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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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Subject
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it-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Partial Explode
Permanent Dimension
Shared Parameters
Bubble
2. 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
Far clip plane
Shared Family
Underlay
Key Schedule
3. 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.
Revision Schedule
Rehost
Volumetric Geometry
Autodesk Seek
4. 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.
Curtain System
Model Pattern
Planting
Subcategory
5. An element in a building model that represents actual 3D geometry. For example - walls - windows - doors - and roofs are ______. For example - the following image shows only ______. It does not include annotation elements (such as dimensions or text
UV grid
Model Element
Scale
Full Explode
6. The beginning of a sketched line.
Surface Pattern
Start Point
Core
Family
7. A graphical icon in the Revit drawing area that you use to manipulate elements. For example - when you select a chain of walls - blue circles display. These blue circles are drag ______. You can drag such a ______ to change the shape of the walls. Ot
Category
Perpendicular View
Control
Detail View
8. 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.
Building Footprint
Proxy Graphics
Core
Project Base Point
9. To shorten selected elements to meet a specified boundary.
Clip Plane
Trim
Moment
View Template
10. The settings used in a project that you want to apply to another project. ______ include family types - line weights - materials - view templates - and object styles.
Project Standards
Shared Parameters
Revit Structure
Type Catalog
11. A joint at a 45-degree angle - or evenly angled between the joined elements. ______ can apply to walls - wall sweeps - railings - structural floors - roof fascia - curtain wall mullions - and other model elements. When 2 walls join - you can edit the
NURB Surface
Origin
Footprint
Miter
12. 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.
Workset
Shape Handle
Resize
Bounding Box
13. 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
Project Browser
Highlight
Room Separation Line
Layer Mapping File
14. 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
Shared Family
Compound Wall
Entourage
Stair Calculator
15. Usable space that is defined by walls or boundary lines or both. In Revit Architecture - you can perform an area analysis to define spatial relationships in a building model.
Selection Box
Clip Plane
Sketch
Area
16. A column that supports a vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Join
Structural Column
Shared Coordinates
Room-bounding Elements
17. 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
Level
Constraint
Break Control
Options Bar
18. 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
Cut Line Style
Reference Plane
Reference Section
SKP
19. 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.
Project North
Orthographic View
View Properties
Title Block
20. 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
X-Ray
Mirror
Type Catalog
Swatch
21. 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®.
Shared Parameters
Orientation
Building Footprint
Model Text
22. 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.
Shared Parameters
Note Block
UV grid
Room Separation Line
23. 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.
Core
RPC
Flip Control
View List
24. 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.
Primary View
Project Browser
Work Plane
Profile
25. 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.
Masking Region
Attach
Divided Surface
Template
26. A sketch line that indicates where to split a view for a dependent view - as shown.
Matchline
Miter
Room Separation Line
RVT
27. 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
DWF Design Web Format
Revision Cloud
Detail Component
Layer Mapping File
28. 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.
Head
Shape Handle
Toposurface
Grid
29. Project coordinates that are used for remembering the mutual positions of multiple interlinked files. Those interlinked files can be all RVT files - or a combination of RVT - DWG - and DXF files.
Component
Parameter
Shared Coordinates
Phase
30. 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.
RFA
Type Selector
Drag Control
Area Scheme
31. A list of the subcomponents or materials of any Revit family. ______ have all the functionality and characteristics of other schedule views - but they allow you to show more detail about the assembly of a component. Any material that is applied to a
Material Takeoff Schedule
Room-bounding Elements
View Range
In-place Family
32. A component family that either has connectors or has the capability of hosting connectors that become functional when linked in a civil engineering application - such as AutoCAD® Civil 3D®.
Head
Detail Level
Site Utility
Title Block
33. 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.
Filled Region
Footprint
Workset
Projection Line Style
34. To limit the boundaries of a view - omitting parts of the building model from the view.
Crop
Datum
Viewport
Layer
35. A setting that determines the appearance or behavior of an element - type - or view. Also called a parameter.
View Depth
Element Borrowing
Property
Referring View
36. Reference planes are displayed in the conceptual design environment in the 3-dimensional views.
Void Geometry
Symbol
Masking Region
3D reference plane
37. 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.
Array
Datum Extent
Text Note
Object Style
38. A set of connected straight line segments. Polylines typically define open loops.
Compound Wall
Face
Polyline
Plan Region
39. Nested family which is applied to populate buildable architectural components across a large variety of geometric divided and patterned surfaces. It can contain both 2D and 3D geometry which create intelligent and flexible parametric components.
Element Borrowing
Pattern Component
Explode
Callout
40. 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.
Type Parameters
on-bearing Wall
Origin
Site Utility
41. 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.
Project Standards
Section Box
Property
Profile
42. 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.
Building Pad
Model Pattern
Zoom
Reference Plane
43. A copy of a view. Use ______ when a view of the building model is too large to display on a single sheet - and you need to divide the model into smaller segments that fit on the sheets. The ______ remains synchronous with the primary view and other d
Rendering
Lock
Pan
Dependent View
44. A 3-dimensional shape that results from removing shapes from solid geometry.
Crop
Divided Surface
Void Geometry
Load
45. The orientation of a structural floor. When you place a structural floor in the plan view - Revit Architecture creates a ______ component. Rotate the ______ component to change the orientation of the structural floor.
Options Bar
Phase
DWG
Span Direction
46. A stage or time period in the construction process of a building project. Typical ______ include existing construction - demolition - remodeling - and new construction. Revit Architecture tracks the ______ in which views or components are created or
Hosted Component
Phase
Mullion
Shared Parameters
47. 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.
Tick Mark
Reflected Ceiling Plan View
Vertex
Referring View
48. 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
Area Scheme
View Template
Slope Arrow
Swatch
49. 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
Load
Callout
Draw Order
Proxy Graphics
50. 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
Architectural Column
Room Separation Line
Rule-based Filter
Surface Pattern