Discover how to harness the power of the AEC industry's best CAD tools such as Revit, Rhino, and Grasshopper to express your design vision, collaborate with teammates, and efficiently deliver high quality solutions.
The most comprehensive training program for Revit on the market for designers in architecture & interior design.
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$597
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The only foundational training program for Grasshopper you'll ever need. Made for designers in the AEC industry.
Normally
$597
With Membership
Included
Normally
$30 / month
With Membership
Included
✅ Aligned to your project goals & specific practice area
✅ Curated to align by the desired deliverable picking the best tool for each step
✅ Tested & verified before you ever waste time trying it yourself or money buying expensive licenses
✅ Learn how to get the most out of your existing tools
✅ Evaluate opportunities to consolidate
✅ Discover new emerging tech to differentiate your practice
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By securing an investment for multiple seats to the program today, you receive a pool of licenses and reserve the option to designate who on your design team receives this training -- even if they won't be hired for a few months.
"Timothy is one of the most dedicated, diligent and hardworking people I've had the pleasure of working with. He has great organizational skills, professional, personable and an excellent communicator. He would bring value to any organization fortunate enough to have him on their team."
Head of BIM & Design Systems @ Foster + Partners
Former colleages at Gensler
"Tim's knowledge in design technology sets him apart in the architectural profession. In addition, his passion in sustainability and data driven design throughout all stages of the design process, in a variety of platforms, makes him a unique asset for studios that seek Net Zero Carbon as their goals. Tim's extensive BIM expertise and experience positions him to work and help manage large or mega scale projects with a borderless global reach. Finally, his positive attitude, dedication, and mentoring qualities help grow the next generation of design technology leaders."
Project Architect @ Gensler Las Vegas
Former colleages at Gensler
"I had the privilege to work with Timothy Halvorson at Gensler, where his expertise in design technology truly stood out. Timothy's knack for simplifying complex concepts into digestible, accessible ideas made him an invaluable asset. His technical prowess was matched by his professionalism and ability to present his work with clarity and precision. A natural innovator, Timothy's contributions consistently elevated our design processes and outcomes. I wholeheartedly recommend Timothy; his refined skill set, coupled with his positive demeanor and can-do attitude, make him an exceptional addition to any team he joins."
Software Developer / Design Systems Analyst | Applied R+D @ Foster + Partners
Former colleages at Gensler
"Tim brings 110% positive enthusiastic energy to every project I've worked with him on. He's never afraid to try new things and loves learning the most cutting-edge technologies & workflows. He's also passionate about sharing those lessons and leading teams to successful solutions. He produced excellent deliverables under tremendous pressure on high profile projects while keeping the real-world constructibility and project requirements in focus. I'm excited to see what the next chapter brings."
Project Architect @ Gensler Chicago
Former colleages at Gensler
"Tim's visionary approach as a Regional Design Technology Lead for the Southwest region [at Gensler] resulted in a multifaceted education plan, creating community engagement, enhancing technology and sustainable design integration within our design process, and consistently delivering fresh and engaging content. With his exceptional organizational skills, professionalism, and excellent communication, he would undoubtedly bring immense value to any team lucky to have him on board."
Design Technology Manager & Architect @ HNTB
Former colleages at Gensler
"Tim is an amazing asset, and I would love the opportunity to work with him again. He takes initiative and is thoughtful, creating S.M.A.R.T goals to achieve tangible outcomes. Tim led Design Technology for our Southwest Region. He envisioned a multifaceted education plan to improve sustainable integration within our design process, set it into motion, and continuously nurtured the initiative to deliver fresh, relevant, and engaging content. Tim is smart, patient, an active listener and good communicator. He is engaging and drew people in to advance their knowledge of design technology software. He is giving of his time, and committed to helping others advance a shared mission. I highly recommend Tim and feel he would be a great addition to any culture."
Global Wellness Practice Area Leader @ Gensler - Regional Resilience Leader
Former colleages at Gensler
"I have worked with Tim professionally in the past few years as colleagues [at Gensler], and his expertise has always been valuable in the team. It's great news for the industry that Tim is making his wealth of knowledge available to everyone, and I would not hesitate to recommend to anyone interested."
Occupancy Planning Manager @ JLL for Google
Former colleages at Gensler
"Tim went the extra mile for us. He dug into the details leveraged his ample Revit experience and provided a deliverable that was on point. We especially appreciate the eye towards graphics and professionalism in everything he does. Thank you, Tim!"
CEO @ Iconic BIM, Founder of Guardian for Revit
7fold client
"I had the pleasure of having Tim as a colleague for nearly three years. In this time, he was a key part of initiatives that furthered design excellence at Gensler through advocating and teaching the use of advanced computational and sustainable design tools. We also co-hosted a monthly round table that brought together practitioners from all over Gensler to discuss how we can work better in the 21st century. Tim's energy and willingness to jump in with both feet, regardless of the challenge, is inspirational. Anybody trying to build a team where design technology is key to success - give Tim a call and see where it takes you!"
Senior Associate - Design Technology Lead @ Gensler Southwest
Former colleages at Gensler
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.
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!
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.
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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!
“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.
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The only foundational training program for Grasshopper you'll ever need. Made for designers in the AEC industry. Join the waitlist today!
After teaching 1000+ designers over 1000+ hours, I’ve distilled most essential aspects of Grasshopper to streamline your learning curve. Whether you’re new to this powerful scripting environment 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!
To all the designers who have had too many sleepless nights, this is for you.
I’ve been there, I understand. That’s why I founded 7fold, to be an agent of change in the AEC industry that harnesses the full power of modern technology to unlock your time, creativity, and capacity in order to restore balance between work and life.
I‘m passionate about you, the designer, the architect, the creative professional who seeks to delight and inspire your boss and your clients. My goal with every lesson, every tip, every resource is to elevate your ability to transform design dreams into concrete realities. Whether it’s detailing a curtain wall, sculpting a museum walkthrough experience, or capturing climate data for how your building performs– I’m here to make your design life easier and more enjoyable. I hope to spark a fresh fire in your heart for craftsmanship in this digital age. I hope every minute invested here multiplies your impact on your current project.
I hope you discover a deeper sense of joy, delight, and fascination for the thousands of lives that will be touched tomorrow because of what you design today. I hope 7fold earns a place in your practice as a trusted guide for the best tools, workflows, and strategies as you progress in your career.
As always, stay curious and I look forward to seeing you more on the inside!
-Timothy
The mission of 7fold is committed to unlocking the full potential of creative professionals practicing architecture through our suite of robust, highly curated education solutions. Each resource is crafted to deliver actionable knowledge, skill and insight for getting high quality returns on every minute invested. We recognize and appreciate the rapid pace of change our industry is undergoing catalyzed by technology which is why we are committed to being the AEC’s trusted guide to meet rising demands.
Our technical solutions are designed to incorporate a holistic approach that leverages the best each tool can offer to result in the highest quality finished products. Part of accomplishing this mission is to facilitate technology discussions on best practices and bring together brilliant minds from all corners the industry. We are committed to cultivating a mindset that is open, curious, and aware of the core concepts that underpin all modern technology advancements. This helps shape designers to be resilient and flexible capable of rapidly adapting to new technologies as they emerge on the market or are developed in-house as proprietary tools. 7fold seeks to catalyze this conversation so practitioners feel empowered whether they choose to build or buy technology solutions for their specific project needs and style.
Gensler is the world’s largest architecture firm with nearly 7,000 employees and $1.5B in annual revenue as of 2023. I’ve had the chance to collaborate with hundreds of designers indirectly impacting thousands of active projects in the Southwest region. I work closely with teams and individuals to understand their existing workflows and provide tailored recommendations for their digital strategy to set their project up for success timed to each milestone.
On a monthly basis I host training and workshops that routinely gather 80+ designers from across the firm in addition to providing direct 1-1 support. One emphasizes topics on simulation software analyzing building performance and another is a round table discussion focused on design synergy in practice. I also create custom content to drive adoption of Gensler’s proprietary tools and guide designers as they integrate them in daily design practice.
Seeing the common questions, frustrations, needs and wants of so many designers first hand has helped me understand how to provide training that compresses the learning curve as much as possible while balancing how much project context is useful to make a workflow your own.
After experiencing a layoff due to the pandemic, I attempted to get 7fold off the ground but it was premature. During this period I focused on incubating the overall vision & mission of the company and producing drone videography for real estate professionals.
I contributed on a major project in the Los Angeles area that must remain confidential. My focus was on the design-build fabrication of ornamental light-gauge steel construction. Our team collaborated with robust workflows integrating the stages through design, fabrication, procurement, and installation. We relied on developing and maintaining a fully coordinated model environment in Rhino and Grasshopper. I authored automation and generative design scripts handling highly complex and variable assemblies with 8x-16x time savings in production.
At HDR, I have had the privilege to work around some of the best minds in Healthcare, Science + Technology, and Justice Architecture practice areas. I worked on nearly all phases of the design process and always found opportunities to leverage integrating custom computational tools as part of my process. I worked on the standardizing a ‘Kit of Parts’ set of pre-fabricated construction-ready spaces for a large healthcare provider in the bay area. I collaborated on large 1,000,000+ SF hospital expansions on cross-regional teams completely in Revit, maintaining room data with dRofus, and exploring custom facade, ceiling, and artwork with Rhino and Grasshopper.
One project was completed through Schematic Design with just 1 Principal, 1 Manager, and 1 Designer (me) where I was responsible to maintain a model with 300,000+ SF of space in Revit. Needless to say the leadership was surprised when they didn’t need to find additional design support!
Countless stories could be told on quick burn proposals, custom script and data visualization charts, or custom configurations of fully parametric families in Revit. In short, I’ve always been someone who seeks to finds ways to be 1% better in their creative process every chance I get. This showed up in infographics, presentations, reports, proposals, in-house design charettes, and crisp IFC drawing sets.
At Blue Phoenix, my contributions involved developing brand assets for businesses such as logos, marketing brochures, and consistent brand presence across web and print mediums. I helped design, develop, and deploy websites for small businesses and optimize their page content to rank in search engines for their local markets.
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.
