Instructor: Prof. Takehiko Nagakura
Last modified: 2025.01.11
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For downloading files, use right-click method. The sections labeled with (s2024) are just for your reference and being updated for s2025 as the semester proceeds.

• Tutorial 00 - Installation and Learning Resource
  

      Install Revit and Content Pack : For this class, make sure to install BOTH (not just Revit itself). See Lab Note00 for the detailed steps of installation.

      Revit Help page for 2024 and 2025 : Revit Help menu contents (linked from the pull-down ? menu at the top of Revit Window).
  

  The followings are some of the most useful contents for beginners.
  

  • Get Started > Tutorials: Text-based step by step instructions of making a simple 3D model and its documentation.
  • Get Started > Essential Skills: Video-based tutorials of essential operations

      Linkedin Learning (Formerly Lynda.com) for MIT

  This is a commercial site providing on-line software tutorials on video. Via the above link, MIT community members get its contents free if you access the site on MIT network/VPN or with MIT certificate on your machine. Once you get into the LINKEDIN home page, type Revit (or Revit 2025) in the search box (next to Browse button) to find Revit tutorial videos.
  One suggestion for a completely novice CAD beginner is to watch the introductory videos there such as Learning Revit 2025 by Paul F. Aubin.

      Revit 2025: New features
  A good summary video for those who have used previous versions of Revit and are curious about Revit 2025 improvements.

• Tutorial 01
      Demo file: Revit 3D model modified from AutoDesk tutorial site (.rvt)     Revit 2024 version     Revit 2025 version

      4.560 Analytique Examples   (Flash presentation only: conversion in progress)

      Photoshop Alpha Channel and Mask Demo : This page is old but still works well.

      Demo file: images for photoshop demo (zipped jpg files, 1Mb)

• Tutorial 02
      Demo file: Citrohan House - Grid and Levels (.rvt)     Revit 2024 version     Revit 2025 version

      Citrohan House schematics

      Autodesk Viewer Online tool for sharing a project on cloud (For details, see the Handouts for week 2)

      Autodesk A360   online platform for sharing a project on cloud (deprecated and replaced by a paid service, BIM360)

      Renaissance Revit by Paul F. Aubin: Interesting book on modeling classic elements in Revit

• Tutorial 03
      Demo file: Citrohan House - Stairs, Curtain Wall, Link and Sheet     Revit 2024 version     Revit 2025 version

      D'Espouy Analytique

      Panorama rendering example Revit>View>Cloud Rendering>Output Type: Choose Panorama to create 360 image.
      You need to render at a large pixel size (4k or 8k wide is recommended) for a decent panoaram.

• Tutorial 04
      Demo file: Citrohan House - Rendering, Photometric Lights and Textures     Revit 2024 version     Revit 2025 version

      BIMobject.com (Formerly, BIM 360 Catalogue/Autodesk Seek) Manufacturer-contributed BIM comopnents.
         Sign up (free), click SEARCH and choose LIGHTING as category in the left column.
         Specify Revit (and optionally IES) to filter the list.

      More lighting fixture catalogues with photometrics This list is regulary updated. (As manufacturers revise their online site designs, the download page moves around frequently.)

      Illumination Transformation Example with IES Lights

• Tutorial 05
      Demo file: Citrohan House for site modeling     Revit 2024 version     Revit 2025 version

      Demo file: Sample model for animation     Revit 2024 version         Revit 2025 version

      Sample Revit animations

      Sample animations from 4.562

• Tutorial 06
      * About simulations, see the Labnote 5s page.

      Demo file: In-Place Element, In-Place Mass (.rvt, 5MB) Revit 2024 version    Revit 2025 version

• Tutorial 07 (s2024)
      Autodesk Help Menu: Creating Loadable Families Revit 2019 page    Revit 2020 page    Revit 2021 page    Revit 2024 page   

      Demo file: Custom Family part 1 and 2 (.rvt, 3MB) Revit 2017 version    Revit 2019 version    Revit 2021 version    Revit 2024 version

• Tutorial 08-09 (s2024)
      Demo file: Curtain Wall and Surface Division (included in the zip below)

      Demo file: Conceptual Mass and Adaptive Placement Points (.zip, 2MB) Revit 2019 version    Revit 2021 version    Revit 2024 version

      Reference: On-line tutorials/samples

• Tutorial 10 (s2022 ref. only)
      Shape Grammar examples

      Demo file: NITROS plug-in for Autocad (.vlx 100k)

      Demo file: Sample model for addendum (.rvt 7Mb)

      Demo file: Adaptive Placement Point with XYZ axis arrow (.rfa 7Mb)

      Demo file: VSTA example files (.rvt 6Mb) demo-09_VSTA_sample.zip

• Tutorial 11 (s2022 ref. only)
  

      Download by right-click DYNMO: sample files for Revit 2022 (9Mb zipped)

      Reference manual and (video) tutorials are here

      Search Dynamo here for more video tutorials in Linkedin Learning (MIT VPN required)

      GitHub Site of Ian Keough, who initially created Dynamo including his original Dynamo distribution

      Dynamo: Revit project that works with the Dynamo script examples (not in use for 2022)