Datamat Architectural and Building CAD Course Catalog

AutoCAD MEP Fundamentals

AutoCAD MEP is an advanced, powerful engineering design and documentation packing covering the disciplines of HVAC, plumbing, piping, and electrical design. This course contains a comprehensive introduction to the methods, philosophy, and procedures of Revit MEP software.

This 3-day class covers the tools for parametric MEP systems design and documentation. The class begins with the fundamental features of Autodesk AutoCAD MEP, then progresses through schematic design, system analysis, and construction documentation, and finishes with design visualization. It includes exercises representing practical, real-world engineering design scenarios. Each exercise contains step-by-step procedures and graphics to help you complete the exercise successfully.

Course Objectives: After completing this class, you will be able to:

Use the different parts of the AutoCAD MEP user interface and work with different types of AutoCAD objects.
Manage the different views and change their properties, control the visibility and appearance of elements in different views, and work with section, elevation, and 3D views.
Set up a project using different templates, link AutoCAD architectural drawings, define discipline settings, and import and edit DWG details.
Manage the project using the Project Navigator.
Create spaces and zones in an AutoCAD MEP model.
Analyze an analytical model for conducting a building performance analysis, define heating and cooling loads information, and calculate heating and cooling loads.
Create HVAC systems, generate HVAC system layouts, and create and modify ductwork using Revit MEP tools.
Create system piping and plumbing systems.
Create electrical circuits and wiring.
Create conduit systems.
Create equipment and fitting content.
Work with callout, detail, and drafting views.
Work with text and tags, dimensions, legends, and schedules.
Add titleblocks to a sheet, update the project information in a titleblock, and work with sheets.
Create floor plans suitable for background drawings.
Share files with consultants

Topics include:

AutoCAD MEP Basics
Starting a New Project
Building Performance Analysis
Mechanical Systems
Piping Systems
Electrical Systems
Conduit Systems
Content Creation
Documentation and Coordination
Working with Architects and Engineers
Detailing and Drafting
Annotations and Schedules
Construction Documentation

Prerequisites: This course is intended for MEP engineering professionals, either users new to AutoCAD MEP or for existing AutoCAD MEP users who wish to expand their knowledge. It is recommended that you have a working knowledge of:

Basic MEP engineering and design skills
Basic level of AutoCAD experience
Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, or Microsoft Windows 7.

Length: 3 days
Cost: $895.00

Revit Architecture Fundamentals (Four Days)

Revit Architecture is a powerful parametric Building Information Modeling (BIM) program that works the way Architects think. From Preliminary Design through Design Development, and into Construction Documents, the program streamlines the design process with a central 3D model.

This course covers the basics of Revit® Architecture. Students are introduced to the concepts of Building Information Modeling and the tools for parametric building design and documentation. You then learn the fundamental features of Autodesk Revit Architecture, progressing through schematic design, construction documentation, and design visualization. It also covers the tools of Revit Architecture to create architectural details based on design requirements.

The objective of the Revit Architecture Fundamentals course is to enable students to create full 3D architectural project models and set them up in working drawings. Most of the course is focused on Design Development tools - building the 3D model with walls, windows, doors, floors, roofs, stairs, creating reflected ceiling plans and furniture plans. The course finishes with adding views and annotation to the sheets to create a set of Construction Documents.

Course Objectives: After completing this course, you will be able to:

Describe building information modeling, bidirectional associativity, and parametric relationships in Revit
Understand the user interface, parametric objects, and families, and start projects using templates
Create and modify levels and grids
Create a basic floor plan, add and modify walls and compound walls, use editing tools, and work with doors and windows
Work with component families
Duplicate and manage views, control object visibility in views, and create elevation, section, and 3D views
Learn how to use dimensions and constraints
Create floors and ceilings, add roofs and curtain walls, and work with stairs and railings in a building model
Learn how to create callout views and work with text and tags, detail views, and drafting views
Create schedules, rooms and room schedules, and legends and keynotes
Work with drawing sheets and titleblocks, manage revisions, and present the building model using rendering, walkthroughs, and sun and shadow settings.

Topics:

Building Information Modeling
Revit Architecture Basics
Starting a Design
The Basics of the Building Model
Loading Additional Building Components
Viewing the Building Model
Using Dimensions and Constraints
Developing the Building Model
Detailing and Drafting
Construction Documentation
Presenting the Building Model

Prerequisites: This course is targeted new users of Revit Architecture and is geared toward architects, architectural technicians, interior designers, design professionals, and building professionals. No previous CAD experience is necessary.

The courseware covers the basics of Revit Architecture to create an architectural drawing and draft details based on design requirements. It also covers tools and utilities used in Revit Architecture that you use for architectural modeling and creating construction documentation drawings.

It is recommended that you have a working knowledge of:

Architectural design, drafting, or engineering experience
Microsoft® Windows XP, or Vista.
Knowledge of AutoCAD-based products is not required.

Cost: $945.00

Revit Architecture Intermediate (Three Days)

Revit Architecture 2012 is a powerful Building Information Modeling (BIM) program that works the way Architects think. From Preliminary Design through Design Development, and into Construction Documents, the program streamlines the design process with a central 3D model. Changes made in one view update across all views and on the printable sheets. The name "Revit" implies this ease of revision that is at the heart of the software.

Since building projects themselves tend to be extremely complex, Revit Architecture is a necessarily a complex program. Revit Architecture 2012 Intermediate builds upon Datamat's Revit Architecture 2012 Fundamentals course.

The main goal of the Revit Architecture 2012 Intermediate course is to enable students who have a basic knowledge of Revit to increase their productivity through additional collaboration tools, advanced design development tools, and advanced construction document tools.

Students will learn how to:

Set up project phasing.
Create and display a variety of design options.
Use groups.
Link Revit files.
Import and export files, including exporting for energy analysis.
Understand, use, and set up worksets.
Create multiple-slope floors, roofs, and slabs.
Create curtain walls.
Work with site design and structural design tools.
Create and annotate details.
Create schedules, including material takeoff schedules.
Add keynotes and legends.
Work with advanced viewing tools.

Prerequisites: This course is intended for students who have completed Revit Architecture Fundamentals training and are ready to explore more advanced features in the software. Knowledge of basic techniques, such as creating walls, roofs, and other objects, copying and moving objects, and creating and working with views, is assumed.

Length: 3 days
Cost: $895.00

Revit Architecture Advanced (Two Days)

Since building projects themselves tend to be extremely complex, Revit Architecture is a necessarily a complex program. Revit Architecture 2011 Advanced builds upon Datamat's Revit Architecture 2012 Fundamentals and Revit Architecture 2012 Intermediate courses.

The main goal the Datamat Revit Architecture 2012 Advanced course is to enable students who have worked with Revit to expand their knowledge in the areas of Preliminary Design (massing studies, space planning, visualization, and rendering) and BIM Management (setting up Revit and creating custom families). It focuses on customizing and expanding tools that Revit Architecture 2012 users work with on a daily basis including the Project Browser, schedules, and elevations. It includes advanced family processes for creating custom cornices and copings as well as stairs and railings. It exposes users to data exchange options with other design packages for energy analysis and massing studies and provides an in-depth look at templates for efficient project creation.

Students will learn how to:

Create massing studies from scratch or SketchUp files and create a Revit building design based on these studies.
Create space planning and area analysis schedules based on room layouts.
Create visualizations of the project including perspectives, walkthroughs, and solar studies.
Render the project and work with lights.
Create custom templates including annotation styles, titleblocks, object styles and material and fill patterns.
Create custom walls, roofs, and sections.
Understand Family concepts and techniques in the creation of Family elements.
Create specific Families including angled cornices and copings, custom railings and posts.
Create profiles and work with shared parameters.

Prerequisites: This course is intended for students who have completed Revit Architecture Fundamentals and Intermediate training and are ready to explore more advanced features in the software. Knowledge of basic techniques, such as creating walls, roofs, and other objects, copying and moving objects, and creating and working with views, is assumed.

Length: 2 days
Cost: $695.00

Revit Architecture BIM Management (One Day)

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an approach to the entire building life cycle. Revit Architecture is a powerful BIM program that supports the ability to coordinate, update, and share design data with team members throughout the design, construction, and management phases of a building's life. A key component in managing the BIM process is to establish a company foundation for different types of projects by creating standard templates and custom elements. Having this in place makes the process of any new project flow smoothly and efficiently.

The objective of the Revit Architecture BIM Management course is to enable students who have worked with Revit to expand their knowledge in setting up office standards with templates that include annotation styles, preset views, sheets, and schedules, as well as creating custom element types and families.

Topics include:

Create custom templates with annotation styles, title blocks, and custom element styles
Create schedules, including material takeoff schedules with formulas
Create custom wall, roof, and floor types
Set up a family file
Create family geometry
Create family types
Create standard and custom stairs
Create specific families, including custom doors and windows, in-place families, profiles, railings, and shared parameters

Prerequisites: Students should be comfortable with the fundamentals of Revit as taught in the Revit Architecture Fundamentals course. Knowledge of basic techniques is assumed, such as creating walls, roofs, and other objects, copying and moving objects, creating and working with views, etc.

Length: 1 day
Cost: $395.00

Revit Architecture - Conceptual Design & Visualization (One Day)

As architects and designers start a project, they frequently think about the overall massing of a building or the area of the footprint. This course, using Revit Architecture's powerful Building Information Modeling (BIM) engine, covers tools for creating mass elements that can be modified into many shapes. Students then apply walls, roofs, and floors applied to the mass elements.

This training course also covers space planning tools for setting up areas for rooms and also applying colors to them to show the connections. For presentations and analysis, this course teaches you how to create and render perspective views and create walkthroughs and solar studies.

Course Objectives: After completing this course, you will be able to:

Describe building information modeling, bidirectional associativity, and parametric relationships in Revit
Understand the user interface, parametric objects, and families, and start projects using templates
Create and modify levels and grids
Create a basic floor plan, add and modify walls and compound walls, use editing tools, and work with doors and windows
Work with component families
Duplicate and manage views, control object visibility in views, and create elevation, section, and 3D views
Learn how to use dimensions and constraints
Create floors and ceilings, add roofs and curtain walls, and work with stairs and railings in a building model
Learn how to create callout views and work with text and tags, detail views, and drafting views
Create schedules, rooms and room schedules, and legends and keynotes
Work with drawing sheets and titleblocks, manage revisions, and present the building model using rendering, walkthroughs, and sun and shadow settings.

Topics include:

Creating In-Place Conceptual Mass elements and Conceptual Mass families
Creating building elements from massing studies
Using Rooms AND Areas for space planning and analysis
Creating perspectives, walkthroughs, and solar studies
Understanding the concepts of rendering and lighting

Length: 1 day
Cost: $395.00

Revit MEP Fundamentals (Three Days)

Revit MEP is an advanced, powerful engineering design and documentation packing covering the disciplines of HVAC, plumbing, piping, and electrical design. This course contains a comprehensive introduction to the methods, philosophy, and procedures of Revit MEP software.

This 3-day class covers the tools for parametric MEP systems design and documentation. The class begins with the fundamental features of Autodesk Revit MEP, then progresses through schematic design, system analysis, and construction documentation, and finishes with creating and working with architectural models which are used as backgrounds for engineering design.

The course focuses squarely on the rationale and practicality of the Revit workflow. It emphasizes the process of creating projects in Revit rather than as a series of independent commands and tools. Included are exercises representing practical, real-world engineering design scenarios. Each exercise contains step-by-step procedures and graphics to help you complete the exercise successfully.

Course Objectives: After completing this class, you will be able to:

Describe Building Information Modeling methodology.
Use the different parts of the Revit MEP user interface and work with different types of Revit elements and families.
Manage the different views and change their properties, control the visibility and appearance of elements in different views, and work with section, elevation, and 3D views.
Set up a project using different templates, link Revit models, share projects using worksets, define discipline settings, and import and edit DWG details.
Create spaces and zones in a Revit model.
Analyze an analytical model for conducting a building performance analysis, define heating and cooling loads information, and calculate heating and cooling loads.
Create HVAC systems, generate HVAC system layouts, and create and modify ductwork using Revit MEP tools.
Layout and create piping and plumbing systems.
Create electrical circuits, wiring, and conduit layouts.
Monitor changes in files of other disciplines linked to Revit MEP and check and fix interference conditions.
Work with callout, detail, and drafting views.
Work with text and tags, dimensions, legends, and schedules.
Add titleblocks to a sheet, update the project information in a titleblock, and work with sheets.
Create an architectural model suitable for use as a background for engineering layouts.
Use architectural drawings and projects as a background for engineering layouts.

Topics include:

Building Information Modeling
Revit MEP Key Concepts
Basic Project Setup
Building Performance Energy Analysis
Mechanical Systems
Plumbing and Piping Systems
Electrical Systems
Detailing and Annotation
Working with Schedules and Tags
Ceiling Plans and Interior Elevations
Printing, Publishing, and Exporting
Detailing and Drafting
Annotations and Schedules
Construction Documentation
Creating an Architectural Model for Use as a Background
Working with Architects and Engineers

Prerequisites: This course is intended for MEP engineering professionals, either users new to Revit or for existing Revit users who wish to expand their knowledge. It is recommended that you have a working knowledge of:

Basic MEP engineering and design skills
Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, or Microsoft Windows 7.

Length: 3 days
Cost: $895.00

Revit Structure Fundamentals (Three Days)

Revit Structure is a powerful parametric 3D modeling program for designing buildings and analyzing the structure.

This course covers the essential features and functionality of Revit Structure, from schematic design through construction documentation. Students are introduced to the concepts of Building Information Modeling and the tools for parametric design, analysis, and documentation. This course offers hands-on exercises representing real-world structural design scenarios.

Course Objectives: After completing this class, you will be able to:

Describe building information modeling methodology and its benefits.
Use different parts of the Revit Structure user interface and work with different types of structural elements and families.
Use the different views listed in the Project Browser, control the visibility and graphical representation of objects in a structural model, and work with elevation, section, and 3D views.
Set up a project and transfer standards between projects, add and modify levels in a structural model, and create and modify grids.
Work with structural columns and structural walls.
Add floor framing using beams, work with beams and beam systems, add and edit structural steel moment and braced frames, and work with concrete beams.
Add floors in structural models, create a roof, and add structural framing to the roof for support.
Add foundations to a structural model.
Create stairs and various types of ramps.
Add dimensions and spot dimension symbols, work with text and tags, create a legend with notes, annotation symbols, and legend components, and work with different types of schedules.
Work with detail views, add 3D and 2D reinforcement elements and detail components to concrete detail views, and work with drafting views and CAD details.
Work with sheets and titleblocks, print sheets, and export Revit Structure content to CAD formats.

Topics include:

Building Information Modeling for Structural Engineering
Revit Structure Basics
Viewing the Structural Model
Starting a New Project
Creating Structural Columns and Walls
Creating Frames
Creating Floors and Roofs
Creating Foundations
Stairs and Ramps
Creating Plan Annotations and Schedules
Creating Detailing
Creating Construction Documentation

Prerequisites: This course is designed for new users and covers the basics of Revit Structure, from structural design through construction documentation. No previous CAD experience is necessary.

It is recommended that you have a working knowledge of:

Basic structural engineering and design skills.
Microsoft Windows XP or Vista.

Length: 3 days
Cost: $895.00

Revit Family Editor

Where's the content? This cry is often heard from beginning (and even more advanced) Revit users. Most new users of Revit are coming from other CAD environments, the most common being AutoCAD. In AutoCAD, content is created as blocks. And because AutoCAD is so prevalent in the industry, many vendors are creating and making available block libraries of their catalogs. But since Revit is a relatively new product, fewer families (the Revit equivalent of blocks) are currently available. Further, users typically will want to create their own symbology.

Autodesk's continuing policy is to provide generic families of the most common architectural, mechanical, electrical, piping, and plumbing components and leave the development of vendor-specific families to vendors and/or the end-user.

This class will remove the mystique from creating your own custom family libraries. We begin by defining and comparing system, in-place, and loadable families. Families are then examined in detail from concepts through practical examples and hands-on exercises. Suggested workflows are developed and used to complete the exercises. Finally, we explore the Family Editor as a method for generating your own families.

Course Objectives: After completing this class, you will be able to:

Use Revit families in your projects
Obtain additional libraries through the Web.
Describe the concepts of parametric design and family creation
Make minor changes to existing families to create entirely new families.
Develop your own families using best practices.

Topics include:

Family Concepts and Techniques
Getting Family Content from Public Domains
Loadable Families Overview
In-Place Editing
Introducing the Family Editor
Modifying Existing Content
Family Creation Methodology
Planning a Loadable Family
Choosing a Family Template
Creating the Family Framework
Adding Parameters to the Family Framework
Creating Family Geometry
Assigning Family Geometry to Subcategories
Managing Family Visibility and Detail Level
Creating Family Types
Testing a Family in a Project
Advanced Loadable Family Techniques
Exercises - Architectural
Exercises - Mechanical

Prerequisites: This course is intended for beginning, intermediate, and advanced Revit users. Although any sketching and 2D or 3D modeling experience is helpful in understanding how to work with families, you should have a basic understanding of Revit Architecture and/or MEP. If you do not, it is recommended that you review the tutorials included in the software or attend a Datamat Revit Fundamentals course prior to attending this class.

Length: 1 day
Cost: $395.00

Autodesk NavisWorks Fundamentals (Two Days)

This course provides students with the skills and knowledge to use NavisWorks effectively. Using hands-on exercises, it covers the functionality of Autodesk NavisWorks Review, Simulate, and Manage features. You will learn how to open, review, and run object-interference checks on 3D models. You will also learn how to link to task-scheduling files and create 3D construction simulations. Using the Animator and Scripter tools, students create interactive animations. In addition, students learn how the Presenter tools can help them to create photorealistic images and animations.

Course Objectives: After completing this course, you will be able to:

Describe the main features and functionality of Autodesk NavisWorks.
Open and append 3D files of different formats and save in NavisWorks format.
Create links to object properties files and scheduling files in external databases.
Perform visual project model reviews using the built-in review and reporting tools.
Create construction simulations of a project model to check validity of construction schedules.
Use Animator and Scripter to create interactive animations for presentations and demonstrations.
Add true-to-life materials, and lighting and backgrounds to project models, to create photorealistic output.
Perform interference detection tests between 3D files of different disciplines to check integrity of the design.

Topics include:

Getting Started
3D Model Review
TimeLiner
Animator
Scripter
Presenter Basics
Presenter Advanced Features
Clash Detective

Prerequisites: This course is meant for new Autodesk NavisWorks users for the review, 4D simulation, clash testing and presenting of existing 3D geometry files. It is recommended that you have a basic understanding of 3D design and task scheduling software.

Length: 2 days
Cost: $695.00