
Using the temporary hide element from view tool available under the “cool shades” icon on your view control bar, will allow Revit to select your thin floor finishes rather than the main floor slab.Īnd Viola! Revit is once again playing nice! … now back to work with you! In our practice, we add thin floor slabs as finish materials on top of the structural slab and tag them, so the designer thought they were tagging a carpet, but Revit was secretly choosing the structural floor slab below.

If, like my frantic designer, you are tagging very thin floor slabs (as finishes like carpet or tile), then just ensure that you temporarily hide from view the underlying floor slab (probably concrete) before you attempt to tag by material. Knowledge of basic techniques is assumed, such as creating walls, roofs, and other objects, copying and moving objects, and creating and working with views, etc.Are you tagging elements with Material tags and think that the tag is not reflecting the correct value? – Just face it… you’re wrong and Revit is right! Bwa ha ha ha ha.Īctually, you’re probably getting a different element than you think when you go to place the tag.

Students should be comfortable with the fundamentals of Revit. Create specific families, including custom doors and windows, in-place families, profiles, railings, and shared parameters.Create custom wall, roof, and floor types.Create schedules, including material takeoff schedules with formulas.Create custom templates with annotation styles, title blocks, and custom element styles.The objective of the Revit Architecture 2011 BIM Management is to enable students who have worked with Revit to expand their knowledge in setting up office standards with templates that include annotation styles, preset views, sheets, and schedules, as well as creating custom element types and families. Having this in place makes the process of any new project flow smoothly and efficiently. A key component in managing the BIM process is to establish a company foundation for different types of projects by creating standard templates and custom elements. Revit Architecture is a powerful BIM program that supports the ability to coordinate, update, and share design data with team members throughout the design, construction, and management phases of a building's life.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an approach to the entire building life cycle.
