Revit for Architectural Design Professional Certification Prep

An architectural designer needs to create the condition shown in the exhibit (a wall with the exterior layer raised a few inches, there are two control snaps, one on the outer layer and then one on the other combined layers). The bottom extension of the outer brick layer needs to be adjusted independently of the other layers in the wall. How can this be accomplished?

In the Edit Assembly dialong, use the Modify tool and unlock the brick layer.

An architectural designer is working with the curtain wall as shown in the exhibit. They would like to change the number of bays on the Vertical Grid to 6, but the value is dimmed. Why is this the case?

Selecting the Fixed Number option for the Layout setting of the Vertical Grid will enable the number to be changed manually.

An architectural designer is working on a room schedule. The designer has grouped the schedule by Level and added a Footer with Title, count, and totals selected. However, the total Area is not showing. What needs to be done to show the total Area?

Set the Area parameter to Calculate totals.

An architectural designer needs to create an opening in a sloped roof. The opening needs to be perpendicular to the outer surface of the roof. Which opening tool should be used?

Opening by Face

An architectural designer needs to place columns inside of architectural columns. Which tool should be used to accomplish this?

Structural Column

An architectural designer needs to create a new brick material based on an existing brick material. The same material assets need to be used. Which process should be used?

Right-click the material and select Duplicate Using Shared Assets.

An architectural designer is working with a brick on metal stud wall. The designer wants to create a small rectangular portion on the outside of the wall that has a wood finish. How can this be accomplished?

Use the Split Face tool to create a separate region and then use the Paint tool to paint the wood material.

An architectural designer has a linked architectural model and wants to place rooms inside of the link. Revit does not recognize any of the elements as room bounding though. What should be done?

Select the linked architectural model, click Edit Type, and enable Room Bounding.

An architectural designer needs to create the highlighted geometry (a curved door handle with a uniform width dimension). Which tool should be used to create the form?

Extrusion

An architectural designer wants the walls in a view to be color coded based on the Function parameter. Which tool should be used to accomplish this?

View Filters

Where is the leader arrowhead controlled for a text note?

Text Type Properties

What must be added to a dimension type for the dimension to show both imperial and metric units?

Alternate Units

What category should a family be in order to be placed using the Symbol tool?

Generic Annotations

An architectural designer is creating a revision cloud. The designer is trying to assign the cloud to Sequence 1: Revision 1 but is unable to. Why is this happening?

The Issued option is selected for the revision.

An architectural designer has created a model group that includes an office furniture layout. Several instances of the model group have been placed. The designer tags the furniture in one model group and wants to use the same tag layout for the other model groups. How can this be accomplished?

Create an Attached Detail Group and attach it to the other model groups.

Based on the drawing area (orange outline with "worksets" in the top left, interior purple shading across the entire building while the exterior is highlighted in yellow), what view state is currently active?

Worksharing Display Mode

An architectural designer imports a DWG file into a Revit project and is considering exploding it to select and edit specific elements. Before they explode the file, what should they consider as a likely outcome?

Exploding the DWG file will create more individual elements, which can decrease project performance and complicate model management.

An architectural designer needs to remove several families from a project that are no longer needed to help reduce the file size. Which tool should be used?

Purge Unused

The Phase of a view is set to New Construction and the Phase Filter is set to Show Complete. What will control the graphic display of Existing elements?

The settings for the elements’ categories in the Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog.

An architectural designer is working on a project with design options. The designer needs to edit multiple walls but is not sure which design option the walls belong to. Which tool can be used?

Pick to Edit.

An architectural designer is working on a project with design options. The designer has determined that the second design option in the set is the one that will be used for the design moving forward. What should be done with the design option?

Make the second design option the primary design option and then accept the primary.

An architectural designer has an MEP model where air terminals are placed. The designer wants to use the air terminal locations to place generic air terminals in the architectural model. What should the designer do?

Use Copy/Monitor and specify type mapping for the air terminals.

Where is the save location of workshared local copies controlled?

Options dialog > File Locations

Which view property can be switched between True North and Project North?

Orientation

Which tool should be used to transfer the units from a project to a project template?

Transfer Project Standards

An architectural designer is creating a browser organization scheme. The available options to group by do not work for what the designer wants to do. What should be done to further customize the browser organization?

Create a project parameter and assign it to the Views category.

What should be created when the same set of sheets needs to be printed and exported to PDF multiple times?

Print Set

In which dialog is the Layer naming convention for exported CAD files controlled?

Modify DWG/DXF Export Setup

An architectural designer is working on a window schedule. The Window Area is shown in the schedule, but the designer cannot find that parameter in the instance or type properties for the windows. How is this parameter created?

Adding a calculated parameter.

An architectural designer is creating a wall type schedule. When the designer creates a schedule for the Walls category, every wall in the project shows. What should be done so that just the wall types show?

Sort the schedule by wall Type and deselect Itemize every instance.

What does setting the geographic location of a model primarily affect?

The orientation of sunlight and shadows in the project.

An architectural designer needs to create the sloped roof shown in the exhibit. Which tool should be used to slope the roof?

Shape Editing

An architectural designer is configuring the stairs shown in the exhibit (stairs with planks on the left and right sides). What type of supports should be selected?

Stringer

An architectural designer is working on a door family. The material for each geometric form needs to be controlled in the project. How can this be accomplished?

Associate each form’s Material parameter to a family parameter that is a Material type of parameter.

An architectural designer is reviewing the instance properties of a room and notices that the Volume is set to Not Computed. How can this parameter be calculated?

Change the Volumen Computations to Areas and Volumes.

An architectural designer wants the room Perimeter to be calculated at 3’-0” above the GROUND FLOOR level. How can this be accomplished?

Set the computation Height to 3’-0” for the GROUND FLOOR level.

An architectural designer wants to place a room tag outside the room. Which two actions should be completed?

Which type of parameter is the Number of hinges? (Choose two.)

• Instance

• Integer

An architectural designer created a topography with a thickness of 1 ft (0.30 mm). A point was placed as shown in Exhibit A. The terrain in shown in a section view in Exhibit B.

What is the elevation difference between the added point and the survey point?

3

An architectural designer has created a model group and wants to place additional instances of the group. Which two of the following methods can be used?

• Activate the Place Model Group tool.

• Use the Copy tool to copy the original group

Both Callout 1 and Callout 2 were drawn on Level 1. Why does Callout 2 appear under Drafting Views?

Reference Other View was selected when creating Callout 2.

What are the two View options when placing a legend component? (Choose two.)

Elevation, Floor Plan / Section

An architectural designer creates a new model fill pattern. The designer wants to use it in the project. What needs to be created for the fill pattern to be used?

Filled RegionType

After enabling worksharing in the model, an architectural designer is presented with the two worksets shown in the exhibit

What should the designer do first to make Workset1 Non Editable?

Synchronize the model with central.

An architectural designer is working on a workshared model. Which setting allows the designer to open worksets according to their state from a previous Revit session every time they open the model?

Last Viewed

An architectural designer needs to organize the Project Browser to sort views and sheets by specific discipline while grouping those used for documentation versus presentation separately. How can the designer accomplish this?

Use Browser Organization to create custom rules based on use and discipline.

An architectural designer is creating a wall schedule. The designer only wants to show walls of the Brick on Metal Stud type. How should this be accomplished?

Filter the schedule by wall Type equals Brick on Metal Stud.

An architectural designer is working on a room schedule. The designer needs to quickly specify all the finish parameters. What should be used to automate the process?

Key Schedule

An architectural designer is tasked with showing different black patterns for each type of area.

Which two steps allow them to achieve this?

An architectural designer is working on a project with a linked Revit model. The designer is unable to select the link. What is causing this condition?

The Select Links option is disabled.

An architectural designer needs to create a family that can be hosted to a wall or a ceiling. Which template should be used to create the family?

Generic Model face based.rft

An architectural designer needs to create a detail using detail components. The detail should be independent of the building model. What type of view should be used?

Drafting View

An architectural designer has created a drafting view with a detail. The designer wants to use the detail in another project. Which tool should be used?

Insert Views from File

The Phase of a view is set to New Construction. The Phase Created parameter for an element is set to Existing and the Phase Demolished parameter is set to New Construction. What is the phase status of the element in the view?

Demolished

An architectural designer is working on a project for an existing building. A team member has used a laser scanner to scan the building. The scan file can be used in Revit. Which tool should be used to link the file?

Point Cloud

An architectural designer wants to create a new central model from an existing workshared project. When opening the project, which option should be selected?

Detach from Central

An architectural designer is working on a building model with multiple areas. The designer wants to create furniture plans and dimensioned floor plans with the exact same crop regions. Which feature should the designer use?

Scope Box

An architectural designer creates an area plan. Some of the automatically generated area boundary lines are incorrect. What should the designer do to get the correct area boundaries?

Use the Area Boundary tool to create the correct area boundaries.

An architectural designer needs to create a repeating detail type for a brick. What should be created first for the brick?

Detail Component Type

An architectural designer has created a detail by placing detail components in a section view. The designer wants to use the detail components in several other section views in the same project. Which tool should be used?

Insert 2D Elements from File / Create Group

An architectural designer is creating a room tag family. The designer wants the tag to reference the room Name and Number parameters. How can this be accomplished?

Place a label in the family that includes the Name and Number parameters.

An architectural designer is working on resolving warnings in a project. The designer has the element ID of an element associated with a warning. Which tool should be used to select the element?

Select by ID

An architectural designer is working in a 3D view and wants to see only the roof elements. The designer wants to inspect the roof elements without affecting the view properties. Which tool should be used?

Isolate Category

An architectural designer has created four revisions. The designer wants the revisions to be numbered 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B. How can this be accomplished?

Create a customer numbering sequence and set the Numbering for each revision to the custom sequence.

Which two items can a project parameter be applied to? (Choose two.)

• Loadable Families

• System Families

What must be turned on to perform a solar study?

Shadows

An architectural designer is creating a new wall type. Between which two layers should the structural layer(s) be defined?

Core Boundary and Core Boundary.

An architectural designer needs to add a curtain grid to a single curtain wall without affecting the curtain wall type. Which tool should be used?

Curtain Grid

You can also modify a roof slope separately from the define slope dialogue with

Slope arrow

An architectural designer needs to create a stair type without risers. Where is this setting controlled?

Run Type Properties

In which dialog can the start and end posts for a railing type be controlled?

Edit Baluster Placement

Which opening tool should be used to create a single opening that will cut through multiple floors, ceilings, and roofs?

Shaft Opening

When creating an opening that's perpendicular to the roof, which tool should be used?

Opening by face

When creating an opening that's vertical to the roof, which tool should be used?

Vertical opening

What's the bigest difference between using opening elements vs. sketching the profile?

Opening elements are moveable project components; sketches are part of the wall.

Difference between structural and architectural columns

Structural doesn't integrate with architectural components; architectural takes on layer materials of the wall type.

Architectural columns can be room bounding.

You can place structural columns inside architectural columns.

What hot key can rotate a column?

Space bar

Which component will take on the layer materials of a basic wall when placed in the wall?

Architectural Columns

What tool can easily connect building elements together? i.e. floor and wall

Join

What tool can switch the priority of joined elements?

Switch join order.

Using the padlock for the align tool will create:

An alignment constraint: when you move one wall, the other that is associated with it will move as well.

What type of fill pattern can be used for a material's Foreground Surface Pattern?

Drafting or Model

Foreground patterns can use which type of patterns?

Model and drafting

Background patterns can use which type of patterns

Only drafting

The appearance tab under materials will display the view in which view types?

Realistic, Rendered.

Which dialog is used to apply a material to an element?

Material Browser

Difference between instance and type parameters

Type is applied to all instances (I.e changing a door type material will change all the door materials in the project). Instance is applied to a specific instance of the door, and will affect that individual door and no others. Instance is often times a text-based value.

In a family, in order to control material, the material parameter must be associated to a

Family parameter

What does splitting the face of a wall using the Split Face tool allow you to do?

Paint a new material into the region.

Calculate the volume tool using

Area and volume calculations tool.

A _______ when room bounding, will act as the top of the room element

Ceiling

Computation height is a parameter controlled by

Level

An architectural designer is creating a family for which several reference planes are needed. The designer wants to distinguish between the various reference planes by adjusting their color. How should this be accomplished?

Create a subcategory with a different color and assign the reference planes to it.

How do you create reference planes equidistant from the origin in a family?

Equality constraints

In a family, what must you click in order to associate the geometry lines with the reference planes?

The padlock icon

For a family, how do you associate a length parameter to a dimension?

Under modify dimensions, utilize the label dropdown.

What type of parameter is required to associate to a form's Visible parameter?

Yes/No

In a family, when the 'shared' parameter is enabled, the family is recognized as _______ from the host family

Independent

Three types of families in Revit

System, loadable, in-place

To create an in-place family, click on what icon?

Component > model in place. Select category you want the family to belong to.