From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for MEP (Imperial)

Starting a project using Revit templates - Revit MEP Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for MEP (Imperial)

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Starting a project using Revit templates

- [Voiceover] Let's start a project, shall we? This simple task is the underpinning of our workflow, making sure you are using the correct templates is crucial to your experience as the project progresses. Different companies will have different templates that are gonna be used. For the benefit of this course however, we'll be using the default Revit electrical template. The basic MEP templates are loaded as a default when you install Revit. The objective of this video is to find the correct template needed to get started, and take a quick look at the Revit interface. To begin, we'll start with the Recent Files directory. When you open up Revit, this will be the default. Your screen may be different than mine, based on what projects you've already had open. There's two ways to start a new project. Under Projects, you can click on the New button. Or, you can go to the blue R, go to New, and then go to Project. I'm gonna click Project. In the New Project dialogue, you'll see there are several different template files. If you can't see these template files, please go to the exercise files folder. To find where these template files are located, click on the Browse button. These files are located on your C: drive, Program Data, Autodesk, RME 2014, Templates, US Imperial. You may be working at a company that has these files on a network directory. I'm gonna hit cancel here. For the template file, I'd like you to choose Electrical Template. We wanna create a new project and we wanna hit OK. Revit will open the project, your project may say something different than mine, based on the times you've opened a new project. One thing I like to do is determine I'm in the correct template. Under the Project Browser, you'll see Views, if you see Electrical, Lighting, Ceiling Plans, Power, you know that you're in the correct template. Once you've verified that you've done everything correctly, let's save it. Because we haven't given a name yet, the save button will invoke the Save As dialogue. Next thing I wanna do is click on the Options button. In the File Save Options, you'll see you have three maximum backups. This means that everytime you hit the save button, when you're in a project, Revit creates a backup. It creates up to three backups. If you save it again for the fourth time, Revit overrides the first backup. It will give it an extension of .001, .002, .003. I personally don't like to have that many backups, I'll just change it to one. Click OK. For the File Name, let's call it Electrical Project. Save it in a directory that makes sense to you. I'm gonna save it to my desktop in my Starting a Project folder. Once it's saved, you're ready to go. Now that we know we have the project started with the correct template. We can confidently push ahead with our modelling endeavors.

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