From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for MEP (Imperial)

Starting a project using Revit templates - Revit MEP Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for MEP (Imperial)

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Starting a project using Revit templates

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- Let's start a project, shall we? This simple task is the underpinning of our workflow. Making sure you're using the correct template is crucial to your experience as the project progresses. Different companies will have different templates that are going to 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. So to begin, let's open up Revit. You're interface will look a little different than mine 'cause I've had projects open and you may not have, but what we'll see over here under Projects, we have some default templates, or we can go to a new template. To configure where these go, if you go to the File tab, then go to Options, then go to File Locations, you'll see right here where these are located. Chances are you work at a company that has these pathed to a network path. For this course, we're going to use our C:\ProgramData path. I'm going to hit Cancel here. Now, under Projects, let's go New. If you don't find the template file you want here, click Browse. This will open up the directory that was pathed that I showed you earlier. Let's grab Electrical-Default. Now click Open. Now let's click OK. This brings us into Revit. A lot of times I like to see if we're using the correct template, so, if we look over here, this is called the Project Browser, and we'll get into that later. Under Electrical, Lighting, Floor Plans. This looks good. Definitely looks like a electrical template, so let's save it. If we click the save button, Revit's not sure where to put it, so it's going to do the Save As 'cause we haven't named it yet. What we'll do is browse to where we're keeping our exercise files, and I'm going to save it as Electrical Project. Before I click OK though, let's take a look at the behavior. If we go to Options, we'll see the maximum backups are three. I don't really like all those backups. What's going to happen is Revit is going to save it as a .RVT file, so that means when you go to open a project, you'll see the backups, and sometimes you'll inadvertently open a backup. What happens is when you save it, it adds a .0001 extension to it. What this does is each time you save, it creates a new one, then a new one, then a new one, so if you three backups you're going to have three different versions. I don't really like that. I'm going to go to one for my maximum backup. I'm going to click OK. Now hit Save, and you're good to go. Now we can get started modeling a project.

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