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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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1. (1) The distance that a wall sweep or wall reveal is offset from intersecting wall inserts. The ______ value allows you to place sweeps or reveals properly near window or door trims. You can define a default ______ for wall sweeps and wall reveals in
View Template
Setback
Head
Projection Line Style
2. A set of horizontal planes that control the visibility and display of objects in a view. The horizontal planes are Top Clip Plane - Cut Plane - Bottom Clip Plane - and View Depth. Elements outside the ______ do not display in the view.
Options Bar
Walkthrough
Volumetric Geometry
View Range
3. A web service that lets you search for - download - and integrate product and design information into your drawing. You can also publish families to the ______ website to make them available for other designers to incorporate into their designs.
Model Element
RVT
Array
Autodesk Seek
4. A surface of a model element or mass. You can apply paint - materials - and textures to each ______ of a model element (such as a wall). These details display when you render an image of the building model. You can use mass ______ as the basis for cr
Callout
Start Point
Primary View
Face
5. A graphical icon in the Revit drawing area that you ______ to change the shape or size of an element in the building model. When you select an element - Revit Architecture displays it's ______ as blue circles or triangles.
View Reference
Schedule
Drag Control
Patterned Surface
6. The structural part of a compound wall or other host element. When you use Revit Architecture to design a compound wall - you specify the layers and materials that compose the ______ of the wall - as well as the interior and exterior layers of the wa
SKP
Core
Project Template
Schedule
7. Topographical surface. A graphic representation of the terrain of a building site or plot. The ______ may include contour lines to represent elevations.
Tessellation
Text Note
Toposurface
Layer Mapping File
8. 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
Type Catalog
Web Library
Element
Retaining Wall
9. 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 ______.
Monolithic Stairs
Object Style
Draw Order
RTE
10. A representation of a building model that simulates a person walking through the model along a defined path. The following ______ view shows the ______ path in red.
Parametric
Drafting View
Walkthrough
Options Bar
11. 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-specific
Frame
Pattern Component
Dependent View
12. 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
Origin
Extrusion
Shading with Edges
Collinear
13. 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.
Perspective View
View-specific
Revit Architecture
Referring View
14. 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
Walkthrough
Select
Fill Pattern
15. 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
Compound Wall
Core
View Template
Structural Column
16. An open schema created to help building designers gather information about the energy consumption characteristics of building projects. To perform energy analysis for a building model - you can export a Revit project to ______. Using a third-party ap
UV grid
Shared Family
gbXML
Datum
17. A unique identifier that you assign to an element in its properties. You can include ______ in schedules and tag labels. For example - the following site plan shows ______ for individual parking spaces. These ______ are also listed in the parking sch
Mark
Building Pad
NURB Surface
Group
18. A graphical icon in the Revit drawing area that you use to manipulate elements. For example - when you select a chain of walls - blue circles display. These blue circles are drag ______. You can drag such a ______ to change the shape of the walls. Ot
Detail Level
Shortcut Menu
Wall Sweep
Control
19. 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.
Frame
Spline
Design Option
Layer
20. To apply a material to a surface of a model element. In Revit Architecture - you can ______ walls - floors - roofs - and masses. In the following image - the wall - door - door frame - and window frame are ______ different colors.
Type Parameters
Break Control
Monolithic Stairs
Paint
21. A user interface mechanism that crops the model in a 3D view. Elements in the building model that are outside the ______do not display in the view or in an exported view.
Ground plane
Section Box
DWF markups
Miter
22. 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.
Symbol
Project Template
Split
Permanent Dimension
23. 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.
Material Takeoff Schedule
Fill Volume
Flip Control
Split
24. 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 -
Project Base Point
Orientation
Rendering
Slope Arrow
25. 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.
Plan Region
Divided Surface
Start Point
Retaining Wall
26. A shape (such as a circle or cloud) that contains identification text for a grid - level - view title - callout - or annotation.
Bubble
Area
Level
Curtain System
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.
Level
Embedded Wall
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Constraint
28. 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
Dependent View
Family
Blend
Casework
29. An element that you hide in a particular view.
Vertex
Property
Hidden Element
Break Control
30. A 3-dimensional shape that has measurable volume. Non-volumetric geometry refers to a 2-dimensional shape.
Closed Loop
Swatch
Profile
Volumetric Geometry
31. The file format for a Revit family.
Group
Face
RFA
Load
32. A menu of context-sensitive options. A ______ displays when you right-click an element or view.
Planting
Shortcut Menu
Group
Floor Plan
33. Text displayed in a callout tag when a reference callout is created in the plan view - or text displayed in a section head when a reference section is created in the plan view.
Footprint
Reference Label
Category
Object Style
34. Reference planes are displayed in the conceptual design environment in the 3-dimensional views.
Solid Geometry
Hidden Line Mode
Fill Volume
3D reference plane
35. 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
Attached Detail Group
Break Control
Room-bounding Elements
Perspective View
36. A user interface mechanism that controls the visibility of datum planes (levels - reference lines - and grids) in views. When you add grids - levels - and reference lines to a project - they may display in more views than desired. For example - when
Shortcut Menu
Scope Box
Clip Plane
Status Bar
37. 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
Shading
Project View
Underlay
Entourage
38. A wall that consists of multiple vertical layers. Each layer can use a different material (such as concrete - insulation - and interior finish) and have a different function (such as structure - thermal layer - and substrate).
Start Point
Compound Wall
Type Selector
Plan View
39. A project view that shows details not directly associated with the building model. For example - a ______ can show how carpet transitions to tile - or details of a roof drain. A ______ typically shows construction details that may not be apparent in
Project Browser
Floor Plan
Fillet
Drafting View
40. A method of annotating drawings to identify building materials - describe assembly instructions - or provide special instructions or explanations. ______ help to standardize information related to the building design and can help reduce clutter in dr
Keynoting
Select
Color Scheme
Decal
41. Pre-built components - such as cabinets and cupboards for a kitchen or bathroom. Revit Architecture provides family types for ______.
Offset
Resize
Design Option
Casework
42. 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
Type Catalog
Detail Component
Model Line
Type Parameters
43. A line used when designing families of model elements or placing elements in a building model. When you draw a ______ in a view - the line is visible in other - related views. A straight ______ provides 4 planes to sketch on. One plane is parallel to
Reference Line
Reference Plane
Detail Level
NURB Surface
44. A table of information that you create to simplify or automate data entry in other - larger schedules. A ______ can reduce the time required to produce a larger schedule and help to generate accurate cost estimates. For example - a room schedule for
Orientation
View List
Start Point
Key Schedule
45. 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.
Keynoting
Project Base Point
Draw Order
Shared Parameters
46. 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. A default light source provides illumination for the ______ elements.
Project Parameters
Shading
Schedule
Material Takeoff Schedule
47. 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.
Generic Model
Element
Note Block
Revision Schedule
48. A line that is used to create a detail drawing. A ______ is visible only in the view in which it is drawn. You can use ______ as follows: To detail a view with part of the model visible - such as in a wall section or callout - In a drafting view to d
Category
Lock
Detail Line
Constraint
49. A subdivision within a family of elements. For example - the family of Concrete Round Columns is further divided into ______ such as Concrete Round 18" - Concrete Round 24" - and Concrete Round 30".
Material
Type
NURB Surface
Object Style
50. 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.
Object
ODBC
Material Takeoff Schedule
Rehost