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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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Subject
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Sketch
Poche
Drawing List
Infill Element
2. 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.
Constraint
Solar Study
Project Base Point
Break Control
3. 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
Shape Handle
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Lock
Target Point
4. A finite horizontal plane that acts as a reference for level-hosted elements - such as roofs - floors - and ceilings. In Revit Architecture - you define a ______ for each vertical height or story within a building - or other needed reference of the b
UV grid
In-place Family
Primary View
Level
5. (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).
Hidden Element
Fillet
Building Maker
Sketch
6. (1) A point in the current view that you can use for positioning or dimensioning a model element. When you move the cursor near a ______ - Revit Architecture displays a temporary dimension between the element being placed and the ______. To display d
Model Element
Property
Reference Point
Layer Mapping File
7. A flat surface that is designed to be occupied by buildings and is prepared by grading - excavating - filling - or a combination of these. In Revit Architecture - you can add a ______ to a toposurface - and then modify the structure and depth of the
Project Parameters
Span Direction
DGN
Building Pad
8. A dimension that specifies a particular size for an element or a distance between elements or points. ______ always display in the view in which they are created. You can lock ______ so that they cannot be changed without first unlocking them. You ca
Communication Center
Permanent Dimension
Model Group
Shape Handle
9. Open Database Connectivity. ______ is a general export tool that works in conjunction with many software drivers. You can export information about model elements in a Revit project to an ______ database.
X-Ray
Scope Box
ODBC
Revision Cloud
10. 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
Rough Opening
Reference Line
Model Line
11. 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
Cut Plane
Origin
Location Line
Closed Loop
12. 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.
Building Pad
X-Ray
Spline
Core
13. To display only a certain element or type of element - so that you can work with it in a particular view without being distracted by other elements in the design.
Join
RFA
Model Group
Isolate
14. A group of elements that you use to model or document a building design. For example - ______ of model elements include walls - windows - columns - and beams. ______ of annotation elements include dimensions - tags - and text notes. ______ are organi
Fill Volume
Category
Listening Dimensions
Primary View
15. The graphic design (fill pattern) used to represent a surface when shown in projection.
RVT
Centerline
Surface Pattern
Shared Family
16. The proportional system used to represent objects in a drawing. In Revit Architecture - you can assign a different ______ to each view.
Scale
Element Properties
Link
Solar Study
17. A drafting term that refers to rounding a square corner - using a radius to define the curve.
View Range
Drag Control
Fillet
Project
18. A sketch line that indicates where to split a view for a dependent view - as shown.
Primary View
X-Ray
Matchline
Detail Group
19. A 3-dimensional shape that results from removing shapes from solid geometry.
Floor Plan
Void Geometry
DWF markups
Pan
20. To shorten selected elements to meet a specified boundary.
Resize
Trim
Slope Arrow
View Template
21. A line that you draw in a view to define areas that are used for different purposes - when a wall between the rooms is not desired. ______ are visible in plan views - 3D views - and perspective views. For example - the following floor plan uses room
Family
Drawing List
ADSK
Room Separation Line
22. A view of a floor plan or a reflected ceiling plan for a building model.
Plan View
Curtain System
Reference Elevation
Leader
23. Arranged along a radius or arc. In Revit Architecture - when you create a ______ array - the elements in the array are arranged along a curve.
Detail Line
Radial
Template
Attached Detail Group
24. To limit the boundaries of a view - omitting parts of the building model from the view.
Keynote Legend
Zoom
Project North
Crop
25. 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
Dependent View
Room Separation Line
Far clip plane
Shared Family
26. A Revit feature that allows you to specify a value for a dimension as you sketch an element in a view. You specify a start point for the element - start sketching in the desired direction - type the exact dimension desired - and press Enter. Revit Ar
Swatch
Proxy Graphics
Listening Dimensions
Generic Annotation
27. 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.
X-Ray
Stacked Wall
Surface Pattern
Constraint
28. 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 -
Rendering
Project Template
Revit MEP
Orthographic View
29. Comments or revision instructions from someone who reviewed a building design. When you publish construction documents as DWF files - the files can be ______ up electronically using a program such as Autodesk Design Review. Then the ______ can be lin
Datum
Markup
Projection Line Style
Lock
30. 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
Rendering
Extrusion
Solar Study
31. A 2D drawing of a building model that shows the layout of walls - rooms - and other building components. A floor ______ presents a view of the building as though you are looking down on it from above - with the roof and intervening levels removed. A
Plan
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
Control
Area
32. The graphic shape used to represent the end of a dimension - such as an arrow or a slash.
Shared Parameters
Moment
Isolate
Tick Mark
33. A list of model elements that belong to a particular family type but that differ in size or other characteristics. Using ______ - you can load only the size you need - rather than loading the entire family type. For example - suppose that you want to
3D reference plane
Draw Order
Type Catalog
Camera
34. 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
Attached Detail Group
Referring View
Element Borrowing
Imported Categories
35. 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
Legend
Local File
Rendering
Filter
36. An architectural term that refers to the landscaping and other environmental features shown in a rendering of a building. For example - ______ can include plants - trees - people - cars - and signs. Revit Architecture provides a library of ______ fam
Project Standards
Generic Model
Plan View
Entourage
37. 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).
Revision Schedule
Shared Coordinates
Text Note
Model Group
38. 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
Centerline
Break Control
Slope Arrow
Dependent View
39. 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.
Footprint
Break Control
Perpendicular View
Break Line
40. 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.
Start Point
Divided Surface
Local File
Attached Detail Group
41. 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
Mirror
Keynote Legend
Primary View
Detail Group
42. A class of elements in a category. A ______ groups elements with a common set of parameters (properties) - identical use - and similar graphical representation. Different elements in a ______ may have different values for some or all properties - but
DGN
Dimension
Building Pad
Family
43. Reference planes are displayed in the conceptual design environment in the 3-dimensional views.
Group
Fill Pattern
3D reference plane
Nested Family
44. User-defined fields that you add to multiple categories of elements - sheets - or views in a project. These ______ are specific to the project and cannot be shared with other projects. For example - you can create a ______ named Approved By for views
Project Parameters
Phase
Selection Box
Title Block
45. A 2-dimensional plane used when designing families of model elements or placing elements in a building model.
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
Material
Reference Plane
Void Geometry
46. 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.
Ground plane
Local File
Floor Plan
Detail Group
47. 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
Cut Volume
Reflected Ceiling Plan View
Keynoting
Callout
48. 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
Area
Cutback
Leader
Tessellation
49. (1) For elements that can slope (including roofs - ramps - floors - and ceilings) - the upper end of the slope. For example - in the following illustration - the ______ is the upper end of the sloped floor. (2) In Revit Architecture - the symbol that
Head
Line Style
DGN
Structural Column
50. 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.
Polyline
Projection Line Style
Markup
Divided Surface