Michael Wilson

94 articles

Revit Instructor

Bachelor of Architecture, Registered Architect

Mike is recognized by Autodesk as one of North America’s leading Revit Certified Instructors. He has significant experience integrating Revit, 3ds Max, and Rhino and uses Revit Architecture on medium and large-scale bio and nano-tech projects. Mike has been an integral member of the VDCI team for over 15 years, offering his hard-charging, “get it done right” approach and close attention to detail. In his spare time, Mike enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife, children, and dog.

Autodesk Certified Instructor (ACI GOLD – 1 of 20 Awarded Globally)
Autodesk Certified AutoCAD Professional
Autodesk Certified Revit Professional
Revit

Articles

April 19, 20265 min read

Creating Clear and Graphic Site and Campus Plans in Revit

Before we get into the camera views and adding the view template to those views, there's one thing that I want to touch on really quickly...

April 19, 20265 min read

Understanding Phases and Phase Filters in Revit: A Comprehensive Guide

Now that we have the view set up that we're going to use to create our model, we're going to go ahead and make sure we have the phase...

April 19, 20267 min read

Creating a Custom Glass Panel Railing Profile for a Revit Family

Let's take a look at that railing profile so that we can get an idea of how we can use it.

April 19, 20264 min read

Enhancing Clarity: Graphic Overrides for Existing and Demolished Elements

Now we're going to take a look at the graphic overrides and see if we can come up with a combination to clearly highlight the...

April 19, 20265 min read

Creating Area Plans in Revit: Step-by-Step Guide and Best Practices

Our first step when creating an area plan is to simply create that plan.

April 19, 20264 min read

How to Customize Mullions in Your Curtain Wall in Revit

Now that we have the profile ready to go and we've saved it back to our student folder, what we can do is we can load it into our project...

April 19, 20266 min read

Organizing Door Schedules in Revit: Tips and Tricks for a Cleaner Layout

Now that we have the schedule set up, we're going to go ahead and organize it a bit.

April 19, 20261 min read

Calculating Building Area in Revit: Gross vs Rentable Area

In this lesson, we're going to go ahead and take a look at a couple of different ways that we can compute area by using the tools that are...

April 19, 20264 min read

Creating Enlarged Plans and Tagging Furniture in Office Layouts

The next thing we want to do here is go in and create an enlarged plan so that we can tag all the different furniture pieces that we see...

April 19, 20265 min read

Creating a Generic Casework Family: Modeling and Parameter Flexibility

Let's go ahead and jump back to the reference level, and then we can take a look at some of the different things in the ribbon.

April 19, 20265 min read

Creating Custom Casework Family in Revit: A Step-by-Step Guide

In this next set of videos, we're going to go ahead and shift gears a bit and we're going to start looking at how to create our own family...

April 19, 20266 min read

Customizing Visibility and Graphics Overrides in Revit: A Comprehensive Guide

Picking up right where we left off, we're going to go ahead and bring back those gridlines.

April 19, 20264 min read

Avoiding Elevation View Pitfalls: How Small Changes Can Have Big Impacts

Let's take a look at elevation views and a seemingly harmless change that we could make to the project that actually has a big impact.

April 19, 20265 min read

Revit Roof Plan: Adding Dimensions, Slope Arrows, and Adjusting Cut Plane

Now that we look at our roof plan, we can see there are a few notes.

April 19, 20265 min read

How to Customize Curtain Walls in Revit: Adjusting Parameters for Improved Layouts

So the first thing that we're going to do here is we're going to go in and I'm just going to select one of these curtain walls because...

April 19, 20263 min read

Adding Sloped Walls in Revit 2021: A New Feature Explained

One of the functions that was added with Revit 2021 was the ability to create sloped or slanted walls.

April 19, 20265 min read

Completing the Building Shell: Adding Floors, Ceilings, and Roofs

Now that we've finished almost all of the exterior shell of the building, it's time to fill in some of the voids, and I think you know what...

April 19, 20268 min read

Exploring the Components of the Revit User Interface: A Comprehensive Overview

In this video, we're going to go through all of the different components of the User Interface.

April 19, 20263 min read

Importing CAD Files for Reference in Revit: Best Practices and Workflow

Now we're going to import the CAD file, and whenever we do this, I always recommend using the Link option instead of Import unless you know...

April 19, 202610 min read

Dimensioning Techniques for Building Wall Elevations in Revit

So the north side of the building on level one is going to be pretty easy because we’re actually going to use an exterior elevation that we...

April 19, 20265 min read

How to Efficiently Add Furniture Using Model Groups in Revit

For this video, we're going to go ahead and add some furniture into some of these rooms here, and we're also going to add some plumbing...

April 19, 20264 min read

Creating Realistic Roof Elements: Adding Slope and Drainage to Your Roof Plan

Now let's go ahead and jump over to our roof plan. And I just like to do this in a lot of our different videos because it really just helps...

April 19, 20264 min read

Annotating Window Details: A Step-by-Step Guide

This view is a little bit more straightforward. You know, it only has a couple of different elements to it. But we're going to go through...

April 19, 20265 min read

Adding Elevation and Callout Symbols to Your Project

Picking up where we left off, we're going to go ahead and add the rest of our symbols to our project here.