Revit MEP Essential course in Petaling Jaya

Day 1

• Revit in a Nutshell – interactive exercise on creating and documenting a basic building
• Introduction to the Principles of BIM – simple truths, behind the hype, the benefits of BIM, what will BIM deliver
• UI Tour, Project Navigation and View Creation – introducing the menu and screen layout, interrogating the model to extract views
• UI Tour, Project Navigation and View Creation (cont.) – placement and properties of grids and levels, introduction to basic Revit elements
• Creating a Building – working with compound walls, interior walls, vertically compound walls, doors & windows
• Element Selection and Manipulation – object selection and methods, element properties, instance and type parameters, nodes and snaps
• Visibility Control and Categorisation – project-wide settings, view specific overrides, elements specific overrides, individual line overrides
• Visibility Control and Categorisation (cont.) – exercise on modifying element visibility
• Model Development Methodology – rationalised model construction, graded component libraries, data-rich/graphics light
• Model Development Methodology (cont.) – controlling 3D geometry and 2D linework

Day 2

• Introduction to Building Elements – basic wall definitions, floors, roofs, and ceilings; sketching rules; relating slabs to walls and supports
• Introduction to Building Elements (cont.) – slab slopes, roof design and ceiling definition; system family editing; column and beam placement
• Equipment, Fixtures and Fittings – family terminology, component placement, selecting the correct level, MEP workflow
• Introducing Systems – setting up the project profile, main systems, system browser, connectors and other air systems
• Basic Schedules and Legends – interactive session on the generation of tabular interrogations of the model
• Geometry Formation and In-Place Families – interactive session on the creation and manipulation of basic solid and void forms
• Mechanical Systems – mechanical settings, duct types and fittings, creating duct and piping systems, insulating and lining ductwork
• Mechanical Systems (cont.) – plant and equipment, mechanical pipework, flanges and fittings

Day 3

• Electrical Systems and Circuits – equipment, devices and fixtures; wiring, cable tray and conduit modelling; circuits and switch systems
• Plumbing Systems – plumbing settings, plumbing fixtures, creating plumbing systems, creating sanitary systems
• Plumbing Systems (cont.) – domestic hot and cold water systems, system browser
• Rooms, Areas, Spaces, and Volumes – room definition and bounding elements; space type settings and computation for areas and volumes
• Rooms, Areas, Spaces, and Volumes (cont.) – zones and control systems; room and space calculations, scheduling and use of the data
• 2D Draughting and Annotation – introducing annotation tools and components categories, details components libraries, repeating details
• 2D Draughting and Annotation (cont.) – lines and arcs; text, tags and keynotes
• Sheet Compilation and Publication – project browser organisation (WIP and Publish), creating and populating sheets
• Sheet Compilation and Publication (cont.) – working and schedules, publishing and document management
• Basic Subdivision and Collaboration – introducing a BIM Strategy document, model management, project team collaboration techniques
• Basic Subdivision and Collaboration (cont.) – transmittal and model issue protocols, basics of large model sub-division
• Introduction to the Principles of Family Editing – the basic process, 10 stages for trouble free family creation