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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A set of model elements that are placed together in a building design. ______ are useful when you need to create entities that represent repeating units or are common to many building projects (such as hotel rooms - apartments - or repeating floors).
Frame
Model Group
Target Point
Drawing List
2. 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.
Architectural Column
3D reference plane
Flip Control
Full Explode
3. 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
Keynoting
Break Line
Decal
Tessellation
4. A list of the subcomponents or materials of any Revit family. ______ have all the functionality and characteristics of other schedule views - but they allow you to show more detail about the assembly of a component. Any material that is applied to a
DWG
Material Takeoff Schedule
Rendering
View Control Bar
5. The ______ defines the origin (0 -0 -0) of the project coordinate system. It also can be used to position a building on a site and for locating the design elements of a building during construction.
Label
Project Base Point
Tag
RVT
6. A horizontal height at which certain elements in the view are shown in cross-section.
Tag
Generic Annotation
Type
Cut Plane
7. Part of the Revit interface that provides context-sensitive settings and functions - depending on the tool currently in use. In the Revit window - the ______ is located below the ribbon and above the drawing area.
Reflected Ceiling Plan View
Drafting View
ADSK
Options Bar
8. 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 wa
Layer
Core
Attached Detail Group
Trim
9. The file format for a Revit project.
RVT
Mullion
Hosted Component
3D reference plane
10. 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.
Generic Model
Chain
Origin
Building Maker
11. 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.
RVT
Slope Arrow
Host
Type
12. 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.
Framing Elevation
Options Bar
Curtain System
Detail Line
13. Passing through or lying on the same straight line. Sketching a line that is ______ with an existing wall
Nested Family
Level
Element Properties
Collinear
14. 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
Model Line
Nested Family
Layer Mapping File
End Cap
15. A collection of predefined resources that you can use in a Revit project. For example - you can access ______ of templates - detail components - entourage - materials - and families of model elements and annotation elements. Revit Architecture provid
Library
Lock
Divided Surface
Tessellation
16. 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>
Element Properties
Text Note
Revit MEP
Architectural Column
17. Settings that control the appearance or behavior of an individual element in a project. The ______ and type parameters of an element combine to establish its element properties. ______ are also called instance properties.
Instance Parameters
Cut Line Style
Radial
Revision Cloud
18. 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.
Underlay
Tick Mark
Flip Control
Ground plane
19. 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.
NURB Surface
Local File
View Properties
Monolithic Stairs
20. A mechanism for determining which elements are selected (for modification or manipulation) based on their family types or element parameters.
Selection Filter
Face
Architectural Column
Bounding Box
21. An Autodesk feature that allows you to drag and drop content from a web page into a Revit session. Using ______ - designers and developers have the power to create web pages that can easily be dragged and dropped into Autodesk design products that ar
Crop
i-drop
Proxy Graphics
Draw Order
22. 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
Primary View
Callout
Offset
Referencing View
23. A method of displaying model elements in views. For example - you can choose to display a model using wireframe - hidden lines - shading - or shading with edges. You can specify the ______ for a view using the View Control Bar at the bottom of the Re
System Family
Embedded Wall
Revit Structure
Model Graphics Style
24. A design method in which different team members are responsible for designing different functional areas of the same project file.
Wall Join
Project Browser
Discipline
Worksharing
25. 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.
Poche
Camera
Legend
Drag Control
26. 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.
Room Separation Line
Fill Volume
Wall Sweep
Symbolic Line
27. A list of keynote numbers and the corresponding keynote text. If you choose to annotate model elements using keynote numbers only - you can use a ______ to provide descriptive text for each keynote number. By using a keynote legend - you avoid clutte
Resize
Keynote Legend
Reference Point
Frame
28. In Revit Architecture - the adjacent materials of a compound structure - such as a wall. You can define the ______ in a compound structure.
Isolate
Patterned Surface
Layer
End Cap
29. A column that adds architectural interest to a building. An ______ can be used to model box-outs around structural columns and for decorative applications.
Architectural Column
Full Explode
Volumetric Geometry
Reference Plane
30. To limit the boundaries of a view - omitting parts of the building model from the view.
Polyline
Crop
SKP
Project North
31. A user interface mechanism that allows you to manipulate and activate a view that has been placed on a sheet. When you activate a view through a ______ - you can edit the model directly on the sheet.
Host
Viewport
Bounding Box
Temporary Dimension
32. To move a component from one host to another. For example - you can use the Rehost tool to move a window from one wall to another wall.
RTE
Rehost
Scope Box
Worksharing
33. An element that you hide in a particular view.
Matchline
Miter
Offset
Hidden Element
34. The characteristic of being visible in one project view only.
View-specific
Filter
Collinear
Options Bar
35. The process of disassembling an import symbol (which represents imported geometry) into its next highest level of elements: nested import symbols. A ______ yields more import symbols - which - in turn - can be exploded into elements or other import s
System Family
Join
Partial Explode
RPC
36. The view on which one or more dependent views are based. The dependent views remain synchronous with the ______and other dependent views - so that when view-specific changes (such as view scale and annotations) are made in one view - they are reflect
Break Control
Section Box
Imported Categories
Primary View
37. To move the cursor over an object in the drawing area so that Revit Architecture displays the object's outline in a different weight (bold) and color (such as gray instead of black). A description of the element displays on the status bar at the bott
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
Highlight
Permanent Dimension
Keynote Legend
38. A 3D view of a building model - in which components that are further away appear smaller than those that are closer. In Revit Architecture - you create a ______ by placing a camera in a 3D view.
Level
Perspective View
Autodesk Seek
End Cap
39. 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.
Level
Dimension
Vertex
Compound Wall
40. 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 secti
Break Control
Title Block
Hidden Element
Legend
41. A collection of view properties (such as view scale - discipline - detail level - and visibility settings) that can be applied to a project view. For example - you might create one ______ for a structural floor plan - and another ______ for an exit f
View Template
Monolithic Stairs
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Subcategory
42. To apply a material to a surface of a model element. In Revit Architecture - you can ______ walls - floors - roofs - and masses. In the following image - the wall - door - door frame - and window frame are ______ different colors.
Group
Generic Annotation
Filled Region
Paint
43. 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 vi
Property
Note Block
Datum Extent
View Depth
44. A filter with user-defined rules that determine the visibility/graphics settings for model elements in a particular view. For example - you can create a ______ that displays all fire-rated walls as solid red in a plan view to distinguish them from no
View List
Profile
Rule-based Filter
Building Pad
45. 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
Join
Reference Plane
Split
Key Schedule
46. 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
Orientation
Element Properties
Offset
Split
47. A set of horizontal planes that control the visibility and display of objects in a view. The horizontal planes are Top Clip Plane - Cut Plane - Bottom Clip Plane - and View Depth. Elements outside the ______ do not display in the view.
Reference Point
Compound Wall
View Range
ADSK
48. An elevation tag that refers to an existing elevation or drafting view. When you add a ______ to a project - Revit Architecture does not create a new view for it. Instead - the reference elevation uses an existing elevation - allowing you to indicate
Divided Surface
Location Line
Reference Elevation
Polymesh
49. 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
Parametric
Level
Location Line
Focal Point
50. A drafting term that refers to rounding a square corner - using a radius to define the curve.
Element Properties
Crop Region
Fillet
Break Line