A1a–Revit - Graders’ Comments

• Many students forgot to include “Family” and “Mark” columns to their door schedules and often forgot to include their name, project name or date to the title block. We would advise students to make a checklist of the criteria to be fulfilled.
• The instructions pertaining to the ‘continuous wall’ were confusing to some.
• Many students did not fulfill the shading requirement for a perspective view; some did not know where the function is – for those who wish to know, it is usually represented by an icon on the bottom-left hand side of the screen when in 3D/perspective view, as shown in the picture below:
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• The grades were, for the most part, significantly higher than for those for the last assignment – students provided some valuable insight into how Revit was going to factor into future coursework, especially Senior Design.
• There were an equal number of moderately experienced/very experienced, and inexperienced Revit users, but most found that the interface was as intuitive, if not more, as other programs like AutoCAD and Microstation.
• There were two late submissions to BBVista and one student has yet to submit an assignment.
• Students did not create uniform submissions. Graders had to search BBVISTA, the course webpage, and previously submitted webpages for A1a submission material. ALL SUBMISSION MATERIAL SHOULD BE SUBMITTED ON BBVISTA (in a single submission) UNLESS SPECIFICALLY OUTLINED TO BE INCLUDED ON AN EXTERNAL WEBPAGE (students would then only submit the website link).
• Students should submit website links via BBVista AND the course database website.
• Graders were EXTREMELY lenient with grading. Besides searching for submission material, graders opened models to find dimensions and plan sheets. In the future, all dimensions and required information should be included as a PDF or points will be deducted.
• Proof read and spell check ALL written portions prior to submission.
• Do not copy or slightly edit a model someone else created. This is your warning.
• Read the course rubric and follow the instructions and criteria provided on BBVista.
• If students have questions about the requirements, please ask the professor ahead of time!
• A handful of students claim that they have not been exposed to AutoCAD or Microstation, or any other CAD programs prior to this assignment.  (JEM note – if you’re one of these students and feel that you were unfairly burdened by this assignment please contact your section instructor, me or Professor Dasaro.)