Hi all, I posted this on another forum but I thought I would join the community here, for maximum knowledge acquisition! I work for a ~20 person architectural firm that, currently, does a lot of condominium projects.

I have previously worked for an office that did similar work using ArchiCAD, and it worked pretty well. I'm now trying to set up this office for Revit (ArchiCAD's support and user base just aren't as good). Being new to the world of Revit, though, I'm pretty lost. What I'm wondering is if any has (or knows where to find) sample projects so that I could see how offices utilize the software.

Via the above link, MIT community members get free access if you use it on MIT network or with MIT certificate on your machine. Once you get into the home page, pull-down Browse the Library menu and click CAD. Revit appears under CAD Software category on the left column of the page. My suggestion for a new learner. Mar 13, 2012 Architecture and General Revit Questions; Sample Projects and. And the Revit Template one is. There are some real gems on project.

I tried starting a few projects from the ground up, and would like to set up an office template, but there are just too many question marks floating around on best practices for doing things. I learned all about parameters for organizing drawings, for example, but I'm wondering if there are better ways. I worked in one office that used revit, but it was on such a small scale that I don't think it applies. If anyone has any recommendations for families to get started with (for windows, doors, elevators, garage doors, structural elements, etc) I would love to hear it!

Update 2/19/12: All of the samples below can be found here: Google Docs BIMoFiles Link; If you have a Revit 9 or Revit 2008 Trial CD, search for BNIM.rvt. It's a fully completed Revit Project; Website with sample of Revit drawings to view with photos of completed.

Hopefully as I develop my template I can put together a ZIP file for others in my situation to use. A 'master' set of families, as it were, for the most basic/essential building components.

Anyway, thanks for your time and I look forward to any and all responses! Here's a with great links for Revit newbies. Edna Bricht Aus Download Vollversion Kostenlos Chip more. There's a link there to an excellent thread on the how to's of building a template, among other things.

EDIT: Cellophane beat me to it! It took me too long to find the damn thread. Yeah, that's definitely a great thread - and the Revit Template one is epic!

The only thing that all the posts lack, though, is some sort of methodology for establishing a workflow. For example, the thread about working views/print views is great, but doesn't give me any hint as to how to make the 'idea' work other than to say that parameters will help browser organization. Maybe it's just a quirk of how I learn - I like to get my hands dirty in a working system and see how it works (and why it works) and glean everything I can from it, rather than suffering my way through the trial and error of experimenting with different strategies to see what works. Browser organization is a major one for this - and to be honest I like ArchiCAD's system quite a lot. Download Samsung Knox For Note 2. You have your 'project data' which is just the model which you navigate by storey, and then you have your views which apply a scale, layer setting and print style to the model (and you create groups/subgroups like a directory structure and sort and organize accordingly). So you essentially have a working area that you navigate like a building, and then you have a drawing set that you derive from that building.