Autodesk REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2010 User manual

Design without compromise.
Autodesk®
Revit®
Architecture 

BIM—Simply a Better Way of Working
Deliver projects faster, more economically, and with
enhanced potential for reduced environmental impact.
Autodesk Revit Architecture is purpose-built for
building information modeling (BIM). BIM is an
integrated process built on coordinated, reliable
information about a project from design through
construction and into operations. By adopting
BIM, architecture firms can use this consistent
BIM helps architects stay competitive in an increasingly complex business climate by giving them the ability to better predict
the outcome of a building before it is built. BIM enables architects to create more sustainable, accurate designs with fewer errors
and less waste, which can result in higher profits and more satisfied clients. BIM also optimizes team collaboration because it
enables architects to more clearly and reliably communicate design intent to engineers, contractors, fabricators, and owners.
AutoCAD®Revit®
Architecture Suite—
For Maximum Flexibility
and Advantage
Combining AutoCAD®,
AutoCAD®Architecture, and
Autodesk®Revit®Architecture
software applications into
a single, comprehensive
package, this suite allows
you to transition to building
information modeling (BIM),
while protecting your legacy software,
training, and design data investments.
Purpose-built for BIM, Autodesk Revit
Architecture delivers a powerful competitive
advantage by speeding creative design work,
facilitating analysis for sustainable design,
and automatically delivering coordinated,
consistent documentation. Support ongoing
work in either AutoCAD or AutoCAD
Architecture while you make the switch to
BIM with Autodesk Revit Architecture, at
your own pace.
information throughout the process to design and
document innovative projects, accurately visualize
appearance for better communication, and simulate
real-world performance for better understanding of
cost, scheduling, and environmental impact.

Definitive Design
From conception to construction documentation,
design projects within an intuitive environment.
Authoritative Decisions, Sooner
Autodesk Revit Architecture software supports
early analysis of your building forms so your team
can make better informed decisions at the earliest
stages of your project. Use this capability to
comprehensively clarify areas and volumes, perform
daylighting and energy analysis, and gain insight
into manufacturing viability and early construction
material takeos.
Functional Forms
The Building Maker feature in Autodesk Revit
Architecture helps you transform your conceptual
forms into fully functional building designs.
Select and add faces to design walls, roofs,
floors, and curtain systems. Extract important
building information, including gross area per
floor. Bring conceptual massing concepts from
applications such as AutoCAD®software and
Autodesk®Maya®software, as well as AutoDesSys
form•Z®, McNeel Rhinoceros®, Google™
SketchUp®, or other ACIS®- or NURBS-based
applications into Autodesk Revit Architecture
as mass objects and begin schematic design.
Building information
modeling and Autodesk
Revit Architecture are
key components of our
larger strategy to
provide a much more
comprehensive and
integrated service to
our clients.
—Riaan de Beer
Senior Project Manager
Reno C. Negrin Architects
Autodesk®Revit®Architecture software helps
you explore your most innovative design concepts
and forms at the earliest possible stages of
your project, and maintain your vision through
construction documentation. Purpose-built for
building information modeling (BIM), Autodesk
Revit Architecture provides superior support for
sustainable design, clash detection, construction
planning, and fabrication, while helping you work
collaboratively with engineers, contractors, and
owners. Any and all design changes along the way
are automatically updated throughout your evolving
design and documentation, making for more
coordinated processes and reliable documentation.
Complete Projects, One Environment
New and innovative Autodesk Revit Architecture
conceptual design features provide easy-to-use
tools for free-form modeling and parametric design,
and the ability to support the earliest design
analyses. Sketch freely, create D forms quickly,
and manipulate forms interactively. Prepare your
models for fabrication and construction with built-in
tools for conception and clarification of complex
forms. Autodesk Revit Architecture automatically
builds a parametric framework around your most
complex forms as you continue to design, oering
you greater levels of creative control, accuracy, and
flexibility. Take your design from concept model all
the way to construction documents, all within one
intuitive environment and user interface.

Coordinated, Accurate Design Information
Autodesk Revit Architecture software is built to
work the way architects and designers think about
buildings. Work naturally, design freely, and deliver
eciently within one environment.
Autodesk Revit Architecture provides and presents
every schedule, drawing sheet, D view, and D view
from a single foundational database, automatically
coordinating changes across all facets and
presentations as your project develops and evolves.
Bidirectional Associativity
A change anywhere is a change everywhere. In
Autodesk Revit Architecture, all model information
is stored in a single, coordinated database. Revisions
and alterations to information is automatically
updated throughout the model, and significantly
reducing errors and omissions.
Schedules
Schedules provide another view of the
comprehensive Autodesk Revit Architecture
model. Changes to a schedule view are
automatically reflected in all other views.
Functionality includes associative split-schedule
sections and selectable design elements via
schedule views, formulas, and filtering.
Detailing
The extensive detail library and detailing tools
provided within Autodesk Revit Architecture enable
extensive presorting, easing alignment with the CSI
format. Detail libraries can be created, shared, and
tailored to accommodate your oce standards.
Parametric Components
A change anywhere is a change everywhere.
Parametric components, also known as families,
are the basis for all building components designed
in Autodesk Revit Architecture. These components
oer an open, graphical system for design
thinking and form making, while providing the
opportunity to adjust and express design intent
at increasingly detailed levels. Use parametric
components for the most elaborate assemblies,
such as cabinetry and equipment, as well as for
the most elementary building parts, such as
walls and columns. Best of all, no programming
language or coding is necessary or required.
Material Takeo
Calculate detailed material quantities with Material
Takeo. Ideal for use on sustainable design projects
and for precise verification of material quantities
in cost estimates, Material Takeo significantly
smooths the material quantity tracking process. As
projects evolve, the Autodesk Revit Architecture
parametric change engine helps ensure material
takeos are always up to date.
Interference Check
Use interference checking to scan your model for
collisions between elements.
Intuitive User Interface
Autodesk Revit Architecture features a streamlined
user interface. Find your favorite tools and
commands faster, locate lesser-used tools more
eciently, and discover relevant new features more
easily. The result is less time searching through
menus and toolbars, and more time getting your
work done.

Exceed and Succeed
Design Visualization
Create and capture fully photoreal design ideas
and contextual environments to experience your
project, even before it is built. Integrated mental
ray®rendering software is easy to use and delivers
high-quality output, faster render times, and a
superior design presentation.
Interoperability
Interoperability enhancements enable you to work
more eciently with members of your extended
project team. Now you can export your building
model or site, complete with critical metadata,
to AutoCAD®Civil D®software. You can also
import accurate, data-rich models from Autodesk®
Inventor®software, eciently speeding time
to fabrication.
Native 64-bit Support
New native -bit support enhances Autodesk
Revit Architecture software’s ability to handle
large projects and helps improve performance
and stability for memory-intensive tasks such as
rendering, printing, model upgrading, and file
importing and exporting.
Support Sustainable Design
Autodesk Revit Architecture supports sustainable
design processes from the earliest stages. Export
building information, including materials and room
volumes, to green building extensible markup
language (gbXML). Perform energy analysis using
Autodesk®Green Building Studio®web-based
services, and study building performance employing
Autodesk®Ecotect™ software. Use Autodesk®
ds Max®Design software to evaluate indoor
environmental quality in support of LEED®
. certification.
Streamline individual and team processes. Deliver
more complete documents and higher-quality designs.
Most importantly, win more business with clear and
complete presentations.
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Worksharing Monitor
Manage team collaboration by gaining crucial
visibility into the Revit®model sharing
and synchronization process. The Revit
worksharing monitor helps bring remote
model instances back into the central file,
enabling project teams to choose the optimal
method for synchronization and collaboration
to exceed project requirements.
Batch Print
Deliver printed document sets with greater
ease and avoid costly, time-consuming
printing errors. Autodesk Revit Architecture
software’s new batch printing utility oers
better management and improved document
control to help ensure that your information
is published on time, as expected.
Globe Link
Globe Link for Revit® platform
products helps users streamline preliminary
project planning processes by allowing them
to present to clients conceptual designs
in context with information about the
project site.
With Globe Link, users can publish D
building information models directly from
Revit®Architecture software into Google
Earth™ mapping service. Users can also
acquire site information from Google Earth
mapping service and import it into Revit®
 software applications for building and
site layout purposes. Globe Link is optimized
for Google Earth version  mapping service.

Architecture is a competitive environment, and
the purpose of any technology is to allow us to
make the best use of the skills and experience of
our professional sta. Autodesk Revit Architecture
eliminates many tedious tasks, and our sta
members are very enthusiastic about using it.
—Rodd Perey
Design Technology Director
Architectus Sydney
Building design by ONL [Oosterhuis-Lénárd].
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