Revit Structure Course

Lesson 1 • Revit Interface and Navigation

Covers the ribbon, project browser, properties palette, and view controls. Students gain speed and confidence moving through the interface before touching structural elements.

Lesson 2 • Starting and Configuring a Project

Guides students through creating a new structural project from a template and setting up project units and settings. Proper configuration prevents costly rework later.

Lesson 3 • BIM Concepts and Structural Workflow

Establishes what BIM means in a structural engineering context and how data-rich models replace traditional drafting. Sets the conceptual foundation for every subsequent modelling task.

Lesson 1 • Wall Foundations and Grade Beams

Demonstrates continuous wall footings and grade beams that support structural walls. Students complete a full foundation system combining isolated and continuous elements.

Lesson 2 • Column Families and Types

Covers loading, duplicating, and modifying column families for steel, concrete, and timber sections. Students match family types to project material requirements.

Lesson 3 • Foundation Views and Documentation

Creates dedicated foundation plan views with correct visibility settings and annotation. Proper view setup ensures the foundation plan communicates clearly to contractors.

Lesson 4 • Isolated and Spread Footings

Teaches placement of isolated footings beneath individual columns with correct bearing depth. Students link footing geometry to column locations for coordinated foundation plans.

Lesson 1 • Framing Plan Views and Tags

Configures framing plan views with correct cut plane heights and applies beam tags and span direction symbols. Clear annotation is essential for construction documentation.

Lesson 2 • Beam Families and Profiles

Explores steel, concrete, and timber beam families and how to select appropriate profiles. Students match beam depth and width to span requirements using type parameters.

Lesson 3 • Bracing and Lateral Members

Models diagonal braces in vertical planes to resist lateral loads. Students place braces in elevation views and verify their connections to columns and beams.

Lesson 4 • Structural Framing Systems

Uses the Beam System tool to automatically generate secondary framing within a bay. Automated framing saves time and ensures consistent spacing across large floor plates.

Lesson 1 • Sloped and Variable Thickness Floors

Uses slope arrows and shape editing to model sloped slabs and variable-thickness conditions. Students handle ramps, drainage slopes, and tapered slab edges.

Lesson 2 • Floor Types and Assemblies

Builds custom floor assemblies by editing layers for concrete, metal deck, and topping. Accurate assemblies drive correct quantities and structural analysis data.

Lesson 3 • Structural Floor Basics

Introduces the structural floor tool and explains how it differs from an architectural floor. Students sketch floor boundaries and assign structural floor types.

Lesson 4 • Floor Documentation and Schedules

Tags floor types, adds area and thickness annotations, and creates a floor schedule. Schedules link model data directly to quantity takeoff and specification workflows.

Lesson 1 • Wall Openings and Embeds

Adds door and window openings and structural embeds to walls using the opening and void tools. Correct openings are essential for coordination with architectural and MEP models.

Lesson 2 • Wall Types and Assemblies

Builds concrete and masonry wall assemblies by editing core and finish layers. Accurate assemblies support structural analysis exports and material quantity schedules.

Lesson 3 • Structural Wall Placement

Covers drawing structural walls with correct base and top constraints tied to levels. Proper constraints prevent walls from floating or conflicting with adjacent elements.

Lesson 1 • Nested Families and Shared Parameters

Nests sub-families into host families and links data using shared parameters. Shared parameters enable schedule reporting of nested component data across the project.

Lesson 2 • Loading and Managing Families

Covers loading families into projects, overwriting existing versions, and organising a project family library. Good library management reduces errors and speeds future projects.

Lesson 3 • Family Editor Fundamentals

Introduces the family editor environment, category selection, and reference plane setup. Understanding the editor's logic is prerequisite to building any custom structural family.

Lesson 4 • Structural Connection Families

Models base plates, end plates, and gusset plates as structural connection families. Accurate connection families improve coordination and support fabrication documentation.

Lesson 1 • Load Cases and Load Combinations

Defines dead, live, wind, and seismic load cases and combines them per engineering requirements. Organised load cases make analysis exports interpretable by calculation software.

Lesson 2 • Applying Structural Loads

Places point, line, and area loads on structural members and surfaces. Accurate load placement ensures analysis results reflect the actual loading scenario.

Lesson 3 • Exporting to Analysis Software

Exports the analytical model via direct links and neutral file formats to third-party analysis applications. Students verify exported data integrity and resolve common transfer errors.

Lesson 4 • Analytical Model Overview

Explains how Revit generates an analytical model parallel to the physical model and how to view and edit it. A clean analytical model is prerequisite to reliable analysis exports.

Lesson 1 • Annotation and Dimensioning

Applies aligned, angular, and spot elevation dimensions and structural annotation tags to model views. Consistent annotation standards ensure drawings meet professional submission requirements.

Lesson 2 • Sections, Elevations, and Details

Creates section cuts, building elevations, and detail callouts that reference the 3D model. Model-based details update automatically when the model changes, reducing coordination errors.

Lesson 3 • Schedules and Quantity Takeoffs

Builds beam, column, footing, and floor schedules that extract model data automatically. Accurate schedules support cost estimation and material procurement directly from the model.

Lesson 4 • Sheet Setup and Title Blocks

Creates sheets, places views, and configures title block families with project information. Proper sheet setup ensures consistent presentation across the entire drawing set.