This site started as one person's week-long sprint to learn Revit properly, written up as it happened. It stayed as a site because the notes turned out to be the thing that was missing: not a 40-hour video course, and not Autodesk's reference documentation, but the in-between — a sequence, a mental model, and the specific gotchas that eat a day.
Who it's for
Anyone who needs working Revit competence quickly and is willing to do the exercises. That includes people coming from AutoCAD or SketchUp, people who've opened Revit a few times and bounced off it, and technical folks who work around Revit — project managers, BIM coordinators, developers building tools for AEC teams — and need to understand it deeply enough to be useful.
It assumes you have Revit in front of you. Reading about Revit without modeling in Revit does not work; the software has too many modal behaviors that only make sense once they've bitten you.
How to use it
- Do the days in order. Each one builds on the same small building. Day 5 assumes you have the model from Day 2.
- Use the checkpoints honestly.They're at the bottom of every day and they persist in your browser. If you can't do one from memory, redo that section — the next day will assume it.
- Skim the reference, don't read it. The reference pages are written to be returned to. Read the one the day links to, then move on.
- Press ⌘K. Search covers every lesson, reference page, section heading, and glossary term.
What version this targets
Content is written against Revit 2027. The fundamentals — categories, families, parameters, views, worksharing — have been stable for a decade and apply cleanly back to Revit 2021. Where a feature is version-specific (Toposolid, accelerated graphics, the .NET target for API work) it's called out inline, and the version matrix has the details that matter for automation.
Adding your own notes
Every lesson and reference page is a Markdown file in content/days/ or content/reference/. Add a file, give it frontmatter, and it appears in the nav, the search index, and the progress tracking automatically. There's no database and no CMS — which is the point. It's the fastest possible way to capture something you just learned before you forget it.
Corrections
Revit rewards precision and this site was written by someone learning. If something here is wrong, it's worth fixing — Revit misinformation is expensive. Treat every claim as something to verify in your own model, which is a good habit regardless.
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