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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Building Pad
gbXML
Status Bar
Cut Line Style
2. 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
Fill Pattern
Grid
Building Maker
Filled Region
3. To divide a single object into multiple objects or sections. In a Revit project - you can ______ walls - lines - faces - toposurfaces - layers in vertically compound walls - and schedules using various ______ tools.
Planting
Split
Family
Drawing Area
4. A sketched line that does not connect to itself. Instead - it leaves an open space between the start point and endpoint of the line. In Revit Architecture - you use ______ to sketch a roof by extrusion and to split toposurfaces and faces. In the foll
Drawing Area
UV grid
Drag Control
Open Loop
5. 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
Category
Import Symbol
Pushpin
End Cap
6. A family of elements that is created within the context of the current project. An ______ exists only in the project and cannot be loaded into other projects. Using ______ - you can create components that are unique to a project or components that re
In-place Family
Embedded Wall
Central File
Type
7. A wall that supports no additional vertical load except its own weight. ______ can be used to define and divide spaces in Revit Architecture.
Note Block
Filled Region
on-bearing Wall
Link
8. 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.
Building Maker
Cut Line Style
Pan
Area
9. A column that supports a vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Spot Coordinate
Mark
Stair Calculator
Structural Column
10. 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
Leader
Vertex
Framing Elevation
i-drop
11. The graphic design (fill pattern) used to represent a surface when shown in projection.
Surface Pattern
Structural Column
View Depth
Hidden Element
12. A dimension that Revit Architecture displays as you draw or place elements in a view. ______ can help you to position an element in the desired location - or to draw a line to the desired length or angle. When you finish drawing or placing an element
View Reference
Temporary Dimension
Object Style
Orthographic View
13. A 3-dimensional shape that has measurable volume. Non-volumetric geometry refers to a 2-dimensional shape.
Project Base Point
Property
Volumetric Geometry
Datum
14. 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
Import Symbol
Material
Room-bounding Elements
Halftone
15. An element that you hide in a particular view.
Spot Coordinate
Target Point
Element Borrowing
Hidden Element
16. A setting that determines the appearance or behavior of an element - type - or view. Also called a parameter.
Mark
Property
Pin
Start Point
17. A panel of buttons providing quick access to functions that control the current view. Use the ______ to change the scale - detail level - model graphics style - shadowing - crop views - and display of elements or categories in the view. The ______ is
Solar Study
View Control Bar
Dependent View
Cut Volume
18. 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.
Type
Profile
Sheet
Load
19. A view-specific element that shows the size of an element or shows distances between elements or points in a building model. As you place an element - Revit Architecture displays temporary ______ so that you can place the element accurately. You can
Primary View
Detail Group
Dimension
Scale
20. 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.
Family
Pan
Revit Architecture
Select
21. 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
Proxy Graphics
Shape Handle
Array
Spot Elevation Dimension
22. 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.
Mark
Structural Column
Autodesk Seek
Footprint
23. The characteristic of being visible in one project view only.
Line Style
View-specific
Detail View
Reference Section
24. 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
Parametric
Keynote Legend
Group
Project Template
25. 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.
Span Direction
Mark
Break Line
Project Base Point
26. 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
Family
Room-bounding Elements
Setback
Material Takeoff Schedule
27. A project view or imported file that you use to help position elements in the current view. For example - when you use a section view as an ______ to a detail view - model elements in the detail view display in halftone or a different line weight and
Draw Order
RPC
Closed Loop
Underlay
28. 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
Model Graphics Style
i-drop
Key Schedule
Level
29. Passing through or lying on the same straight line. Sketching a line that is ______ with an existing wall
Collinear
Highlight
gbXML
Shading with Edges
30. 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
View Properties
Detail Group
Frame
Open Loop
31. To shorten selected elements to meet a specified boundary.
Detail Component
Full Explode
Masking Region
Trim
32. 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
Status Bar
Pan
Highlight
i-drop
33. 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
Room Separation Line
Model Group
Reflected Ceiling Plan View
Hidden Element
34. (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
Hidden Line
SKP
Workset
Snap
35. The gross building area plan at ground level that is exported to an ADSK file when exporting a building site to a civil engineering application - such as AutoCAD® Civil 3D®.
Building Footprint
Sketch
Stair Calculator
Chain
36. A set of initial conditions for a project. Revit Architecture provides several ______ - and you can create your own ______. Any new project based on a ______ inherits all families - settings (such as units - fill patterns - line styles - line weights
Polyline
3D reference plane
Project Template
on-bearing Wall
37. Topographical surface. A graphic representation of the terrain of a building site or plot. The ______ may include contour lines to represent elevations.
Shape Handle
Type Selector
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Toposurface
38. 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
Spline
Embedded Wall
Phase
Load
39. 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
Cut Volume
Primary View
Solar Study
Compound Wall
40. A sketch line that indicates where to split a view for a dependent view - as shown.
Callout
Collinear
Keynoting
Matchline
41. 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.
Cut Line Style
Mullion
Revit MEP
Building Pad
42. 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.
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Stacked Wall
Open Loop
View Properties
43. The settings used in a project that you want to apply to another project. ______ include family types - line weights - materials - view templates - and object styles.
Dimension
Area
Project Standards
Parameter
44. 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
Component
Detail Component
Dependent View
Web Library
45. A horizontal plane that helps to define the view range in a floor plan or reflected ceiling plan. By default - the ______ is the same as the bottom clip plane. However - you can specify the ______ to show elements (such as foundation footings) below
Shading with Edges
Decal
View Depth
Flip Control
46. 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
Nested Family
Planting
Masking Region
47. The amount of rotation at an axis caused by downward force applied to a beam at a distance from its supporting members. A ______ connection is a connection that is designed to transfer ______ and other forces between a beam and its supporting members
Open Loop
Moment
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
ODBC
48. Text used in a building model - such as for signage. You can add ______ in a project view and in the Family Editor for families that can be represented in 3D - such as walls - doors - windows - and furniture. An instance of ______ is a model element.
Extrusion
Pattern Component
Options Bar
Model Text
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
DWF markups
NURB Surface
Pan
Orthographic View
50. The direction toward the North Pole. Drafting conventions dictate that Project North is the top of the view. You may want to orient a view to ______ when producing solar studies (to create accurate sunlight and shadow patterns for the project) or ren
Model Group
Masking Region
Footprint
True North