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Revit Core Practice

The most comprehensive training program for Revit on the market for designers.

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Timothy Halvorson

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Revit

Core Practice

Ready to Unlock Your Creativity?

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!

Estimated time to complete: 4-6 weeks
1,830 minutes (30+ hours) of high value, curated training lessons equivalent to 1.5 university credit.
7 sections packed with everything you need to know to feel confident in all aspects of modeling with Revit
Access for life! You’ll always have the latest when lessons are refreshed in the future.

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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.”

Sajith Chandra

BIM Coordinator

Student #1 to go through Revit Core Practice

Intro + Foundational Concepts

What is BIM and what are the typical deliverables in architecture Revit is used for?
We’ll explore the 3 Revit environments and understand how to collaborate with others on your team in model space.
We’ll establish how information flows through the model and it’s vital importance to developing successful projects.

Value

$250

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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

Modeling Across a Project

Dive into modeling in Revit’s project environment where the majority of design time is spent. Focus is on the composition and layout of components arranged in space.
Learn the 16 most essential elements for any project taught through practical, real-world examples and scenarios.
How to work with phases, design options, scope of work delineation, and where to source family components for use.

Value

$1000

Revit Feature

Description

Environment

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

Modeling with Families

Families are individual components in a building such as a door, window, chair, toilet, light fixture, or desk… nearly every element in Revit is some form of a family!
Understand the anatomy of a family in Revit.
I’ll show you how to make adjustments to existing families while preserving critical parametric & data settings.
Learn how to create your own parametric family from scratch to be flexible for re-use.
Learn how to work with materials and finishes to be both render ready and construction documentation ready.

Value

$500

Parameters + Managing Data

Learn how Revit functions like a database for your project carrying critical information within each family.
Learn how to efficiently craft, edit, and manage your data throughout the project lifecycle as part of a collaborative team.
Streamline effort to visualize and document the project.

Value

$450

Collaboration & Project Management

Learn to interoperate between Revit and Sketchup, Revit and Rhino, Revit and AutoCAD, and more.
Basics of working with Cloud Hosted Revit models with Autodesk Construction Cloud
Basics of working with Linked Revit models from other disciplines such as Structural, MEP, and Landscape design.

Value

$650

Document & Export

Learn to work with sheets sets to stay organized no matter how large your project scope is.
Learn how to use Revit to draw technical construction details and include them in your drawing set.
Learn how to export to print-ready formats such as PDF, DWG, and DXF to deliver your project.

Value

$1000

Total Value

$3,850

Yours Today

$597

The Essential Start to Your Design Journey

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!

Revit Core Practice Course

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$597

General

Is the 7fold Academy right for me?

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.

This is a place for those seeking to elevate their craft, sharpen their skills, and realize their creative visions and dreams. This is a place to grow 1% better every day. Welcome to a community committed to doing our part to steward our projects for both people & planet through the power of design.

Where do I access courses & workshops I’m enrolled in?

https://learn.architecturetraining.com > My Enrollments seen at the menu bar at the top. Be sure to bookmark or save somewhere easy to reference since we’re confident you’ll be coming back often!

Program Specific

What should I know before taking the Revit Core Practice program?

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.

Disclosure

“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.

Tutorial Starter Pack Course

Get complimentary access to the 7fold Academy! Enjoy Rhino, Grasshopper, Rhino Inside, and Revit tutorials originally posted to YouTube in a structured learning environment.

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Grasshopper Core Practice

The only foundational training program for Grasshopper you’ll ever need. Made for designers in the AEC industry. Join the waitlist today!

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In Construction

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Timothy Halvorson

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