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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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Subject
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A linked set of lines or walls. When drawing walls or lines in a building model - you can simplify the process by drawing a ______. You can also select a ______ of lines or walls to manipulate them simultaneously.
Attached Detail Group
Title Block
Full Explode
Chain
2. A shape (such as a circle or cloud) that contains identification text for a grid - level - view title - callout - or annotation.
Bubble
DGN
DWF Design Web Format
Far clip plane
3. A user interface mechanism that you drag to change the shape of an element in the building model. A ______ appears in the selection color.
DWF markups
Blend
Massing Study
Shape Handle
4. A view-specific element that shows the size of an element or shows distances between elements or points in a building model. As you place an element - Revit Architecture displays temporary ______ so that you can place the element accurately. You can
Parametric
Detail Component
Dimension
Detail Group
5. Settings that control the appearance or behavior of a project view. To see or change ______ - right-click a blank area of the view in the drawing area - and click ______. Or right-click a view name in the Project Browser - and click Properties.
Layer
Building Maker
Footprint
View Properties
6. A horizontal height at which certain elements in the view are shown in cross-section.
Highlight
System Family
Mirror
Cut Plane
7. A divided surface on which geometric shapes have been applied. These patterns become part of the surface and (depending on their shape) will require a specific number of grid cells when applied.
Listening Dimensions
Patterned Surface
Project Standards
Layer Mapping File
8. 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
Link
Poche
Target Point
Vertex
9. A horizontal plane that represents ground level in a building model. In Revit Architecture - you can specify the ground plane when creating a solar study for 2D and 3D views.
Ground plane
Cut Plane
DWG
Fill Pattern
10. A detailed drawing of part of a view. In Revit Architecture - the ______ appears in a separate view. In the ______ - you can add annotations and detail - which will not display in the parent view. In the parent view - the ______ area is marked with a
X-Ray
Leader
Orthographic View
Callout
11. A 2D - view-specific graphic. You can use ______ to represent various surfaces - such as concrete or compacted earth. You can add a ______ to a detail view - a drafting view - or an annotation family. For each ______ - you can specify a boundary line
Project
Centerline
Stair Calculator
Filled Region
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.
Masking Region
Footprint
View Template
Proxy Graphics
13. 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.
Load
Project Base Point
Project Template
Location Line
14. A 3D view of a building model - in which components that are further away appear smaller than those that are closer. In Revit Architecture - you create a ______ by placing a camera in a 3D view.
Perspective View
Orientation
In-place Family
RFA
15. 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.
Fillet
Wireframe
Note Block
Mirror
16. 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
Witness line
Tick Mark
Slope Arrow
Web Library
17. 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 ______.
Referencing View
Dependent View
Hosted Component
Constraint
18. A user interface mechanism that defines the slope of a roof - floor - or ceiling plane - using a line in the direction of the slope. Use a ______ when you know the height at the top and bottom of the object's plane rather than the slope. For example
Slope Arrow
Link
Model Element
Reference Line
19. 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
Element
Wall Join
Workset
Shading
20. 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
Break Line
Attach
Referring View
Chain
21. (1) To jump to a line or reference point in a drawing. (2) A line or reference point to which Revit Architecture will jump when you are placing a component or sketching a line. When you place a model element or sketch a line in a drawing - Revit Arch
Snap
Building Maker
Far clip plane
Resize
22. 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
View Control Bar
Crop
Rule-based Filter
Retaining Wall
23. 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
Object Style
Footprint
Stacked Wall
Reference Section
24. A wall that supports no additional vertical load except its own weight. ______ can be used to define and divide spaces in Revit Architecture.
Parametric
on-bearing Wall
Selection Box
Building Footprint
25. 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).
Monolithic Stairs
Viewport
Component
Model Group
26. 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.
Curtain Wall
Flip Control
Constraint
Drag Control
27. 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.
Projection Line Style
Miter
Partial Explode
Phase
28. A series of 2-dimensional lines and arcs that form a closed loop. Use ______ to define cross-sections for railings - balusters - soffits - cornices - and other sweep-defined objects.
Color Scheme
Project Parameters
Model Pattern
Profile
29. 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.
Element Borrowing
Revit MEP
Sketch
Web Library
30. A collection of predefined resources that you can use in a Revit project. For example - you can access ______ of templates - detail components - entourage - materials - and families of model elements and annotation elements. Revit Architecture provid
Library
Element Borrowing
Polymesh
Hidden Line
31. The Autodesk file format for publishing design data. It offers an alternative to generating PDF (Portable Document Format) files. DWF files are significantly smaller than the original RVT files - making them easy to send by email or to post to a web
DWF Design Web Format
Element
Perspective View
Parameter
32. 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.
Flip Control
Moment
Model Text
Matchline
33. The characteristic of being visible in one project view only.
View-specific
Title Block
UV grid
Spot Elevation Dimension
34. An Autodesk feature that allows you to drag and drop content from a web page into a Revit session. Using ______ - designers and developers have the power to create web pages that can easily be dragged and dropped into Autodesk design products that ar
i-drop
Callout
Web Library
Far clip plane
35. A copy of the project file that resides on the computer system of the team member who is working on the file. When worksharing is used to distribute project work among team members - each member uses a ______ to work on his or her workset (functional
Local File
Type Catalog
Cut Plane
Lock
36. 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
Retaining Wall
Element
Profile
Hidden Line Mode
37. 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
Flip Control
Detail Component
Closed Loop
Surface Pattern
38. A column that supports a vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Structural Column
Shading with Edges
Model Text
Import Symbol
39. The file type for a Revit project template.
Dependent View
Retaining Wall
RTE
End Cap
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
Vertex
Detail Line
In-place Family
Parameter
41. 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
Vertex
ODBC
Clip Plane
End Cap
42. An invisible 3-dimensional rectangular space that contains all model elements - annotation elements - and datum elements defined in a family-based element. The ______ helps define the family origin of some elements - and aids joining and cutback of s
Bounding Box
Shared Family
Reference Elevation
PAT
43. A list of keynote numbers and the corresponding keynote text. If you choose to annotate model elements using keynote numbers only - you can use a ______ to provide descriptive text for each keynote number. By using a keynote legend - you avoid clutte
Polyline
Pushpin
Room-bounding Elements
Keynote Legend
44. 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 Properties
Drag Control
Local File
Reference Elevation
45. A view of a floor plan or a reflected ceiling plan for a building model.
Fillet
Plan View
Text Note
Revolve
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 - and with all non-occluded edges drawn. A default light source provides illumination f
gbXML
Shading with Edges
Shared Family
Start Point
47. A graphic (shaped like a cloud) that indicates changes in a construction document. In Revit Architecture - you can sketch ______ in all views except 3D views. The cloud is visible only in the view in which it is sketched.
Revision Cloud
Detail View
Reflected Ceiling Plan View
Head
48. The point in the distance on which a camera is focusing.
Object Style
gbXML
Detail Component
Focal Point
49. 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
Project Standards
Perpendicular View
Text Note
Underlay
50. 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
Building Footprint
Drafting View
Cut Plane
Temporary Dimension