Revit Basics of Building Modeling Seminar
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
Learn more about the on-demand format in our FAQ or contact us at (715) 835-5900 or customerservice@halfmoonseminars.org
Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:15 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:15 – 5:00 pm
Building Information Modeling/Revit Overview
What is BIM?
What is Revit?
Revit overview
Differences between Revit and AutoCAD
What makes Revit the best tool to use?
The Revit User Interface
Working in Revit
Using the ribbon
Using the view window
Selecting objects
Modifying, mirroring and duplicating
Building a Model in Revit
Project setup
Revit template
Revit central and local file system
Origin, grids and levels
Creating Basic Model Elements
Walls Floors
Ceilings Doors
Columns Curtain walls
Stairs Mass model objects
Roofs Area and room tools
Creating Sheets
Group sheets in project browser
Create sheets and place views
Title blocks
Drawing Sheet list
Drafting
Detail group and detail component
Annotations
Dimensions
Hatches
3D Views and Model Management
Perspective views and 3D views
Enscape/live rendering
Navisworks
Managing large Revit projects
Sending, receiving and archiving files
The Bottom Line
What a project in Revit can do for you
Credits
Professional Engineers
7.0 CPD Hours/PDHs
Architects
Non-Qualifying in Ohio
7.0 AIA Learning Units
Construction Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This live lecture presentation is open to the public and offers 7.0 CPD hours/PDHs to professional engineers and 7.0 continuing education hours to architects in most states, including Ohio engineers. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Ohio.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 7.0 Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES. The AIA does not consider the subject matter of this seminar to be HSW. As such, it does not qualify for Ohio architects.
HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York architects. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
This seminar offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors. It has not been approved by any state contractor licensing entity for mandatory continuing education credit.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
David Fast
Fast Cadd Works, Cooler Design Inc.Owner, Fast Cadd Works, Plainfield, Indiana
Mr. Fast has 35 years of drafting and design experience in the industry. He started Fast Cadd Works in 2012 to be able implement and train companies and employees in Revit. Mr. Fast is professionally certified in AutoCAD and Revit. He has experience with numerous types of projects including medical facilities, large warehouses, sporting facilities, churches, schools, assisted living facilities, restaurants, and government buildings. Working closely with architects, engineers, and outside consultants, Mr. Fast has coordinated the details of projects of all sizes. He has been responsible for generating construction documents for every stage of the design process. He is proficient in the building information modeling (BIM) software, Revit, and has spent time training employees at firms throughout Indianapolis area on the Autodesk software.