Drawing Components
Drawing Sets
Revit Tools
Industry Terms
Drawing Types
100

It indicates the cardinal direction the drawing is facing, usually on a floor plan.

What is a north arrow?

100

This portion has all of the information regarding the project.

What is the title block?

100

This is the view you create a detail from scratch in.

What is a drafting view?

100

It's the typical sheet abbreviation for an architectural sheet.

What is ARCH?

100

This is a two dimensional view of a building looking down.  The walls are cut at 4'.

What is a floor plan?

200

This symbol visually tells you how big something is.

What is a scale?

200

It's the first page in a set.

What is a coversheet (cover also accepted)?

200

It's an individual item put in your Revit model.

What is a family?

200

They are marked up drawings giving to an individual to fix.

What are redlines?

200

It's a two dimensional view of a building that slices through the middle of it.

What is a section cut?

300

These are long lines with bubbles on the end that show you were you are on a floor plan.

What are gridlines?

300

This element tell you the labels and names of the drawings in a set.

What is a sheet index?
300

This allows you to create a custom 3D object quickly in Revit without starting a new family.

What is "model in place"?

300
When your coworker wants to you save your Revit file, they may ask you this.

What is "Can you please sync?"?

300

It's a section cut drawing zoomed in.

What is a section detail?

400

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These elements tell you the exact size of a specific item on a drawing using lines and a numeric value.

What are dimensions (dimension strings also accepted)?

400

AE100/A1 is an example of this.

What is a drawing number or name?

400

This Revit program allows you to work with others on the same model across the world.

What is BIM 360?

400

It's the term we use when we don't want anyone in the model, syncing, or working.  For example, "________ at 12:30 PM please!"

What is "pencils down" or "mice down"?

400
It's a drawing that shows the building on the property.

What is a site plan?

500

This Revit annotation features a number and room name.

What is a room tag?

500

It's the correct order of sheets in a set.

Plumbing
Architectural
Civil
Electrical

General
Cover
Mechanical
Structural

What is the following?

Cover
General
Civil
Architectural
Structural
Mechanical
Plumbing
Electrical

500

It's the proper name for the tool/element that lets you draw a line in a drafting view.

What is a detail line?

500

It's the unabbreviated version of "DD Set".

What is "Design Development Set"?

500

It's a drawing type that shows 2d representations of the store front glass in the project.

What are glazing elevations?

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