Autodesk Revit 2022 for building design and construction

Autodesk Revit 2022 software is specifically built to empower your design and construction professionals. Revit 2022 help bring ideas to life with a coordinated and consistent model-based approach. Autodesk Revit software delivers tools that support architectural design, MEP engineering, structural engineering, and construction. Revit helps you to design, build and maintain higher-quality, more energy-efficient buildings.

Autodesk Revit 2022

Develop higher-quality, more accurate architectural designs. Using tools specifically built to support Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows, you can capture and analyse concepts through design, documentation, and construction.

Autodesk Revit software is a Building Information Modeling (BIM) solution for structural engineering firms, providing tools specific to structural design. BIM improves multidisciplinary coordination of structural design documentation, minimizes errors, and enhances collaboration among building project teams.

Autodesk Revit software provides mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineers with tools to design even the most complex building systems. Revit supports Building Information Modeling (BIM), to help drive accurate design, analysis, and documentation of efficient building systems from concept through construction.  Built to support Building Information Modeling (BIM) for construction, Revit helps you use intelligent models to quickly understand means, methods, and materials, and how they come together to realize the project design.

What’s New In Revit 2022?

Platform 

• Dynamo 2.6 Installed
• Dynamo Revit Nodes
• New Units
• Resizable Shared Parameters Dialog
• Improved Rhino and SAT Files Import
• Dynamo for Revit Path of Travel Nodes
• Built-in STL Export
• Revit Cloud Model Upgrade
• Shared Views (3D) in Revit
• User Profile Improvements
• Reset Shared Coordinates
• Notification after Successful Acquire Coordinates
• View Switching Improvements

Architecture

• New Sample Studies for Generative Design in Revit
• FormIt Converter in Revit Enhancements
• Sketchup 2020 Files Import

Structure

• Quickly Identify the Rebar Host

MEP

• EU Region Support for P&ID Modeler
• Improved Panel Schedule View and System Browser Interaction

Highlights of Revit 2022

Generative Design
Quickly produce design alternatives based on goals and constraints you define.

Real-time realistic views
Work directly in real-time with better, easier, and faster realistic views.

Electrical circuit naming
Electrical workflows in Revit 2022 are more adaptable to global requirements with flexible circuit naming schemes.

Customised workspace
Easily tailor your workspace to your work discipline and job role.

Slanted walls
Intuitively create and edit slanted walls, and instantly handle slanted doors, windows, and other wall-hosted geometry.

PDF and image linking
Link PDFs or image files into Revit from local or cloud storage.

Cloud model hosting

Host Revit cloud work shared and non-work shared models on European data centres.

Row striping for schedules
Read schedules more easily with row striping on sheet views.

Infrastructure discipline and bridge categories
Revit 2022 supports the bridge and civil structures workflows with InfraWorks, including extended bridge categories for modelling and documentation. Watch How

Dynamo 2.5 integration
Dynamo Revit 2.5 comes out of the box with Revit 2022 Watch How

Rebar modelling
A series of improvements for shapes, coupler connections, and end treatments for working with rebar.

Integrated precast automation
The structural precast extension is now native to Revit with precast tools available on install. Watch How

Integrated steel connections nodes
Dynamo nodes for placing steel connections now come out of the box with Revit. Watch How

Tools for steel modelling
Enhancements to the create, edit, view, and snap command behaviours with steel stiffeners and plates.

Integrated structural analysis results
Structural analysis results in storage and exploration are now native to Revit on install. Watch How

Electrical design
New support for single-phase (line to neutral) panelboards, and improvements to switchboard circuits.

MEP worksharing
Improved worksharing provides better collaboration among stakeholders and more consistent experience.

More about Quadra Solutions

Quadra Solutions Ltd specialise in design and data management software solutions for the manufacturing, construction, engineering and PCB design industries. Quadra is a Gold Autodesk Partner, an accredited training centre and specialists in  PCB design. Inventor, Revit, AutoCAD, Collections and Vault software help our customers to design, visualise, innovate and implement solutions that grow and develop their business.

Our software solutions, consultancy, training and technical support are some of the best in the industry. With a wealth of experience and knowledge, Quadra specialises in helping businesses adopt efficient and effective design workflows, innovate and embed data management solutions. We pride ourselves on our consultative approach to working with customers as their technology partner. For more information about Quadra please contact us.

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In this video we are going to look at three different ways you can capture areas within a Revit project.
So here we have a set of apartments, we have separate types of units, separate apartments and within those different rooms and room sizes.

So I’m just going to show you 3 different ways to capture floor areas and room areas within a Revit project.

Setting up Floor Areas in Revit with Room Tags

So the first way you would capture floor areas is by using a room tag, simply just going to your architecture tab and just dropping in your room tags. So what we will do is load in a tag, so we’re going to start dropping in rooms here. and you just click in the room and the walls of the apartment are defined as room bounding. So can just place a room in each room and it will find the binding wall within each of those elements.
So I am going to select this particular room and it shows me the floor area of that room and if I in fact select one of these walls it shows me that this particular wall is room bounding. So that means if I were to disable room bounding the floor area would not be found by using that wall, it would probably spill into the next room. So that’s how you create a very simple room area using room tags.

Setting up Floor Areas in Revit with Place Spaces

That’s one way of doing it, another way you can also do it and this may be slightly non-conventional. You can use something called space tags, which are primarily used in MEP models and will be used extensively by MEP engineers and modellers on a BIM project but the reason that you might use them is if I go to analyse, so here I can place spaces. Spaces are separate to rooms, you can interlink them to a degree, whereas if you create rooms you can them to recreate as a space but to place spaces, the reason I use spaces is to associate with individual apartments or houses, is because when you place them, they have slightly different properties. So we can start placing these spaces in here and we have a series of spaces created.

Now what I can do with a space that I cannot do with a room is that you can create something called zones. Zones allow you to collate a series of spaces into a single zone. I going to go to edit zone, add a space, so what I’m going to do is multiple select all of these spaces that I have placed. So I am going to be able to associate these with each apartment because they are in a single zone. So you see if I hover over here, it won’t allow me to add a room tag to the zone, so you can’t use room tags within the zone, they are completely independent. So you can see when I hover over here now it gives me all of the space tags that have been placed. If I come to the lefthand side here I can look at the schedules. So if I go into my schedule on the left-hand side I’ve got a room schedule. So my room schedule, we will turn on the names and numbers of the room schedule. So then you can see all the rooms that have been placed in here. It only contains the rooms, not the spaces because when you create a space schedule it is separate to a room schedule. So we have a space schedule here and we can see all the spaces here. So these are all associated with a zone. The apartment number could be the zone for example.

So if I now want to place another zone within a separate apartment and give it a number, go to analyse, go to space and drop in the spaces and then create a zone of those spaces. Select all of the individual spaces, it will automatically give it a new number. and it will sort it into different spaces. And I can rename the spaces accordingly. Once named we can sort the list by zone and separate it into different apartments.

Be aware that then when adding all the rooms together it will only measure the rooms not the interconnecting spaces and partitions.

Setting up Floor Areas in Revit with Space Tags

The third way is to use space tags. Go to the architecture tag. I’m going to create an area plan. So this creates a separate plan view, whilst allowing you to place separate boundary lines. So I can choose the same floor plan. I’m going to go into area boundary and it’s going to let me select separate area boundaries. So you can apply the area rules,or you can get it to lock to the individual walls.

So I am going to select an external wall, and we are only going to capture the internal floor area of the apartment. If any of these walls move, as we’ve locked those particular lines, they will move with each of those walls. On the left, it has created a separate area plan. What I can now do is create an area schedule for that apartment. I need to place an area tag in here too. I can place my area tag and it gives me the total area of all of those external boundaries. This is separate to space and room tags. With this information, you can then export the total size area information of the design. This will export as a .txt file and you can do the same with the space schedule and the same with the room schedule.

To summarise

– you can create a separate area plan
– you can create a room schedule with independent room tags
– or you can create a space schedule and place that on a zone

More about Quadra Solutions

Quadra Solutions Ltd specialise in design and data management software solutions for the manufacturing, construction, engineering and PCB design industries. Quadra is a Gold Autodesk Partner, an accredited training centre and specialists in electronic and PCB design. We provide Autodesk Design software solutions for the Construction and Manufacturing industries. Inventor, Revit, AutoCAD, Collections and Vault software helps our customers design, visualise, innovate and implement solutions that help customers grow and develop their business.

Our software solutions, consultancy, training and technical support to the manufacturing, architectural, construction and product design industries is some of the best in the industry. With a wealth of experience and knowledge, Quadra specialises in helping businesses adapt and adopt efficient and effective design workflows, innovate and embed data management solutions. We pride ourselves on our consultative approach to working with customers as their technology partner.

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Linked Files in Autodesk​ Revit

Transcript

Inside the Revit environment, it allows you to import a number of different types of files by linking them in. So you can link in a Revit file an IFC, link in a CAD file, topography dwf mark-ups, decal images for placing on surfaces, point cloud files such as OCP OCS, coordination models from Navisworks NWT, NWC and then manage links any sort of imported files.

So here I am within my Revit project this is the main Revit building. I’m going to select all visual elements. Thes other files are imported or linked files. To link in a file go to your insert tab under the link status, click on the link in Revit, navigate to your particular file. Select the file you want to import. This item has been linked as a Revit file. These are external files. And no items are selectable within that.

This site file is a 2d DWG and all of this is intelligent information. So if I want to navigate to the top view. If I want to trace over them, I can go to my pick lines or draw lines and it will pick up on those lines and trace over. Therefore this is not just static information.

Linked Files in Autodesk​ Revit

We can also control the layers within this drawing as well. So I may want to hide all the deck layers within this view.

If I go into my manage links tab, this will allow me to see what’s been imported. So I can see which model has been imported and I can unload that and remove it. It still retains any of the external walls we traced over. This hasn’t disappeared with the CAD file.

In the 3D view, we can see the files from different views and these are editable within the original files.

Revit Training with Quadra Solutions

We offer a wide range of Revit training courses, from beginners to advanced and bespoke training courses. Our training courses can be delivered on-site, at our Training Facility in Lancashire or online. Contact training@quadrasol.co.uk

More about Quadra Solutions

Quadra Solutions Ltd specialise in design and data management software solutions for the manufacturing, construction, engineering and PCB design industries. Quadra is a Gold Autodesk Partner, an accredited training centre and specialists in electronic and PCB design. We provide Autodesk Design software solutions for the Construction and Manufacturing industries. Inventor, Revit, AutoCAD, Collections and Vault software helps our customers design, visualise, innovate and implement solutions that help customers grow and develop their business.

Our software solutions, consultancy, training and technical support to the manufacturing, architectural, construction and product design industries is some of the best in the industry. With a wealth of experience and knowledge, Quadra specialises in helping businesses adapt and adopt efficient and effective design workflows, innovate and embed data management solutions. We pride ourselves on our consultative approach to working with customers as their technology partner.