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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Referencing View
RVT
Subcategory
Planting
2. 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
Selection Filter
Local File
View Properties
Select
3. 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.
Reference Section
Text Note
Hosted Component
Wall Join
4. A wall that has 2 or more horizontal layers - each consisting of different materials and surfaces.
Project Browser
Stacked Wall
Model Text
Imported Categories
5. (1) To draw a line or shape. Revit Architecture provides several tools and techniques for ______. (2) A drawing of a 2D shape. The following ______ contains an open loop (the roof) and a closed loop (the walls - floor - and ceiling).
Communication Center
Referring View
Sketch
Fillet
6. A user-placed control that provides a quick way to allow or prevent changes to the position of an element. After you place a ______ - you cannot move the element until you unpin it by clicking the ______ control.
Pushpin
Viewport
i-drop
Volumetric Geometry
7. 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
Symbol
Element Borrowing
Curtain Wall
Detail Line
8. A drafting term that refers to rounding a square corner - using a radius to define the curve.
Drafting Pattern
Casework
Hidden Line
Fillet
9. 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
Centerline
Model Group
Detail Level
Slope Arrow
10. 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
Model Element
Drafting Pattern
Patterned Surface
Property
11. A dimension that specifies a particular size for an element or a distance between elements or points. ______ always display in the view in which they are created. You can lock ______ so that they cannot be changed without first unlocking them. You ca
Permanent Dimension
Zoom
Chain
View Template
12. 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
Options Bar
Color Scheme
Parallel View
Panel
13. 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 ______.
Symbol
System Family
Shading
RFA
14. 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 ______.
Detail Group
Swatch
Reference Line
Planting
15. A line that indicates the middle of a dimension or model element (such as a column or a wall). In Revit Architecture - you can use an element's ______ to measure - dimension - align - resize - specify constraints - and perform other functions in a bu
Import Symbol
Drawing Area
Core
Centerline
16. A horizontal or vertical projection from a wall - often decorative in nature. Examples of ______ include baseboards and crown molding.
Detail View
Line Style
Wall Sweep
Reference Label
17. 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.
DGN
Building Pad
Revit Architecture
Shared Coordinates
18. 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
Perpendicular View
Line Pattern
Framing Elevation
Generic Model
19. 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.
Solar Study
Options Bar
Shared Coordinates
Template
20. 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
Shading
Plan
Crop Region
Cut Volume
21. The direction toward the North Pole. Drafting conventions dictate that Project North is the top of the view. You may want to orient a view to ______ when producing solar studies (to create accurate sunlight and shadow patterns for the project) or ren
Drafting Pattern
Revision Cloud
True North
Architectural Column
22. 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.
Group
Select
Design Option
Patterned Surface
23. A line that connects an annotation to an element or part of the building model in a view. In Revit Architecture - you can control the line weight - style - and color of the ______ - as well as its position - shape - and arrowhead.
Leader
Hidden Element
X-Ray
RTE
24. A horizontal height at which certain elements in the view are shown in cross-section.
Cut Volume
Paint
Discipline
Cut Plane
25. An elevation tag that refers to an existing elevation or drafting view. When you add a ______ to a project - Revit Architecture does not create a new view for it. Instead - the reference elevation uses an existing elevation - allowing you to indicate
Line Weight
Scope Box
Reference Elevation
Imported Categories
26. A class of elements in a category. A ______ groups elements with a common set of parameters (properties) - identical use - and similar graphical representation. Different elements in a ______ may have different values for some or all properties - but
Decal
Generic Annotation
Family
Shape Handle
27. 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
Category
Drafting View
Element Properties
28. 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
Autodesk Seek
Miter
Full Explode
29. 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
Pattern Component
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
Centerline
Room-bounding Elements
30. To divide a single object into multiple objects or sections. In a Revit project - you can ______ walls - lines - faces - toposurfaces - layers in vertically compound walls - and schedules using various ______ tools.
Split
System Family
Detail Component
Hidden Line Mode
31. Text used in a building model - such as for signage. You can add ______ in a project view and in the Family Editor for families that can be represented in 3D - such as walls - doors - windows - and furniture. An instance of ______ is a model element.
Model Text
Filled Region
Camera
Selection Box
32. 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
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Floor Plan
Color Scheme
33. To disassemble an import symbol (which represents imported geometry) into its next highest level of elements.
Slope Arrow
Pin
Curtain Wall
Explode
34. The part of the Revit user interface that displays views - sheets - schedules - and other representations of the building model.
Generic Annotation
Drawing Area
Snap
Text Note
35. To transfer a file or a collection of information from an outside location into a Revit project. In Revit Architecture - you can ______ groups - templates - detail components - entourage - materials - families of model elements and annotation element
Load
Area Scheme
Focal Point
Drafting Pattern
36. A tool that displays links to information about product updates and announcements. To access the ______ - click the satilite dish in the InfoCenter toolbar in the upper right corner of the Revit window.
Hidden Element
Status Bar
Communication Center
Pushpin
37. A Revit element that contains all objects (such as blocks and xrefs) from an imported drawing. When you move the cursor over the imported objects - Revit Architecture shows information about the ______. You can explode an ______ to convert it into in
Project North
Permanent Dimension
Import Symbol
Reference Elevation
38. Open Database Connectivity. ______ is a general export tool that works in conjunction with many software drivers. You can export information about model elements in a Revit project to an ______ database.
ODBC
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Filled Region
Orientation
39. 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
Room-bounding Elements
Symbol
Solar Study
40. 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.
Nested Family
Patterned Surface
Constraint
Clip Plane
41. A view of a model that displays as a callout or section in other views. This type of view typically represents the model in finer detail than shown in the parent view. It is used to add more information to specific parts of the model. A ______ reflec
Detail View
Host
Partial Explode
Model Line
42. The amount of rotation at an axis caused by downward force applied to a beam at a distance from its supporting members. A ______ connection is a connection that is designed to transfer ______ and other forces between a beam and its supporting members
Line Style
Cut Volume
Moment
Type Parameters
43. Representations of AutoCAD objects. Revit Architecture supports ______ from AutoCAD files. Unlike AutoCAD objects - ______ have no intelligence.
Dimension
NURB Surface
Tick Mark
Proxy Graphics
44. 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
End Cap
Highlight
Project View
DWG
45. A family of model elements that can be used to create subcomponents of a nested family. When you use ______ to create a nested family - you can select - tag - and schedule the individual subcomponents in a project. (If subcomponents are not from ____
Model Graphics Style
UV grid
Shared Parameters
Shared Family
46. A template for a sheet. A ______ generally includes information about the company - address - date of the project - and revisions.
Title Block
Highlight
Shared Coordinates
Ground plane
47. A sketched line that does not connect to itself. Instead - it leaves an open space between the start point and endpoint of the line. In Revit Architecture - you use ______ to sketch a roof by extrusion and to split toposurfaces and faces. In the foll
RVT
Element
Type Selector
Open Loop
48. 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
Reference Point
Miter
Drafting Pattern
Work Plane
49. A 3-dimensional shape used in a building model. You can use the Family Editor to create ______ shapes to build families of model elements.
ADSK
Monolithic Stairs
Material Takeoff Schedule
Solid Geometry
50. A Revit tool that automates the creation of stairs based on a specified minimum tread depth and maximum riser height.
Stair Calculator
Tick Mark
Shared Family
Material