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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A filter with user-defined rules that determine the visibility/graphics settings for model elements in a particular view. For example - you can create a ______ that displays all fire-rated walls as solid red in a plan view to distinguish them from no
Rule-based Filter
Tag
3D reference plane
Phase
2. A file format developed by the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI). ______ provides an interoperability solution between ______-compatible software applications in the construction and facilities management industry. The format has esta
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Stacked Wall
on-bearing Wall
Property
3. 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 -
Scale
Plan Region
Attached Detail Group
Rendering
4. 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
Revision Cloud
Nested Family
Drafting Pattern
Face
5. The point in the distance at which a camera is aimed or directed.
Infill Element
Element
Target Point
Reference Label
6. A table that provides descriptions or information about symbols used in drawings. In Revit Architecture - you can create a ______ and include it on multiple sheets.
Legend
Focal Point
Shared Parameters
Reference Plane
7. 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
Drafting Pattern
Phase
Break Control
Attached Detail Group
8. 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.
Flip Control
Poche
Swatch
Drag Control
9. An annotation that consists of text and may include a leader line and arrow. You can add ______ to a detail view - drafting view - or a sheet.
Generic Model
Drawing Area
Focal Point
Text Note
10. A functional area (such as structural - mechanical - electrical - or architectural) - or an area of expertise (such as architecture - structural engineering - or construction). In a Revit project - you can assign ______ to categories and to views. Yo
Retaining Wall
Discipline
Referencing View
Casework
11. 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.
Ground plane
Proxy Graphics
Profile
Polymesh
12. 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
Location Line
Wall Sweep
Project Template
Symbolic Line
13. 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.
Detail Level
SKP
Workset
Type Parameters
14. Solid geometry that turns (revolves) around an axis. For example - you can use the Revolve tool to design a dome roof - a column - or door knobs.
Reflected Ceiling Plan View
Text Note
Revolve
Span Direction
15. A setting that determines the appearance or behavior of an element - type - or view. Also called a parameter.
Building Pad
End Cap
Area
Property
16. The Z-shaped line used in a drafting view or detail view to obscure parts of the drawing - to focus the drawing on a particular area. The following drafting view uses ______ above and below the section to obscure less intricate parts of the door asse
Shared Parameters
DWG
Break Line
Ground plane
17. The process of disassembling an import symbol (which represents imported geometry) into its next highest level of elements: nested import symbols. A ______ yields more import symbols - which - in turn - can be exploded into elements or other import s
Curtain Wall
Partial Explode
Tessellation
Parametric
18. An alternative design for a project. ______ allow a team to develop - evaluate - and redesign building components within a single project file. You can develop ______ to adapt to changes in product scope - to review other designs - or to show alterna
Bounding Box
Design Option
Revit MEP
Resize
19. The clip plane that is at the side of the view farthest from the start point of an elevation view - a section view - a 3D view - or a walkthrough view. In the following floor plan - the green dotted line opposite the blue line represents the ______ f
Far clip plane
Reference Plane
Revit Architecture
Camera
20. 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
Revolve
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
Building Pad
Selection Box
21. A graphic design that is applied to the surface of a model element. ______ represent the actual appearance of an element - such as brick coursing or ceramic tile on a wall. They are fixed with respect to the model and scale with the model.
Underlay
Model Pattern
Clip Plane
Curtain Wall
22. A family of geometry that does not fit into any of the other - pre-defined categories (such as columns - roofs - and floors). In a Revit project - an instance of a ______ is a model element. You can create a ______ as a loadable family - or as an in-
Cut Plane
Communication Center
View Template
Generic Model
23. 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
Load
Bubble
Group
24. 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 ______.
Dimension
Callout
Monolithic Stairs
Cut Plane
25. Coordinate plotting grids for non-planar surfaces. Plotting locations in a 3D space is based on an XYZ coordinate system - while 2D Space is based on an XY system. Since surfaces are not necessarily planar - the UVW coordinate system is used to plot
Detail Level
UV grid
Keynoting
Floor Plan
26. A 3-dimensional shape that has measurable volume. Non-volumetric geometry refers to a 2-dimensional shape.
Clip Plane
Volumetric Geometry
Plan Region
Detail Component
27. 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
Room-bounding Elements
Design Option
Core
Fill Pattern
28. 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
Spline
Viewport
Work Plane
29. 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).
Rule-based Filter
Parameter
Autodesk Seek
Model Group
30. 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
Massing Study
Snap
Reference Section
Select
31. A group of view-specific elements - such as text and filled regions.
Target Point
Curtain System
Material Takeoff Schedule
Detail Group
32. The point in the distance on which a camera is focusing.
3D reference plane
Vertex
Focal Point
Tick Mark
33. The parent view of a callout or section; that is - the view from which a callout or section originates. The referencing sheet is the sheet on which the ______ displays. The referencing detail corresponds to the detail number assigned to a callout or
Group
DWF markups
Referencing View
Drafting Pattern
34. Reference planes are displayed in the conceptual design environment in the 3-dimensional views.
Solar Study
Tag
Type Parameters
3D reference plane
35. A horizontal height at which certain elements in the view are shown in cross-section.
DWG
Building Maker
Hidden Line Mode
Cut Plane
36. To change the size of a model element. For example - in Revit Architecture you can ______ a wall or a foundation to adjust to changing specifications.
Resize
Sketch
Scope Box
Parametric
37. A user interface mechanism that you use to select elements within a defined area by dragging the cursor around them. To create a ______ - place the cursor near the elements to select - click and hold the left mouse button - and drag the cursor diagon
3D reference plane
View Depth
Rendering
Selection Box
38. 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
Divided Surface
In-place Family
Flip Control
Mirror
39. Available in the conceptual design environment - ______ mode is a transparent view that displays the underlying geometric skeleton of a form.
Structural Column
Project View
X-Ray
System Family
40. A drawing file format supported by AutoCAD and other CAD applications. Revit Architecture can import and export ______ files.
Color Scheme
DWG
Trim
Spot Elevation Dimension
41. A combination (blending) of 2 shapes to create a 3D shape. You can create ______ using solid geometry and void geometry. For example - the 2D shapes below are ______ to create the solid extrusion that follows.
Line Pattern
Parallel View
Blend
Area Scheme
42. The elevation of a selected point. Use spot elevation dimensions to determine a point of elevation for ramps - roads - toposurfaces - and stair landings.
Selection Box
Face
Span Direction
Spot Elevation Dimension
43. A column that supports a vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Worksharing
Shading with Edges
Structural Column
Instance Parameters
44. A mechanism for determining which elements are selected (for modification or manipulation) based on their family types or element parameters.
on-bearing Wall
Referring View
Break Control
Selection Filter
45. An open file format that is supported by many CAD applications. A ______ file is a text file that describes a 2D drawing. The text is not encoded or compressed - so ______ files are generally large. Revit Architecture can import and export DXF files.
Chain
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
Mark
Hosted Component
46. 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 ______.
System Family
Template
Entourage
Parallel View
47. 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
Control
Level
Face
Revolve
48. 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
DWF markups
Casework
Scope Box
Type Parameters
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
Setback
Shared Coordinates
Shading with Edges
50. 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.
Swatch
RVT
View Depth
Options Bar