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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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1. 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.
Project Browser
Layer
Footprint
Imported Categories
2. A 2-dimensional plane used when designing families of model elements or placing elements in a building model.
Reference Plane
ADSK
Building Pad
Perspective View
3. A model element that exists in 3D space and is visible in all views of a Revit project. You can use ______ to represent 3D geometry in a building design - such as cords or cables that secure a tarp. You can sketch straight - curved - arc - circular -
RTE
Retaining Wall
Type
Model Line
4. A family of elements that is created within the context of the current project. An ______ exists only in the project and cannot be loaded into other projects. Using ______ - you can create components that are unique to a project or components that re
Reference Label
Category
Massing Study
In-place Family
5. A vertical plane in a wall that is used for dimensioning. You create a wall by sketching the ______ of the wall in a plan view or a 3D view. You specify what to use for the ______ in the element properties of the wall: the wall centerline - core cent
Location Line
Array
Project North
Drawing Area
6. A project view or imported file that you use to help position elements in the current view. For example - when you use a section view as an ______ to a detail view - model elements in the detail view display in halftone or a different line weight and
Underlay
Pan
Sheet
Volumetric Geometry
7. 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
Footprint
Mirror
Area Scheme
Panel
8. The file format for projects created using Google SketchUp - a general purpose modeling and visualization tool. You can import ______ files into a Revit project.
Slope Arrow
Constraint
Symbolic Line
SKP
9. A table of information that you create to simplify or automate data entry in other - larger schedules. A ______ can reduce the time required to produce a larger schedule and help to generate accurate cost estimates. For example - a room schedule for
Key Schedule
Line Style
Shape Handle
Polyline
10. To change the magnification of a view. In a 3D context - ______ moves the camera in and out. In a 2D context - ______ moves up and down perpendicular to the view. To ______ in is to increase the magnification - making the building appear larger. To _
Reference Point
Zoom
Referencing View
Volumetric Geometry
11. 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 pl
Pan
Component
Status Bar
Planting
12. 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.
Resize
Constraint
View Properties
Toposurface
13. A Revit file that contains all information about a building design.
Patterned Surface
Project
Text Note
Attached Detail Group
14. A subdivision within a family of elements. For example - the family of Concrete Round Columns is further divided into ______ such as Concrete Round 18" - Concrete Round 24" - and Concrete Round 30".
Cut Volume
Model Element
Type
Link
15. Representations of AutoCAD objects. Revit Architecture supports ______ from AutoCAD files. Unlike AutoCAD objects - ______ have no intelligence.
Proxy Graphics
Rule-based Filter
Keynoting
Mullion
16. A design method in which different team members are responsible for designing different functional areas of the same project file.
Drafting View
Swatch
Project Browser
Worksharing
17. To transfer a file or a collection of information from an outside location into a Revit project. In Revit Architecture - you can ______ groups - templates - detail components - entourage - materials - families of model elements and annotation element
Model Line
Load
Reference Plane
Planting
18. A horizontal or vertical projection from a wall - often decorative in nature. Examples of ______ include baseboards and crown molding.
Polymesh
Reference Point
Paint
Wall Sweep
19. 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 y
Generic Annotation
Note Block
Reflected Ceiling Plan View
Framing Elevation
20. 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
Bounding Box
Attach
True North
21. 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 ______ f
Far clip plane
Scale
on-bearing Wall
DWF Design Web Format
22. 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
Tessellation
Reference Plane
Drawing Area
Masking Region
23. User-defined fields that you add to families or projects and then share with other families and projects. They are stored in a file independently of a family file or Revit project; this allows you to access the file from different families or project
Shared Parameters
Pin
Fill Pattern
Perpendicular View
24. An insert that fills (patches) a hole in a host element after changes are made during different phases of a building project. For example - if you remove a window from a wall during a demolition phase - Revit Architecture fills the hole with an _____
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Shading with Edges
Rough Opening
Infill Element
25. 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.
Massing Study
Poche
Spot Elevation Dimension
Resize
26. The state of being aligned with (or facing the same direction as) a particular item or direction. For example - in Revit Architecture you can change the ______ of a view to True North - or you can change the ______ of a compound wall to reverse the o
End Cap
gbXML
Reference Elevation
Orientation
27. 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.
View Range
Face
Color Scheme
Building Maker
28. 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 w
Project Standards
Element Properties
Referencing View
End Cap
29. A photorealistic image of a building model used to evaluate the impact of natural light and shadows on the buildings and site.
Solar Study
Reference Plane
Chain
Detail Group
30. In a 3D context - ______ moves the camera left and right. In a 2D context - ______ scrolls the view. If you are using ______ with an active view on a sheet - ______ scrolls the sheet view - not the active view on the sheet.
Central File
Listening Dimensions
Temporary Dimension
Pan
31. To restrict the movement of an element using the _____ tool. When you ______ an element - you cannot move it by dragging or using the Move tool. However - changes in other attached elements may result in movement of the ______ element.
Pin
Core
Project Parameters
Underlay
32. 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.
Control
Area
Selection Box
Reference Point
33. A text file that maps each Revit category or subcategory to a preconfigured layer name for the CAD software. For example - a Revit door object automatically maps to the A-DOOR layer in AutoCAD. The layer names are preconfigured in the text file - but
In-place Family
Project Parameters
Rehost
Layer Mapping File
34. 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 de
Rendering
Void Geometry
Detail Level
Sketch
35. An Autodesk product. ______ is a building design and documentation system that uses building information modeling to coordinate changes across all aspects of an architecture project.
Extrusion
Revit Architecture
Symbolic Line
Orthographic View
36. (1) To jump to a line or reference point in a drawing. (2) A line or reference point to which Revit Architecture will jump when you are placing a component or sketching a line. When you place a model element or sketch a line in a drawing - Revit Arch
Scale
Web Library
RFA
Snap
37. A view whose plane is at a right angle to the plane of another view. The following image illustrates the ______ planes on which a floor plan and an elevation are based.
Cut Volume
Object Style
Perpendicular View
Room-bounding Elements
38. 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 o
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Detail View
Extrusion
Nested Family
39. 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.
Object
End Cap
Shared Coordinates
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
40. The proportional system used to represent objects in a drawing. In Revit Architecture - you can assign a different ______ to each view.
Void Geometry
Solar Study
Attach
Scale
41. 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
Chain
DWF Design Web Format
Line Pattern
X-Ray
42. 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
RVT
Dependent View
Chain
Revit Structure
43. Reference planes are displayed in the conceptual design environment in the 3-dimensional views.
Family
3D reference plane
Select
Communication Center
44. 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
Revit Structure
Temporary Dimension
Projection Line Style
Cut Volume
45. A 3-dimensional shape used in a building model. You can use the Family Editor to create ______ shapes to build families of model elements.
Solid Geometry
Face
Sketch
Reference Elevation
46. A column that supports a vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Explode
Panel
Core
Structural Column
47. A graphic design for surfaces that are cut or shown in projection. You can use ______ for model patterns and drafting patterns.
Symbol
Head
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Fill Pattern
48. To secure a dimension or the location of an element so that it cannot be changed. When you select a ______ dimension or element - a ______ control displays next to it. The following drawing shows a ______ dimension.
Tick Mark
View List
Lock
Type Catalog
49. 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.
Legend
Poche
Revit MEP
View Range
50. 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 ap
Rendering
UV grid
gbXML
Flip Control
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