional statement when scheduling curtain panels.  The techniques put forward in this video are done in an effort to avoid making different families for one curtain system.  By using techniques like these, one can manage variable parts within one Revit Family while making it easier ti manage a schedule.  This video is part of a series I am working on, in which i hope to show ways Revit can be used for quantity take off (going back to my days as an estimator, this is so much easier). Here is a link to the source files on the forum

Topics Covered
-Scheduling shared parameters
-Calculated Values in Schedules
-Scheduling with conditional statements
-Using Parameters to Identify Family Type

Here is a link to the source files on the forum

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