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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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Subject
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it-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The point in the distance at which a camera is aimed or directed.
Clip Plane
Witness line
Target Point
Revit Architecture
2. 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>
Autodesk Seek
Closed Loop
Element Properties
Material
3. A non-physical item that is used to establish project context. ______ include levels - grids - and reference planes. For example - the following image shows a grid - which is used for the placement of columns and other model elements. The grid is not
Split
Datum
Shared Coordinates
Start Point
4. A graphic design for surfaces that are cut or shown in projection. You can use ______ for model patterns and drafting patterns.
Fill Pattern
Tessellation
Options Bar
Shortcut Menu
5. A symbol indicating a dependent view to which the primary view is linked.
Room Separation Line
System Family
View Reference
Symbolic Line
6. A graphic style applied to an element when a view displays the element - so that you are seeing a representation of its exterior surface. For the ______ of an element - you can specify the line weight - color - and fill pattern.
Phase
Projection Line Style
Type Catalog
Centerline
7. 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.
Curtain Wall
Rehost
Polyline
Project View
8. 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
Underlay
Cut Volume
Building Footprint
Vertex
9. Nested family which is applied to populate buildable architectural components across a large variety of geometric divided and patterned surfaces. It can contain both 2D and 3D geometry which create intelligent and flexible parametric components.
Schedule
Orthographic View
Pattern Component
Type Selector
10. A drawing file format supported by AutoCAD and other CAD applications. Revit Architecture can import and export ______ files.
Constraint
Crop
DWG
Site Utility
11. 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
Paint
Cut Volume
Perpendicular View
12. A Revit family that can be used as a building block for creating families. Revit Architecture provides ______ for floors - walls - ceilings - roofs - drawing sheets - viewports - and other elements. You cannot delete ______.
Polymesh
System Family
Break Control
Perpendicular View
13. 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
Generic Model
Load
Project View
Halftone
14. 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
Monolithic Stairs
Origin
Core
DWF markups
15. Arranged along a radius or arc. In Revit Architecture - when you create a ______ array - the elements in the array are arranged along a curve.
Radial
Generic Model
Focal Point
Drawing List
16. A schedule (list) of all views in a project. The schedule includes the view parameters that you specify. You can use a ______ to manage the views in a project.
Project Standards
View Control Bar
Instance Parameters
View List
17. The amount of fill (material) required to prepare a site for construction. For example - in the following drawing - the red area indicates the cut volume - and the blue area indicates the ______ required to level the site for a building.
Reference Plane
Perspective View
Hosted Component
Fill Volume
18. 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.
Constraint
Draw Order
Leader
RVT
19. A column that adds architectural interest to a building. An ______ can be used to model box-outs around structural columns and for decorative applications.
Architectural Column
Element
Text Note
Model Text
20. 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.
Dependent View
Framing Elevation
Level
SKP
21. 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
Walkthrough
Dimension
Location Line
Design Option
22. The beginning of a sketched line.
Underlay
PAT
Start Point
DWF markups
23. A list of all instances of annotations (Also referred to as an annotation schedule). Note blocks are useful for listing notes that are applied to elements in a project.
Orthographic View
Note Block
Model Graphics Style
Instance Parameters
24. 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
Pan
DWF markups
Section Box
Schedule
25. A defined set of elements that can be placed as a unit in a building design. ______ elements is useful when you need to create entities that represent repeating units or are common to many building projects (for example - hotel rooms - apartments - o
Snap
True North
Group
Radial
26. 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.
Core
Leader
Cut Volume
Highlight
27. 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
Draw Order
Nested Family
DWF Design Web Format
Hosted Component
28. A file format for fill patterns. A pattern file is a text file that contains definitions for model or drafting patterns in a project.
Surface Pattern
PAT
Mullion
Panel
29. A sketch line that indicates where to split a view for a dependent view - as shown.
Project Parameters
Matchline
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Origin
30. 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
Revolve
View Range
Fillet
Room-bounding Elements
31. 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
Grid
Primary View
Status Bar
Object Style
32. 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.
Shared Family
Subcategory
Cut Plane
Web Library
33. A file format supported by MicroStation of Bentley Systems - Inc. Revit Architecture can import and export ______ files.
Curtain Wall
Spot Elevation Dimension
Keynote Legend
DGN
34. An intersection of 2 or more walls. In Revit Architecture - you can specify the type of join between walls.
Permanent Dimension
Plan
Layer
Wall Join
35. A collection of settings that you can use as a starting point for projects - families - views - and more.
Revit MEP
Label
View Control Bar
Template
36. The graphic design (fill pattern) used to represent a surface when shown in projection.
Revit MEP
Pushpin
Level
Surface Pattern
37. 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 - and with all non-occluded edges drawn. A default light source provides illumination f
System Family
Shading with Edges
Underlay
Design Option
38. 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.
Property
Parallel View
Pan
Planting
39. In Revit Architecture - the adjacent materials of a compound structure - such as a wall. You can define the ______ in a compound structure.
Layer
Offset
View Control Bar
DWG
40. An Autodesk product. ______ is a building design and documentation system that uses building information modeling to coordinate changes across all aspects of an architecture project.
Filter
Area Scheme
Revit Architecture
Isolate
41. A fill pattern that represents a cut surface. In Revit Architecture - you can specify the coarse ______ material to display in 3D views. You can also specify the ______ depth for a cross-section of earth in topography elements. In the following floor
SKP
Tessellation
Poche
Attached Detail Group
42. 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
Reference Label
Import Symbol
Dependent View
Mark
43. 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.
Retaining Wall
Revision Schedule
Schedule
DWG
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.
Web Library
Element Properties
Title Block
Cutback
45. A mechanism for determining which elements are selected (for modification or manipulation) based on their family types or element parameters.
Layer Mapping File
Reference Line
Tick Mark
Selection Filter
46. A menu of context-sensitive options. A ______ displays when you right-click an element or view.
Core
Room-bounding Elements
Drawing List
Shortcut Menu
47. The file format for a Revit project.
RVT
Status Bar
Curtain Wall
Component
48. Passing through or lying on the same straight line. Sketching a line that is ______ with an existing wall
Line Style
Spline
Setback
Collinear
49. The substance of which an element is made. In Revit Architecture - the ______ assigned to an element determines how the element appears in a view or rendering. Revit Architecture includes several ______ in the default project templates - or you can d
Cut Line Style
Material
Web Library
Join
50. A Revit element that contains all objects (such as blocks and xrefs) from an imported drawing. When you move the cursor over the imported objects - Revit Architecture shows information about the ______. You can explode an ______ to convert it into in
Import Symbol
Instance Parameters
Witness line
Perspective View