A1 Grading–Revit–Comments

Here are my comments on the Revit assignment, A1.

• Overall people did a good job. 
• Some were cautious and only undertook the “novice” assignment even though they’ve worked on the same assignment before.  I’d say they didn’t get the full benefit of the effort.
• A number were quite short and sloppy in the writing - a

 

Difference between Revit and AutoCad

I commented to several students undertaking the “novice” version of the assignment:

I'm not sure that you fully understand the difference between Autocad. a drafting program that fundamentally just makes lines, and Revit, a program that truly models the building as an object that has properties that one can work with (e.g. engineering analysis, schedules, etc).

OR

It's not clear to me that you comprehend how fundamentally different the two programs are.  Revit creates a model that can stand in for the real building in simulations.  Autocad is just a creator of drawings, with no "knowledge" of the object it's creating.

Creating the Bookcase Family

• Many of you appropriately noted the differences in the tutorial instructions from today’s reality.  Authodesk should have done better.
• Understanding the importance of the reference planes (they’re normally used for defining dimension parameters) was a key learning issue for most of you.