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About 107 hours of Brian's Revit lessons in sixteen series, recorded on real projects. Each video opens on Vimeo.
What is a bad Revit family?
Most of the weight in a 1 GB model is bad families. This series takes real manufacturer and AutoCAD content apart and rebuilds it in simple native Revit geometry, then shows the time you get back once the bad families are gone.
Cleaning Up the Files
Recorded during the Caesars coordination job. How a 1 GB consultant model becomes a link under 100 MB: wipe the model, separate it, and keep only what the other trades need. This is how one person kept pace with eighteen.
Dummy Annotations
How to make dummy elevation tags, interior elevation tags, section tags, and callouts, and when to use them. Recorded in Revit 2017.
Casework for Schematic Design
Using a simple casework family for schematic design: a light design family that lays out fast now and gets swapped for the construction family later. Recorded in Revit 2017.
Received File Cleanup
What to do with a Revit file you received from someone else, from first open to a clean project on your standards, then onto a real site. Twenty lessons in Revit 2020.
Cleaning for Linking
Recorded in 2015 in Revit 2014: how to strip the architect's model down to what your discipline needs before you link it. The same idea as Link Lite, eleven years earlier, and it still applies.
Doors & Windows
A 13-part tutorial on Revit door and window families, recorded in Revit 2017, plus two follow-ups from the same week on storefront assemblies and type catalogs.
Door and Window Tutorials
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Mechanical Skid
How would you build a mechanical skid family? A 7-part build of a real piece of equipment as a light, native Revit family, recorded in Revit 2020. Then a 3-part follow-up on rebuilding a manufacturer's 3D DWG or STEP file so it's fit for a coordination model.
Building a mechanical skid family
Related: rebuilding a 3D DWG or STEP file
Beach House
How to build a beach house in Revit, from tracing the drawings to the finished animation. Shell, roofs and balconies, custom finishes, trim, corbels and custom doors, recorded in Revit 2020.
Medical Office Building
Every step in creating a medical office building and its animation, recorded in Revit 2012. The middle steps are full working sessions of three to six hours each: the whole building, modeled in real time.
Existing Campus from CAD
How to build an existing campus in Revit from CAD drawings, start to finish. Eighteen steps recorded in Revit 2015, for the common job where the only record of the buildings is a set of old CAD files.
Fire Protection
Coordinating with fire protection, recorded in Revit 2023. What to do when the sprinkler contractor draws in CAD, then working hand to hand with fire protection in the model, including sloped pipe.
Revit for Interior Design
How interiors should work with the architect's model instead of inside it: why editing the architectural file is not productive, interior elevation issues, and a finish schedule linked to the floor plans. Recorded in Revit 2015.
Wall Sections & Details
Faster, cleaner wall sections and the parametric detail components behind them: masks and object styles, a parametric array for masonry, and line-based details with end cuts and bend angles. Recorded in Revit 2018, July 2018 to March 2019.
Site & Topography
The site work behind Port City 50k, a tilt-up building. How to build a Revit site from a civil CAD file: clean the CAD first, make the toposurface, lay out subregions as filled regions, then grade, add retaining walls, and stripe the parking lot. Recorded in Revit 2020.
Community Building
One project recorded as the work happened over two weeks in 2018: a community building with dugouts and fields. Real tasks, real problems, and the cleanup after a major value-engineering revision.
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