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Components are those building elements that are usually delivered and installed on site – such as furniture, plumbing fixtures, lighting, etc. Components are loadable families, which need to be loaded in the project from your content library.

There are free standing components such as furniture or equipment placed on a floor/level. There are also host-based components which are dependent on a building element that acts as a host such as a wall lamp that has wall as its host. When a wall is moved/deleted, the dependent component is also moved/deleted. Usually, the wall, floor, level/work-plane, roof, ceiling or a face of an object work as a host for components.

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Practice Tutorial:

If you would like to further practice your skills with placing components, please use the Practice Tutorial below where you will learn to,

  • To place a component in the model
  • To place a host-based component
  • Use Create Similar tool
  • To move a host-based component to a different host

PRACTICE TUTORIAL available here – “Modeling Components”

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Doors and Windows can be added in plan, elevation, section or a 3D view. They are loadable families, which means that the family of the door (sizes, shapes, design) can be customized and placed in the library to later load them in your project.

Doors and Windows are dependent elements on their host which is usually a wall. Like in real life, a door cannot be placed if there is no wall on site. Similarly, in Revit, a door cannot be placed without a wall.

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Doors:

Creating a custom Door Tag Family – Video Tutorial

Windows:

Practice Tutorial:

If you would like to further practice your skills in adding doors and windows, please use the tutorial below.

  1. Modeling Doors – In this tutorial, you will learn to
  • To load a family into the project
  • To customize the door sizes and create new door types
  • To place a door in the project
  • To adjust the position of the door using permanent dimension and equality constraint
  • Use temporary dimensions to adjust the position of the door
  • Use Move Tool to adjust the position of the door
  • Use Align tool to adjust the position of the door

PRACTICE TUTORIAL: ” Modeling Doors “

2. Modeling Windows – In this tutorial, you will learn to,

In this tutorial, you will learn,

  • To load a family into the project
  • To customize the window sizes and create new window types
  • To place a window in the project
  • To add Window Tags on your drawing

PRACTICE TUTORIAL: ” Modeling Windows“

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Unlike CAD tools, Revit elements are information rich and have behavioral patterns as if in a real construction site. For example, a Wall would understand that it must have a height that is connected to a particular level. It understands that it has a thickness, material and a function. All of this information can be given at the time of modeling in Revit or can later be changed once the information is available to you in the project. Windows and Doors, for example, can only be fixed in a wall and cannot be placed anywhere in the project. This is similar to a construction site.

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To further practice your skills in modeling walls, please use the Tutorial below. In this tutorial, you will learn,

  • To create a new wall type
  • Place a Wall in a Rectangular shape
  • Place a Wall in a Straight Line shape
  • Trim/Extend to Corner Tool
  • Change the Wall Type after Modeling walls
  • Using Reference Planes as Construction Lines
  • Offset a Wall
  • Trim/Extend Single Element Tool
  • Using Dimensions to position the wall

PRACTICE TUTORIAL: “Modeling Walls“

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Grids are Datum elements used for marking the alignment for the structural elements (columns/structural walls) in a building design. Grids consist of Grid line and Grid symbol. Grid lines can be controlled from Grid properties. Grid symbols can be customized by creating a custom Grid head family.

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Learn about how to add grids to the project with this Video Tutorial – by Autodesk Building Solutions

Step by Step Guide

Practice Tutorial

If you would like to further practice your skills with Grids, please use the Practice Tutorial below where you will learn to,

  • Add a new Grid
  • Offset Grids
  • Copy Grids
  • Add Grid symbols to both sides
  • Offset Grid symbols

PRACTICE TUTORIAL available here – “Practice adding Grids”

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Use the Level tool to define a vertical height or story within a building. Levels can be added or edited in a vertical view (either elevations or sections).

If you already have information about all the building story levels in your project, you may very well create them before you begin a project. If there are any changes later in the project, you can always come back and make these changes. In case, if you do not have information about all the levels, then it is necessary that you create at least one building story to begin your project. This makes it easier to attach your walls and other building elements to the levels.

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Practice Tutorial

If you would like to further practice your skills with levels, please use the Practice Tutorial below where you will learn to,

  • Rename a Level
  • Change the elevation height of a Level
  • Create a new Level
  • Copy a Level
  • Create a floor plan view

PRACTICE TUTORIAL available here – “Practice defining Levels”

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