Learn the industry's leading BIM software. Discover how to harness the power of Revit to express your design vision, collaborate with teammates, and efficiently deliver high quality solutions.
Revit Core Practice is designed to equip you with all the foundational skills you need to harness the industry’s leading BIM software. You’ll be realizing your design solutions and collaborating in harmony with your team in no time! This course is specifically tailored to architects & interior designers but I will touch on basic structural & MEP from the perspective of expressing design intent, not sizing members or building systems.
Revit CP is perfect for you if you are an emerging professional with 0-7 years of industry experience or if this is your first exposure with Revit seeking to modernize your technology skill set with the latest BIM best practices.
My teaching style is outcome-driven and scenario-based meaning you get examples shown in context to what you’ll face in daily practice. I’ve structured the material to be easy to reference & searchable should you need a refresher later!
Duration: 2 min
“I found the information in Revit Core Practice really helpful for me. It helped clear up a lot of questions while at work. I find it as an asset or a comprehensive library broken down into a lot of small steps I can go back to. It’s easy to use like a dictionary while I’m working.”
BIM Coordinator
Student #1 to go through Revit Core Practice
| Term / Revit Feature | Y/N | Description | Environment | Menu |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIM | ✅ | Define a the boundaries of a room using this essential building component. | Industry Term | - |
| Navigate the 7fold Academy | ✅ | How to use the course, video controls with chapters, searchable transcripts in multiple languages, playback speed to learn at your own pace, how to access the community area, and how to submit questions not directly addressed in the course. | 7fold | - |
| Mouse Shortcuts | ✅ | How to use a 3 button mouse to efficiently orbit, pan, and zoom in Revit. | Revit Navigation | Model Space |
| Element Properties | ✅ | Understand how the Revit UI changes depending on what element you have actively selected. | Project, Family, Mass | Project Browser |
| Tab | ✅ | How to cycle through multiple possible elements to select before choosing to add it to your active selection set | Revit Navigation | Model Space |
| Selection Window | ✅ | How creating a bounding box from right to left versus left to right affects how Revit selects elements in view | Revit Navigation | Model Space |
| Navigation Wheel | ✅ | How to operate Revit's navigation wheel and use hidden features like cropping a section box to the view based on a floor plan OR how to adjust the depth of field in your perspective view using the 'Focal Length' feature. | Revit Navigation | Model Space |
| Section Box | ✅ | How to create one manually with grips to control 3D view extents OR how to automatically crop the section box based on the view range of another view in your model such as a floor plan or section 2D view. | Revit Navigation | Model Space |
| Activate / Deactivate View | ✅ | How to work with a view that's been placed on a sheet without needing to leave the sheet to make edits | Project | Project Browser > Sheets |
| Project Browser Organization | ✅ | How to sort, group, and filter your project browser to stay organized. The lesson shows how to do this independently for Views, Sheets, and Schedules for independent control. | Project | Project Browser |
| View Types | ✅ | How Revit keeps views organized and how view types relates to managing the project browser organization. | Project, Family, Mass | Properties Browser |
| Duplicate View | ✅ | Differences between duplicate view, duplicate with detailing, and duplicate as dependent | Project | View |
| Selection Filters | ✅ | How to intentionally limit which elements are allowed to be added to a selection set, optionally excluding elements that are pinned, linked, visible via underlay, or forcing elements to be clicked before moved disallowing ability to click/drag an element all in one action. | Revit Navigation | Model Space |
| Type Parameters | ✅ | How a property associated with any element in Revit works on the typical definition of that element | Revit Core | Embedded |
| Instance Parameters | ✅ | How a property associated with any element in Revit works on a specific instance / specific copy of that element | Revit Core | Embedded |
| Global Parameters | ✅ | How a property can be defined globally for the project allowing additional control & consistency, especially for elements exclusively available in Revit's Project Environment. | Revit Core | Manage |
| Project Parameters | ✅ | How a property can be defined in the BIM model to centralize project specific info such as it's address, client, architect of record, engineer of record, etc. | Revit Core | Manage |
| Shared Parameters | ✅ | How a property can be used to ensure it is accurately quantified in a schedule when tabulated. Having consistent use of Shared Parameters is required when developing the technical drawings. A built-in parameter is a special type of shared parameter that's definition can't be edited by the user, only the parameter's values. | Revit Core | Manage |
| Built-In Parameters | ✅ | Type, Instance, and Project parameters that ship with Revit out of the box before introducing custom user-defined Shared Parameters. Where possible it's recommended to use Built-In parameters to increase data stability in the model. | Revit Core | Embedded |
| Key Questions | ✅ | Go to questions when first joining a firm to take advantage of existing Revit resources and get up to speed quickly with the firm's standards before looking to create in Revit modeling content from scratch. | 7fold | - |
| Harvesting Workflows | ✅ | Recommended ways to transfer Revit elements from one model to another beyond copy / paste. Detach from central. Using a Revit Template model (RTE). How to save / export a family out of a project. How to use multiple copy / paste methods. How to use an existing Type Catalog to bring in just the families you need. How to use Transfer Project Standards. How to use 'Insert Views from File'. | 7fold | - |
| Worksharing | ✅ | Overview of how to work collaboratively in shared model space with every member of the design team, no matter what discipline they represent. | Industry Term | - |
| Revit Environments | ✅ | Overview providing a clear distinction between Revit's Project, Family, and Mass environments and major considerations for how to use each. | Revit Core | Start / File |
Walls
Define the boundaries of a room using this essential building component
Project
Architecture
Doors
Creates a wall-hosted element to access or exit a room
Project
Architecture
Rooms
How to create a room to quantify room by room area, organize the rooms by level or by department, how to color the room with different fills based on the data assigned, how to recover a room if it was accidentally deleted through the unplaced rooms menu.
Project
Architecture
Levels & Grids
How levels & grids control the BIM model. The concept of how an element is 'hosted' is introduced.
Project
Architecture
Floors
How to work with floors, sub-element extrusions, sloping, and vertical openings like shafts.
Project
Architecture
Roofs
Three different methods demonstrated in a single lesson. How to make a hip roof and control the slope. How to create a dormer opening. How to work with roof by extrusion, roof by boundary, and roof with varying section profiles swept across the overall form.
Project
Architecture
Curtain Walls
How to work with grids, panels, mullions, mullion profiles, and hosting a curtain wall inside of another wall. How to pin / unpin elements easily. How to create a void wall opening through the curtain wall. How to host a door inside a curtain wall.
Project
Architecture
Stacked Walls
How to create and manage stacked walls in Revit, which allows you to use two different wall types joined together vertically with a shared finish on one side even if the overall wall thickness is different between the two types. This allows a continuous interior finish for accurate surface area takeoffs without needing to do extra graphic clean up hiding horizontal lines where the wall type changes.
Project
Architecture
Stairs
Understand the anatomy of a staircase and how to edit a stair adjusting things like tread depth, riser height, nosing profile, under stair runs and joist structures. How to define the default railing used, how to start with a component stair and then customize using sketch lines.
Project
Architecture
Railings
How to define rails, balusters, guardrails, and handrails relative to the path drawn and host element. The lesson shows how to apply a railing on a stair, on topography, and on floors, but the same workflow could work for applying a railing to roofs.
Project
Architecture
After teaching 1000+ designers over 1000+ hours, I’ve distilled most essential aspects of Revit to streamline your learning curve. Whether you’re new to Revit or want to ensure you have a rock sold working knowledge to meet the demands of today’s workforce, this is the course for you!
The 7fold Academy is the perfect technical resource to accompany you as a designer in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. Our curated library of resources supplements your university education, filling the technical gaps to harness the most essential tools in the industry. The Academy frees up your time by getting you answers in one place rather than searching the interest for partial solutions endlessly. Enjoy more time focused on exploring your designs and less time frustrated by complex software.
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Nothing! Revit Core Practice is a comprehensive guide designed like an interactive textbook, easy to reference on the fly while you are in the midst of developing your designs on the job. Our Core Practice offerings throughout the 7fold Academy provide a complete foundational understanding of the software. This is our recommended product for those serious about their education and who desire the most robust entry level course for Revit available on the market.
In general the target audience is you if you’re new to Revit or those emerging professionals who have 0 – 7 years of professional experience with Revit in the AEC industry.
It is tailored for architects and interior designers use of Revit and does not go into depth on how Structural or MEP engineers use Revit or how an energy modeler would use Revit.
“Revit” is a BIM authoring software owned by Autodesk, Inc. and is not affiliated with 7fold LLC whether directly or implied. Revit Core Practice™ is an independent training program developed by 7fold for training purposes to make the most of using Revit.
An invoice will be sent via email with payment options depending on selection. If multiple seats are purchased, directions on how to designate seats to designer’s in your firm will be included.
