Module 1: Revit in a Nutshell 

Module 2: Introducing Revit as a BIM tool

• What is BIM and what does it mean?
• The benefits of BIM
• What will BIM deliver?
• Industry drivers
• Introducing Levels of BIM
• Implications on team and workflow; fee and deliverables; contract and insurance issues

Module 3: UI Tour, Project Navigation and View Creation 

• Interactive session introducing the menu and screen layout 
• Interrogating the model to extract views
  • Plans, sections and elevations
  • Displaced views, callouts and drafting views
  • 3D isometrics, perspectives and walkthrough movies 
• Placement and properties of grids, levels and dimensions 
• Introduction to basic Revit elements

Module 4:  Element Selection and Manipulation 

• Interactive session introducing object selection methods 
• Element properties and manipulation 
• Instance and Type parameters 
• Modify tools, Nodes and Snaps

Module 5: Visibility Control and Categorisation 

• Project-Wide Settings
• View Specific Overrides
• Element Specific Overrides
• Individual Line Overrides

Module 6: Model Development Methodology

• Is BIM just about 3D?
• Information timeline and overload
• How a project develops from a base template
• The complexity of components
• Controlling graphical display

Module 7: Establishing a Project

• Project units -  Common and Structural
• Structural settings and symbolic representation
• Analytical settings
• Linking CAD and Revit Architecture
• Copy monitor and coordination review

Module 8: Modelling Basics - Walls, Columns, Beams and Bracing

• Basic definitions
• Relating slabs to walls and supporting framework
• Column and beam placement and behaviour
• Element connectivity and display
• Bracing characteristics

Module 9: Foundations and Piling

• Footings and foundations types 
  • Isolated pads, piles and strip foundations
• Slabs, standard and in-place family foundations 
  • Slab edges, ground beams
• Foundation walls, piers and pilasters

Module 10: System Family

• Editing Principles of composite system family definition
• Understanding properties such as function, and wrapping of layers
• Creating and utilising a system family library

Module 11:  Basic Schedules and Legends

• Generation of tabular interrogations of the model
  • Scheduling Components
  • Style schedules
  • Legend

Module 12: Geometry Formation and In-Place Families

• Interactive session on the creation and manipulation of basic solid and void forms

  • Extrusion, Blend
  • Revolve
  • Sweep
  • Swept Blend

Module 13: Geometry Formation and In-Place Families

• Interactive session on the creation and manipulation of basic solid and void forms
• Extrusion
• Blend
• Revolve
• Sweep
• Swept Blend

Module 14: Slab and Roof Tools

• Sketching Rules
• Relating to slabs to walls and supports
• Cantilevers, span direction and adding slopes
• Slab foundation and slab edge
• Basic Roof Designs

Module 15: Stairs Ramps and Railings

• Basic stair creation
• Non-standard and multi-storey stairs
• Characteristics of simple ramps
• Hosted and stand-alone hand railing

Module 16: Beam and Truss Systems

• Beam systems creation and placement
• Sketching boundaries and rules
• Modifying beam system properties
• Concrete framing systems and pan joist slabs
• Truss elements, placement and family creation
• Attaching trusses to roofs and floors

Module 17: Construction sequencing (Phasing)

• Project phasing, properties and creation
• Phase filters and graphic overrides
• Combining phases, infill and the demolition of elements

Module 18: 2D Draughting and Annotation

• Introducing annotation tools and component categories
• Detail component libraries
• Repeating details
• Lines and arcs
• Text, Tags and keynotes

Module 19: Sheet Compilation and Publication

• Project browser organisation – WIP and Publish
• Creating and populating sheets
• Working with schedules
• Publishing and document management

Module 20: Basic Subdivision and Collaboration

• Introducing a BIM Strategy
• Document Model management
• Project team collaboration techniques
• Transmittal and model issue protocols
• Basics of large-model sub-division

Module 21: Introduction to the Principles of Family Editing

• The basic process
• 10 stages for trouble-free family creation

Module 22: Considering options and alternatives

• Design option terminology and workflow
• Utilising design option sets
• Considerations when using design options
• Design sets and incorporating design options