Revit Lab–Hints for the Lab

Below are the hints for the lab.

• Save your file to desktop in the cadlab to avoid losing it in your machine 
  • Email it to yourself, or use a flash drive, or DropBox
• Videos online are helpful if the text instructions aren't clear
• If you have only 3-4 letters in your last name - multiply by 20 to get the length of your wall.
• Make walls go to 2nd level 
  • set "property" before  drawing, but you can change later
• Remember to put on a dimension 
  • under the annotate menu
• Not all things in the videos are required for this lab

Suggestions About Using Revit

Questions: – From Previous Year, but still appropriate

1. Hello, I have one question about the Revit Lab. I followed the videos, made the Revit model and the output sheet. How do I convert the sheet to a PDF file from Rivet?
2. Also, we're supposed to submit the actual Rivet model, meaning we have to submit the actual file we made upon starting the Rivet videos? Just a little confused, hope you can clear that up thank you.

Response

#1 You need to “Print to PDF”.  On the machines in the lab there is a PDF printer installed – just choose it when you’re printing.

If you’re doing this on your own machine you’ll need to install a “PDF Printer”.  There are multiple free one available.  TechSupportAlert is a good recommendation source – Here’s their link to PDF Printers and tools.

#2 You are to submit three things for this assignment

• The actual Revit File
• The PDF of the “Sheet” that you’ve created
• The Word document defined in the assignment.