ARCH (27994) : (and cross listed with ARCH ) Advanced Revit (BIM in Practice ) Erin Card Spr Spring, Semester 2011

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1 COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, DENVER. ARCH (27994) : (and cross listed with ARCH ) Advanced Revit (BIM in Practice ) Erin Card Spr 2010 Spring, Semester 2011 J. Michael Gerzso Ph.D., Instructor Day and Time: Friday 9:30 am- 12:15 am Class Room 440 Instructor s Office: 502, 5 th flr. Office Hours: to be announced mike.gerzso@cudenver.edu Andrea Paiz Spr 2008

2 Note 1: Laptop with Revit Arch. 2009, 2010 or 2011 required. Windows XP with SP3 or Windows 7 is strongly recommended. See comments at end of syllabus. Note 2: Basic understanding of a Revit program is required. It is strongly recommended that the course Basic or Intermediate Revit be taken first. (V1 Nov.8, ) Objectives This course is the third one of a three course sequence. The first one, Basic Revit, covers the basics, such as drawing, creating walls, windows, etc. as well as the creation of 3D architectural form with the family editor. The second one, Intermediate Revit, course families in more detail, as well as project geometry and linking. This third course focuses on Revit family techniques useful in school design studio and in architectural offices. Topics to be covered: 1-Configuration: the basics setting up Revit to load standard and customized families in addition to those loaded by default (as defined by AutoDesk). 2-Customization: defining families by modifying existing ones and/or creating them scratch. Families: The different characteristics of some of the family templates and hosting will be covered will be covered in more detailed than in the first course, as well as defining their materials and appearance. For example, curtain wall mullions, panels, doors and graphical objects such as lines. Parameterization: A fancy word which means defining the dimension of a family object at the time of insertion, e.g., use in a project or another family. For example, all family objects in the first course had constant, previously defined dimensions, such as the Nervi inclined concrete column. With parameterization, the dimensions of the Nervi column may vary and can be defined at the time of insertion. In this course, the power of parameterization will be illustrated with the creation of a structure in the form of a tree. Several tree structure instances are inserting using one tree family. (see below)

3 3-Construction: The basics of construction detailing using callouts and detailing components, line weights and sheet sets. 4-Communication: The basics of rendering. Some or all of the topics will be illustrated by means of a hypothetical design project, which the students will develop during the entire semester. During the last 4 years, the trend in BIM and the increased need to learn Revit in particular has motivated the development of this course. It is intended to orient the student in the use of programs such as Revit as a producer of building information. Type of course: seminar/workshop The course will not be taught as a series of lectures in the computer lab. Students will be required to bring their laptops with Revit installed to all of the classes and workshop sessions. Revit can be obtained for free from the AutoDesk website. For details, please ask Mike Harring in the Computer Lab (4 th Flr.) mike.harring@cudenver.edu The right computer for running Revit. The right computer for running Revit is the fastest one money can buy. However, most students do have limited financial resources, so some comments are in order. No matter how much money you are willing to spend, you should always try to find a machine that has the fastest graphics card and the fastest bus. The after that, go for the maximum amount of memory and then the speed of the processors (CPU). Many people (if not most) consider price/cpu-speed as their only selection criteria. Krista Klancke Spr 2010

4 A good place to find reviews for fast machines for a given price is CPU (Computer Power Users) magazine and their online articles. Take what they recommend and then strip out the speed features that are required for gaming and replace them if necessary for CAD. A good example is Alienware Area51 laptop but there are also machines from Dell, HP and Lenovo. Macs, what about Macs? is the question I get at least once a week. The bad news (or good, depending ) is that Macs are no longer made, that is, as hardware. They are just another PC, cute but no different than an Acer or the one you can put together in your garage. The good news is that a Mac can be configured to run Apple Mac OS X only, or in conjunction with Windows at the same time with Parallels, or in cohabitation on the same disk with Windows with Boot Camp (run one or the other but not both) OR just as a plain old PC (POP) running Windows only. For this reason, Mac laptops have been selling like hotcakes. In our school, the three options have worked for running Revit. The ranking of options from best to less good is: Windows only, then Boot Camp and then Parallels. Parallels is not as good as it should be but it is getting better all the time. Last but not least, is Windows XP and Vista. Despite the broadcast of the unusual ad in which Jerry Seinfeld encounters Bill Gates at a Shoe Circus store, Vista remains a market failure. However, the experience of students running Revit on Vista has been mixed. In some cases it runs very fast and with no problems, and in other cases, it is very slow and/or unreliable. The general consensus, including Intel, is to downgrade to Windows XP from Vista, which if pampered and fed regularly- works very well or upgrade to Windows 7. In order to overcome the major problems in Vista, Microsoft has just released a new version of Vista called Windows 7. Why is it number 7? The reason is that it is NT version 7.0. Remember NT? But I digress. The reviews of Windows 7 indicate that the system performs well; better than Vista, and in some cases better than XP. Students in the Dept. of Arch. have found Windows 7 to work well. Nevertheless, a good rule is to install a new version of the operating systems 18 months after it is first released, which means you should buy Windows 7 after April Recommended Software Utilities In addition to Revit, I strongly recommend obtaining (free or purchase) anti virus, disk defragger, and registry cleaner. They are needed whether or not you have a Mac and running Windows. See list of recommended products at end of syllabus. So what is BIM anyway? You Ask Charles Eastman, a nationally recognized expert in BIM, of Georgia Tech s College of Architecture offers a frame of reference for the issue with the following definition: Building information modeling is the provision of rich, integrated information from conception through design to construction and demolition of a building over its lifecycle. It relies on object-based, information-rich 3D modeling as the design of record, and for as-constructed,

5 as-built, and as-operated information. The benefits enabled by BIM will greatly change the ways buildings are designed, fabricated, and operated. Still not clear? You may want to read the last section of this syllabus on BIM terms. Student Responsibilities Students must attend class regularly to ensure successful completion of this course. Participants will be responsible for all information introduced in the individual classes, as well as announcements made during class. Students must complete assigned readings, as well as finish all term assignments. Students who are unable to attend specific classes due to illness, family hardship, or religious holidays must notify the teacher in writing within the first two weeks of the semester. Failure to do so will be considered as unexcused absence and will result in a grade reduction. Evaluation Students will be evaluated primarily on their ability to master the techniques as demonstrated in their assignments, and their class participation. However, the evaluation will also be based on their ability to think critically as demonstrated by the use of Revit. Recommended Reading: All of the techniques needed for the course assignments will be presented in detail in class and/or posted on CU Online Blackboard. There will be no other required reading per se. However, the student is strongly encouraged to select one or more of the following books (in order of my preference) on Revit to complement the class presentations (see list at end of syllabus.) For construction systems, the following book is recommended: Allen, Edward and Iano, Joseph Fundamentals of Building Construction : Materials and Methods (Hardcover), Wiley; 4 edition (December 25, 2003), ISBN: (note: this book is used/required in other courses in the Department of Architecture) So what is BIM anyway? continued.. There has been a lot hype and confusion concerning BIM, and buzzwords abound such as BIM itself, object-based, intelligent objects, parameterization, database, customization, among others. Some of the confusion is a result of marketing campaigns of the software developers themselves. So to understand what this course is offering, the following definitions might be helpful: BIM, aka building information modeling refers to a class of CAD programs which represent buildings in terms of building components instead of simple geometric objects such as lines, circles, etc. BIM programs contain a set of predefined industry standard building components

6 such as walls, foundations, stairs, windows, roofs, structural elements, construction details, etc. In these systems, a building is created using components supplied by the software manufacturer or created by a user/designer. Object-based and intelligent objects: is a computer software manufacturer s term for building components. The motivation for the use of the term is to emphasize the BIM programs explicitly represent building components and relationships between them, such as windows must be placed in walls, and not abstract geometric objects, such as lines, circles, etc. The term intelligent objects refer to the explicit information of component characteristics and relationships. In the human sense, they are not very intelligent. Parametrization: is the process of providing data to BIM while inserting a component into the design. An object such as a wall is defined as having a length, height and material. These are the parameters. A particular instance of a wall must have those parameters explicitly defined, eg. 20ft, 10ft, and brick. Database: for most BIM and CAD systems, this term refers to the CAD file which contains the data of a design. It is a database in the most generic and/or conceptual level, in that it is a file with data, but it is not a database in the strict technical sense of the word. Just to add the confusion, BIM programs can connect to real databases, such as Oracle, Sybase, SQL server, Access, etc. The wave of the future is the marriage of BIM to databases. Customization: even though predefined industry standard building components are a necessary in a BIM, a designer will surely want to create a unique or custom component for a particular project. BIM programs provide procedures to create new components and have them readily available along with the predefined ones. This capability is characteristic of object-oriented systems, that is, they are extensible, eg a predefined set of components can be extended to include new user-defined customized objects. Lawrence Craig Spr 2008

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