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Revit for Electrical Design Professional Certification Prep

Outline
1

Getting started

Module overview
Course overview
Get the software
Tips for the exam
Exam objectives
Course resources
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See where you stand

Module overview
Pre-test
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Modeling for electrical design

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Lesson overview
Add electrical equipment
Add devices and lighting fixtures
Create and edit circuits
Create and edit switch systems
Track circuits with the System Browser
Add conduit and cable trays
Add wires
Practice exercise
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Documentation for electrical design

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Lesson overview
Work with view templates and visibility/graphic overrides
Work with panel schedule templates
Produce schedules
Use miscellaneous view features
Work with sheets, titleblocks, and revisions
Work with view types
Apply phasing
Use tags
Use keynotes, note blocks, and numbered lists
Practice exercise
Challenge exercise
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Families for electrical design

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Lesson overview
Define MEP connectors
Understand family types
Understand family creation workflow
Configure light sources
Determine family category and part type
Differentiate between family hosting types
Configure element visibility settings
Create annotation families and tags
Define symbols and annotations in a family
Use parameter types
Distinguish between parameter disciplines and data types
Practice exercise
Challenge exercise
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Analysis for electrical design

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Perform load calculations
Perform conceptual lighting analysis
Configure electrical settings
Practice exercise
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Collaboration for electrical design

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Lesson overview
Import and link files
Manage linked files
Understand worksharing concepts
Export to different formats
Check for interferences
Use copy and monitor
Use design options
Transfer project standards
Practice exercise
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Course challenge exercise

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Course challenge
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Practice test

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Pre-test

Before you begin this course, test your skills by taking the following assessment to see where you stand. Keep track of your incorrect answers to know which skills you should study. You'll have a chance to take this same practice test again at the end of the course to see how you've improved.

All questions must be answered to submit your assessment.

Pre-assessment

53 questions

1. An electrical designer selects a receptacle to create a circuit. In the contextual ribbon, in the Create Systems panel, Data appears but Power does not. What is the problem?

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2. When there are numerous types of lighting fixtures available, how can a user narrow the list?

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3. An electrical designer wants to associate lighting fixtures to a lighting device to indicate the device that controls the lights. What should the designer create?

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4. Where is the keynote numbering method controlled?

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5. When placing a tag by category, what controls which tag is used?

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6. An electrical designer is reviewing the Average Estimated Illumination in a space. The value does not seem correct. The lighting fixtures are placed at the correct location. Which lighting fixture type parameter should the designer check?

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7. An electrical designer modifies a panel schedule template, but the panel schedules associated with the template do not update. What should the designer do?

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8. An electrical designer is creating a security device family. The designer wants the security device to be added to a Security system in the project. What should the System Type of the connector be set to?

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9. An electrical designer is creating a receptacle family. The designer wants the receptacle symbol to appear when the Detail Level is Coarse and Medium, and the receptacle geometry to appear when the Detail Level is Fine. How can this be accomplished?

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10. An electrical designer enables Section Box for a 3D view, but the section box is not visible in the view. Which setting should the designer check?

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11. An electrical designer receives a Revit model from the architect. The architect states that everyone needs to use the shared coordinates established in the architectural model. What should the designer do?

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12. An electrical designer wants to add a parameter to system family categories and loadable family categories. What type of parameter should the designer create?

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13. An electrical designer is creating a project parameter for equipment operating weights. The designer wants to show the appropriate units. Which Discipline and Type of Parameter should be selected?

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14.
Refer to the exhibit. An electrical designer wants to export a schedule for use in Excel. When the designer views the export option, it is unavailable. What should the designer do?

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15. An electrical designer needs to set the Connection Type for a circuit to Feed Through Lugs. What does the designer need to do to enable this functionality?

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16. Which of the following elements is a system family?

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17. An electrical designer needs to create several 30 A circuits. Every time they create a circuit the Rating is 20A. What should the designer do?

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18. What is the recommended best practice for creating a family?

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19. The Phase of a view is set to New Construction. The Phase Created parameter for an element is set to Existing and the Phase Demolished parameter is set to New Construction. What is the phase status in the view?

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20. When hovering the cursor over a component on a circuit, which key can be used to highlight the circuit?

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21.
Refer to the exhibit. An electrical designer is creating a lighting fixture tag family with two parameters added to the tag label. The designer wants each parameter to appear on a single line and does not want the size of the label text box to affect the parameters. Which options should be enabled?

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22. When lighting fixtures are placed in a space, which space parameter is calculated based on the Lumens from each fixture?

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23. An electrical designer places hosted lighting fixtures in the ceiling of a linked architectural model. The designer then removes the linked architectural model. What happens to the lighting fixtures?

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24. An electrical designer creates a family and loads it into a project. The designer realizes that the the category of the family is incorrect. What will this affect?

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25. An MEP team is working with an architect that is using design options. The architect states that the MEP team should show Option 2 in the MEP model. What should the designer do?

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26. An electrical designer creates a sheet using a custom titleblock. The designer wants to include a parameter to indicate the building area. How can this be accomplished?

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27. When placing electrical equipment, what does pressing the SPACEBAR do?