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
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April 19, 20269 min read

Creating a Graphic Symbols Legend in Revit: Step-by-Step Guide

Now we're going to go ahead and get into creating some of the legends that we're going to use for this project.

April 19, 20264 min read

Creating Campus Site Plan and Adding Floor Plan to Sheets

Next on the list is going to be our campus site plan.

April 19, 20262 min read

Adjusting Wall Height for Better Alignment: A Step-by-Step Guide

Now that we have the basis for a lot of our walls built in, we're going to make a few more adjustments to align the height of all these...

April 19, 20265 min read

Creating an Effective Floor Plan Graphic Legend: A Step-by-Step Guide

The first thing that I want to do here is create a Floor Plan Graphic Legend.

April 19, 20262 min read

Mastering Revit for Construction Documents: A Comprehensive Guide in BIM Course

Hey everyone, and welcome to BIM 301. In this course, we're going to take the skills and knowledge we learned in the previous courses and...

April 19, 20267 min read

Customizing Curtain Wall in Revit: A Step-by-Step Guide for 3D View Manipulation

This first assignment in this lesson is going to be to customize our curtain wall a bit, and I'm going to do all of this from the 3D view.

April 19, 20263 min read

Creating Detail Callouts for Drafting Views in Revit: How to Maintain Relationships and References

One thing you may have noticed is that we have created three details, but when you look at our Wall Section, we only have one detail...

April 19, 20265 min read

Setting Up Views for Sheet Placement in Revit: Adjusting Scale and Detail Level

Now, let's get these views set up so that we can put them on a sheet.

April 19, 20264 min read

How to Split and Join Walls with Different Types in Revit

To address this area where we have an interior wall and an exterior wall at the same location, we'll need to split this wall so that we can...

April 19, 20264 min read

Creating Floor Decks on Level Two: A Step-by-Step Guide in Revit

Here on level two, you can see that it looks a little different, and that's primarily because we haven't really been working in this view...

April 19, 20266 min read

Understanding Crop Regions and Placing Views on Sheets in Revit

Now that we're ready to put views on Sheets, the first thing we want to do is understand some of the things that we have to do before we go...

April 19, 20266 min read

Modeling Walls and Adding Grid Lines: Creating the Building Footprint

Our next step in creating this model is going to be to add the walls.

April 19, 20266 min read

Tagging Furniture Elements in Revit: A Comprehensive Guide

In this next lesson, we're going to go ahead and explore some more options for tagging elements, similar to how we closed out lesson two...

April 19, 20263 min read

Setting Up the Elevator in Your Building Design

Now that we have the shaft all set up, the next step here is going to be to add the elevator.

April 19, 20262 min read

Setting up Mullions and Panels for Window Design in Revit

To finish off this punched opening, what I'll do is I'll then set the panels to what I want them to be.

April 19, 20267 min read

Placing and Detailing Window Components: A Step-by-Step Guide

Now that we have our window detail component in, we need to get it into the right location.

April 19, 20265 min read

Ensuring Proper Tagging in Office Building Floor Plans: A Step-by-Step Guide

Now we're going to go back through and make sure that we've got everything tagged that we need to have tagged.

April 19, 20266 min read

How to Set Dimensions for Interior Walls in Your Floor Plan

Let's add some dimensions so that we can make sure that we have all the walls in the right location.

April 19, 20264 min read

Customizing Stair Nosing and Railing in Revit: A Step-by-Step Guide

Now we can go in and take a look at the nosing of the stair, and you can see right now it's got a bit of a profiled nosing with this...

April 19, 20267 min read

Creating Spandrel Panels and Glass Patterning in Architectural Design

As you can see here, I've hopped over to sheet A401, and the reason I did that is because we're going to go in and we're going to make some...

April 19, 20266 min read

Creating Walls for a Model: Setting Constraints and Drawing Interior and Exterior Walls

Now we are ready to create our walls for this model and to do that what I want to do is I want to make sure that I have a few things set...

April 19, 20266 min read

Creating Enlarged Plans and Interior Elevations in Revit: A Step-by-Step Guide

Now that we've finished up with our sections and elevations, we're going to go ahead and jump back into our floor plans.

April 19, 20262 min read

Creating Stunning Exterior Renders with High Settings and Sunlight

So I've done the same thing that we did for our interior rendering.

April 19, 20264 min read

Creating Area Plans in Revit: Letting the Software Draw Boundary Lines

Now, as we close up this lesson, I wanted to do a couple of demonstrations for you just to show what happens when we allow Revit to draw...