Friday, October 22, 2010

Revit Lab–Lessons from the labs 10/22/2010

 

Below are some suggestions that I gathered during the four sessions today.

  • Read the Assignment – Not just the Tutorial

    • The assignment has specific requirements

    • The tutorial actually covers more material than is required for the assignment.

  • Save Early, Save Often

    • Several people lost most of the work because they hadn’t saved
  • Don’t be afraid to start over

    • We all make mistakes when starting.  It’s often easiest to just do it again

  • Save to the desktop

    • You can then copy the file to a flash drive or email it home.
  • When drawing a floor (or roof)

    • Be sure the sketch is totally “closed”

    • Click on the green checkmark

  • Constrain the wall top to the 2nd Level

    • It’s best to do so when drawing your first wall element. Thereafter all walls will be so constrained.

  • Print-to-PDF depends on having Adobe Acrobat

    • It creates a “printer” that produces a file instead of a physical page.

    • All the machines in the CadLab have Acrobat

    • There are free substitutes available that you can install on your own machine

  • Put a dimension on your longest wall

    • That will help the graders and ensure you meet that requirement.

    • The dimension tool is the top mini-ribbon

 

Jim Mitchell

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