Mastering Autodesk Revit 2018

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Mastering
Autodesk® Revit® 2018
Mastering
Autodesk® Revit® 2018
Lance Kirby
Eddy Krygiel
Marcus Kim
Acquisitions Editor: Jody Lefevere
Associate Acquisitions Editor: Riley Harding
Development Editor: Kelly Talbot
Technical Editor: Alexandra Bergin
Production Editor: Dassi Zeidel
Copy Editor: Kim Wimpsett
Editorial Manager: Mary Beth Wakefield
Production Manager: Kathleen Wisor
Executive Editor: Jim Minatel
Book Designers: Maureen Forys, Happenstance Type-O-Rama; Judy Fung
Proofreader: Rebecca Rider
Indexer: Ted Laux
Project Coordinator, Cover: Brent Savage
Cover Designer: Wiley
Cover Image: Dana Bowden
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We dedicate Mastering Autodesk Revit 2018 to our
wives and families, who have supported the pursuit
of our careers and the authoring of this book. Their
encouragement, understanding, and flexibility
to personal time is what made this body of work
possible.
—Lance, Eddy, Marcus
Acknowledgments
Ah, acknowledgments. Although all the glory of writing a book is mostly consumed by the
authors, it takes so many more people than just us to actually make this happen. Just like build-
ing design, the process of writing and publishing a book is truly a team sport—and without
the hard work, dedication, and willingness to put up with the authoring team, this book would
never have happened.
Of all the people to thank, first we’d like to thank the staff at the Revit Factory. Without their
fine work, this would be a very empty book. A special thanks to the three product managers,
Harlan Brumm, Sasha Crotty, and Steven Campbell. And a huge thank-you to the rest of the
Factory: thank you, guys and gals, for your hard work, innovative ideas, and desire to stay in
touch with current design and construction issues.
Also, a big thanks to our technical team. They dot our i’s, cross our t’s, and chide us every
time we turn in something late. Their work and effort ensure that we as authors can produce
something that you the reader can actually follow. So a thank-you to our amazing and patient
developmental editor, Kelly Talbot, for putting up with our excuses and typos; to copyeditor
Kim Wimpsett and proofreader Rebecca Rider for taking our slang and making it readable;
and to production editor Dassi Zeidel for putting all the pieces together and getting it ready for
print. Thanks also to Mary Beth Wakefield for watching the schedule and allowing us to use
her as an excuse not to visit family on weekends or holidays during “Book Season.” A thank-
you to Alexandra Bergin, technical editor, who has given a careful and detailed eye to all of our
Revit workflows, and to our excellent support team at Sybex, who helped us develop all this
foxy content.
The building photograph on the cover was designed by Antunovich Associates, headquar-
tered in Chicago, Illinois.
Verde Pointe is a recently completed residential and retail mixed-use development located
along Lee Highway in Arlington, Virginia. The project continues a long-standing collaboration
between Antunovich Associates and developer McCaffery Interests to deliver distinguished
mixed-use projects across the nation. The uniquely designed development achieved LEED Gold
certification and features two distinct portions with mixed-use residential, retail, and park-
ing on the west side of Uhle Street and a 12-floor contemporary residential tower on the east.
Common spaces play a central role at Verde Pointe, and the sustainability-driven design encour-
ages environmentally friendly modes of transportation. A penthouse level in the residential
tower with spectacular views of the greater Washington, DC, area also houses comprehensive
tenant amenity spaces. These amenities, along with on-site retail opportunities, contribute to a
first-class experience for residents and exemplify destination-type developments envisioned by
McCaffery Interests.
Many thanks as well to photographer Dana Bowden for taking and sharing compelling pic-
tures of this and other projects.
http://www.antunovich.com/projects/residential/verde-pointe
www.mccafferyinterests.com/portfolio/verde-pointe
About the Authors
Lance Kirby is a senior business consultant with Autodesk. Lance’s pri-
mary focus is accelerating the adoption of BIM and VDC practices among
owners and their supply chain of designers and contractors. He received
his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Mississippi State University’s
College of Architecture, Art, and Design and also studied at the Budapest
University of Technology and Economics, coincidentally alongside the
creators of Graphisoft’s ARCHICAD. He spent six years in various architec-
ture offices helping to produce everything from 400-square-foot fast-food
kiosks in shopping malls to 7,000,000-square-foot federal prisons.
In 2000, he left a prominent architecture firm to join a new tech startup
outside Boston to help produce a new design tool called Revit. In addition
to helping develop Revit since version 1, Lance created its early tutorials and has supported hun-
dreds of BIM projects and trained thousands of its users over the past 15 years. Coincidentally,
he has also supported all the previous and current authors of this book at some point in his
career. Although this is his first published book as an author, he routinely pens thousands of
pages of customer reports a year.
Although Lance has been based in Atlanta since 1995, he is often out of town. When he is not
traveling globally in support of Autodesk customers, he may be traveling globally with his flight
attendant wife, Scarlett. He enjoys fiction, analog/digital gaming, gastronomy of the smoked-
meat variety, and heavy down-tuned music.
Eddy Krygiel is a principal business consultant with the AEC team with
Autodesk Consulting. Eddy focuses on BIM and technology workflows
for AEC clients. He received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from the
University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design. He has
almost 20 years of experience in architectural offices and on a range of
projects from single-family residential to office, federal, civic, and aviation
clients. Eddy has helped firms around the United States at both the firm
level and the project level.
Eddy is the author of more than 18 books on BIM and sustainability
including the Mastering Revit series and Green BIM. He has also taught
BIM, construction documents, and architectural communication at the University of Kansas
School of Architecture.
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Marcus Kim is a senior business consultant with Autodesk. Marcus
focuses on enterprise adoption of Revit and BIM workflows for AEC
customers and has traveled all over the globe providing BIM services to
domestic and multinational customers. Marcus received his bachelor’s
degree in architecture studies from the University of Illinois in Chicago
and his associate of arts and sciences degree from the American
Academy of Art in digital media. During the early part of his career,
Marcus pursued design and technical architecture, but he was given the
opportunity to participate in a Revit pilot program where he excelled.
Throughout his career, until his transition to Autodesk, Marcus man-
aged the BIM on complex and high-profile projects such as the NATO
World Headquarters for SOM Chicago, developing and implementing workflows during a time
when producing BIM projects and BIM management was in its infancy. Marcus has used Revit
since version 7.0 and has lectured at Autodesk University on topics such as BIM management,
BIM architecture workflows on large-scale projects, and design visualization.
At Autodesk, Marcus provides both technical and business process thought leadership to his
customers, helping them adopt and improve new and existing BIM workflows, training, content,
and standards. He has taken BIM concepts common to AEC and applied them to other indus-
tries ranging from manufacturing to energy to mining.
Marcus is based out of the Chicagoland area and spends much of his spare time chasing after
his toddler and sneaking in moments of relaxation by pursuing his other two passions, digital
art and painting little toy soldiers.
About the Contributors
Jennifer Rupnow is a principal business consultant with Autodesk Consulting and the author
of Chapter 22, “Design Analysis.” Jennifer focuses on business development, team manage-
ment, and project leadership for large AEC and infrastructure BIM projects. She has 15 years
of experience in program management, team leadership, sustainability, building science,
high-performance building design, natural resources, and ecology. She is passionate about
sustainability, resiliency, and social responsibility. She has worked on a range of projects from
residential to large military installations. She guides development of innovative solutions
involving Autodesk products and creative workflows and services that address customer needs.
Tobias Hathorn contributed to the FormIt portion of Chapter 10, “Conceptual Design.” He
is a user experience designer and product owner, creating conceptual and generative design
software that streamlines the building and construction industry. Tobias guides a development
team through customer research, work prioritization, design decisions, feature implementation,
customer training, and validation via analytics. Beyond customer facing features and software
processes, he also contributes to his team’s culture by being an enthusiastic, social conduit.
Alexandra Bergin, our technical editor, is an industry practice manager at Autodesk. Prior
to joining Autodesk, she worked in the fields of architecture and construction and managed
building information modeling technology for more than 10 years.
Contents at a Glance
Foreword..........................................................................xxvii
Introduction ........................................................................xxxi
Part 1 • Fundamentals .............................................. 1
Chapter 1 • Understanding the Principles of BIM...............................3
Chapter 2 • Exploring the UI and Organizing Projects  .........................25
Chapter 3 • The Basics of the Toolbox ........................................ 73
Chapter 4 • Configuring Templates and Standards  ........................... 121
Part 2 • Collaboration and Teamwork ............................... 173
Chapter 5 • Collaborating with a Team ...................................... 175
Chapter 6 • Working with Consultants ...................................... 213
Chapter 7 • Interoperability: Working Multiplatform  ......................... 247
Chapter 8 • Managing Revit Projects  ....................................... 291
Part 3 • Modeling and Massing for Design ........................... 303
Chapter 9 • Advanced Modeling and Massing ...............................305
Chapter 10 • Conceptual Design  ........................................... 359
Chapter 11 • Working with Phasing, Groups, and
Design Options  ........................................................... 407
Chapter 12 • Visualization  ................................................ 459
Part 4 • Extended Modeling Techniques ............................. 525
Chapter 13 • Creating Walls and Curtain Walls  .............................. 527
Chapter 14 • Modeling Floors, Ceilings, and Roofs............................ 595
Chapter 15 • Designing with the Family Editor  ..............................633
Chapter 16 • Creating Stairs and Railings  ................................... 679
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Part 5 • Documentation ........................................... 731
Chapter 17 • Detailing Your Design  ........................................ 733
Chapter 18 • Documenting Your Design  .................................... 767
Chapter 19 • Annotating Your Design  ...................................... 801
Part 6 • Construction and Beyond .................................. 849
Chapter 20 • Working in the Construction Phase ............................. 851
Chapter 21 • Presenting Your Design  ....................................... 879
Chapter 22 • Design Analysis ..............................................903
Part 7 • Appendixes .............................................. 937
Appendix A • The Bottom Line............................................. 939
Appendix B • Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting.............................. 961
Appendix C • Autodesk Revit Certification .................................. 985
Index.............................................................................. 987