Revit User's Guide

Topics in this section

• What’s New?

  Learn about new and enhanced features in recent releases of Revit.

• Introduction to Revit

  Learn about building information modeling, licensing, and the user interface.

• Start a Project

  Learn how to create a project, manage project files, and import or link information from other sources.

• Preliminary Design

  Start designing the model by defining levels, grids, and project location, creating a site plan, and performing a massing study.

• Build the Model

  Create the building model by adding architectural elements, structural elements, and MEP systems. Also add rooms and areas, design options, and custom components (Revit families).

• Document and Present the Project

  Create, annotate, and refine project documentation to communicate the design intent to team members, consultants, clients, and contractors.

• Collaborate with Others

  Learn about different ways to work with team members on Revit projects.

• Analyze the Design

  Use analysis tools to inform decisions during the design process.

• Tools and Techniques

  Learn how to sketch and edit elements, set constraints, create parameters, and use other tools of the user interface.

• Customize Revit

  Define settings, use templates to enforce office standards, create macros, and manage memory usage.

• Best Practices

  Follow these best practices to optimize your use of Revit.

• Troubleshoot

  Find solutions to common problems, understand warnings and error messages, and learn to use element IDs when troubleshooting problems.

• Reference

  Understand how Revit performs calculations, the assumptions on which analyses are based, and the schema used for export to gbXML.