10 Revit Tools Students Should Use In The Studio

Revit Cloud Rendering by Tira Lena, with some Photoshop touch-ups.

Revit Cloud Rendering by Tira Lena, with some Photoshop touch-ups.

In a recent post, I explained how Revit is considered “not cool” in college, mostly because it is perceived as a technical tool. Professors think students will use it to produce bland projects with pre-made components.

Design and presentation tools are not obvious for beginners. This post attempt to give students a few tips on how to break the “boring technical tool” paradigm and create compelling presentation documents.

1- SHADOWS

No need to export elevations to Photoshop if you want shadows. Revit can do that for you.

Go to Graphic Display Option in the view control bar to access shadows. There is two type of shadows in Revit: Ambient and Cast. Ambient shadows mimic the effects of a cloudy sky. It can produce very interesting documents, the downside is that there is no way to control the intensity of the effect.

Cast shadows intensity…

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