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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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1. Settings that control the appearance or behavior of a project view. To see or change ______ - right-click a blank area of the view in the drawing area - and click ______. Or right-click a view name in the Project Browser - and click Properties.
Bubble
DWF Design Web Format
View Properties
View Depth
2. A sample patch of a color or pattern. When you apply a color scheme to rooms - the floor plan can display a color scheme legend - which indicates the colors and what they represent. The color scheme legend includes color ______.
Swatch
i-drop
Walkthrough
Flip Control
3. 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.
Fill Volume
Polymesh
Divided Surface
Detail Line
4. Coordinate plotting grids for non-planar surfaces. Plotting locations in a 3D space is based on an XYZ coordinate system - while 2D Space is based on an XY system. Since surfaces are not necessarily planar - the UVW coordinate system is used to plot
Hidden Line
UV grid
Line Style
Sheet
5. A dimension that Revit Architecture displays as you draw or place elements in a view. ______ can help you to position an element in the desired location - or to draw a line to the desired length or angle. When you finish drawing or placing an element
Generic Annotation
Select
Text Note
Temporary Dimension
6. 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
Revision Schedule
End Cap
Central File
Highlight
7. 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 d
Vertex
Start Point
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Detail Line
8. 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 ca
Mullion
DWF markups
Discipline
Cut Line Style
9. To disassemble an import symbol (which represents imported geometry) into its next highest level of elements.
Workset
Explode
Object Style
Shortcut Menu
10. 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 d
Crop
Chain
Dependent View
Rule-based Filter
11. (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
View Control Bar
Profile
Building Maker
Head
12. A dimension that specifies a particular size for an element or a distance between elements or points. ______ always display in the view in which they are created. You can lock ______ so that they cannot be changed without first unlocking them. You ca
Permanent Dimension
UV grid
Detail View
Filter
13. Comments or revision instructions from someone who reviewed a building design. When you publish construction documents as DWF files - the files can be ______ up electronically using a program such as Autodesk Design Review. Then the ______ can be lin
Reference Elevation
Markup
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Decal
14. An Autodesk product. ______ optimizes mechanical/electrical/plumbing (MEP) systems engineering through data-driven system sizing and design. It provides a building information modeling design and documentation solution for MEP engineering.
Revit MEP
Entourage
Perpendicular View
Mullion
15. Project coordinates that are used for remembering the mutual positions of multiple interlinked files. Those interlinked files can be all RVT files - or a combination of RVT - DWG - and DXF files.
Pin
Permanent Dimension
Shared Coordinates
Import Symbol
16. A Revit element that contains all objects (such as blocks and xrefs) from an imported drawing. When you move the cursor over the imported objects - Revit Architecture shows information about the ______. You can explode an ______ to convert it into in
Break Control
Project Standards
Property
Import Symbol
17. The file format for a Revit project.
Revit Architecture
RVT
Perspective View
Attached Detail Group
18. 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.
Primary View
Floor Plan
View Template
Central File
19. 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.
Note Block
Mullion
Cutback
Building Pad
20. 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.
Cut Line Style
RTE
Instance Parameters
Constraint
21. A horizontal or vertical projection from a wall - often decorative in nature. Examples of ______ include baseboards and crown molding.
Wall Sweep
Room Separation Line
Material Takeoff Schedule
Shared Parameters
22. A sketched line that does not connect to itself. Instead - it leaves an open space between the start point and endpoint of the line. In Revit Architecture - you use ______ to sketch a roof by extrusion and to split toposurfaces and faces. In the foll
Frame
Note Block
Open Loop
Moment
23. A graphic representation of an annotation element or other object. ______ are sometimes referred to as tags. Revit Architecture uses ______ for annotations - moment frames - cantilever connections - and other elements.
Symbol
Property
Label
Radial
24. A copy of the project file that resides on the computer system of the team member who is working on the file. When worksharing is used to distribute project work among team members - each member uses a ______ to work on his or her workset (functional
Revision Schedule
Hidden Element
Local File
Sketch
25. Pre-built components - such as cabinets and cupboards for a kitchen or bathroom. Revit Architecture provides family types for ______.
Casework
Revit Structure
Solar Study
Instance Parameters
26. A technique used to manage datasets of polygons and divide them into suitable structures for rendering. Data is often ______ into triangles - which is sometimes referred to as triangulation. When CAD or design software applications export 3D geometry
View List
View Properties
Parallel View
Tessellation
27. A collection of elements in a workshared project that can be worked on independently. A ______ is typically a discrete functional area - such as interior - exterior - or site. When you enable worksharing - you can divide a project into ______ - with
Lock
Monolithic Stairs
Workset
Perpendicular View
28. A Revit file that contains all information about a building design.
Project
Work Plane
Matchline
Instance Parameters
29. A table that provides descriptions or information about symbols used in drawings. In Revit Architecture - you can create a ______ and include it on multiple sheets.
Parametric
Legend
Referencing View
Void Geometry
30. In Revit Architecture - a vertical or horizontal strip between panels of a curtain wall or curtain system.
Cut Line Style
Stacked Wall
Detail Level
Mullion
31. Reference planes are displayed in the conceptual design environment in the 3-dimensional views.
Web Library
Zoom
Cut Plane
3D reference plane
32. 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 eleme
Masking Region
Spline
Array
Type Catalog
33. 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.
Blend
Host
Embedded Wall
Halftone
34. A setting that determines the appearance or behavior of an element - type - or view. Also called a property.
Keynote Legend
Parameter
Worksharing
Tessellation
35. A 2-dimensional plane used when designing families of model elements or placing elements in a building model.
Control
Schedule
Bubble
Reference Plane
36. A view of a floor plan or a reflected ceiling plan for a building model.
View Control Bar
Swatch
Plan View
Spline
37. 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. Yo
Divided Surface
Discipline
on-bearing Wall
Link
38. 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
Projection Line Style
Moment
Datum
View Depth
39. 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 alterna
Design Option
Matchline
Pin
Status Bar
40. Passing through or lying on the same straight line. Sketching a line that is ______ with an existing wall
Trim
UV grid
Collinear
Label
41. 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.
Category
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Chain
Nested Family
42. A file format for fill patterns. A pattern file is a text file that contains definitions for model or drafting patterns in a project.
End Cap
Design Option
Listening Dimensions
PAT
43. In Revit Architecture - the adjacent materials of a compound structure - such as a wall. You can define the ______ in a compound structure.
Sheet
Layer
Reference Elevation
ODBC
44. A model element that can accept other components. For example - a wall is a ______ for windows and doors. A roof is a ______ for skylights and dormers. A ______ may also be referred to as a ______ element or a ______ component.
Focal Point
Host
Mullion
Control
45. (1) The intersection where 2 or more elements share a common face. (2) To resolve intersections between elements that share a common face. The level of detail for the view determines the detail of the ______ geometry that is shown. The following imag
Join
Wall Join
True North
Void Geometry
46. A method of annotating drawings to identify building materials - describe assembly instructions - or provide special instructions or explanations. ______ help to standardize information related to the building design and can help reduce clutter in dr
Project Parameters
Legend
Keynoting
Line Pattern
47. A 3D view that shows a building model in which all components are the same size - regardless of the camera's distance from them.
RTE
Plan
Communication Center
Orthographic View
48. For a 3-dimensional shape - an intersection of 3 sides. When you blend 2D shapes to create a 3D shape - you can use ______ connections to control the rate at which one shape is blended to another shape.
Vertex
RVT
Nested Family
Line Pattern
49. One or more masses in a Revit project. ______ allow you to explore design ideas by using shapes to conceptualize a building model. When your conceptual design is complete - you can add building elements directly to these shapes.
Polymesh
Reference Plane
Massing Study
Slope Arrow
50. A 3-dimensional shape used in a building model. You can use the Family Editor to create ______ shapes to build families of model elements.
Keynoting
Solid Geometry
Mullion
Revit Architecture