GUIDE TO

REVIT 2017 BY ANIL SUTHAR

REVIT ARCHITECT + STRUCTURAL

In today's Day & Age this thing holds true.

"REVIT IS FOR ENGINEERS

&
AUTOCAD IS FOR DRAFTSMAN'S"
REAL WORLD DESIGNING
PROCESS IS REPETITIVE &
STEPS DRIVEN 

In any design software, you have to

follow certain steps in order to
reach to the correct results.

If you skip any of these steps your

output will not look professional &
the client may not accept it.

Always follow the steps. You can

tweak the individual steps on your
own but you can't change the
sequence or remove any of these
steps. 
  
Always follow the steps!
 What does Revit has that AutoCAD doesn't have?

AUTOMATION TOOLS
Revit contains wall drawing tools(bye bye

trimming), automatic section creation tool,

interconnected views, automatic 3D model

generation, automatic complete estimation,

Automatic BBS & 3D reinforcements.

 SO WHAT ARE THESE STEPS?
Draw walls, doors & windows for
given plan using Revit tool

Using Revit pre-build library to

place furniture & sanitary items.

Prepare professional sheet for the

Architectural plan.

Place columns & footings in the home

plan.

Place 3D reinforcements inside the

columns & footings as per design results.

Prepare professional column, footing,

beam, slab layout Sheets including rebar
tables.

Prepare Automatic Estimation of the

whole building using Revit tools

Using plugins insert 3D reinforcement

automatically into RCC members.

Refine the 3D model that Revit has produced,

place lighting, trees & other outer elements.

Print the design sheets on A3, A2 & A1 paper as per

the requirements.
 LETS FOCUS ON
THESE STEPS
1 BY 1

"ALWAYS FOLLOW THE STEPS"

 STEP

01

DRAW WALLS,
DOORS & WINDOWS 
FOR HOME PLAN
Revit provides wall tool that makes
our job easy while drawing walls. It
automatically trims the corner of the
wall. There is no need of trimming the wall
in order to place doors & windows, Revit will
automatically trim that for us.

Complete Revit course available at

www.fieldReady.co.in
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Architectural + Structural + Automatic Estimation

Revit 2017 Course: For Civil & Architect Engineers

-> Learn to prepare an Architectural plan with walls tool, quick window & Door placement, sheet preparation.
-> Learn to place columns & footing with 3D Rebars into them. Prepare professional footing column layout sheets 
-> Learn to place beams & slabs with 3D reinforcements in them as well as prepare professional design sheets 
-> Learn to prepare Automatic estimation in Revit 2017, Automatic BBS, Automatic 3D house model generation.

www.fieldReady.co.in
 STEP

02

With the help of Pre-Build templates

place furniture & Sanitary items 

Revit provided pre-build libraries through which we can select and

place the furniture, sanitary items & many more in our plan. These
items are available in 2D as well as 3D models(bonus from Revit!).

To learn how its done visit www.fieldReady.co.in

 STEP

03

MAKE 
PROFESSIONAL 
HOME PLAN SHEETS
The best part of these sheet templates
is that we only have to make it once as per
the firm needs. Once done we can use it again
& again without drawing it from the start. The
client name and drawing name text fields can be
edited in the project window itself. we don't need to
edit the template for that.

Complete Revit course available at

www.fieldReady.co.in
 Isolated footing pads.
3d model generated
automatically

STEP

04
Place columns and footings in the home
plan using Revit column & footing tools
Revit offers incredible column & footing tool through which
we can place columns & footing slabs very easily with
precision. These columns & footing act as containers for
placing 3D reinforcement inside them. Placing columns &
footing like this is very import in order to perform automatic
estimation in Revit.   
To learn how to place columns & isolated footing visit www.fieldReady.co.in

Column placment Isolated footing placement

 3D rebars for
3d reinforcements in columns & footing. entire footings.

STEP

Providing Cover & placing 3D reinforcement 05

inside Columns & footings. 
You might be thinking why to provide 3D reinforcement inside
columns & footings. Revit is a BIM software that means that
anything that you place in it, you can count,measure & display
it on sheets without much efforts. These 3D reinforcements
will play a big role in calculating the accurate steel quantity
(tonne) using Revit automatic estimation tool.  
To learn how to place columns & isolated footing visit www.fieldReady.co.in

Rebar
c  ouplers

Sectional view created  Automatically 

by Revit
 STEP

06

Prepare sheets of Column, footing, beam & slab

layout in a professional manner using templates.

All the design work that has been done will be submitted in terms of
sheets, no matter how beautiful you have made a 3D model of a
house, on field site engineer & the labors only understands what
need to be built with the help of a 2D sheet well designed & labeled
with a high level of accuracy. All this means is that drawing sheets
in a professional manner is really important for a structural
engineer.      
To know how to draw layout sheets of column & footings
Visit www.fieldReady.co.in
 STEP
07

Perform Automatic Estimation of the

entire house using Revit software.
Estimation work always takes a hell lot of time of an engineer. And many of
time there is a chance of a human error as large no of calculations are
involved. Revit deals with both of these problems. As it computes estimation
automatically a lot of time is saved as well as calculations are done by a
computer so there is the least chance of an error. Revit is the most powerful
estimation software available in the market.

To learn how to perform Automatic estimatio in Revit visit

www.fieldReady.co.in

Automatic Steel & Concrete quantity calculation done by Revit Software. .co.in
 Automatic rebar plugin in Revitco.in
STEP

08

Generate Reinforcements automatically using

Revit rebar extension plugin

Inserting rebars one by one in beams, columns, footings &

slabs can take a lot of time so Revit has provided an
automatic reinforcement generation extension plugin for
engineers to quickly place rebars in all the RCC structural
elements as per the design results.        

To know how to generate reinforcements automatically using plugin

Visit www.fieldReady.co.in
 STEP
09

Prepare 3D model & site elements

The good thing about Revit is that majority of the 3D model for a plan
is automatically made by Revit, we just have to fine tune & do the
remaining modification as per the client needs. Revit pre-build 3D
model templates of each item like trees, sanitary, lights, surface
material & other house old items help us a lot to prepare the 3D
model of any given plan.    

To learn about 3D modeling & Rendering process

Visit www.fieldReady.co.in
 STEP

Print professional sheets using 10

Revit Software 
The final result of any design work is printing of sheets that accurately
displays the structure shape, dimensions to be constructed on the field.
The common sizes of sheets that are used on the field are A3(most
common), A2, A1(for big plans). We can also submit the sheets in the
form of PDF if the client is located in another city. Providing clear,
appealing, well dimensioned & accurate sheets is really import on
the field. Even a small error on sheets can result in a disaster on field. 
To learn how professional engineers design & submit sheets to a client visit  
www.fieldReady.co.in
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Architectural + Structural + Automatic Estimation

Revit 2017 Course: For Civil & Architect Engineers

-> Learn to prepare an Architectural plan with walls tool, quick window & Door placement, sheet preparation.
-> Learn to place columns & footing with 3D Rebars into them. Prepare professional footing column layout sheets 
-> Learn to place beams & slabs with 3D reinforcements in them as well as prepare professional design sheets 
-> Learn to prepare Automatic estimation in Revit 2017, Automatic BBS, Automatic 3D house model generation.

www.fieldReady.co.in
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Etabs 2016 + Staad foundation Advanced + SuperCivilCD

Complete RCC & STEEL Design Course

( As per IS Codes )
-> Learn to design RCC & STEEL structures from start to end in Etabs 2016
-> Learn to design Isolated, Combined, Raft footing in Staad foundation Advanced
-> Learn to design One-Way, Two-Way & Staircase in SuperCivilCd software.
-> Learn to design Steel Roof trusses in ETabs 2016

www.fieldReady.co.in
 Anil Suthar
Structural Engineer
CEO of fieldReady
+918107449932

Happy Skill Learning to all of you.

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