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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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1. 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>
Imported Categories
Retaining Wall
Element Properties
Model Element
2. 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.
Surface Pattern
Perspective View
Rehost
Element Borrowing
3. A Revit setting that determines the amount of geometry displayed in a view. ______ settings include coarse - medium - and fine - where coarse shows the least detail and fine shows the most detail. The following image illustrates the 3 ______ for a de
View Reference
Perspective View
Detail Level
Room Separation Line
4. A defined set of elements that can be placed as a unit in a building design. ______ elements is useful when you need to create entities that represent repeating units or are common to many building projects (for example - hotel rooms - apartments - o
Property
Head
Group
Walkthrough
5. The graphic shape used to represent the end of a dimension - such as an arrow or a slash.
Project
Detail View
Tick Mark
Temporary Dimension
6. An architectural term that refers to the landscaping and other environmental features shown in a rendering of a building. For example - ______ can include plants - trees - people - cars - and signs. Revit Architecture provides a library of ______ fam
Project Parameters
Entourage
Selection Box
Building Pad
7. 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.
Tick Mark
Type Selector
Fill Volume
Text Note
8. 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.
Scope Box
Drawing Area
Rough Opening
Tessellation
9. 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
Project Base Point
Orthographic View
Location Line
Reference Label
10. 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
Poche
Layer
End Cap
Design Option
11. 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.
Monolithic Stairs
End Cap
Cut Volume
View Properties
12. To move the cursor over an object in the drawing area so that Revit Architecture displays the object's outline in a different weight (bold) and color (such as gray instead of black). A description of the element displays on the status bar at the bott
Closed Loop
X-Ray
Entourage
Highlight
13. 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.
Line Pattern
Cut Plane
View Control Bar
Patterned Surface
14. 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.
Far clip plane
Web Library
Attached Detail Group
In-place Family
15. Vegetation used to create a landscape around a building design. Revit Architecture provides a library of ______ families. You can also create or download additional plants.
NURB Surface
Building Pad
Planting
In-place Family
16. Settings that control the appearance or behavior of an individual element in a project. The ______ and type parameters of an element combine to establish its element properties. ______ are also called instance properties.
Instance Parameters
Type Selector
Template
Collinear
17. To move a component from one host to another. For example - you can use the Rehost tool to move a window from one wall to another wall.
Reference Section
Orientation
Rehost
Key Schedule
18. A drawing that shows the ceiling in a building design. Also called an RCP view. When you add a level to a building model - Revit Architecture automatically creates an ______ for it.
Orientation
Type Parameters
Reflected Ceiling Plan View
Design Option
19. 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
Family
Element
Spot Elevation Dimension
Markup
20. A view whose plane is parallel to the plane of another view. For example - a Level 1 floor plan is parallel to a Level 2 floor plan. An east elevation view is parallel to a west elevation view. The following drawing illustrates the parallel planes th
Parallel View
Control
Cutback
View Control Bar
21. A text file that maps each Revit category or subcategory to a preconfigured layer name for the CAD software. For example - a Revit door object automatically maps to the A-DOOR layer in AutoCAD. The layer names are preconfigured in the text file - but
In-place Family
Layer Mapping File
RVT
Sheet
22. 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.
Rough Opening
Object Style
Solar Study
Reflected Ceiling Plan View
23. Representations of AutoCAD objects. Revit Architecture supports ______ from AutoCAD files. Unlike AutoCAD objects - ______ have no intelligence.
Proxy Graphics
Area
Detail Group
System Family
24. A collection of view properties (such as view scale - discipline - detail level - and visibility settings) that can be applied to a project view. For example - you might create one ______ for a structural floor plan - and another ______ for an exit f
Orthographic View
Communication Center
View Template
Spot Elevation Dimension
25. An image to display on a face of a model element. For example - you can use ______ for signs - paintings - and billboards. In project views - a placeholder indicates the location of a ______. The full ______ displays in a rendered image. The followin
Entourage
Shared Family
Decal
Framing Elevation
26. A group of view-specific elements that are associated with a model group. For example - an ______ may be comprised of door tags and window tags.
Attached Detail Group
Zoom
Hidden Line
Framing Elevation
27. 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
Reference Line
Slope Arrow
Primary View
Wall Sweep
28. A 2-dimensional plane used when designing families of model elements or placing elements in a building model.
Text Note
Volumetric Geometry
Solar Study
Reference Plane
29. 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
Radial
Color Scheme
Halftone
Revit Architecture
30. 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 ______.
Core
Hosted Component
Target Point
Shared Family
31. 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
Nested Family
Area
Dependent View
32. 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
Footprint
Reference Section
Extrusion
Offset
33. 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.
Toposurface
Referring View
Pushpin
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
34. 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 _____
Room-bounding Elements
Join
Infill Element
Toposurface
35. Available in the conceptual design environment - ______ mode is a transparent view that displays the underlying geometric skeleton of a form.
Generic Annotation
X-Ray
Architectural Column
Partial Explode
36. 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 -
Pan
X-Ray
Orthographic View
Rendering
37. 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
Scope Box
Array
Wall Join
Plan View
38. A method of annotating drawings to identify building materials - describe assembly instructions - or provide special instructions or explanations. ______ help to standardize information related to the building design and can help reduce clutter in dr
Label
Keynoting
Nested Family
Shortcut Menu
39. 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
Vertex
Panel
Project View
Origin
40. To connect a file to a Revit project. When a ______ file is updated - the updated information is automatically made available in the Revit project. ______ avoids the need to re-import updated information into the project. In Revit Architecture - you
Project Browser
Layer
Link
Referring View
41. 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
Drawing Area
Label
Cutback
Generic Model
42. 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.
Compound Wall
Select
Matchline
Revolve
43. 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
Entourage
Profile
Link
44. 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
Monolithic Stairs
Site Utility
Drag Control
Building Pad
45. 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.
Drag Control
Isolate
Revit Structure
X-Ray
46. 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
Retaining Wall
Partial Explode
Underlay
Select
47. The process of completely disassembling an import symbol (which represents imported geometry) into Revit elements - including text - curves - lines - and filled regions.
Note Block
Leader
Area
Full Explode
48. A series of dashes or dots alternating with blank spaces. In the building industry - construction documents often use different line style conventions to convey information and to differentiate one line from another. For example - dimensions may use
Line Pattern
RTE
Closed Loop
Panel
49. 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
Setback
Break Control
Symbolic Line
Reference Plane
50. 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
Label
Nested Family
Attach
Rule-based Filter
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