Explore the initial steps of starting a new project in BIM 101, from opening a preloaded template file to saving the project under a new name. This article highlights the process of beginning a new project, using a template, and setting it up for further development.
Key Insights
- The article begins by explaining the process of opening a new project file in BIM 101, specifically referencing the starter file in the BIM 101 folder.
- It describes the starter file as a template preloaded with features such as a title block, to facilitate the modeling process. This template is similar to the architectural template provided by Revit.
- Lastly, the article underlines the importance of saving the new project, in this case as 'BIM 101 project two', ensuring that all future work will be contained within this file.
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To kick off Project 2, the first thing that we are going to do here is we're going to open up the Project 2 Start file. So I'm going to go to open. And from here, I'm going to go to my BIM 101 folder.
And I'm going to find the Project 2 Start file. And we'll open that up. This is a file that we put together.
It's essentially a template file that has a lot of things preloaded, but it's very much the same as the architectural template. But it's very much the same as the architectural template that you would get from just installing Revit. All we've added on here are the title block and a few other things just to help with the modeling process.
Once I have that open, I'm going to go ahead and close the other projects that I had. And we're going to go ahead and get started here. And so what we'll need to do first thing is we're going to want to save this.
So I'm going to do a file, save as project. And I'm going to call it BIM 101 Project 2. And then I'll do the same thing with the first and last name like we did on the other one and hit save.
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And so now this is the project we're going to be working in for the remainder of the course.
