This training course teaches residential home designers how to complete a home design project using Autodesk Revit. Students will create a full 3D residential project model, including walls, doors, windows, components, floors, ceilings, roofs, and stairs. This course takes students through design, development, and construction documentation, including how to navigate the user interface, use the basic drawing, editing, and viewing tools, and create the final construction documents.

This course is applicable for residential drafters, designers, and anyone in the residential architecture field. For instructional content focused on a commercial design project, consider the Autodesk Revit: Fundamentals for Architecture course.


*Videos based on Autodesk 2022 courses. Any additional software changes will be reflected in actual course content.

The topics in this Autodesk Revit training course include the following:

• Understanding the purpose of BIM and how it is applied in Revit.
• Navigating the Revit workspace and interface.
• Setting up a residential house design project by linking CAD files.
• Creating levels, interior elevations, sections, and callouts.
• Adding component features, such as furniture, plumbing fixtures, casework, and kitchen and bathroom components.
• Working with the basic sketching and modifying tools.
• Modeling a 3D house with walls, floors, windows, doors, foundation, and footings.
• Creating ceiling soffits and raised ceilings.
• Adding architectural and structural columns, piers, pilasters, and augers.
• Applying finish carpentry, including baseboards.
• Adding soffits, fascia, gutters, frieze boards, and bird boxes.
• Modeling simple and complex roofs, including modifying roof joins and creating dormers in a house design project.
• Modeling residential stairs, balconies, and railings.
• Understanding the basics of design options by creating design option sets for a house design project.
• Setting up sheets for plotting with text, dimensions, details, tags, and schedules.
• Creating residential wall details in a house design project.

Prerequisites for this Autodesk Revit training course:
An understanding of architectural terminology is an asset.

Course description shown for Autodesk Revit 2024.
Topics, curriculum, and/or prerequisites may change depending on software version.