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Autodesk Revit Architecture
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it-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Pre-built components - such as cabinets and cupboards for a kitchen or bathroom. Revit Architecture provides family types for ______.
Plan Region
Casework
Crop Region
Dimension
2. A user interface mechanism that you use to select elements within a defined area by dragging the cursor around them. To create a ______ - place the cursor near the elements to select - click and hold the left mouse button - and drag the cursor diagon
Phase
Array
Project Template
Selection Box
3. Part of the Revit interface that displays information about what is highlighted or selected - or hints on what to do next. The ______ is located in the lower left corner of the Revit window.
Reference Point
ADSK
Reflected Ceiling Plan View
Status Bar
4. (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).
Fill Volume
Clip Plane
Sketch
Template
5. 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
Discipline
Cutback
True North
Link
6. 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
Status Bar
Break Line
Local File
Setback
7. A set of colors and fill patterns used to graphically designate rooms or areas in a floor plan. You can apply ______ based on any parameter value for a room or area. For example - if you want to color rooms by department - set the Department paramete
Color Scheme
Reference Line
Area
PAT
8. 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.
Hidden Element
X-Ray
Draw Order
Grid
9. A 2-dimensional plane used when designing families of model elements or placing elements in a building model.
Autodesk Seek
Perspective View
View List
Reference Plane
10. 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
Orientation
Mirror
Model Graphics Style
Underlay
11. The size of a datum plane (a plane for a level - grid - or reference line). Datum planes are not visible in all views. If the datum does not intersect a view plane - it will not be visible in that view. You can resize datum planes so that they are vi
Datum Extent
Model Graphics Style
Schedule
Autodesk Seek
12. 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
Model Element
Generic Model
Orthographic View
Schedule
13. Reference planes are displayed in the conceptual design environment in the 3-dimensional views.
3D reference plane
Link
Model Graphics Style
Type Catalog
14. 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.
Reference Plane
Generic Annotation
Object Style
Revision Schedule
15. 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
Cut Volume
Callout
Offset
Hidden Line
16. 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.
Crop
Scope Box
Shared Coordinates
Revit Structure
17. 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 ______.
Model Graphics Style
Halftone
Library
Swatch
18. 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.
Massing Study
Architectural Column
Mirror
Revolve
19. 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.
Span Direction
Material
Embedded Wall
RPC
20. 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
Perspective View
Permanent Dimension
Infill Element
DWG
21. A sketch line that indicates where to split a view for a dependent view - as shown.
Divided Surface
Rule-based Filter
Family
Matchline
22. A Revit tool that automates the creation of stairs based on a specified minimum tread depth and maximum riser height.
Project
Stair Calculator
RTE
Reference Plane
23. A line that provides information but is not intended to represent actual geometry in an element. For example - when creating a door family - you might sketch ______ in an elevation view to represent a door swing. ______ are visible parallel to the vi
Tag
Symbolic Line
Planting
Shading with Edges
24. 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
Perpendicular View
Pushpin
Model Graphics Style
Key Schedule
25. A Revit feature that allows you to specify a value for a dimension as you sketch an element in a view. You specify a start point for the element - start sketching in the desired direction - type the exact dimension desired - and press Enter. Revit Ar
Project View
Ground plane
Projection Line Style
Listening Dimensions
26. The clip plane that is at the side of the view farthest from the start point of an elevation view - a section view - a 3D view - or a walkthrough view. In the following floor plan - the green dotted line opposite the blue line represents the ______ f
Centerline
Nested Family
Far clip plane
Model Graphics Style
27. A 3D view that shows a building model in which all components are the same size - regardless of the camera's distance from them.
Poche
Massing Study
Primary View
Orthographic View
28. A conceptual design and modeling environment that takes any overall building form described conceptually - and maps it to building elements - such as roofs - curtain walls - floors - and walls.
Category
Entourage
Building Maker
NURB Surface
29. 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.
Drafting View
Autodesk Seek
Model Pattern
Origin
30. 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 ____
Scale
Rough Opening
Family
Shared Family
31. An open file format that is supported by many CAD applications. A ______ file is a text file that describes a 2D drawing. The text is not encoded or compressed - so ______ files are generally large. Revit Architecture can import and export DXF files.
End Cap
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
Project Template
Panel
32. A model graphics style in which Revit Architecture displays the image of the model with all edges and lines drawn - but no surfaces.
Project Browser
Wireframe
X-Ray
Framing Elevation
33. 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)
Rendering
on-bearing Wall
Spot Coordinate
34. Arranged along a radius or arc. In Revit Architecture - when you create a ______ array - the elements in the array are arranged along a curve.
DWG
Room-bounding Elements
Radial
Paint
35. 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
Projection Line Style
Resize
DGN
Parallel View
36. A mechanism for determining which elements are selected (for modification or manipulation) based on their family types or element parameters.
Detail Component
Selection Filter
Casework
Sheet
37. A graphic style applied to an element when a view displays the element - so that you are seeing a representation of its exterior surface. For the ______ of an element - you can specify the line weight - color - and fill pattern.
Import Symbol
Mullion
Projection Line Style
Building Footprint
38. The proportional system used to represent objects in a drawing. In Revit Architecture - you can assign a different ______ to each view.
Zoom
Split
Camera
Scale
39. 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
Template
Planting
Parameter
40. A column that supports a vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Sheet
Highlight
Structural Column
Dimension
41. 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
Setback
Datum
Constraint
UV grid
42. A model element - annotation element - datum element - or imported element in a project.
Model Element
Rule-based Filter
Perpendicular View
Object
43. 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
Control
Discipline
Communication Center
44. A project view or imported file that you use to help position elements in the current view. For example - when you use a section view as an ______ to a detail view - model elements in the detail view display in halftone or a different line weight and
Underlay
Bubble
Model Line
Compound Wall
45. An end of a wall that does not join to another wall. The unjoined end of the wall is exposed. You can specify whether compound wall layers wrap at ______. For example - the following image shows a cross-section of a compound wall that uses interior w
Communication Center
Wall Join
End Cap
Instance Parameters
46. A set of initial conditions for a project. Revit Architecture provides several ______ - and you can create your own ______. Any new project based on a ______ inherits all families - settings (such as units - fill patterns - line styles - line weights
Template
Discipline
Project Template
Embedded Wall
47. Text that documents a building model. ______ are usually related to a parameter for a model element or type. You can create ______ families and nest them inside host model families - so that the annotations display in the project. This is useful if y
Model Group
Bounding Box
Join
Generic Annotation
48. In Revit Architecture - a vertical or horizontal strip between panels of a curtain wall or curtain system.
Model Graphics Style
Mullion
Central File
Detail Level
49. 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
Slope Arrow
Reference Section
Group
Fillet
50. (1) The intersection where 2 or more elements share a common face. (2) To resolve intersections between elements that share a common face. The level of detail for the view determines the detail of the ______ geometry that is shown. The following imag
Mullion
Join
Hosted Component
Stacked Wall