Complete building model
Deliverable: A two-storey building modelled with correct levels, compound walls, floors, roof and stairs, navigable and free of the modelling errors listed in the module checklist.
Course
Revit Architecture (BIM)
Building information modelling taught as one model producing everything — plans, sections, schedules and quantities — with the coordination habits that stop a project drifting apart.
- Duration: 3 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: intermediate
What you will be able to do
- Model a building with levels, grids, walls, floors and roofs
- Build and edit families rather than only placing what ships with Revit
- Generate plans, elevations, sections and details from the model
- Produce schedules and quantities that update with the design
- Set up sheets and issue a coordinated drawing set
- Work in a shared model without overwriting somebody else's work
Who this course is for
- Architecture and civil engineering students and graduates
- Draughtsmen moving from 2D drafting into BIM
- Interior designers producing construction documentation
- AutoCAD familiarity is helpful but not required
Syllabus
6 modules · 3 months
Module 1. BIM fundamentals and setup
- What BIM changes about how a project is documented
- Levels, grids and project setup
- Views, view templates and view range
- Project browser organisation that scales
Module 2. Building elements
- Walls, compound structures and layers
- Floors, ceilings and roofs
- Stairs, ramps and railings
- Curtain walls and their panels
Module 3. Families
- System, loadable and in-place families
- Editing an existing family
- Building a parametric family from scratch
- Types, parameters and shared parameters
Module 4. Documentation
- Plans, sections, elevations and callouts
- Dimensioning, tags and annotation
- Detailing on top of the model
- Sheets, titleblocks and revisions
Module 5. Schedules and quantities
- Door, window and room schedules
- Material take-off and quantities
- Calculated values and formulas in a schedule
- Keeping a schedule honest when the model changes
Module 6. Coordination and collaboration
- Linking architectural, structural and services models
- Copy-monitor and coordination review
- Worksharing and central models
- Interference checking before the site finds it
Tools and technologies you will use
- Autodesk Revit
- Family editor
- Schedules and quantity take-off
- Sheets and view templates
Projects you will build
Parametric family
Deliverable: A window or door family built from scratch with working type parameters, demonstrated flexing correctly through at least three sizes without breaking.
Coordinated drawing set
Deliverable: A sheet set with plans, elevations, sections and a door schedule, all generated from the model, demonstrated updating correctly after a design change.
Clash check
Deliverable: An architectural model linked with a structural model, with an interference check run and every clash either resolved or documented with a reason.
Where this course can take you
- BIM Modeller
- Architectural Draughtsman
- BIM Coordinator
- Architectural Assistant
- Design Technologist
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 3 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode. Student licences are used for practice sessions.
Placement assistance
Every student gets placement assistance — that is what 100% placement assistance means. It is support for all, not a job for all. We do not promise a specific salary, a specific number of interviews, or placement at any named company, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
What is included
- A place in the monthly placement drive, held every third Saturday
- The readiness programme every second Saturday — mock interviews and preparation
- CV review against the specific roles you are targeting
- Portfolio review, so your project work is presented the way a reviewer will read it
- Access to the vacancy pool employers send directly to the Samyak network
- Guidance on which roles realistically fit your background and which do not
- A place in the next drive, with coaching, if you are not selected in this one
What is not included
- Any guarantee of a job, an interview, or a particular salary
- Placement at a named or partner company
- Applying to jobs on your behalf
- Support before you have completed the course and its project work
- Visa, relocation or overseas placement assistance
One model, and nothing can disagree
The strongest argument for BIM is not speed. It is consistency.
In 2D drafting, a wall moved in plan and forgotten in section is a live site error, and drawing sets drift apart quietly across a long project. In Revit the section is a view of the same wall — the disagreement is not possible, because there is only one wall.
Schedules and quantities come from that same model, which is why quantity surveyors benefit from BIM as much as designers do.
Families are where the real skill is
Anyone can place a door from the shipped library.
Indian construction uses sections, fittings and details that those libraries do not contain, and a building modelled entirely from generic families documents something that will not be built. Making a parametric family that flexes properly across sizes without breaking is what distinguishes a BIM modeller from a Revit user, and it is why families get their own module and their own project.
Coordination before the site finds it
Linking the structural model and running an interference check takes an afternoon.
Discovering the same clash on site — a beam through a duct, a column in a doorway — costs weeks. The last project makes you find them on a screen, which is the entire commercial argument for BIM and the reason public projects increasingly require it.
Both tools, honestly
Revit has largely taken over building documentation in larger Indian practices. AutoCAD is still everywhere for 2D detailing, small jobs and coordinating with consultants who have not moved.
Most offices need both right now. Learn this, keep the AutoCAD, and be the person who can work either way.
Questions
Revit Architecture (BIM) — frequently asked questions
Is Revit replacing AutoCAD?
For building documentation in larger practices, largely yes, and BIM is increasingly required on public projects. AutoCAD remains everywhere for 2D detailing, small jobs and coordination with consultants who have not moved. Most architectural offices in India currently need both, and the honest advice is to learn both.
What is the actual advantage of BIM?
One model produces everything, so they cannot disagree. In 2D drafting, a wall moved in plan and forgotten in section is a site error waiting to happen. In Revit that is impossible, because the section is a view of the same wall. Schedules and quantities come from the same source, which is why quantity surveying benefits as much as design.
Do I need to build families, or can I use what comes with Revit?
You will need to build them. Indian construction uses sections, fittings and details that the shipped libraries do not contain, and a project modelled entirely from generic families produces documentation that does not match what will be built. Family creation is the skill that separates a Revit user from a BIM modeller.
Is this useful for interior design work?
Yes. Interior packages need the same coordinated documentation — plans, elevations, sections, finish schedules and quantities — and Revit produces them from one model. Several interior designers take this specifically to produce construction documentation rather than presentation visuals.
Enquire about Revit Architecture (BIM)
Three details is all we need. A course advisor will call you back.
Related courses
- AutoCAD for Civil Engineering
Civil drafting in AutoCAD taught the way a site office judges a drawing — correct layers, real dimensioning, plotted to scale and readable by the person building from it.
- Interior Design
Interior design taught as a delivered project — space planning, material selection, working drawings, 3D views and a costed BOQ — available as a certificate, diploma or advanced diploma.
- ETABS Building Analysis and Design
Building-specific structural analysis — storeys, rigid diaphragms, shear walls and seismic response — with the drift and irregularity checks that decide whether a design is acceptable.
- 3ds Max
Architectural visualisation taught around light and camera, because a correctly modelled room still looks wrong until the lighting and the lens are right.
Next step
Talk to a course advisor
Tell us what you want to learn and we will help you pick the right course, batch and mode.