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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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1. 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.
Model Group
Layer Mapping File
Plan Region
Fill Volume
2. 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
NURB Surface
Link
View-specific
Temporary Dimension
3. The amount of material that must be excavated and removed from a site to prepare it for construction. For example - in the following drawing - the red area indicates the ______ - and the blue area indicates the fill volume required to level the site
Crop Region
Face
DGN
Cut Volume
4. 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
Leader
DWF markups
Shading with Edges
Nested Family
5. A 2D drawing of a building model that shows the layout of walls - rooms - and other building components. A floor ______ presents a view of the building as though you are looking down on it from above - with the roof and intervening levels removed. A
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Setback
Clip Plane
Plan
6. A column that adds architectural interest to a building. An ______ can be used to model box-outs around structural columns and for decorative applications.
Architectural Column
Floor Plan
RTE
Perspective View
7. A series of lines that you can use to help draw or place elements in a building design. ______ are useful in the design and documentation phases of a project. In Revit Architecture - ______ are datum elements.
Project Base Point
Grid
Keynoting
Material
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
Key Schedule
Curtain System
Type Selector
Poche
9. A uniform distance from an element or line - along which the element or line will move - or a new element or line will be created. For example - when creating walls - you might specify an ______ of 5 meters. When you select an existing wall - Revit A
Offset
Focal Point
Nested Family
Element Properties
10. 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).
Model Group
Open Loop
Room Separation Line
Category
11. 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
Building Footprint
View Range
Chain
In-place Family
12. Passing through or lying on the same straight line. Sketching a line that is ______ with an existing wall
Rehost
Camera
Collinear
Architectural Column
13. 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.
Project Browser
Reference Line
Cutback
Referencing View
14. 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
Scope Box
Draw Order
DWF markups
Slope Arrow
15. 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
Detail Component
Library
Wireframe
X-Ray
16. To change the magnification of a view. In a 3D context - ______ moves the camera in and out. In a 2D context - ______ moves up and down perpendicular to the view. To ______ in is to increase the magnification - making the building appear larger. To _
Markup
Zoom
Model Graphics Style
Shading
17. 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.
Revit Structure
View Reference
View Control Bar
Perspective View
18. 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
Keynote Legend
Collinear
Referring View
Datum
19. An elevation view that shows the structural framing of a building model. You can work in a ______ when adding vertical bracing to the model - or for any task that requires quick work plane alignment to a grid or to a named reference plane.
Framing Elevation
Drag Control
UV grid
Draw Order
20. 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
Reference Section
Project Parameters
Type Parameters
Witness line
21. 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.
Far clip plane
Swatch
Ground plane
Attached Detail Group
22. 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
Key Schedule
RPC
Imported Categories
Curtain System
23. 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
Spot Coordinate
Communication Center
Mark
Shared Family
24. 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
Break Line
Rehost
Stair Calculator
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
25. 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
Wireframe
Imported Categories
Revit Structure
Text Note
26. A set of characteristics that define the line weight - line color - line pattern - and material for a category of model elements - annotation elements - or imported objects in a project.
Drag Control
View Properties
Explode
Object Style
27. 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
Witness line
Building Maker
Dimension
Explode
28. A dashed line representing an edge or surface that cannot be seen in a view. For example - in the following image - 2 bolts go through the stud. The view shows the ______ of one bolt but does not show the ______ of the second bolt.
Referring View
Hidden Line
Generic Model
Keynote Legend
29. To secure a dimension or the location of an element so that it cannot be changed. When you select a ______ dimension or element - a ______ control displays next to it. The following drawing shows a ______ dimension.
DGN
i-drop
Lock
View Depth
30. 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
Component
Orientation
Plan View
Head
31. Parameters or settings that control the appearance or behavior of elements in a project. ______ are the combination of instance properties and type properties. To view or change ______ - select the element in the drawing area - click Modify <element>
Element Properties
Imported Categories
Join
Parallel View
32. The file format for a Revit family.
RFA
Split
Radial
Wireframe
33. The file type for a Revit project template.
Shortcut Menu
RTE
Fillet
Extrusion
34. A drafting term that refers to rounding a square corner - using a radius to define the curve.
Fillet
Floor Plan
Reference Point
Ground plane
35. An element that you hide in a particular view.
Massing Study
Detail Level
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Hidden Element
36. Topographical surface. A graphic representation of the terrain of a building site or plot. The ______ may include contour lines to represent elevations.
Toposurface
Scope Box
End Cap
Start Point
37. 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.
View-specific
Solid Geometry
Revit Architecture
Label
38. 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.
3D reference plane
Embedded Wall
Trim
Shading with Edges
39. 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
Snap
Callout
Generic Model
DWG
40. Autodesk Exchange File - the file format used by Autodesk applications to transmit design information.
Detail Line
Note Block
ADSK
Pattern Component
41. (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
DWG
Component
i-drop
Snap
42. A sample patch of a color or pattern. When you apply a color scheme to rooms - the floor plan can display a color scheme legend - which indicates the colors and what they represent. The color scheme legend includes color ______.
Wall Join
Plan View
Swatch
In-place Family
43. A Revit function for workshared projects. ______ allows you to edit an element in a workset that you do not own. If another team member is currently editing the workset - that team member is the owner of the workset and you must place a request to bo
Casework
Revision Cloud
Miter
Element Borrowing
44. Comments or revision instructions from someone who reviewed a building design. When you publish construction documents as DWF files - the files can be ______ up electronically using a program such as Autodesk Design Review. Then the ______ can be lin
DWF markups
Miter
Tag
Markup
45. A model graphics style in which Revit Architecture hides the lines of elements that are obscured by other surfaces.
Dependent View
Detail Group
Hidden Line Mode
Break Line
46. 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
Crop Region
Revit Structure
gbXML
Poche
47. (1) For elements that can slope (including roofs - ramps - floors - and ceilings) - the upper end of the slope. For example - in the following illustration - the ______ is the upper end of the sloped floor. (2) In Revit Architecture - the symbol that
Orientation
Head
RVT
gbXML
48. User-defined fields that you add to families or projects and then share with other families and projects. They are stored in a file independently of a family file or Revit project; this allows you to access the file from different families or project
Shared Parameters
Line Pattern
Parametric
Chain
49. The view on which one or more dependent views are based. The dependent views remain synchronous with the ______and other dependent views - so that when view-specific changes (such as view scale and annotations) are made in one view - they are reflect
Shape Handle
Reference Elevation
Instance Parameters
Primary View
50. 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.
Vertex
Zoom
Web Library
Primary View
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