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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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1. A construction document. In Revit Architecture - you place project views on ______ to create a construction document set.
Material
System Family
Sheet
Pan
2. 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 ______.
System Family
Entourage
Status Bar
Control
3. A model graphics style in which Revit Architecture displays the image of the model with all edges and lines drawn - but no surfaces.
Framing Elevation
Halftone
Symbolic Line
Wireframe
4. 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
Snap
Shared Family
Rehost
Rule-based Filter
5. A model element - annotation element - datum element - or imported element in a project.
Divided Surface
Face
Object
Compound Wall
6. 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®.
Crop
Site Utility
NURB Surface
Level
7. 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 _
Vertex
Zoom
Bubble
Projection Line Style
8. 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
Building Pad
PAT
NURB Surface
View Range
9. 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.
Cut Volume
Model Element
Flip Control
RFA
10. 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.
Resize
X-Ray
Layer
Pushpin
11. Arranged along a radius or arc. In Revit Architecture - when you create a ______ array - the elements in the array are arranged along a curve.
Drag Control
Listening Dimensions
Radial
Blend
12. The file format for a Revit family.
Site Utility
RFA
Reference Label
Pan
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.
Casework
Radial
Entourage
Patterned Surface
14. 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
Primary View
View-specific
Communication Center
15. A column that supports a vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Shortcut Menu
Chain
Structural Column
Join
16. One or more masses in a Revit project. ______ allow you to explore design ideas by using shapes to conceptualize a building model. When your conceptual design is complete - you can add building elements directly to these shapes.
Wall Sweep
Blend
Crop
Massing Study
17. The file type for a Revit project template.
Highlight
Workset
RTE
Legend
18. A master project file for a model on which multiple team members are working. The model can be subdivided into functional areas (worksets) - such as interior - exterior - and site. The ______ stores the current ownership information for all elements
Tag
Massing Study
Listening Dimensions
Central File
19. 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.
Footprint
Planting
Profile
Solar Study
20. 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
Planting
Stacked Wall
Chain
21. A view of a floor plan or a reflected ceiling plan for a building model.
3D reference plane
Plan View
Schedule
Temporary Dimension
22. A web service that lets you search for - download - and integrate product and design information into your drawing. You can also publish families to the ______ website to make them available for other designers to incorporate into their designs.
DWF Design Web Format
gbXML
Autodesk Seek
Halftone
23. A model element that exists in 3D space and is visible in all views of a Revit project. You can use ______ to represent 3D geometry in a building design - such as cords or cables that secure a tarp. You can sketch straight - curved - arc - circular -
Design Option
Stair Calculator
3D reference plane
Model Line
24. 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.
Dependent View
Break Control
Witness line
Revolve
25. Text displayed in a callout tag when a reference callout is created in the plan view - or text displayed in a section head when a reference section is created in the plan view.
Reference Label
Discipline
Schedule
Room Separation Line
26. 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
Attach
Plan Region
Group
Revolve
27. Rich Photorealistic Content. The file type for ArchVision realpeople and other objects - which can be loaded into Revit Architecture as an entourage family - for use in rendered images.
Architectural Column
RPC
Rough Opening
Collinear
28. A tabular display of information. In Revit Architecture - a ______ is extracted from the properties of elements in a project. It is displayed in a ______ view. Using Revit Architecture - you can create many types of ______ - including quantities - ma
Witness line
Schedule
Plan Region
Pan
29. In Revit Architecture - a section of a curtain wall or a curtain system. ______ are separated by mullions. ______ can consist of glass or different types of walls.
Scope Box
Mark
Drag Control
Panel
30. 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
Tag
Autodesk Seek
Template
Dependent View
31. The proportional system used to represent objects in a drawing. In Revit Architecture - you can assign a different ______ to each view.
Slope Arrow
Scale
Detail Line
DWF Design Web Format
32. 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
Stacked Wall
Profile
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
Offset
33. A drawing file format supported by AutoCAD and other CAD applications. Revit Architecture can import and export ______ files.
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
Miter
DWG
ADSK
34. 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
Poche
View Depth
Mirror
Project Base Point
35. A user interface mechanism that allows you to manipulate and activate a view that has been placed on a sheet. When you activate a view through a ______ - you can edit the model directly on the sheet.
Open Loop
Zoom
Hosted Component
Viewport
36. A design methodology that maintains a single database of information about a building design. All information for a building design - from geometry to construction data - is stored in a project file. This information includes components used to desig
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Bubble
Material Takeoff Schedule
Pin
37. 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
Symbolic Line
Symbol
Blend
Detail Level
38. The file format for projects created using Google® SketchUp - a general purpose modeling and visualization tool. You can import ______ files into a Revit project.
SKP
Project Browser
Text Note
Divided Surface
39. To shorten selected elements to meet a specified boundary.
Fillet
Revit Structure
Parallel View
Trim
40. Non-uniform rational B-spline. A mathematical model commonly used in computer graphics for representing and generating curves and surfaces. In Revit Architecture - you can create roofs and curtain systems on ______.
Toposurface
Framing Elevation
Area Scheme
NURB Surface
41. A subdivision within a family of elements. For example - the family of Concrete Round Columns is further divided into ______ such as Concrete Round 18" - Concrete Round 24" - and Concrete Round 30".
Type
Keynote Legend
Toposurface
Model Text
42. 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.
Sketch
Panel
Material Takeoff Schedule
Profile
43. Pre-built components - such as cabinets and cupboards for a kitchen or bathroom. Revit Architecture provides family types for ______.
Drafting View
Walkthrough
Central File
Casework
44. A defined area that obscures elements in a view. ______ are useful when you are creating a model family from an imported 2D DWG file - and you need the model element to obscure other elements when placed in a view. You can also use them to hide parts
Hidden Element
Pan
Walkthrough
Masking Region
45. 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
Property
Plan
Permanent Dimension
Cut Line Style
46. A graphic design for surfaces that are cut or shown in projection. You can use ______ for model patterns and drafting patterns.
Revit Architecture
Drawing List
Fill Pattern
Shading with Edges
47. A 3-dimensional shape that results from removing shapes from solid geometry.
Object Style
Trim
Void Geometry
Element Properties
48. The characteristic of being visible in one project view only.
Array
Rehost
Room Separation Line
View-specific
49. 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.
Area Scheme
Miter
Pushpin
Text Note
50. In Revit Architecture - a vertical or horizontal strip between panels of a curtain wall or curtain system.
ODBC
Revit Architecture
Mullion
Wireframe