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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Radial
Options Bar
Drag Control
Project Parameters
2. A setting that determines the appearance or behavior of an element - type - or view. Also called a parameter.
Property
Temporary Dimension
Room-bounding Elements
Walkthrough
3. 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.
Primary View
End Cap
Revit MEP
Category
4. 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.
Pin
Pan
Perpendicular View
Revision Cloud
5. Passing through or lying on the same straight line. Sketching a line that is ______ with an existing wall
Collinear
Object
Toposurface
Model Group
6. A drawing file format supported by AutoCAD and other CAD applications. Revit Architecture can import and export ______ files.
Revolve
Library
Swatch
DWG
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
Building Pad
Closed Loop
Lock
Entourage
8. 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
Perspective View
Project Parameters
Line Style
Origin
9. 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
Collinear
i-drop
Parametric
10. 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
View Depth
Type Catalog
Drafting View
RVT
11. 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
Element Properties
Void Geometry
Model Pattern
End Cap
12. 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
Collinear
Moment
X-Ray
Shared Parameters
13. A building element that is usually delivered and installed on site - rather than built in place. (Also referred to as a hosted ______.) For example - windows - doors - and furniture are ______. In contrast - walls - floors - and roofs are built in pl
Orthographic View
Component
Parameter
Room Separation Line
14. Part of the Revit interface that shows a logical hierarchy for all views - schedules - sheets - families - groups - and linked Revit models in the current project.
Lock
ODBC
Project Browser
Patterned Surface
15. A mechanism for eliminating or including the display or selection of elements in a view - based on their properties. In Revit Architecture - you can use ______ in the following ways: To select or deselect elements in a view. - To override the graphic
Filter
Scope Box
Mullion
RVT
16. The size of a datum plane (a plane for a level - grid - or reference line). Datum planes are not visible in all views. If the datum does not intersect a view plane - it will not be visible in that view. You can resize datum planes so that they are vi
Split
Break Control
Template
Datum Extent
17. 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®.
Far clip plane
Building Footprint
Workset
Setback
18. Topographical surface. A graphic representation of the terrain of a building site or plot. The ______ may include contour lines to represent elevations.
Focal Point
Selection Filter
Type Selector
Toposurface
19. 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.
Property
Template
Flip Control
Planting
20. 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
Underlay
Project Template
Referencing View
Model Line
21. 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.
Walkthrough
Drawing Area
Rehost
Hidden Line
22. 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.
Workset
Type Parameters
Selection Box
Local File
23. 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).
Matchline
Communication Center
Model Group
Compound Wall
24. Autodesk Exchange File - the file format used by Autodesk applications to transmit design information.
ADSK
Target Point
Vertex
ODBC
25. A 3D shape consisting of multiple polygons that are joined (meshed) together. For example - a ______ cube consists of 6 square surfaces that are joined together to form the cube shape. This is sometimes referred to as face-based geometry.
Planting
Polymesh
Poche
Hosted Component
26. A model element that can exist in a building model only if sponsored by another (host) element. Doors - windows - model lines - and components (such as furniture) are ______.
Layer
Architectural Column
End Cap
Hosted Component
27. 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
Selection Filter
Temporary Dimension
Wireframe
Moment
28. 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.
Bounding Box
Projection Line Style
Symbol
Trim
29. 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
Poche
Model Graphics Style
Family
Datum
30. 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
Load
Rendering
Toposurface
Patterned Surface
31. 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.
View List
Revit Structure
Divided Surface
Far clip plane
32. A vertical or horizontal plane that defines a boundary for a view. You can use top - bottom - left - and right ______ to define a view. In elevation and section views - you can also use a far ______ to define the depth of the view. Green dotted lines
Site Utility
Clip Plane
Dimension
Revit Structure
33. 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
True North
Centerline
RVT
Trim
34. To restrict the movement of an element using the _____ tool. When you ______ an element - you cannot move it by dragging or using the Move tool. However - changes in other attached elements may result in movement of the ______ element.
Lock
Solid Geometry
Type Parameters
Pin
35. Part of a plan view that has a different view range from the overall view. ______ are useful for split level plans or for displaying inserts above or below the cut plane.
Fillet
Drafting Pattern
Plan Region
Attach
36. 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
Planting
Reflected Ceiling Plan View
View List
Attach
37. The state of being aligned with (or facing the same direction as) a particular item or direction. For example - in Revit Architecture you can change the ______ of a view to True North - or you can change the ______ of a compound wall to reverse the o
Mark
Orientation
Vertex
Object Style
38. 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.
View Depth
Subcategory
Note Block
Polyline
39. A tool that displays links to information about product updates and announcements. To access the ______ - click the satilite dish in the InfoCenter toolbar in the upper right corner of the Revit window.
True North
Fill Volume
Vertex
Communication Center
40. 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
Perpendicular View
Worksharing
Selection Box
41. A graphic style applied to an element when a view (such as a section view) cuts through the element - so that you are seeing a representation of its interior surface. For the ______ of an element - you can specify the line weight - color - and patter
Project Standards
Crop
Cut Line Style
Compound Wall
42. 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
Nested Family
Clip Plane
Material
Key Schedule
43. A collection of elements in a workshared project that can be worked on independently. A ______ is typically a discrete functional area - such as interior - exterior - or site. When you enable worksharing - you can divide a project into ______ - with
Workset
Temporary Dimension
Reflected Ceiling Plan View
Proxy Graphics
44. A graphic design for surfaces that are cut or shown in projection. You can use ______ for model patterns and drafting patterns.
Status Bar
Fill Pattern
Communication Center
Cut Line Style
45. A text placeholder added to tags or title blocks. You create a ______ as part of a tag or title block family while in the Family Editor. When you place the tag or title block in the project - you replace the ______ with the actual value for that inst
Compound Wall
Label
Phase
Line Pattern
46. To reverse the position of a selected model element - using a line as the ______ axis. For example - if you ______ a wall on a reference plane - the wall flips opposite the original wall. You can pick the ______ axis or draw a temporary axis. Use the
Mirror
Divided Surface
Reference Line
Worksharing
47. An Autodesk product. ______ integrates a physical model for layout - coordination - and documentation with an independently editable analytical model for building design and analysis. Using a single building information model and dynamic linking to t
Pin
Core
Subcategory
Revit Structure
48. 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.
Far clip plane
Sketch
Mullion
Paint
49. The point in the distance at which a camera is aimed or directed.
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
Resize
Hosted Component
Target Point
50. A section tag that refers to an existing section view. When you create a ______ - Revit Architecture does not create a new view in the project. Instead - the ______ uses an existing section - allowing you to indicate different areas that have identic
Reference Section
DWF markups
Perpendicular View
Grid