When I was in college, I remember my third year when I wanted to learn revit, but always felt overwhelmed by the sheer amount of buttons when I opened the program for the first time. Over the past year I have done residential remodels, new houses, interior restaurant design, and many other projects, and one project in particular stands out as the project I have been able to learn the most from...
My parents house.
I would argue that the best way of learning how revit works, and how to be an architect using revit (especially for small businesses) is to use Revit to do a set of complete as-builts for your house, your apartment, your very good friend's house, etc. Once you can do a complete set of construction drawings for your house, and you feel like you know it inside and out, up and down, top to bottom, you should feel fairly confident in revit.
This practice will also teach you a huge amount about architecture in general! How do I do existing condition measurements? Do I need a survey? What is a zoning analysis? How do I find information about the size of my property? All of this information is essential for the practicing architect to know how to do, and yet so few schools actually go over anything like this! At least not the way a business wants you to be able to do.
This process can take a lot of time to do. It involves measuring the house until you can see it in your sleep, and looking at every single jog in the wall and understanding how it works. But you will learn so much in the process and will benefit hugely.
The next series of posts that I'll hopefully get around to will go over how to start the process of measuring your house, starting with foundations.
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