Autodesk Revit HVAC Workshop

Course program

Introduction

• What is BIM and the role of Revit in this technology;
• Revit project structure (file formats, project, templates, families, folder structure).

General section for all specialists

• Design environment (Interface);
• Project navigation:

1. Levels of detail;
2. Hiding and isolating elements;
3. Visibility and appearance management (visibility/graphics);
4. Creation of filters (coloring of pipes/air ducts according to flow rate);

• Setting up the Project Manager;
• Engineering systems dispatcher;
• Creating a new project:

1. Based on template;
2. Shooting point and local 0;

• Creating the basic elements of the project:

1. Axles;
2. Levels;
3. Plans, elevations, sections;

• The concept of a family (family, standard sizes, properties of a type and an instance);
• Inserting CAD files into a project:

1. Work logic and communication manager;
2. Link to Revit and IFC files;
3. Connection with ACAD (insertion and preparation of drawings);

Collaboration with related sections

• Copying and monitoring of AR and CR elements;

Spaces and premises

• What are spaces and what are they for?
• Placement of spaces;
• Setting up spaces;
• Energy model of the building;
• Calculation of cooling and heating loads;
• Generation of reports;
• Formation of zones;
• Creation of color schemes for spaces;
• Explication of spaces and legend;

Individual parts

Water supply, sewerage

• Formation of pipes/air ducts in the project;
• Placeholders and 3D objects;
• Setting up the routing of pipeline systems (routing settings, assortment, turning angles, calculations);
• Creating a system with manual routing;
• Methods for constructing a system (connecting air distributors and installing them on the edge of the air duct);
• Installation of other system elements:

1. Air duct/pipeline fittings;
2. Equipment;

• Editing system elements;
• System analysis;

Ventilation and heating

• Formation of pipes/air ducts in the project;
• Placeholders and 3D objects;
• Setting up the routing of pipeline systems (routing settings, assortment, turning angles, calculations);
• Creating an automatic system trace;
• Creating a system with manual routing;
• Methods for constructing a system (connecting air distributors and installing them on the edge of the air duct);
• Installation of other system elements:

1. Air duct/pipeline fittings;
2. Equipment;
3. Calculation point (family of air distributors);

• Editing system elements;
• System analysis;

General part (specification, design, printing)

Specifications

• What is a specification?
• Types of specifications:

1. Statement by categories;
2. Materials;
3. Sheets;

• Placing a specification on a sheet (operations with SP on a sheet).
• Development of equipment/system specifications;

Design of species

• Creating the required set of views:
• Model views (plan, section, facade, 3D);
• Sections, nodes and fragments
• Drawing view;
• Legend;
• Design of views (annotation):

1. Dimensions, elevation marks and labels;
2. Stamps and text;
3. Elements for drawing nodes;

• View templates;
• Properties of species;

Formation of sheets

• Creating sheets;
• Stamp family (main inscriptions) and methods of filling it out;
• Filling of the sheet:

1. Placement of species;
2. View screens;

• List of sheets;
• Setting up the Project Manager;

Collaboration and data sharing

• Project data exchange:
• Specifications, drawing views
• Uploading specifications;
• Copying standards and settings from another project;
• Export and import data:

1. DWG;
2. IFC;

• Collaborate on a single file:

1. Work scheme;
2. Work sets;
3. Collaboration Monitor;
4. Synchronization;

Families

• The concept of families in Revit;
• Types of families and their placement in the project;
• Family editor (interface, settings and connection with the project);
• Family templates;
• Family modeling tools:

1. Geometry creation;
2. Creating dependencies;
3. Family properties, adding parameters;
4. Creating and configuring connectors;
5. Purpose of materials;
6. Assign visibility;

• Creation of family sizes;
• Saving and loading a family into a project.

An example of a model built during the course

The model itself, its completeness, sections, and volume may vary depending on the topics that are of most interest to the client and the academic performance of the group.

Ventilation in 3D

Water supply and sewerage

3D model of the system:

Specification