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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Central File
Filled Region
Profile
Detail Component
2. A list of changes made to a building design or construction document. A ______ displays in the title block of a sheet. As you add views with revision clouds to sheets - the ______ updates with information about the corresponding revisions.
Curtain Wall
Discipline
ADSK
Revision Schedule
3. A horizontal or vertical projection from a wall - often decorative in nature. Examples of ______ include baseboards and crown molding.
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Tick Mark
Grid
Wall Sweep
4. 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
Walkthrough
Primary View
Model Graphics Style
Core
5. An annotation that indicates the distance between 2 points or elements in a building model. In Revit Architecture - you can change the points or elements that are used as references for a ______. You can also control the gap between the ______ and th
Hosted Component
Project Base Point
Type Parameters
Witness line
6. 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
Framing Elevation
Reflected Ceiling Plan View
View Range
Local File
7. 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.
Label
Constraint
Import Symbol
Project Standards
8. The characteristic of being visible in one project view only.
Reference Label
Bounding Box
View-specific
Permanent Dimension
9. A set of connected straight line segments. Polylines typically define open loops.
Hosted Component
Orthographic View
Polyline
Head
10. A user interface mechanism that you use to select elements within a defined area by dragging the cursor around them. To create a ______ - place the cursor near the elements to select - click and hold the left mouse button - and drag the cursor diagon
Symbolic Line
Constraint
Selection Box
Wall Join
11. A visualization tool that you use to create a 3D view of a building model. When you place a camera in a 2D view - you can control the target point - the ______ level - and the focal point of the ______. The following views show a camera positioned in
Focal Point
Camera
Building Pad
Decal
12. 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.
Offset
Host
Note Block
Level
13. Reference planes are displayed in the conceptual design environment in the 3-dimensional views.
Revit MEP
Reference Section
Shape Handle
3D reference plane
14. 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.
Spline
ADSK
Element Properties
Extrusion
15. 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
Divided Surface
Shortcut Menu
Color Scheme
Cut Volume
16. 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
Symbolic Line
Reference Elevation
View Template
Section Box
17. For a subcomponent of a family - a property that defines its display (the line weight - line color - and line pattern). For example - you can assign one ______ to the wood trim of a window and another ______ to the glass.
Level
Blend
Subcategory
Selection Box
18. 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.
Perspective View
Web Library
Frame
Line Style
19. 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
Scope Box
Project View
Shared Parameters
Markup
20. The proportional system used to represent objects in a drawing. In Revit Architecture - you can assign a different ______ to each view.
Title Block
Reference Section
Scale
Clip Plane
21. A wall that supports no additional vertical load except its own weight. ______ can be used to define and divide spaces in Revit Architecture.
Location Line
ODBC
on-bearing Wall
Projection Line Style
22. A setting that determines the appearance or behavior of an element - type - or view. Also called a property.
Parameter
Masking Region
Drawing Area
Profile
23. A collection of settings that you can use as a starting point for projects - families - views - and more.
Setback
Rough Opening
Template
Solar Study
24. 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
Mullion
Revit Structure
Location Line
25. A construction document. In Revit Architecture - you place project views on ______ to create a construction document set.
Radial
Stacked Wall
Vertex
Sheet
26. (1) To draw a line or shape. Revit Architecture provides several tools and techniques for ______. (2) A drawing of a 2D shape. The following ______ contains an open loop (the roof) and a closed loop (the walls - floor - and ceiling).
Type
DWF markups
Sketch
Isolate
27. (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
Imported Categories
Rough Opening
Model Element
Snap
28. A design method in which different team members are responsible for designing different functional areas of the same project file.
View Properties
Worksharing
Phase
Design Option
29. A dashed line representing an edge or surface that cannot be seen in a view. For example - in the following image - 2 bolts go through the stud. The view shows the ______ of one bolt but does not show the ______ of the second bolt.
Surface Pattern
Link
NURB Surface
Hidden Line
30. 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 _
Zoom
Setback
Patterned Surface
Far clip plane
31. A group of view-specific elements that are associated with a model group. For example - an ______ may be comprised of door tags and window tags.
RVT
Site Utility
Attached Detail Group
Vertex
32. 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
Detail View
Reference Elevation
Drawing Area
Keynote Legend
33. In an animation - a single image (for example - in a walkthrough animation or a solar study). In a building - a rigid structure built into a wall to hold a door - window - or other component. In Revit Architecture - you can specify the material and f
Scale
Frame
Parallel View
Attached Detail Group
34. 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.
Fillet
Listening Dimensions
Framing Elevation
Underlay
35. A line that connects an annotation to an element or part of the building model in a view. In Revit Architecture - you can control the line weight - style - and color of the ______ - as well as its position - shape - and arrowhead.
Entourage
Leader
Group
Room-bounding Elements
36. (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
Draw Order
Phase
Open Loop
37. The parent view of a callout or section; that is - the view from which a callout or section originates. The referencing sheet is the sheet on which the ______ displays. The referencing detail corresponds to the detail number assigned to a callout or
Extrusion
Planting
Referencing View
Object Style
38. 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
Project Standards
Massing Study
Generic Annotation
Local File
39. A display color that blends the line color of an element with the background color of the view. For example - the following image shows some elements in ______ (gray) and others in black. You can specify the ______ display properties using the Visibi
Web Library
Room Separation Line
Halftone
ADSK
40. 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
Central File
Toposurface
Project Template
Solar Study
41. A column that adds architectural interest to a building. An ______ can be used to model box-outs around structural columns and for decorative applications.
View Properties
Reference Line
Hidden Element
Architectural Column
42. 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.
View Control Bar
DWF markups
Control
Rehost
43. To limit the boundaries of a view - omitting parts of the building model from the view.
Material Takeoff Schedule
Span Direction
Crop
Panel
44. A Revit tool that automates the creation of stairs based on a specified minimum tread depth and maximum riser height.
Symbolic Line
ODBC
Plan View
Stair Calculator
45. The file format for a Revit family.
Web Library
Polymesh
RFA
Detail Line
46. The elevation of a selected point. Use spot elevation dimensions to determine a point of elevation for ramps - roads - toposurfaces - and stair landings.
UV grid
Revision Schedule
Spot Elevation Dimension
Detail Level
47. 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
Closed Loop
Massing Study
Template
48. A model graphics style in which Revit Architecture hides the lines of elements that are obscured by other surfaces.
Keynoting
Shared Parameters
Referencing View
Hidden Line Mode
49. 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
Type Parameters
End Cap
Project Base Point
Reference Section
50. In Revit Architecture - a vertical or horizontal strip between panels of a curtain wall or curtain system.
Mullion
Perpendicular View
Mark
Closed Loop