Building Design, BIM & Revit Training

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Building Design, BIM & Revit Training

BIM and Revit topics are applicable to Revit Software. We offer courses in Revit Architecture, Revit MEP, Revit Structure, and more.  CAD Masters also offers 3 months of technical support services following your training, provided by our Engineers, Trainers and Designers.

Our in-person Autodesk Authorized Training Centers are outfitted with top-of-the-line workstations provided for the duration of your class.

Available Courses

Course Descriptions & Upcoming Dates

Revit Architecture

3-Day Training: $1200 offered from 9am to 5pm
3-Day training: $1200 offered from 9am to 5pm

This 3-day course is recommended for all architects and building design professionals with no formal training, those transitioning from AutoCAD to Revit, or anyone interested in BIM and parametric building modeling.

Topics include: All primary features of design development through construction documentation. Users will assemble a building model complete with walls, floor, doors, windows, openings, stairs, railings, roofs, columns, and ceiling grids. Topics will progress towards construction documentation features including annotation, tags, scheduling, symbol management, and generating sheets. Students will learn to quickly create floor plans, sections, elevations, and perspectives of the 3D building model.

Prerequisites: Some architectural or building design experience and basic knowledge of computers in a windows environment. No formal CAD training is needed.

Walnut Creek

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Sacramento

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Revit Advanced

2-Day Training: $900 offered from 9am to 5pm
2-day training: $900 offered from 9am to 5pm

This 2-day course is recommended for all Revit users looking to learn more about the tools available in Revit, leverage the software and better manage their projects.

Applicable to: Revit Architecture, MEP, Structure and Building Design Suite.

Topics include: Importing/exporting files, linking files, conceptual design tools, family creation/modification, phases, design options, interference checking, color schemes, worksharing, site tools, advanced rendering tools.

Prerequisites: Completed Revit Architecture Introduction or instructor’s consent

Walnut Creek

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Sacramento

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Revit for Landscape Architects

2-Day training: $800 offered from 9am to 5pm

This 2-day course is recommended for landscape architects and site planners with no formal training, those transitioning from AutoCAD to Revit, or anyone interested in parametric family modeling.

Topics include: Primary outdoor features of design development through construction documentation. Users will assemble a topographic model complete with grass, pathways, plants, planting boxes, pergolas, exterior lighting, stairs, ramps, railings, and structures. The structures include walls, floors, openings, columns, porches, decks, and custom families. Topics will progress towards construction documentation features including annotation, tags, scheduling, symbol management, and generating sheets. Students will learn to quickly create floor plans, sections, elevations, and perspectives of the 3D site model.

Prerequisites: Some architectural or building design experience and basic knowledge of computers in a windows environment. No formal CAD training is needed.

Walnut Creek

Sacramento

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Revit MEP

3-Day training: $1,200 offered from 9am to 5pm

This 3-day course is intended for Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Fire Protection professionals. This class covers 3D BIM modeling with Revit MEP. Students will learn design and documentation tools referencing mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection systems as examples.

Applicable to: Revit MEP, Building Design Suite

Topics include: Overview of BIM, the user interface, basic families, navigation, views, project settings, and workflow with other professionals. Documentation features including annotation, schedules, sections, callouts, detailing, and sheets. Depending on the student population of the course, the class may focus on one or more of the following:

Mechanical Systems: zone creation, color schemes, energy analysis, terminals, ducting, primary and secondary supply systems, route conflicts, automated sizing, system color scheming, system inspections mechanical units, piping systems.

Electrical Systems: Placing electrical components, creating and modifying power circuits, wiring, panel schedules, and balancing panels.

Plumbing Systems: Piping, mechanical equipment, and system routing.

Fire Protection Systems: placing sprinklers and system layout.

Prerequisites: It is recommended that the students have some general design and computer experience. Previous experience in Revit or other Autodesk products may be useful, but is not required.

Walnut Creek

Sep 16 - 18 2024

Revit MEP

CAD Masters Walnut Creek
Mar 10 - 12 2025

Revit MEP

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Sacramento

May 29 - 31, 2024

Revit MEP

CAD Masters Sacramento
Nov 14 - 15, 2024

Revit MEP

CAD Masters Sacramento
May 05 - 07, 2025

Revit MEP

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Revit for Project Managers

2-Day training: $800 offered from 9am to 5pm
2-day training: $800 offered from 9am to 5pm

This 2-day course is recommended for Associates, Project Managers, CAD Managers, or Principals managing an architectural project team planning to implement or currently using Revit.

Topics include: All essential features of Revit including the opening of projects, basic editing, viewing and printing drawings. Students will learn to navigate the software, understand the way Revit works in terms of data and file interoperability. Workflow and worksharing will also be discussed.

Walnut Creek

This class is only regularly scheduled as an online class. You can take this course in person by filling out a Custom Training Request form

Sacramento

This class is only regularly scheduled as an online class. You can take this course in person by filling out a Custom Training Request form

Online

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Revit in the Cloud

1/2-Day training: $200 offered from 9am to 12:30pm
1/2-day training: $200 offered from 9am to 12:30pm

This course is recommended for Revit Users who would like to learn more about collaboration using a Central Model in the Cloud.

Topics Include: Learning the differences between BIM Collaborate Pro, Autodesk Docs & BIM 360. Using the Desktop connector to access your projects. Setting up a cloud project with correct licenses, permissions, inviting members, folders etc. Creating and working with a central model. Using work sets within a shared project.

Prerequisite: Completed a Revit Introduction Course or instructor’s consent.

Walnut Creek

Sacramento

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Revit Structure

3-Day training: $1200 offered from 9am to 5pm

This course is recommended for structural engineers and drafters who want to learn to use Revit Structure to model projects. The course emphasizes Revit basics, the structural components of building design, and exporting data to structural analysis programs.

Topics include: The user interface, views, elevations, levels, grids, columns, walls, frames, beams, slabs, roofs, foundations, stairs, ramps, sections, details, and construction documents. Develop a comfort level working in Revit Structure, while working with modeled elements. Manipulate and understand structural components for better control and a more accurate model.

Walnut Creek

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Sacramento

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1-Day training: $400 offered from 9am to 5pm

This class is recommended for all design professionals working on BIM projects or using 3D design software including Civil 3D, Revit, AutoCAD Architecture, Microstation, etc. Course emphasizes the tools required to combine models from a variety of programs and review those for consistency with the intended design.

Topics include: The NavisWorks interface, working with NavisWorks file types, model navigation tools, model insertion tools, managing coordinate systems, model sectioning, object selection tools, object modification tools, and object measurement tools. Review, query, and red-line your models as your designs progress.

TimeLiner: 4D Construction Simulations. Learn to link model geometry to times and dates for playback of construction and demolition sequences to verify viability of construction plan.

Clash Detective: Learn to use the conflict identification tools to find and resolve design problems earlier in the design process.

Prerequisites: None

Walnut Creek

This class is only regularly scheduled as an online class. You can take this course in person by filling out a Custom Training Request form

Sacramento

This class is only regularly scheduled as an online class. You can take this course in person by filling out a Custom Training Request form

Online

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Non-Scheduled Training Courses

CAD Masters teaches the following courses, however they are not actively scheduled. If you are interested in taking the following courses, please call us at (925) 939-1378 to schedule your training. 

ReCap Pro

1-Day training: Call (925) 939-1378 for Availability (3+ students required)

Reality capture is a new term for digitizing the physical world into a virtual representation in software. Reality capturing is a process of incorporating new technologies to perform accurate measurements and build data which CAD and BIM applications can use.

This course centers around Autodesks ReCap platform and its focus is on Autodesk-based technologies. In this class, you will learn about the various hardware and software used to perform reality capture.

For the hardware portion of the course, you will learn about two common sensors used in this area: LiDAR and photogrammetry. We will explore the best hardware for each discipline and the pros and cons of each. The topic will then turn to point clouds and teach the user how to view and manipulate them in Autodesk ReCap. We will also focus on geolocation and RTK GPS technologies to take the reality capture data and put it on a map.

We will then shift our focus onto native CAD and BIM applications. We will use Civil 3D to build a surface and Revit to form basic architectural objects.

In the final step, we will show how you how to present the reality capture in a beautiful InfraWorks presentation and how to share it with your team.

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