Conducted my first three day Revit Essentials Training last week and it all went well. The trainees were very receptive and seemd to get to grips the concepts. After the training I did start thinking, I shouldhave included this or that, but as they say practive makes perfect and looking forward to the next session.

Elevation depth uneditable

This one caused some frustation - it was 10pm and everyone wanted to go home, so not the best time to figure this out. Anyway the problem was that we could not modify the depth of the cut lines on our eleveations. The depth field was greyed out.

With a bit of experimenting realised that it was because the views were dependent. To solve the problem we clicked on the parent elevation within the project browser and changed the depth in the properties field.

With furtehr investigation discovered that you can modify the elevation view depth graphically by hovering over and tapping the magical TAB key.

The fundametals

I have started to look at Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 book. Although I have read a couple fo other books on Revit - notably Mastering 2010, this book is quiet different - I personnaly like it, I have been through the first couple of chapters which have reinforced the key principles in understanding the Revit philosophy: Datum (grids, reference, and levels) Views (sections, elevations, 3d and call outs), workplanes, Project Browser (filter the view either by type, or by floor level), Interface (ribbon, navigation bar, cube).

Obviousley there is much more to Revit, for example families, but the reference datums need to be understood before creating families.

3 months have passed

3 months have passed since my last post, it's not because I haven't been using Revit, it's just that I have forgotten to share what I have learned - which is a heinous crime.

Once you start sparring with the interface you become entuned with the secrets it holds. It is becoming obvious that to master Revit you must put in the time.

This months training is dedicated to becoming battle ready, making sure we are fully armed with a template and standards.

My other goal is update this blog at least once a week.

The Journey Begins

My quest begins to unlock the techniques and truley understand the style, the true way of Revit. At the moment I am a student that is using the cloud as his master. Watching, learning and emulating the subtleties that underpin Revit. Although I have been skirting around the edge of this technology since Revit 2009, today is the day that my first step will take me one step closer to the end of my path.