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Architecture

Exporting Revit to Acad


Students learn to prepare an AutoCad file for use on a Laser Cutter. This drawing is exported from Revit 2022 into AutoCad 2019. Using line type layers to cut and score, students will have their house plans laser cut from chipboard after completing this video.
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Architecture

Drafting a Survey in Revit

Students learn how to draft a house survey into Revit, place drawings on a sheet and then print to PDF.
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Architecture

How to Survey a Home

This video explains what is involved in surveying a historic home. Taking exterior dimensions, using a running dimension line, and locating interior walls with a measuring tape are all explained and drawn by the architect.

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Architecture

Revit 2022 Lecture 4

Learn to draft a Follie from Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la Villette.

Students are guided in Revit 2022 to choose and draft a Parc Follie of Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la Villette in Paris, France.

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Architecture

Revit 2022 – Lecture 3

In this third Revit lecture students are asked to look at a project by WORKac in NYC. The new Revit commands include editing door and window families, uploading from Autodesk’s cloud library, and copying assemblies floor to floor.
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Architecture

Revit 2022 Lecture 2

Students have surveyed a Fairmont State University Campus building to develop as-built drawings in Revit. Learn how the measurements you take can become actual buildings in Revit through this lesson. Learn how to build accurate walls, floor to floor levels, ceilings and roofs.
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Architecture

Introduction to Revit 2022

Freshman Architectural Students have learned four weeks of SketchUp, so this introduction to Revit compares those lessons with drafting in Autodesk Revit. This lesson is repetitive throughout so that students can remember keyboard shortcut commands.

Halfway through the video I describe the architect Maya Lin so that students can draft the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall and develop a response to it using their new Revit skills.

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Architecture

Lecture 6 – Easy Photoshop Poster

Learn how architectural students use Photoshop to create a poster about a Studio Odile Decq project created in SketchUp.

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Architecture

SketchUp – Lecture 5

Architectural students learn to create a site in SketchUp using the Sandbox tools or simple elevation drawing skills. Then, we learn about a French architect, Odile Decq and create Studio Odile Decq’s Saint Ange residency building in SketchUp.
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SketchUp – Lecture 4

Learn about how architectural students in West Virginia, USA are asked to think about formal ordering such as Axis and Symmetry through Michelangelo’s Campidoglio. Then, apply these same concepts to draft Calatrava’s Science Museum at the City of Arts and Sciences Complex in Valencia, Spain. Learn to use Google Earth to measure the Science Museum and develop the structural-rib envelope of the museum. As a beginner to SketchUp you can create a complex structure with simple SketchUp tools.