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1. Settings that control the appearance or behavior of all elements of a particular family type. ______ are also called type properties. The instance parameters and ______ of an element combine to establish its element properties.
Type Parameters
Primary View
Object
Tag
2. A tabular display of information. In Revit Architecture - a ______ is extracted from the properties of elements in a project. It is displayed in a ______ view. Using Revit Architecture - you can create many types of ______ - including quantities - ma
Revision Cloud
Layer
Join
Schedule
3. A graphical icon in the Revit drawing area that you use to manipulate elements. For example - when you select a chain of walls - blue circles display. These blue circles are drag ______. You can drag such a ______ to change the shape of the walls. Ot
Rough Opening
Profile
Control
Hidden Line Mode
4. 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.
Rendering
Property
Cut Volume
View Range
5. A model element that defines a boundary of a room. For example - walls - partitions - floors - ceilings - and roofs are room-bounding elements. Revit Architecture uses room-bounding elements when calculating the area or volume of a room. You can desi
Building Pad
Model Pattern
Phase
Room-bounding Elements
6. A set of characteristics that define the line weight - line color - line pattern - and material for a category of model elements - annotation elements - or imported objects in a project.
Object Style
Line Weight
Architectural Column
Scope Box
7. The beginning of a sketched line.
Partial Explode
Start Point
End Cap
Setback
8. The order in which elements display in a view - as if layered on a flat surface. You can move an element backward or forward in the ______ - or bring it to the front or back of a stack of elements.
Structural Column
Building Pad
Draw Order
Chain
9. A sketched line that connects to itself - creating a 2-dimensional shape. A ______ cannot contain coincident or intersecting segments. In Revit Architecture - you sketch ______ to create floors - ceilings - plan regions - openings in walls and roofs
Symbolic Line
Closed Loop
Trim
Frame
10. 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
Location Line
Stacked Wall
Line Pattern
11. Text displayed in a callout tag when a reference callout is created in the plan view - or text displayed in a section head when a reference section is created in the plan view.
Wall Sweep
Drawing List
Reference Label
Shortcut Menu
12. A drop-down list on the ribbon from which you can select a family type for the element being added or modified.
Type Selector
Building Footprint
Revision Cloud
Paint
13. 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
Discipline
Hidden Line
Area Scheme
Extrusion
14. 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.
View Range
Reference Point
Clip Plane
Area
15. 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
Profile
Stacked Wall
Generic Annotation
Instance Parameters
16. A drawing file format supported by AutoCAD and other CAD applications. Revit Architecture can import and export ______ files.
Detail Level
Join
DWG
Type Catalog
17. A model graphics style in which Revit Architecture shows the image with all surfaces shaded according to their material color settings and project light locations. A default light source provides illumination for the ______ elements.
Explode
Perspective View
Polymesh
Shading
18. 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.
Pan
Keynote Legend
End Cap
Area
19. A unique identifier that you assign to an element in its properties. You can include ______ in schedules and tag labels. For example - the following site plan shows ______ for individual parking spaces. These ______ are also listed in the parking sch
Shape Handle
Property
Mark
Referring View
20. In Revit Architecture - a section of a curtain wall or a curtain system. ______ are separated by mullions. ______ can consist of glass or different types of walls.
Material
Panel
Shared Family
Generic Model
21. 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.
Reflected Ceiling Plan View
Legend
Drafting View
Tick Mark
22. A surface of a model element or mass. You can apply paint - materials - and textures to each ______ of a model element (such as a wall). These details display when you render an image of the building model. You can use mass ______ as the basis for cr
Shortcut Menu
Category
Face
Offset
23. A 2D - view-specific graphic. You can use ______ to represent various surfaces - such as concrete or compacted earth. You can add a ______ to a detail view - a drafting view - or an annotation family. For each ______ - you can specify a boundary line
Parallel View
Core
Filled Region
Monolithic Stairs
24. A shape (such as a circle or cloud) that contains identification text for a grid - level - view title - callout - or annotation.
UV grid
Profile
Callout
Bubble
25. 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.
Planting
Section Box
Footprint
Viewport
26. An annotation used to identify elements in a drawing. ______ provide a way to automate the display of attributes for an element or type. Revit Architecture provides default ______ for some types of elements - such as windows - doors - and rooms. You
Fill Volume
Tag
Focal Point
Fillet
27. 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.
Proxy Graphics
Pattern Component
Array
Perspective View
28. A text placeholder added to tags or title blocks. You create a ______ as part of a tag or title block family while in the Family Editor. When you place the tag or title block in the project - you replace the ______ with the actual value for that inst
Label
Massing Study
Tick Mark
Model Line
29. 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
Material Takeoff Schedule
Shared Parameters
RVT
Far clip plane
30. 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
Partial Explode
Local File
Category
RVT
31. To explicitly join elements (such as walls or columns) to other modeling components. For example - you can ______ walls to floors - ceilings - and roofs. You can ______ columns to roofs - floors - ceilings - reference planes - structural framing memb
Material Takeoff Schedule
Temporary Dimension
ADSK
Attach
32. A section tag that refers to an existing section view. When you create a ______ - Revit Architecture does not create a new view in the project. Instead - the ______ uses an existing section - allowing you to indicate different areas that have identic
Orientation
Draw Order
Work Plane
Reference Section
33. 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
Radial
View Depth
Tessellation
Rendering
34. A curved line drawn by specifying and positioning a number of points. Revit Architecture uses a mathematical polynomial function to smoothly join the segments at these points - creating the curved line.
Leader
Symbolic Line
Trim
Spline
35. 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.
Paint
Halftone
Toposurface
RVT
36. A schedule (list) of all drawing sheets in a project. The drawing list functions as a table of contents for the project. It is typically placed on the first sheet of a construction document set.
Drawing List
Shared Parameters
Highlight
Panel
37. The top of the view in the drawing area. When producing solar studies or rendered images - change the view orientation from ______ to True North to create accurate sunlight and shadow patterns for the project.
Miter
Masking Region
Project North
Draw Order
38. A series of 2-dimensional lines and arcs that form a closed loop. Use ______ to define cross-sections for railings - balusters - soffits - cornices - and other sweep-defined objects.
Viewport
Project Standards
Profile
Note Block
39. 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.
Link
Constraint
Chain
Material Takeoff Schedule
40. In Revit Architecture - a vertical or horizontal strip between panels of a curtain wall or curtain system.
DWF markups
Mullion
Project North
Bubble
41. Passing through or lying on the same straight line. Sketching a line that is ______ with an existing wall
Collinear
Framing Elevation
Schedule
Detail View
42. A horizontal height at which certain elements in the view are shown in cross-section.
Layer
Plan Region
Cut Plane
Orientation
43. A model element - annotation element - datum element - or imported element in a project.
Revision Schedule
Library
Attached Detail Group
Object
44. An annotation that consists of text and may include a leader line and arrow. You can add ______ to a detail view - drafting view - or a sheet.
Type
Spot Elevation Dimension
Text Note
Tick Mark
45. Categories of elements that are derived from an imported drawing. You can change the visibility and graphic display of ______ through the visibility graphics menu.
Imported Categories
Paint
Schedule
Template
46. A view of a floor plan or a reflected ceiling plan for a building model.
Plan View
Project Parameters
Scale
View Reference
47. An exterior wall consisting of panels connected by joints or mullions. The panels can be made of glass - brick - or other materials.
Attached Detail Group
System Family
Curtain Wall
Revit Structure
48. 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
Section Box
Level
Layer Mapping File
Partial Explode
49. 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.
Stacked Wall
Moment
Revolve
Cutback
50. A 3D view that shows a building model in which all components are the same size - regardless of the camera's distance from them.
Label
Permanent Dimension
Target Point
Orthographic View
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