Paul F. Aubin
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Get a new tip, trick, or troubleshooting technique for Revit every Tuesday. This weekly series offers workflow enhancements, customizations, and shortcuts for every Revit user.
In this series, there's a little something for every Revit designer—beginners and seasoned users alike. Each video focuses on a specific tip, trick, or troubleshooting technique within Revit. Do you import CAD files and want to achieve consistency? Want to get more from...
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Make construction models that work for your entire team. Learn how to use Revit parts, assemblies, and displacement views to break your model down and add detail and refinement.
If your job requires working on Revit models created by someone else, then you have probably run into situations where portions of the model need to be reworked. Perhaps you're a subcontractor or an interior designer who needs to accurately convey finishes. Traditionally...
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Learn the basics of Revit Architecture 2020 for architectural design. This course is designed for those who have no prior Revit experience and want to work in imperial units.
Learn the basics of using Revit 2020 for architectural design. This course is designed for students who have no prior Revit experience and want to work in imperial units (inches and feet). First, get comfortable with the Revit environment, and learn to set up a project and add...
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Discover the latest, most important functionalities of the Revisions and Issues features in Revit 2024.
Project changes occur frequently and often after contract documents are issued. And if you’re an architect, engineer, or construction management professional, you need to know how to accurately report changes to contract documents in your Revit projects. In this course, instructor Paul F. Aubin gives you an overview of the functionalities of...
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Get an introduction to Revit 2021, the building information modeling (BIM) software for architects and building design professionals.
Autodesk Revit is one of the most popular building information modeling (BIM) solutions today. In this course, join Paul F. Aubin as he delves into the basics of Revit 2021, showing architects and engineers who are new to the software how to work with its key features. Learn how to choose a template; set up the basic...
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Find out how to use BIM Collaborate Pro to extend worksharing into the Autodesk Construction Cloud.
If your team uses Revit, you know that worksharing enables multiple users to access and make changes to a single Revit project simultaneously. BIM Collaborate Pro lets you extend worksharing to the cloud! In this course, instructor Paul F. Aubin explores how using BIM Collaborate Pro allows you and your coworkers to store your central model in a secure...
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Learn the basics of Revit Architecture 2020 for architectural design. This course is designed for those who have no prior Revit experience and want to work in metric units.
Learn the basics of using Revit 2020 for architectural design. This course is designed for those who have no prior Revit experience and want to work in metric units (meters and centimeters). First, get comfortable with the Revit environment, and learn to set up a project and add...
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Learn about advanced modeling tools and techniques for Revit
Learning the basics of model building in Revit is mostly quick and easy. The essentials of core elements such as walls, floor, and roofs are accessible and fairly intuitive. For more unique and specialized design challenges, discovering appropriate tools and techniques can be more challenging. Many advanced modeling techniques are available, and some are more obvious and intuitive than...
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Customize Revit templates to include the floor plans, elevations, schedules, and sheets you need the most.
Start customizing your Revit templates to save time and create consistent starting points for every architect in your office. This installment of Creating Revit Templates covers views and sheets. Imagine beginning a project and having it include all of the typical floor plans, elevations, and schedules, plus a basic set of sheets! This course...
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Learn how to configure and manage a Revit worksharing project. Find out how to create your central model, configure worksharing settings, and perform ongoing maintenance.
Our three-part series, Revit Worksharing, explores the ways that you can collaborate with other users on a Revit project using worksharing. If you are a CAD/BIM manager or the person responsible for the creation, setup, and maintenance of a workshare-enabled project, then this is...
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Learn how to use phasing and design options to organize multipart, multifaceted projects in Revit.
Phasing in Autodesk Revit allows you to show the complete life cycle of a project, such as a before and after or existing and proposed status, while design options allow you to save multiple iterations of a concept in a single project file. In this course, Paul F. Aubin shows how to use phasing and design options to organize multipart, multifaceted...
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Get an introduction to Revit 2023, the building information modeling (BIM) software for architects and building design professionals.
Autodesk Revit is one of the most popular building information modeling (BIM) solutions today. In this course, join Paul F. Aubin as he delves into the basics of Revit 2023, showing architects and engineers who are new to the software how to work with its key features. Learn how to choose a template; set up the basic...
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Learn how to preload content in your Revit template to save time and standardize your documentation.
Creating a robust collection of content is critical to any architectural design firm. This course considers the issue of content as it pertains to your project templates. Should content be preloaded in the templates, or should it be provided externally and loaded when needed? What goes into detail sheets? Which families should you include? How should...
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Explore the extensive suite of topography tools in the 2024 version of Revit, the building information modeling software used by AEC professionals around the world.
Revit 2024 includes an extensive suite of topography tools designed specifically for site modeling and collaboration with engineers. If you’re an architect, engineer, or construction management professional and are looking to get up to speed with the latest core functionalities, join...
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Get up and running with Revit Architecture 2021 for architectural design. This course is designed for those who have no prior Revit experience and want to learn the basics.
Get up and running with Revit Architecture 2021 for architectural design. This course is designed for students who have no prior Revit experience and want to learn the basics. Instructor Paul F. Aubin begins by helping you get comfortable with the Revit environment. He demonstrates...
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Learn how to use Revit to model and render classical architectural forms and contribute to historical rendering projects such as Project Soane.
Historic building information modeling (HBIM) is the process of using digital tools like 3D scanning and architectural software like Revit to document historically significant locations all over the world. Project Soane is a crowd-sourced mission to resurrect Sir John Soane's lost Bank of England design using...
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Learn how to create standardized content such as furniture, doors, and other architectural components using the Family Editor in Revit.
The Family Editor offers Revit users a robust way to create standardized assets such as windows, doors, and other architectural components. These assets can contain smart data about their properties, which adds to the amount of information architects know about the buildings they design. In this course, Paul F. Aubin...
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Learn how to adjust view range properties (Top, Cut Plane, Bottom, and View Depth) in Revit to control exactly how your roof, ceiling, and foundation plans display.
Floor plans are an essential part of any Revit project. And one of the most critical (and confusing) aspects of any floor plan is view range. The view range settings are linked to three horizontal planes that control the visibility and display of objects in a plan view—Top, Cut Plane,...
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Get up and running with Revit Architecture 2024 for architectural design. This course is designed for those who have no prior Revit experience and want to learn the basics.
Get up and running with Revit 2024 for architectural design. This course is designed for students who have no prior Revit experience and want to learn the basics. Instructor Paul F. Aubin begins by helping you get comfortable with the Revit environment. He demonstrates how to...
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Learn how to use Autodesk ReCap to import and work with reality capture data from both laser scans and photos.
Reality capture allows architecture and construction professionals to put down the measuring tape and leverage technology to capture existing site conditions. ReCap—the powerful reality capture software from Autodesk—offers features that can help you efficiently measure and digitally recreate buildings and spaces. In this course, learn...