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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Vertex
Object
Temporary Dimension
gbXML
2. Pre-built components - such as cabinets and cupboards for a kitchen or bathroom. Revit Architecture provides family types for ______.
Select
Casework
Line Weight
Model Line
3. 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.
Subcategory
Mullion
Hidden Line Mode
Fill Pattern
4. 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.
SKP
Project Standards
Template
Polyline
5. 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
Reference Elevation
Datum
Centerline
Underlay
6. A 3D view that shows a building model in which all components are the same size - regardless of the camera's distance from them.
Project Standards
Orthographic View
Spot Coordinate
RVT
7. 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.
Site Utility
Selection Filter
Paint
Camera
8. A design methodology that maintains a single database of information about a building design. All information for a building design - from geometry to construction data - is stored in a project file. This information includes components used to desig
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Wireframe
View List
ADSK
9. The framed hole (opening) in a wall into which a manufactured window or door is installed. In Revit Architecture - you can specify the height and width of the ______ for a window type or door type.
Proxy Graphics
Rough Opening
Far clip plane
Stair Calculator
10. An element in a building model that represents actual 3D geometry. For example - walls - windows - doors - and roofs are ______. For example - the following image shows only ______. It does not include annotation elements (such as dimensions or text
Model Element
Target Point
Spline
Solid Geometry
11. 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).
Project Parameters
Model Group
Mirror
Paint
12. 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.
Proxy Graphics
Footprint
Revision Schedule
Array
13. 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
Drafting View
View Depth
Detail Group
View Control Bar
14. Available in the conceptual design environment - ______ mode is a transparent view that displays the underlying geometric skeleton of a form.
3D reference plane
Model Graphics Style
Mullion
X-Ray
15. 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
Stacked Wall
Start Point
Stair Calculator
Category
16. A planar surface on which you can add sketch lines or other components. Each view in Revit Architecture is associated with a ______. In some views (such as plan - 3D - and drafting) and for views in the Family Editor - the ______ is automatically def
Reference Elevation
Zoom
Work Plane
Parameter
17. 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.
Pushpin
Patterned Surface
Pan
Detail View
18. 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
Span Direction
Closed Loop
Poche
Referring View
19. A construction document. In Revit Architecture - you place project views on ______ to create a construction document set.
Proxy Graphics
Model Line
Split
Sheet
20. A component family that either has connectors or has the capability of hosting connectors that become functional when linked in a civil engineering application - such as AutoCAD® Civil 3D®.
Witness line
Open Loop
Camera
Site Utility
21. 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.
Walkthrough
Spot Coordinate
Fill Volume
Perspective View
22. 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.
Primary View
Import Symbol
Flip Control
Project Parameters
23. The process of completely disassembling an import symbol (which represents imported geometry) into Revit elements - including text - curves - lines - and filled regions.
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Head
Monolithic Stairs
Full Explode
24. 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
Casework
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Type Catalog
Halftone
25. 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
Focal Point
View Depth
Curtain System
26. 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 -
Drawing List
Worksharing
Rendering
Tick Mark
27. The point in the distance at which a camera is aimed or directed.
Project Browser
Explode
Room Separation Line
Target Point
28. A set of colors and fill patterns used to graphically designate rooms or areas in a floor plan. You can apply ______ based on any parameter value for a room or area. For example - if you want to color rooms by department - set the Department paramete
Parallel View
Family
Parametric
Color Scheme
29. 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
Autodesk Seek
Attached Detail Group
Mirror
30. A view in which the annotation symbol for the current view is visible. For example - if you use the Find ______ tool for an elevation view - Revit Architecture lists all views in which its elevation symbol is visible.
Markup
Referring View
Perspective View
Object
31. A defined area that obscures elements in a view. ______ are useful when you are creating a model family from an imported 2D DWG file - and you need the model element to obscure other elements when placed in a view. You can also use them to hide parts
Cutback
Masking Region
Title Block
Building Maker
32. 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.
Key Schedule
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Section Box
System Family
33. 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
Head
Status Bar
Temporary Dimension
ODBC
34. To explicitly join elements (such as walls or columns) to other modeling components. For example - you can ______ walls to floors - ceilings - and roofs. You can ______ columns to roofs - floors - ceilings - reference planes - structural framing memb
Permanent Dimension
UV grid
Line Style
Attach
35. A building component consisting of panels - curtain grids - and mullions. In Revit a ______ usually does not have a rectangular shape.
Curtain System
Symbol
Bounding Box
Tag
36. A representation of a building model. A Revit project file contains a database of information about a building model - and a ______ is one way of looking at that information. The Project Browser lists the views available for a project. These can incl
Model Graphics Style
Project North
Project View
Scope Box
37. Settings that control the appearance or behavior of all elements of a particular family type. ______ are also called type properties. The instance parameters and ______ of an element combine to establish its element properties.
Type Parameters
Snap
Markup
Retaining Wall
38. A 2D element that you can add to a detail view or a drafting view. For example - you may want to add a metal stud or a shim to a drafting view. Revit Architecture provides over 500 ______ families - based on 16 CSI divisions. You can also create your
Hidden Line
Floor Plan
Detail Component
Solid Geometry
39. Part of the Revit interface that provides context-sensitive settings and functions - depending on the tool currently in use. In the Revit window - the ______ is located below the ribbon and above the drawing area.
Revolve
Matchline
Architectural Column
Options Bar
40. A wall that holds back earth (for example - at the edge of a terrace or excavation). In Revit Architecture - you can specify that a wall type functions as a retaining wall in the type properties.
Wall Join
Type
View Range
Retaining Wall
41. 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
Project View
Mark
Paint
Offset
42. The order in which elements display in a view - as if layered on a flat surface. You can move an element backward or forward in the ______ - or bring it to the front or back of a stack of elements.
Draw Order
Shape Handle
Rehost
Crop
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
Revolve
Sheet
Model Graphics Style
44. For a 3-dimensional shape - an intersection of 3 sides. When you blend 2D shapes to create a 3D shape - you can use ______ connections to control the rate at which one shape is blended to another shape.
Color Scheme
Vertex
Void Geometry
Curtain Wall
45. A wall that is inserted into another wall of a different type or construction. ______ are useful - for example - when you need to create a storefront on a building exterior. The following image shows a curtain wall embedded in a host wall.
Link
Volumetric Geometry
Retaining Wall
Embedded Wall
46. A symbolic representation of a material in a drawing. (For example - sand is represented by a stipple pattern.) You can place ______ on flat and cylindrical surfaces - and you can define them for families. You can also place ______ on cut component s
Reference Label
Component
ODBC
Drafting Pattern
47. 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
Solar Study
Attached Detail Group
Witness line
Revolve
48. 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.
DGN
Cutback
Type Catalog
Partial Explode
49. A Revit file that contains all information about a building design.
Project
Orthographic View
In-place Family
Resize
50. An insert that fills (patches) a hole in a host element after changes are made during different phases of a building project. For example - if you remove a window from a wall during a demolition phase - Revit Architecture fills the hole with an _____
Reflected Ceiling Plan View
Drag Control
RFA
Infill Element