Paul F. Aubin is a principal of the Revit school. He is one engine that push Revit widely use among the BIM community. His contribution is respectful. Paul, thanks for your excellent work.
Have been a big fan of Paul and his teaching style for years. He seems to understand where I am coming from as an architect who wants to engage effectively with Revit but often struggle to do so following decades of work on other platforms…starting with pencil and paper. I am 66 year old architect who has found Revit to be extremely frustrating to learn. Why? It is one of those skills that IMO requires total immersion over a number months to really develop both the brain and muscle memory to execute. This requires a an open mind and a colossal amount of time that can’t be billed to a job. There is the “how to do” and the “how to do efficiently” and the “how to do so everything displays the way you want” and the “how to do so that the content you painstaking produce fits effectively into the BIM workflow requirements of the type of project your office does” and on and on. It’s endless. Designing a bespoke kitchen for a 5 million dollar penthouse remodel in New York is different from developing model groups for kitchens that will then be linked to a dozen different large multi-family projects your developer client is doing in 8 different cities. Most older practicing architects simply do not have the time for this level of immersion unless they choose to take 6 months off. Also, few if any, spent their teen years doing computer gaming where the problem-solving hunt for “work arounds” is a regular part of the interaction with digital platforms. Most older architects considered themselves to be architectural designers first and draftsmen second and had those drafting skills nailed by age 25.
I think a session on groups VS families would be extremely helpful in the future. Identifying how to use both, and when to use them appropriately, as Paul suggested.
Just watched the part about view range and Line style. If you create a filter for a category instead off just a normal Model Category override. the Lines is overrided by the filter. Filters is at the Top of Revit's override priority-hierarchy. (override by element is the only override that will get prioritized before filters)
To facilitate learning Revit in one’s spare time, I would actually like to see Paul try presenting “basics” by doing a step-by-step tutorial in which he creates a Revit model of a famous work of residential architecture. Experienced architects and students would benefit for the following reasons: 1) It would divorce the “spare time” learning from the work one is currently doing at any given time. You may actually hate the building you are working on for your day job. 2) It would ground you in the Drafting 101 basics that are the foundation of most Revit tasks and free you from all the data-driven-design add-on “rabbit hole” aspects of Revit that make it the workhorse if BIM. That can come later. 3) The pedagogy would more resemble that drafting class that you took back in high school in 1975…except that the orthographic projection exercises you do to build Families piece by piece would, over days or weeks “add up” to creating a stunning and engaging model of an established architectural masterpiece…rather than a typical bland “example of a project”. 4) It would provide an educational component for those of us who love to geek-out on how famous building were actually built. It wouldn’t simply be “all about Revit”. One could explore physical aspects of canonical works of architecture through an immersive process. 6) The process would in some respects resemble the physical models of airplanes, boats and cars that we built in kit form when we were kids. There is an educational aspect to this. Learn about Frank Lloyd Wright by building a Revit model of one of his basic Usonian Houses. Move on to Fallingwater if you are feeling more ambitious. You can learn almost everything you might need about the basics of levels, grids, curtain walls, bespoke kitchen cabinetry family creation and in-place family creation and modeling a simple steel frame by following a tutorial in which you build Mies’s Farnsworth House. The Barcelona Pavilion is practically tailor-made for Revit intro. It is all right angles and is practically an in-place family itself. This is how Mies and Alfred Caldwell taught architectural drafting to students at IIT in the 1950s. Neutra’s Southern California houses are also perfect candidates. I for one have not moved on from my youthful love of canonical mid-century modern houses and would love to improve my Revit skills by building models of these structures that I have a real emotional attachment to. I do more than my share of interacting with prosaic everyday building construction content in my “day job”. If you could somehow learn to “master” the art of “levels management” and “view range” management for plans and RCPs for Paul Rudolph’s iconic mind-boggling multi-level 23 Beekman Place townhouse…you could do it anywhere.
43:55 - "...So many other things in Revit are graphical, and the view range dialogue requires you to work with these numbers in a kinda crappy dialogue..." Gee, I'd say Revit does a BUNCH of that sort of thing.
Im a bit late to this. regarding the overlapping viewports around @1:13:00. overlapping viewports doesn't work for me. The viewport in front masks the viewport behind. How do I manage to make the background of the viewport transparent? Seems this happens if the viewport contains any 3d view
Thanks a lot for this new great video! Can't attend to lives but its cool to see it even tho i'd ask thousands of questions as a Revit beginner! I would like to know if there is any plan to make a video about how to insert a 3D model into a photo? I am working with Vray at the moment and the Revit camera is soooo frustrating to work with ! :x Also, would it be interesting to present some "to have" plug ins for Revit ?
Did an in depth View Range video end up happening? I know that the view disciplines have a bunch of secret overrides that impact View Range settings and hidden lines on MEP view disciplines, I'd love to hear an explainer
Paul F. Aubin is a principal of the Revit school. He is one engine that push Revit widely use among the BIM community. His contribution is respectful. Paul, thanks for your excellent work.
Have been a big fan of Paul and his teaching style for years. He seems to understand where I am coming from as an architect who wants to engage effectively with Revit but often struggle to do so following decades of work on other platforms…starting with pencil and paper.
I am 66 year old architect who has found Revit to be extremely frustrating to learn. Why? It is one of those skills that IMO requires total immersion over a number months to really develop both the brain and muscle memory to execute. This requires a an open mind and a colossal amount of time that can’t be billed to a job. There is the “how to do” and the “how to do efficiently” and the “how to do so everything displays the way you want” and the “how to do so that the content you painstaking produce fits effectively into the BIM workflow requirements of the type of project your office does” and on and on. It’s endless. Designing a bespoke kitchen for a 5 million dollar penthouse remodel in New York is different from developing model groups for kitchens that will then be linked to a dozen different large multi-family projects your developer client is doing in 8 different cities.
Most older practicing architects simply do not have the time for this level of immersion unless they choose to take 6 months off. Also, few if any, spent their teen years doing computer gaming where the problem-solving hunt for “work arounds” is a regular part of the interaction with digital platforms.
Most older architects considered themselves to be architectural designers first and draftsmen second and had those drafting skills nailed by age 25.
I think a session on groups VS families would be extremely helpful in the future. Identifying how to use both, and when to use them appropriately, as Paul suggested.
Today I had this session running in the background agian while working ...
Glad to be able to contribute @54:45 😋😊
Totally missed it Live. Tricky switching time on me. LOL
Looking forward to watching later.
Sorry about that! Trying out some new times....
Just watched the part about view range and Line style.
If you create a filter for a category instead off just a normal Model Category override. the Lines is overrided by the filter.
Filters is at the Top of Revit's override priority-hierarchy. (override by element is the only override that will get prioritized before filters)
Great point!!
Awesome! Looking forward to learning Revit...I'm new to BIM but it looks super interesting.
Welcome aboard!
To facilitate learning Revit in one’s spare time, I would actually like to see Paul try presenting “basics” by doing a step-by-step tutorial in which he creates a Revit model of a famous work of residential architecture. Experienced architects and students would benefit for the following reasons:
1) It would divorce the “spare time” learning from the work one is currently doing at any given time. You may actually hate the building you are working on for your day job.
2) It would ground you in the Drafting 101 basics that are the foundation of most Revit tasks and free you from all the data-driven-design add-on “rabbit hole” aspects of Revit that make it the workhorse if BIM. That can come later.
3) The pedagogy would more resemble that drafting class that you took back in high school in 1975…except that the orthographic projection exercises you do to build Families piece by piece would, over days or weeks “add up” to creating a stunning and engaging model of an established architectural masterpiece…rather than a typical bland “example of a project”.
4) It would provide an educational component for those of us who love to geek-out on how famous building were actually built. It wouldn’t simply be “all about Revit”. One could explore physical aspects of canonical works of architecture through an immersive process.
6) The process would in some respects resemble the physical models of airplanes, boats and cars that we built in kit form when we were kids. There is an educational aspect to this. Learn about Frank Lloyd Wright by building a Revit model of one of his basic Usonian Houses. Move on to Fallingwater if you are feeling more ambitious.
You can learn almost everything you might need about the basics of levels, grids, curtain walls, bespoke kitchen cabinetry family creation and in-place family creation and modeling a simple steel frame by following a tutorial in which you build Mies’s Farnsworth House. The Barcelona Pavilion is practically tailor-made for Revit intro. It is all right angles and is practically an in-place family itself. This is how Mies and Alfred Caldwell taught architectural drafting to students at IIT in the 1950s. Neutra’s Southern California houses are also perfect candidates.
I for one have not moved on from my youthful love of canonical mid-century modern houses and would love to improve my Revit skills by building models of these structures that I have a real emotional attachment to.
I do more than my share of interacting with prosaic everyday building construction content in my “day job”.
If you could somehow learn to “master” the art of “levels management” and “view range” management for plans and RCPs for Paul Rudolph’s iconic mind-boggling multi-level 23 Beekman Place townhouse…you could do it anywhere.
43:55 - "...So many other things in Revit are graphical, and the view range dialogue requires you to work with these numbers in a kinda crappy dialogue..."
Gee, I'd say Revit does a BUNCH of that sort of thing.
😂
After AU i always search for "Paul Aubin".
Im a bit late to this. regarding the overlapping viewports around @1:13:00.
overlapping viewports doesn't work for me. The viewport in front masks the viewport behind. How do I manage to make the background of the viewport transparent?
Seems this happens if the viewport contains any 3d view
Thanks a lot for this new great video! Can't attend to lives but its cool to see it even tho i'd ask thousands of questions as a Revit beginner!
I would like to know if there is any plan to make a video about how to insert a 3D model into a photo? I am working with Vray at the moment and the Revit camera is soooo frustrating to work with ! :x
Also, would it be interesting to present some "to have" plug ins for Revit ?
Paul F Aubin is like God Father of Revit, if you know Revit you know Mr.Aubin.
I agree whole-heartedly !!
Did an in depth View Range video end up happening? I know that the view disciplines have a bunch of secret overrides that impact View Range settings and hidden lines on MEP view disciplines, I'd love to hear an explainer
It has not! Thanks for the reminder! :)
Bim during light... sad I missed this
Sorry Brodi! Trying out some new times...
🍦🙏🙏🙏🙏 Keep going
I missed it :( it’s 2 am in Indonesia
Set the VR to unlimited