Autodesk REVIT Architecture 2010 Key Terms

Attached Detail Group

A group of view-specific elements that are associated with a model group. For example, an ______ may be comprised of door tags and window tags.

Drafting Pattern

A symbolic representation of a material in a drawing. (For example, sand is represented by a stipple pattern.) You can place ______ on flat and cylindrical surfaces, and you can define them for families. You can also place ______ on cut component surfaces in plan views and section views. The following image shows a cross-section of a window in a wall, with different ______ for interior and exterior layers of the wall.

Communication Center

A tool that displays links to information about product updates and announcements. To access the ______, click the satilite dish in the InfoCenter toolbar in the upper right corner of the Revit window.

Crop Region

A user interface mechanism that defines the boundaries of a view. Elements in the building model that are outside the ______ do not display in the view or on a sheet on which the view is placed. In the following floor plan view, the inner, solid red line indicates the model ______. The outer, dashed red line indicates the annotation ______.

Clip Plane

A vertical or horizontal plane that defines a boundary for a view. You can use top, bottom, left, and right ______ to define a view. In elevation and section views, you can also use a far ______ to define the depth of the view. Green dotted lines define the ______ for an elevation view

Detail View

A view of a model that displays as a callout or section in other views. This type of view typically represents the model in finer detail than shown in the parent view. It is used to add more information to specific parts of the model. A ______ reflects geometry of the building model. If a related part of the building model changes, the ______ updates to reflect the change.

Dimension

A view-specific element that shows the size of an element or shows distances between elements or points in a building model. As you place an element, Revit Architecture displays temporary ______ so that you can place the element accurately. You can create permanent ______ and lock them to specify and maintain a particular size or distance.

Hidden Element

An element that you hide in a particular view.

Generic Annotation

Text that documents a building model. ______ are usually related to a parameter for a model element or type. You can create ______ families and nest them inside host model families, so that the annotations display in the project. This is useful if you want to include a label with a model family and display that label in the project.

Break Line

The Z-shaped line used in a drafting view or detail view to obscure parts of the drawing, to focus the drawing on a particular area. The following drafting view uses ______ above and below the section to obscure less intricate parts of the door assembly.

Fill Volume

The amount of fill (material) required to prepare a site for construction. For example, in the following drawing, the red area indicates the cut volume, and the blue area indicates the ______ required to level the site for a building.

Cut Volume

The amount of material that must be excavated and removed from a site to prepare it for construction. For example, in the following drawing, the red area indicates the ______, and the blue area indicates the fill volume required to level the site for a building.

Footprint

The area covered by or required by an object. For example, the ______ of a toaster on your kitchen counter is the amount of countertop that the toaster covers. In Revit Architecture, you can create a roof or floor based on the ______ of the walls. You can also sketch a 2D shape to represent the desired ______ of the walls, roof, floor, or stairway of a building. In the following image, the pink lines indicate the sketched ______ of a roof for a building. The pink angles indicate the slope of the roof on each side.

Head

(1) For elements that can slope (including roofs, ramps, floors, and ceilings), the upper end of the slope. For example, in the following illustration, the ______ is the upper end of the sloped floor. (2) In Revit Architecture, the symbol that displays in a drawing to represent a component, such as a section, callout, elevation, grid, or level. For example, in a floor plan, you can double-click a section ______ to go to the section view. (In the following floor plan, the blue symbol is a section ______.) (3) For windows and doors, the piece that goes across the top of the window or door to create the rough opening.

Floor Plan

A 2D drawing of a building model that shows the layout of walls and other building components. In Revit Architecture, a ______ is also referred to as a floor plan view.

Detail Component

A 2D element that you can add to a detail view or a drafting view. For example, you may want to add a metal stud or a shim to a drafting view. Revit Architecture provides over 500 ______ families, based on 16 CSI divisions. You can also create your own ______.

Filled Region

A 2D, view-specific graphic. You can use ______ to represent various surfaces, such as concrete or compacted earth. You can add a ______ to a detail view, a drafting view, or an annotation family. For each ______, you can specify a boundary line style and a fill pattern.

Element Borrowing

A Revit function for workshared projects. ______ allows you to edit an element in a workset that you do not own. If another team member is currently editing the workset, that team member is the owner of the workset and you must place a request to borrow the element. If no one owns the workset, permission to borrow is automatically granted.

Detail Level

A Revit setting that determines the amount of geometry displayed in a view. ______ settings include coarse, medium, and fine, where coarse shows the least detail and fine shows the most detail. The following image illustrates the 3 ______ for a desk.

Break Control

A Revit symbol that you can use to break a section line, break a schedule into multiple sections, or break a crop region into sections. In the following elevation view, the blue Z-shaped break controls allow you to break the crop region into sections.

Curtain System

A building component consisting of panels, curtain grids, and mullions. In Revit a ______ usually does not have a rectangular shape.

Component

A building element that is usually delivered and installed on site, rather than built in place. (Also referred to as a hosted ______.) For example, windows, doors, and furniture are ______. In contrast, walls, floors, and roofs are built in place; these are called hosts or host elements.

Family

A class of elements in a category. A ______ groups elements with a common set of parameters (properties), identical use, and similar graphical representation. Different elements in a ______ may have different values for some or all properties, but the set of properties (their names and meaning) is the same. For example, a ______ of concrete round columns contains columns that are all concrete and round, but of different sizes. Each column size is a type within the Concrete Round Column ______.

Architectural Column

A column that adds architectural interest to a building. An ______ can be used to model box-outs around structural columns and for decorative applications.

Blend

A combination (blending) of 2 shapes to create a 3D shape. You can create ______ using solid geometry and void geometry. For example, the 2D shapes below are ______ to create the solid extrusion that follows.

Building Maker

A conceptual design and modeling environment that takes any overall building form described conceptually, and maps it to building elements, such as roofs, curtain walls, floors, and walls.

DWF markups

A construction document that has been reviewed and revised or commented on (marked up). Typically, the reviewer is the project designer, a client, or another building professional. When you export construction documents as DWF files, the files can be marked up electronically using a program such as Autodesk Design Review. You can link the markups back into Revit Architecture to see the desired changes.

Dependent View

A copy of a view. Use ______ when a view of the building model is too large to display on a single sheet, and you need to divide the model into smaller segments that fit on the sheets. The ______ remains synchronous with the primary view and other dependent views. When view-specific changes (such as view scale and annotations) are made in one view, they are reflected in all views.

Hidden Line

A dashed line representing an edge or surface that cannot be seen in a view. For example, in the following image, 2 bolts go through the stud. The view shows the ______ of one bolt but does not show the ______ of the second bolt.

Group

A defined set of elements that can be placed as a unit in a building design. ______ elements is useful when you need to create entities that represent repeating units or are common to many building projects (for example, hotel rooms, apartments, or repeating floors).

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

A design methodology that maintains a single database of information about a building design. All information for a building design, from geometry to construction data, is stored in a project file. This information includes components used to design the model, views of the project, drawings of the design, and related documentation. In a Revit project, every drawing sheet, 2D and 3D view, and schedule is a representation of information from the same underlying building model database.

Callout

A detailed drawing of part of a view. In Revit Architecture, the ______ appears in a separate view. In the ______, you can add annotations and detail, which will not display in the parent view. In the parent view, the ______ area is marked with a ______ tag. The following views show a ______ tag in a section view, and the detail view for the ______.

Halftone

A display color that blends the line color of an element with the background color of the view. For example, the following image shows some elements in ______ (gray) and others in black. You can specify the ______ display properties using the Visibility/Graphics dialog.

Fillet

A drafting term that refers to rounding a square corner, using a radius to define the curve.

DWG

A drawing file format supported by AutoCAD and other CAD applications. Revit Architecture can import and export ______ files.

Divided Surface

A face or surface of a form that has been divided into UV grids. The grids act as a guide in patterning the surface. Manipulating the ______ also manipulates the parametrically dependent patterns and component families.

Generic Model

A family of geometry that does not fit into any of the other, pre-defined categories (such as columns, roofs, and floors). In a Revit project, an instance of a ______ is a model element. You can create a ______ as a loadable family, or as an in-place element that is specific to a project. Revit Architecture provides templates for various types of ______ families.

DGN

A file format supported by MicroStation of Bentley Systems, Inc. Revit Architecture can import and export ______ files.

Building Pad

A flat surface that is designed to be occupied by buildings and is prepared by grading, excavating, filling, or a combination of these. In Revit Architecture, you can add a ______ to a toposurface, and then modify the structure and depth of the pad.

Discipline

A functional area (such as structural, mechanical, electrical, or architectural), or an area of expertise (such as architecture, structural engineering, or construction). In a Revit project, you can assign ______ to categories and to views. You can then control the visibility or graphic display of elements in a view based on assigned ______. You can also specify project units by ______ and organize the Project Browser by ______.

Fill Pattern

A graphic design for surfaces that are cut or shown in projection. You can use ______ for model patterns and drafting patterns.

Cut Line Style

A graphic style applied to an element when a view (such as a section view) cuts through the element, so that you are seeing a representation of its interior surface. For the ______ of an element, you can specify the line weight, color, and pattern.

Drag Control

A graphical icon in the Revit drawing area that you ______ to change the shape or size of an element in the building model. When you select an element, Revit Architecture displays it's ______ as blue circles or triangles.

Flip Control

A graphical icon in the Revit drawing area that you can use to reverse the position or orientation of an element in the drawing area. For example, when you click the ______for a compound wall, the wall flips over, so its layers reverse.

Control

A graphical icon in the Revit drawing area that you use to manipulate elements. For example, when you select a chain of walls, blue circles display. These blue circles are drag ______. You can drag such a ______ to change the shape of the walls. Other ______ allows you to flip, lock, rotate, view, and change the shape or size of elements.

Category

A group of elements that you use to model or document a building design. For example, ______ of model elements include walls, windows, columns, and beams. ______ of annotation elements include dimensions, tags, and text notes. ______ are organized into families of elements with similar purposes and characteristics. Families are further organized into types, as shown.

Detail Group

A group of view-specific elements, such as text and filled regions.

Cut Plane

A horizontal height at which certain elements in the view are shown in cross-section.

Ground plane

A horizontal plane that represents ground level in a building model. In Revit Architecture, you can specify the ground plane when creating a solar study for 2D and 3D views.

Centerline

A line that indicates the middle of a dimension or model element (such as a column or a wall). In Revit Architecture, you can use an element's ______ to measure, dimension, align, resize, specify constraints, and perform other functions in a building model.

Detail Line

A line that is used to create a detail drawing. A ______ is visible only in the view in which it is drawn. You can use ______ as follows: To detail a view with part of the model visible, such as in a wall section or callout, In a drafting view to draw lines with no reference to the model, To trace underlay elements. In the following drawing, the arc is a ______ drawn in a drafting view that shows details of the roller assembly for a sliding door.

Chain

A linked set of lines or walls. When drawing walls or lines in a building model, you can simplify the process by drawing a ______. You can also select a ______ of lines or walls to manipulate them simultaneously.

Central File

A master project file for a model on which multiple team members are working. The model can be subdivided into functional areas (worksets), such as interior, exterior, and site. The ______ stores the current ownership information for all elements in the project, and acts as the distribution point for publishing work to the rest of the team. All users work in local copies of the file and periodically save changes to the ______ so that other users can see their work.

Filter

A mechanism for eliminating or including the display or selection of elements in a view, based on their properties. In Revit Architecture, you can use ______ in the following ways: To select or deselect elements in a view. - To override the graphic display and control the visibility of elements in a view. - To control the display of elements based on their phase status: new, existing, demolished, or temporary.

Extrusion

A method of defining 3D geometry for a building model. You begin a solid ______ by sketching 2D shapes on a plane. Revit Architecture then ______ the sketch between a start point and an endpoint. You can also create a void ______ by cutting a shape out of a 3D solid.

Datum

A non-physical item that is used to establish project context. ______ include levels, grids, and reference planes. For example, the following image shows a grid, which is used for the placement of columns and other model elements. The grid is not a part of the building (such as a wall or a roof) but is used in a view to help design the building.

Constraint

A parameter that defines a relationship between elements in a building design. For example, you can specify the top ______ for a wall as Level 2. If Level 2 moves upward, the height of the wall increases to maintain the relationship.

Drafting View

A project view that shows details not directly associated with the building model. For example, a ______ can show how carpet transitions to tile, or details of a roof drain. A ______ typically shows construction details that may not be apparent in other views. A ______ is saved with the project in which it is created, and it can be included on a sheet. However, a ______ does not reflect the actual building model, and it does not update when the model changes. The following image shows a ______created using the 2D detailing tools in Revit Architecture. (It is not a 3D view.)

Drawing List

A schedule (list) of all drawing sheets in a project. The drawing list functions as a table of contents for the project. It is typically placed on the first sheet of a construction document set.

Grid

A series of lines that you can use to help draw or place elements in a building design. ______ are useful in the design and documentation phases of a project. In Revit Architecture, ______ are datum elements.

Color Scheme

A set of colors and fill patterns used to graphically designate rooms or areas in a floor plan. You can apply ______ based on any parameter value for a room or area. For example, if you want to color rooms by department, set the Department parameter for each room to the desired value, and create a ______ based on the values of the Department parameter. You can then add a ______ legend to identify the department that each color represents.

Area Scheme

A set of spatial relationships in a building. For example, in an office building, you may want to distinguish between common space (such as lobbies, hallways, rest rooms, and kitchens), office space, and storage. In an apartment building, you may want to indicate rentable space and non-rentable space.

Bubble

A shape (such as a circle or cloud) that contains identification text for a grid, level, view title, callout, or annotation.

Closed Loop

A sketched line that connects to itself, creating a 2-dimensional shape. A ______ cannot contain coincident or intersecting segments. In Revit Architecture, you sketch ______ to create floors, ceilings, plan regions, openings in walls and roofs, solid extrusions, and other parts of a building design. In the following sketch, a ______ defines the walls, ceiling, and floor.

Face

A surface of a model element or mass. You can apply paint, materials, and textures to each ______ of a model element (such as a wall). These details display when you render an image of the building model. You can use mass ______ as the basis for creating walls, roofs, curtain systems, and floors in a building model. The following image shows a mass ______ that is being used to create a wall.

Camera

A visualization tool that you use to create a 3D view of a building model. When you place a camera in a 2D view, you can control the target point, the ______ level, and the focal point of the ______. The following views show a camera positioned in a floor plan view, and the resulting 3D view.

Compound Wall

A wall that consists of multiple vertical layers. Each layer can use a different material (such as concrete, insulation, and interior finish) and have a different function (such as structure, thermal layer, and substrate).

Embedded Wall

A wall that is inserted into another wall of a different type or construction. ______ are useful, for example, when you need to create a storefront on a building exterior. The following image shows a curtain wall embedded in a host wall.

Autodesk® Seek

A web service that lets you search for, download, and integrate product and design information into your drawing. You can also publish families to the ______ website to make them available for other designers to incorporate into their designs.

Design Option

An alternative design for a project. ______ allow a team to develop, evaluate, and redesign building components within a single project file. You can develop ______ to adapt to changes in product scope, to review other designs, or to show alternatives to a client.

Entourage

An architectural term that refers to the landscaping and other environmental features shown in a rendering of a building. For example, ______ can include plants, trees, people, cars, and signs. Revit Architecture provides a library of ______ families, and you can create or load additional ______ into a project.

Array

An arrangement of elements in a building model. For example, in a large office, you can create an ______ of desks and chairs. In a structural design, you can create an ______ of beams or columns. You can create a linear ______, in which the elements are distributed evenly along a line, or a radial ______, in which the elements are distributed evenly along an arc or a circle.

Framing Elevation

An elevation view that shows the structural framing of a building model. You can work in a ______ when adding vertical bracing to the model, or for any task that requires quick work plane alignment to a grid or to a named reference plane.

End Cap

An end of a wall that does not join to another wall. The unjoined end of the wall is exposed. You can specify whether compound wall layers wrap at ______. For example, the following image shows a cross-section of a compound wall that uses interior wrapping at the ______.

Curtain Wall

An exterior wall consisting of panels connected by joints or mullions. The panels can be made of glass, brick, or other materials.

Decal

An image to display on a face of a model element. For example, you can use ______ for signs, paintings, and billboards. In project views, a placeholder indicates the location of a ______. The full ______ displays in a rendered image. The following rendered image shows a ______ on the television.

Element

An individual item in a building model. Revit Architecture projects use 3 types of ______: Model ______ represent the actual 3D geometry of a building. For example, walls, floors, and roofs are model ______ - Annotation ______ help to document the model. For example, dimensions, text notes, and section tags are annotation ______ - Datum ______ are non-physical items that are used to establish project context. For example, levels, grids, and reference planes are datum ______. The following drawing includes model ______ (walls, doors, planters), annotation ______ (dimensions, text notes), and datum ______ (grid lines).

Bounding Box

An invisible 3-dimensional rectangular space that contains all model elements, annotation elements, and datum elements defined in a family-based element. The ______ helps define the family origin of some elements, and aids joining and cutback of structural framing elements.

gbXML

An open schema created to help building designers gather information about the energy consumption characteristics of building projects. To perform energy analysis for a building model, you can export a Revit project to ______. Using a third-party application, analyze the resulting ______ file to calculate the loads for the building model.

ADSK

Autodesk Exchange File, the file format used by Autodesk applications to transmit design information.

DWF

Design Web Format, the Autodesk file format for publishing design data. It offers an alternative to generating PDF (Portable Document Format) files. DWF files are significantly smaller than the original RVT files, making them easy to send by email or to post to a web site. Recipients can view DWF files using Autodesk DWF Viewer.

DXF

Drawing Exchange Format. An open file format that is supported by many CAD applications. A ______ file is a text file that describes a 2D drawing. The text is not encoded or compressed, so ______ files are generally large. Revit Architecture can import and export DXF files.

Frame

In an animation, a single image (for example, in a walkthrough animation or a solar study). In a building, a rigid structure built into a wall to hold a door, window, or other component. In Revit Architecture, you can specify the material and finish for a door ______.

Element Properties

Parameters or settings that control the appearance or behavior of elements in a project. ______ are the combination of instance properties and type properties. To view or change ______, select the element in the drawing area, click Modify <element> tab > Element panel > ______ drop-down, and click ______ or Type Properties.

Collinear

Passing through or lying on the same straight line. Sketching a line that is ______ with an existing wall

Casework

Pre-built components, such as cabinets and cupboards for a kitchen or bathroom. Revit Architecture provides family types for ______.

3D reference plane

Reference planes are displayed in the conceptual design environment in the 3-dimensional views.

Cutback

The calculated adjustment in beam geometry that ensures beam ends meet without overlaying one another at a join. This is the visible gap seen in a steel beam connection within the Revit project.

Far clip plane

The clip plane that is at the side of the view farthest from the start point of an elevation view, a section view, a 3D view, or a walkthrough view. In the following floor plan, the green dotted line opposite the blue line represents the ______ for an elevation.

Building Footprint

The gross building area plan at ground level that is exported to an ADSK file when exporting a building site to a civil engineering application, such as AutoCAD® Civil 3D®.

Draw Order

The order in which elements display in a view, as if layered on a flat surface. You can move an element backward or forward in the ______, or bring it to the front or back of a stack of elements.

Drawing Area

The part of the Revit user interface that displays views, sheets, schedules, and other representations of the building model.

Focal Point

The point in the distance on which a camera is focusing.

Full Explode

The process of completely disassembling an import symbol (which represents imported geometry) into Revit elements, including text, curves, lines, and filled regions.

Datum Extent

The size of a datum plane (a plane for a level, grid, or reference line). Datum planes are not visible in all views. If the datum does not intersect a view plane, it will not be visible in that view. You can resize datum planes so that they are visible only in certain views.

Core

The structural part of a compound wall or other host element. When you use Revit Architecture to design a compound wall, you specify the layers and materials that compose the ______ of the wall, as well as the interior and exterior layers of the wall. In the following illustration, the ______ is outlined in green in the wall preview. The layer list is where you define and change the layers in and around the ______. When aligning or dimensioning the wall, you can choose to measure from the center of the ______ or from the interior face or exterior face of the ______.

Explode

To disassemble an import symbol (which represents imported geometry) into its next highest level of elements.

Attach

To explicitly join elements (such as walls or columns) to other modeling components. For example, you can ______ walls to floors, ceilings, and roofs. You can ______ columns to roofs, floors, ceilings, reference planes, structural framing members, and other reference levels.

Crop

To limit the boundaries of a view, omitting parts of the building model from the view.

Area

Usable space that is defined by walls or boundary lines or both. In Revit Architecture, you can perform an area analysis to define spatial relationships in a building model.