Autodesk Revit LEARNING PATH BUILDING DESIGN SUITE

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Autodesk® Revit

FUNDAMENTALS Revit Architecture Duration: 3 days Cost: R5 500 (excl VAT)

REVIT ADVANCED Duration: 4 days Cost: R5 650 (excl VAT)

CERTIFICATION Revit Architecture Duration: 2-3 hours Cost: R1 300 (excl VAT)

LEARNING PATH

Book for the complete learning path and qualify

for a discount.

Software for Building Design and Construction

Autodesk Revit® software is built for Building Information Modelling (BIM), helping professionals design, build, and maintain higher-quality, more energy-efficient buildings. Using the information-rich models created with Autodesk Revit software, architects, engineers, and construction firms can collaborate to make more informed decisions earlier in the design process to deliver projects more efficiently. Any design changes made in Revit models are automatically updated throughout the model, keeping designs and documentation coordinat-ed and more reliable. Autodesk Revit includes features for architectural de-sign, mechanical, electrical and plumbing, structural engineering and con-struction and is available as part of Autodesk Building Design Suite Premium and Ultimate editions, providing a comprehensive solution for the entire build-ing project team.

Revit Architecture, Revit MEP, Revit Structure Architecture Design Tools

Revit® software works the way architects and designers think, so you can develop higher-quality, more accurate architectural designs.

BIM for Structural Design

Revit® software is a Building Information Modelling (BIM) solution for structural engineering firms, providing tools specific to structural design.

MEP Engineering

Revit® software provides mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineers with tools to design even the most complex building systems.

Click here to learn which one is right for you.

For a detailed comparison between Revit and Building Design Suite please click here.

BUILDING DESIGN SUITE

Standard

AutoCAD

AutoCAD Architecture AutoCAD MEP

AutoCAD Structural Detailing

ReCap Showcase Raster Design

Premium

Standard Plus

Revit (includes a version of Revit that combines tools for architectural design, MEP engineering, and structural engineering in a single application.)

3ds Max Design Navisworks Simulate Revit MEP

Duration: 3 days Cost: R5 500 (excl VAT)

Revit Structure Duration: 3 days Cost: R5 500 (excl VAT)

CORE COMPETENCY PROGRAMME Duration: 17 Workshops Cost: R650 (excl VAT) per workshop.

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Revit Architecture® Fundamentals

The Autodesk® Revit® software is a powerful Building Information Modelling (BIM) program that works the way architects think. The program streamlines the design process through the use of a central 3D model, where changes made in one view update across all views and on the printable sheets.

This training course is designed to teach you the Autodesk Revit functionality as you would work with it throughout the design process. You begin by learn-ing about the user interface and basic drawlearn-ing, editlearn-ing, and viewlearn-ing tools. Then you learn design development tools including how to model walls, doors, windows, floors, ceilings, stairs and more. Finally, you learn the processes that take the model into the construction documentation phase.

Since building projects themselves tend to be extremely complex, the Auto-desk Revit software is also complex. The objective of the AutoAuto-desk Revit Ar-chitecture Fundamentals training course is to enable students to create full 3D architectural project models and set them up in working drawings. This train-ing course focuses on basic tools that the majority of students need to work with the Autodesk Revit software.

Topics covered include:

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Understand the purpose of Building Information Management (BIM) and how it is applied in the Autodesk Revit software.

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Navigating the Autodesk Revit workspace and interface.

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Working with the basic drawing and editing tools.

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Creating Levels and Grids as datum elements for the model.

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Creating a 3D building model with walls, curtain walls, windows, and doors.

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Adding floors, ceilings, and roofs to the building model.

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Creating component-based and custom stairs.

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Adding component features, such as furniture and equipment.

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Setting up sheets for plotting with text, dimensions, details, tags, and

schedules.

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Creating details.

COURSE DURATION

3 Days

COURSE LEVEL

Beginner

PREREQUISITES

An understanding of Architectural terminology is an asset.

ACCREDITATION

SAIA—6 CPD Points Internationally recognised Autodesk Accredited Certificate of Attendance

COURSE COST

R5 500 (excl VAT)

Revit MEP Fundamentals (if applicable) Revit Structure (if applicable)

Revit Advanced

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Revit MEP® Fundamentals

To take full advantage of Building Information Modelling, the Autodesk Revit MEP Fundamentals training course has been designed to teach the concepts and principles of creating 3D parametric models of MEP systems from engi-neering design through construction documentation. The training course is intended to introduce students to the software’s user interface and the basic HVAC, electrical, and piping/plumbing components that make the Autodesk Revit software a powerful and flexible engineering modelling tool. The objec-tive is to familiarize students with the tools necessary to create, document, and print the parametric model. The examples and practices are designed to take you through the basics of a full MEP project from linking in an architectur-al model to construction documents.

The topics include the following:

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Introduction to Autodesk Revit, its interface, including viewing, drawing, and editing commands

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Working with linked architectural files

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Creating and modifying views

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Understanding MEP systems in general

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Creating spaces and zones

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Analysing heating and cooling loads

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Working with HVAC module to add air terminals, mechanical equipment, and create HVAC systems

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Working with the Piping module to add mechanical equipment as well as creating hydronic piping systems

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Working with fixtures, piping systems, and analysis tools in the Plumbing module

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Working with fire protection systems

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Working with components, circuits, cable tray, and conduits in the Electri-cal module

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Creating and annotating construction documents

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Adding tags and creating schedules

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Detailing in Autodesk MEP

COURSE DURATION

3 Days

COURSE LEVEL

Beginner

PREREQUISITES

It is highly recommended that students have experience and knowledge in MEP engineering and its

terminology.

ACCREDITATION

Internationally recognised Autodesk Accredited Certificate of Attendance

COURSE COST

R5 500 (excl VAT)

Revit Architecture Fundamentals (if applicable) Revit Structure (if applicable)

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Revit Structure® Fundamentals

To take full advantage of Building Information Modelling, the Autodesk® Revit® Structure Fundamentals training course has been designed to teach the concepts and principles from building design through construction docu-mentation using the Autodesk Revit Structure software. This training course is intended to introduce students to the user interface and the basic building components of the software that makes it a powerful and flexible structural modelling tool. The goal is to familiarize you with the tools necessary to cre-ate, modify, analyse, and document the parametric model. The topics include the following:

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Introduction to the Autodesk Revit software

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Basic drawing and editing tools

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Setting up levels and grids

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Working with views

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Starting a structural project based on a linked architectural model

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Adding structural columns and walls

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Adding foundations and structural slabs

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Structural reinforcement

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Beams, trusses, and framing systems

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Analytical models and placing loads

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Project practices to reinforce learning

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Construction documents

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Annotating construction documents

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Detailing

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Scheduling

COURSE DURATION

3 Days

COURSE LEVEL

Beginner

PREREQUISITES

It is highly recommended that students have experience and knowledge

in structural design and its terminology.

ACCREDITATION

SAICE—3 CPD Points Internationally recognised Autodesk Accredited Certificate of Attendance

COURSE COST

R5 500 (excl VAT)

Revit MEP Fundamentals (if applicable) Revit Architecture (if applicable)

Revit Advanced

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Revit ® Advanced

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is an approach to the entire building life cycle. Revit® Architecture, Revit® MEP, and Revit® Structure are powerful BIM programs that support the ability to coordinate, update, and share design data with team members throughout the design, construction, and manage-ment phases of a building’s life. A key component in managing the BIM pro-cess is to establish a company foundation for different types of projects by creating standard templates and custom elements. Having this in place makes the process of any new project flow smoothly and efficiently.

The Revit® Architecture software, using its powerful Building Information Mod-elling (BIM) engine, includes tools for creating mass elements that can be modified into many shapes. You can then apply walls, roofs, and floors to them to continue designing. You can also access space planning tools for set-ting up areas for rooms and applying colours to them to show the connections. For presentations, you can create and render perspective views.

This training course covers Revit® Architecture, Revit® MEP, and Revit® Structure and it combines the following modules:

 BIM Management: Template and Family Creation  Collaboration Tools

 Conceptual Tools  Site and Structure Detailed topics are as follows:

 BIM Management: Template and Family Creation - Template and Family Creation training course is to enable students who have worked with the software to expand their knowledge in setting up office standards with templates that include annotation styles, pre-set views, sheets, and schedules, as well as creating custom element types and families.

Topics include:

Create custom templates with annotation styles, title blocks, and custom element types, Create schedules, including material take-off sched ules with formulas, Create custom wall, roof, and floor types as well as MEP system families, Set up a family file , Create family geometry, Create family types, Create specific families, including, in-place families, profiles, annotation, and shared parameters.

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COURSE DURATION

4 Days

COURSE LEVEL

Advanced

PREREQUISITES

Revit Architecture Fundamentals, Revit Structure Fundamentals, or

Revit MEP Fundamentals training course. Knowledge of basic techniques is assumed, ie creating standard element,

copying and moving elements, and creating and working with views, creating

walls, roofs, and other objects, copying and moving

objects.

ACCREDITATION

COURSE COST

R5 650 (excl VAT)

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Revit ® Advanced (Continued)

 Collaboration Tools - to enable students who have a basic knowledge of Revit to increase their productivity while working with other people on a team, either in the same firm or other firms as well as with other disci-plines. It also covers linking Autodesk Revit files and linking or import-ing other CAD files.

Topics include:

Set up project phasing, Create and display a variety of design options, Use groups, Link Autodesk Revit files, Use multi-discipline coordination including Copy/Monitor and Coordination Review, Import and export vector and raster files including exporting Autodesk Revit models for energy analysis, Understand, use, and set up worksets.

 Conceptual Tools - to enable students who have worked with Revit Architecture to expand their knowledge in the areas of Conceptual De-sign, including massing studies, space planning, visualization, and ren-dering.

Topics include:

Create In-Place Conceptual Mass elements and Conceptual Mass fami lies, Create building elements from massing studies, Use Rooms and Areas for space planning and analysis, Create perspectives, walkthroughs, and solar studies, Understand the concepts of rendering and lighting

 Site and Structure - covers the elements and tools that are used to create topographic surfaces for site work and add structural elements. For Site, topics include:

Create topographic surfaces, Add property lines and building pads, Modify top surfaces with sub regions, splitting surfaces and grading the regions, Annotate site plans and add site components, Work with Shared Coordinates

For Structural, topics include:

Create structural grids and add columns, Add foundation walls and footings, Add beams and beam systems, Create framing elevations and add braces.

COURSE DURATION

4 Days

COURSE LEVEL

Advanced

PREREQUISITES

Revit MEP Fundamentals training course. Knowledge of basic techniques is assumed, ie creating standard element,

copying and moving elements, and creating and working with views, creating

walls, roofs, and other objects, copying and moving

objects.

ACCREDITATION

COURSE COST

R5 650 (excl VAT)

Revit Core Competency Programme

FUTURE REVIT LEARNING PATH

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Revit ® Core Competency Programme

Modena Design Centres is running a series of workshops to assist Revit users to get their skill levels up to Revit Expert.

Along with the Revit Core Competency programme we offer a Revit SANS workshop as well.

The workshops take place every Friday afternoon for 17 weeks.

Students will receive a student file with workshop notes as well as exercises for each workshop.

You can choose from the following workshops: Workshop 1 - Site & Project Setup

Setting up your project with the correct co-ordinates and levels. How to use a DWG from a land surveyor inside of Revit and how to build the topography from it. Cut and Fill calculations of the topography.

Workshop 2 - Worksets & Collaboration

A better and in depth explanation on working with a Revit Central file. Part of the workshop is dedicated to better understand working with other Revit files for coordination between disciplines

Workshop 3 - Conceptual Massing

Basics of creating a Conceptual Mass family in Revit. Basic tools and shape creation methods, to loading a Mass Family into your project and creating a building from it. Creating Mass Floors, Scheduling the floor areas of the mass that was created, solving the ‘Fish Scaling’ problem when creating curtain walls from Mass Family faces. This workshop will also include some basic adaptive component creation.

Workshop 4- Areas, Rooms & Finishes Schedules

Get more out of working with Areas, Rooms and finishing schedules. This workshop is also a brief introduction to project, family and shared parameters.

FUTURE REVIT LEARNING PATH

COURSE DURATION

17 Workshops/weeks Times: 13:00 - 16:00 Sans: 12:00-16:00

COURSE LEVEL

Advanced

PREREQUISITES

Revit MEP Fundamentals training course. Knowledge

of basic techniques is assumed, ie creating standard element, copying and moving elements, and creating and working with views, creating walls, roofs,

and other objects, copying and moving objects.

COURSE COST

R650 (excl VAT) each SANS R1 500 (excl VAT)

ACCREDITATION

SAIA—6 CPD Points Internationally recognised

Autodesk Accredited Certificate of Attendance

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Revit ® Core Competency Programme (Continued)

Workshop 5 - Views, Sections & Callouts

This workshop highlights common mistakes made in Revit and is dedicated to learning better workflows when working with Views, Sections and Callouts. Workshop 6 - Floors, Columns and Beams

This workshop provides a deeper understanding into working with floors. This workshop can also be considered as an introduction into working with structur-al elements in Revit.

Workshop 7 - Stairs & Railings

Working with component staircases and railing basics. A step up from using the default settings associated with Staircase creation. Create a floating stair-case, Custom Railing with a slanted baluster railing.

Workshop 8 - Curtain Walls & Mullions

Get more out of Curtain Walls in Revit with this workshop. Workshop 9 - SANS 204 (Includes SANS Template)

Tools, Parameters, Filters, Project Browser Organization & View Templates and Setting up your SANS 204 specific Views, Using the Schedules, Using the Key Schedules, Combining the SANS 204 Revit Template into your cur-rent project, Applying the SANS 204 to the project and filling in the necessary information, Building Orientation & Energy Consumption, Floors, External Walls, Fenestration, Roof Assemblies.

Workshop 10 - Family Creation 1 (Basic)

A simple workshop dedicated to understanding the basics of family creation. Workshop 11 - Family Creation 2 (Parametric Arrays)

Nesting and creating formulae to drive or control what these components do inside another family. Nesting is the process of creating families that are then nested inside of other usually larger families. This is done specifically when we want to create an element that that has sub elements inside of it. These sub elements are made to react in certain ways depending on what the host family is doing. Control all customised aspects of a family with parameters.

FUTURE REVIT LEARNING PATH

COURSE DURATION

COURSE LEVEL

Advanced

PREREQUISITES

COURSE COST

ACCREDITATION

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Revit ® Core Competency Programme (Continued)

Workshop 12 - Family Creation 3

Family creation 3 will focus on how to create a simple timber truss system, as well as, a more complex steel truss system. The simple timber truss system will focus on parameters such as length and angle in order to create a flexible truss family. The more complex steel truss system will focus array parameters driven by the length and pitch, as well as trigonometric formulas which allow the family to remain flexible.

Workshop 13 - Door Schedules

This workshop is dedicated to understanding the workflows for door schedules specific to an architectural application.

Workshop 14 - Design Option & Phasing

An advanced look at additional features in Revit related to options and phas-ing for architectural applications.

Workshop 15 - Annotation Families

Families that can be created and used as legend or table views of information that needs to be displayed in this format for your project. This will include a Key Plan for the scenario of multiple buildings on a site. The family will indi-cate to the contractor or relevant consultants which building the sheet is refer-ring to on the site. The second family will be the step-by-step creation of a Refuse Area Calculation family. This will be a family that will indicate to the plan examiner what the size of the refuse area needs to be depending on the use of the building. Lastly we will create a table for showing the schedule of rights and the required parking spaces, how many have been supplied and how many are still required.

Workshop 16 – Rendering

This workshop focuses on how work with Render settings and it’s dependants in Revit.

Workshop 17 - Detailing & Annotations

Start creating more intelligent families components and get the most out of detailing in Revit.

FUTURE REVIT LEARNING PATH

COURSE DURATION

COURSE LEVEL

Advanced

PREREQUISITES

COURSE COST

ACCREDITATION

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Revit ® Professional Certification

EXAM DURATION

2-3 Hours

EXAM LEVEL

Certified Professional

PREREQUISITES

Recommended Courses: * Architecture Fundamentals * Revit Advanced

Plus 400 hours of hands-on application experience. Actual hands-on experience is a critical component in preparing for the exam.

ACCREDITATION

Internationally recognised Autodesk Professional Certificate

EXAM COST

R1 300 (excl VAT)

Autodesk certifications are industry-recognized credentials that can help you succeed in your design career—providing benefits to both you and your em-ployer. The certifications provide reliable validation of skills and knowledge, and they can lead to accelerated professional development, improved produc-tivity, and enhanced credibility.

Autodesk highly recommends that you structure your examination preparation for success. This means scheduling regular time to prepare, reviewing the exam preparation roadmap, taking a course and supporting your studies with Official Preparation Materials. Equally as important, actual hands-on experi-ence is recommended.

The Revit 2014 Certified Professional exam is aimed at assessing profes-sional users’ knowledge of the tools, features, and common tasks of Revit 2014. The exam is comprised of 35 questions, of which the majority requires you to use Revit 2014 to create or modify a data file, and then type your an-swer into an input box. Other question types include multiple choice, match-ing, and point-and-click (hotspot).

Please note: 2012—2014 exams are available and your certification never lapses, but your certification is not deemed current if you have not done the latest version of the exam.

For a complete roadmap of the exam please contact us or follow the link be-low.

 Associate exams are only available for 2011 and 2012 software, to do the Professional exam on 2011 or 2012, you must first pass the Associate exam.

 Only Professional Exams are available for 2013/2014 software.  Autodesk limits retries of exams to 3 per person per 12 month period.  2015 Exams are not yet available.