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1. 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
Pattern Component
Compound Wall
Type Parameters
Central File
2. A 3-dimensional shape that results from removing shapes from solid geometry.
RFA
Void Geometry
Line Pattern
Drafting Pattern
3. A view in which the annotation symbol for the current view is visible. For example - if you use the Find ______ tool for an elevation view - Revit Architecture lists all views in which its elevation symbol is visible.
Detail Line
System Family
Referring View
Area
4. 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
Footprint
Wireframe
Cut Volume
5. A graphic (shaped like a cloud) that indicates changes in a construction document. In Revit Architecture - you can sketch ______ in all views except 3D views. The cloud is visible only in the view in which it is sketched.
Spot Elevation Dimension
Datum Extent
Revision Cloud
Datum
6. 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
Extrusion
Revit Structure
Worksharing
True North
7. 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
Revit MEP
Hidden Element
Primary View
Detail View
8. 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
Import Symbol
Attach
Structural Column
Embedded Wall
9. Part of a plan view that has a different view range from the overall view. ______ are useful for split level plans or for displaying inserts above or below the cut plane.
Focal Point
Matchline
Plan Region
Isolate
10. 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>
Casework
Element Properties
ADSK
Slope Arrow
11. 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.
Dimension
Mirror
Fillet
Embedded Wall
12. A menu of context-sensitive options. A ______ displays when you right-click an element or view.
Attach
Rendering
Shortcut Menu
Far clip plane
13. A Revit function for workshared projects. ______ allows you to edit an element in a workset that you do not own. If another team member is currently editing the workset - that team member is the owner of the workset and you must place a request to bo
Element Borrowing
Halftone
Casework
Far clip plane
14. A family that consists of instances of other families (subcomponents). The subcomponents can belong to the same category (for example - various window types) or different categories (for example - an exterior door and two lighting fixtures). You crea
Void Geometry
Family
ODBC
Nested Family
15. Stairs that consist of one solid piece of material - such as concrete. In Revit Architecture - you can specify that stairs are ______ in the stair type properties. You can also specify the material for ______.
View Reference
Monolithic Stairs
Cutback
View Properties
16. The process of generating a photorealistic illustration of a building design. Rendered images are often used to present building designs to clients. Revit Architecture renders 3D project views with various effects - such as lights - plants - decals -
Object
UV grid
Rendering
Drafting View
17. A 3-dimensional shape used in a building model. You can use the Family Editor to create ______ shapes to build families of model elements.
Legend
Detail View
Solid Geometry
UV grid
18. 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
Perspective View
i-drop
Detail Line
Location Line
19. A symbolic representation of a material in a drawing. (For example - sand is represented by a stipple pattern.) You can place ______ on flat and cylindrical surfaces - and you can define them for families. You can also place ______ on cut component s
Fill Volume
Casework
Stacked Wall
Drafting Pattern
20. An individual item in a building model. Revit Architecture projects use 3 types of ______: Model ______ represent the actual 3D geometry of a building. For example - walls - floors - and roofs are model ______ - Annotation ______ help to document the
Entourage
Library
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Element
21. 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
End Cap
Radial
Cut Volume
Detail Group
22. A collection of predefined project resources that are available on the Internet. For example - you can access ______ of templates - detail components - entourage - and families of model elements and annotation elements.
Callout
Instance Parameters
Web Library
Revit MEP
23. 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.
Family
i-drop
Massing Study
Cut Volume
24. A file format developed by the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI). ______ provides an interoperability solution between ______-compatible software applications in the construction and facilities management industry. The format has esta
Curtain Wall
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Category
Parametric
25. An open file format that is supported by many CAD applications. A ______ file is a text file that describes a 2D drawing. The text is not encoded or compressed - so ______ files are generally large. Revit Architecture can import and export DXF files.
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
Snap
Witness line
Closed Loop
26. 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 -
Type
Model Line
Break Line
SKP
27. A sketch line that indicates where to split a view for a dependent view - as shown.
Cutback
Shared Coordinates
Symbol
Matchline
28. (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
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
Reference Line
Design Option
Join
29. 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.
Volumetric Geometry
Floor Plan
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
Central File
30. A defined area that obscures elements in a view. ______ are useful when you are creating a model family from an imported 2D DWG file - and you need the model element to obscure other elements when placed in a view. You can also use them to hide parts
Local File
Matchline
Masking Region
Reference Label
31. A file format for fill patterns. A pattern file is a text file that contains definitions for model or drafting patterns in a project.
PAT
Imported Categories
Instance Parameters
DWF markups
32. A fixed starting point - or the point in a coordinate system where the axes intersect. In Revit Architecture - you use an ______ for many functions - such as positioning a linked project - creating a custom fill pattern - positioning a group - resizi
Far clip plane
Callout
Origin
Section Box
33. The point in the distance on which a camera is focusing.
Face
Line Pattern
Focal Point
Type Parameters
34. 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.
Flip Control
Crop
Load
Element
35. A drawing file format supported by AutoCAD and other CAD applications. Revit Architecture can import and export ______ files.
Orthographic View
DWG
Dependent View
Project
36. 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
Polyline
Load
Object
RTE
37. A vertical or horizontal plane that defines a boundary for a view. You can use top - bottom - left - and right ______ to define a view. In elevation and section views - you can also use a far ______ to define the depth of the view. Green dotted lines
Clip Plane
Embedded Wall
Property
Curtain Wall
38. 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.
Chain
View Reference
Options Bar
Building Maker
39. 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
Orientation
Join
Project Template
Array
40. Reference planes are displayed in the conceptual design environment in the 3-dimensional views.
Array
Curtain Wall
3D reference plane
Tick Mark
41. 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.
Polymesh
Divided Surface
Start Point
Viewport
42. A setting that determines the appearance or behavior of an element - type - or view. Also called a parameter.
Cut Volume
Solar Study
Bubble
Property
43. A view of a floor plan or a reflected ceiling plan for a building model.
Blend
Embedded Wall
UV grid
Plan View
44. 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.
on-bearing Wall
Volumetric Geometry
Cutback
Attached Detail Group
45. 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.
Underlay
DWF Design Web Format
Symbol
Witness line
46. (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
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
Plan View
Snap
Project Browser
47. 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
Reference Section
Polyline
Projection Line Style
View Reference
48. 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
Keynoting
Generic Annotation
Mark
Reference Plane
49. 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
Section Box
DWF markups
Site Utility
Shading with Edges
50. 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 _
Partial Explode
Zoom
Reference Point
Sheet
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