- [Instructor] Hello, my
name is Gerald Garret.
I'm a Solutions Consultant with U.S.CAD,
with a focus in design of the AEC market.
Today, I will review removing drafting,
insert virtual construction.
This course pertains three topics
in which I'll briefly discuss:
Bi-directional associativity,
usable model information,
and real world context.
Within the past few years B.I.M. has been
a huge buzzword in the AEC industry.
Within B.I.M. lives many
powerful workflows and tools
for faster than ever usage in design.
Bi-directional associativity
is one of those many tools.
What this simply means is
whatever you do in one view
will also update and be done
through the entire project
and all of its other views.
This creates such as smart workflow,
that redoing work becomes irrelevant
compared to CAD-based
workflows of the past.
A quick overview for
bi-directional associativity
would be something as simple as
copying these chairs or
ottomans a few different times.
You see that is happening
not in only one view,
which is the floor plan I'm working in,
but also in 3-D view to the right.
Once these components are in place,
if I put dimensions on them,
I can go ahead equal these dimensions out
so everything kind of lines
up where I need for it to be.
And again, paying attention
to it happening in both views.
Information within the B.I.M. world
is easier to update and
access now more than ever.
Components and Revit like
schedules and parameters
play a huge part in this.
Where parameters controls
what's populated in the actual schedules,
which is a ton of information,
you can personally specify
for every component and
family with the new model.
An example would be
determining totals for walls,
including areas, volumes, widths,
manufacturers, descriptions, and types.
While this traditionally would take hours
in doing a manual takeoff
and leave the possibility
for errors, this is no more.
Within each component pertains
a lot of different parameters:
With the view walls, we
can look under edit type.
I wanna create a schedule for this.
And I wanna look for the wall schedule,
now go ahead and add
some different fields.
After I have my fields
I go ahead, and sort,
and group these parameters,
so that my schedule
looks the way I need for it to do.
In doing so make sure that
I calculate my grand totals
for a certain parameters,
including area width and the volume.
This will give me a nice pretty schedule,
showing all the information
that I'm looking for,
including the grand total of the amount
of families and types,
the square footage, and the cubic feet.
Real world context comes within Revit
through the real world sizing
and viewing of components.
Rendering, for example,
for the perspective view
is one of the most powerful
tools in showing this.
A simple render view can
speak a thousand words
to a building stakeholder.
Thank you for watching, and I look forward
to collaborating with all of you
through this new era of connection.
