5 Revit Functions Most Beginners Don't Know About (but need to)

Here are 5 functions for Revit beginners that make an impact but aren’t usually known.
In a recent group project for studio 8, one of my mates is using Revit for the first time. This is fine, but it’s quite funny whenever he shows me something. I sit there trying not to cringe while he does it the least efficient way possible. He might spend 5 minutes trying something when it can be done in the click of a button. It made me realise there’s a lot of features in Revit that are seemingly simple but make huge differences, that you just won’t know about unless shown.
I’ve got 5 Revit features for beginners that are going to blow your mind, if they don’t blow your mind then you’re no longer a beginner Revit user and you should be happy about that, welcome to the good life!
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0:39 Visibility Graphics Overrides
The first feature allows you to add hierarchy in your Revit drawings. Its called the Visibility Graphics Override. Hierarchy is so important for any architectural drawing. To be able to adjust line styles, thicknesses, tones of lines and hatches is key to getting a clear, readable drawing. This feature will allow you to do just that.
4:01 View Templates
The second feature enables you to adjust these settings to all your types of drawings at once. A time saver, if you will. This feature is called view templates, and they are a game changer. My other mate who is well versed in Revit wasn’t using these, and when I showed this feature to him, he was ecstatic.
7:28 Phasing
Next, its phasing. If you’ve never heard of phasing before, you’d probably have no idea what it is. Quite simply, it’s a way to phase your project into different stages. If you’re creating a new build on an empty lot, all in one stage, you won’t need phasing. Generally, for additions and alterations, there’s an “existing” stage (that which lived on the site before any work has commened), a new construction phase (sometimes split into different stages for different area of works at different times) and a demolition phase (in between existing and new construction, that which is being removed from the site). Phasing allows your to work between these stages inside your Revit model.
11:36 Groups
The fourth Revit feature that most beginners don’t know is using groups. Groups allow you to model something once and duplicate it throughout the rest of your model. Any changes you make to the group appear across all other instances of that group. It’s a pretty standard way to work on multi-storey projects, or simply array objects that need to stay the same and may change in the future.
13:43 Enscape Plugin
The fifth and final feature for Revit is actually a plugin. It allows you to render your project in real time, used by myself as more of a design tool than a renderer, but does both fantastically. It’s also great for creating rendered walkthrough/flythrough films of your virtual model.
There you have it, I hope this video helps you on your Revit journey!

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[@TheAster3]

As a video suggestion, can you make a tutorial where you compare common beginner workflows VS efficient workflows that more advanced users utilise in Revit, and how you should stop using those bad beginner practices? For instance, you showed the difference between the beginner style of using VG for view specific pages, and repeating that process manually - you then showed how the more efficient and correct solution was to set up a view template in order to apply a consistent style, and any changes that are made are universal. That's the idea.
I'm wondering just how many more solutions like this there are. You might've seen beginners do certain tasks in a certain less-efficient way, and you might know of more efficient methods to complete that task in question which is also used in practice.
Great video, you're awesome at what you do. Looking forward to future videos.

[@kylesinko]

Zoinks! Thanks a lot Shaggy. That's an awesome suggestion, I'll try put together something like that. Thanks for the kind words and suggestion!

[@StevenDarabi]

Thank you for this straight forward explanation of Revit tutorial.
I like the way you explained how to come up with an architectural concept. The concept that we have been thought at school was just starting off from a keyword and design was supposed to show that later when it was modeled. This approach was totally opposite of what a customer may have wanted and required us to design just to show off our personal thinking.
Keep up the good work.

[@kylesinko]

Thanks Steven, I’m glad you liked this video. Cheers!

[@ivasong]

very clear and concise explanations

[@kylesinko]

Cheers! Thanks a lot

[@sukhpreetkaur8219]

Thank you for your easy to follow videos, God Bless 😇💐

[@kylesinko]

You are so welcome. Thanks Sukhpreet

[@SirKombabomba]

Its wicked tips from you Buddy- Thanx

[@kylesinko]

Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers

[@okzzvil7617]

Thank you man. Keep up the good work.

[@kylesinko]

Cheers, will do!

[@rashidconteh6849]

I appreciate your effort towards expanding my orisons

[@kylesinko]

My pleasure, thank you!

[@FarhaNzAsyraf]

Got 1 question. At ur first point.
For example in elevation view. And have 3 wall at different distance. Wall get cuts is thickest. 2nd wall thinner and 3rd wall thinest.. and so on.. can we do in Revit?

[@kylesinko]

Revit tends to do this hierarchy for you in elevations automatically. But sometimes it’s just enough so you can use the Linework tool (LW) to manually adjust it

[@hybridphoenix7766]

Just curious, but are you guys actively using Dynamo within your workflow for Revit, and if so, does it play a significant role?

[@kylesinko]

I haven’t used Dynamo myself, but I’ve worked at a few firms where others use it and it seems to work well.

[@zaccblack103]

Please use chapters in your videos.