Commercial Interior Design Course Online

This Commercial Blueprint Reading course is designed to provide students with the foundational skills and insights necessary to efficiently interpret and analyze commercial construction drawings. Whether you're a professional in the construction industry or an aspiring student, this course will enhance your ability to read and understand blueprints, empowering you to communicate effectively and contribute to various stages of the construction process. Learn from a licensed architect how to read blueprint drawings for a mixed-use commercial project that includes hotel, retail, and parking. This commercial blueprint reading course is also available in Spanish. 

• Blueprint Essentials: Gain a comprehensive understanding of architectural, structural, mechanical, and electrical plans as applied to  Mixed-Use Commercial construction project.
• Industry Standards: Learn to read and interpret symbols, notations, and technical details in accordance with industry standards. Evaluate the similarities between all sets of construction documents submitted for building permits.
• Hands-On Learning: Work with real-world construction drawings and documents to build practical skills.
• Application of Knowledge: Understand how blueprints are used to estimate costs, plan projects, and ensure on-site accuracy during construction.

In this Intro to Revit course for beginners, you learn how information is interrelated throughout the Revit (BIM) model using the Revit Architecture tools. This course examines how Revit users design 3D models that simultaneously document the project and generate 2D architectural drawings containing floor plans, elevations, and 3D perspective views. You will create a Building Information Model starting from a pre-made template, create floor plans, elevations, and 3D presentation views, place views on sheets, and print drawing sheets to PDF. You will be provided both source Revit files, which you will use to start your project, as well as videos that will guide you through the learning process. 

• Describe Primary Revit Concepts and how they relate to Building Information Modeling (BIM).
• Explore the Revit User-Interface.
• Design a 3D building model to explain how information is inter-related
• Determine the appropriate workflow to complete tasks within Revit.
• Develop a project that includes floors, walls, ceilings, stairs, curtain walls, and roof design to strengthen 3D modeling and 2D documentation skills.
• Create presentation-level architectural graphics.
• Catalog building information using schedules.

In this online BIM class, you will learn more advanced methods to document a project in Revit Architecture. Topics include scheduling building components, using the family editor to create 2D and 3D components, refining graphics, and creating an abbreviated set of construction documents. In this online intermediate BIM class, you will explore advanced methods of documenting a building project in Revit Architecture by revising and continuing to develop an existing Revit model, exploring design options, creating custom schedules, and learning the skills required to create custom Revit families. By the end of this course, you will be able to turn a conceptual Revit model into an integrated and interoperable construction document set. 

• Integrate DWG Files to create Revit details.
• Tag elements for cost estimation and material take-offs.
• Explore the capabilities of design options and how to present different options.
• Create 3D parametric families.
• Build customized door, material, and room schedules that can be used for construction take-offs.
• Explore BIM project Management techniques to keep models efficient and user-friendly.

This online Revit course is the first of two Construction Document courses, using the Revit Architecture tools. You will model an existing single-story commercial building (importing AutoCAD drawings as a base) and also create a site model. You will continue learning Revit when you create the model for a significant two-story expansion to that first building model. This project scenario is typical of projects currently being handled by AEC teams who use Revit in their offices. You will explore some of the more advanced methods of modeling a commercial building project in Revit Architecture. Your instructor is an Autodesk Certified Instructor and also an experienced architectural project manager who uses Revit on a daily basis, preparing construction documents for commercial, medical, and biotech projects.

• Apply BIM modeling tools to create an architectural model, including an existing building, partial demolition, and a new construction.
• Build topography for a project using existing external files and develop a site plan, including hardscape and landscaping.
• Graphically differentiate the phasing of a project from existing construction through new construction.
• Produce renderings suitable for presentation and documentation.

You will create construction documents for the commercial building and site created in BIM 301. You will create the sheet drawings and will add keynotes, detail drawings and schedules.

• Prepare a set of architectural construction documents incorporating the site and building models created in BIM 301.
• Develop progress sets of construction documents, reflecting 30/60/90/100 percent deliverable submittals.
• Produce plan, section, and elevation views of the project for sheet layout.
• Keynote elements of the project model. Develop schedules and a limited number of architectural details extracted from the BIM model.

This course examines how Revit users design 3D models that simultaneously document the project and generate 2D architectural drawings. This class consists of two main projects; we begin by exploring the Primary Revit Concepts by creating a small residential building, and then build upon and expand our skills by creating a 3D model of a commercial building, and presenting the model using floor plans, elevations, and 3D perspective views.

• Describe Primary Revit Concepts and how they relate to Building Information Modeling (BIM).
• Design a 3D building model to explain how information is inter-related.
• Develop a project that includes floors, walls, ceilings, stairs, curtain walls, and roof design to strengthen 3D modeling and 2D documentation skills.
• Catalog building information using schedules.
• Explore the Revit User-Interface.
• Determine the appropriate workflow to complete tasks within Revit.
• Create presentation-level architectural graphics.

Create a Community Park, including topography. Make 3D models of a picnic table, carousel & other site furnishings. Learn to navigate SketchUp and different workflows to create the 3D model of the Park.

• Design massing and preliminary design 3D models.
• Build collaboration
• Determine the most efficient way of accurately and productively working within SketchUp
• Use all of the SketchUp tools to best learn the functionality of the software program.

Learn to use the Sandbox tools to create 3D Topography, and to use Project Geo-Location. Model a Clubhouse for the Community Park. Explore new workflows. Include the 3D Warehouse assets & the SketchUp camera tools.

• Use more advanced SketchUp tools to create doors, walls, windows and to detail the interior of buildings.
• Create and edit new materials and add photo textures to SketchUp models from Google Earth.
• Create scenes, generate scene settings and animate those settings in SketchUp.
• Explore creating topography and exporting images and animations.

Learn the Adobe Photoshop user interface and the specific tools and features that make Photoshop valuable. Learn major strategies to adjust, correct and supplement photos and graphic projects.

• Recognize the basic tools of Photoshop and appropriately utilize these tools for the desired adjustments and corrections.
• Carry out techniques to adjust, enhance, supplement, and compose files necessary to produce marketing materials.
• Implement proper understanding and organization of files and layers within the layers panel and Photoshop interface.
• Appropriately adjust and export images with variations in image file-type, dimension and color.

This Photoshop class reinforces techniques and expands on the Introdction to Photoshop class. You will learn important strategies on how to work successfully, how to plan, design, collaborate and export a project.

• Reinforce the basic tools of Adobe Photoshop and appropriately use these tools for the desired adjustments and corrections.
• Carry out techniques to adjust, enhance, supplement, and compose files necessary to produce marketing materials.
• Incorporate client’s determined goals, audience, and branding.
• Assess and adjust image strategy based on determined marketing and design goals.

Learn Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard professional vector drawing program. Gain real-world, practical experience using Illustrator to produce vector art for both print and web design.

• Recognize the basic tools of Illustrator and appropriately use these tools for the desired adjustments and corrections.
• Carry out techniques to adjust, enhance, supplement, and compose files necessary to produce marketing materials.
• Implement proper understanding and organization of files and layers within the layers panel and Illustrator interface.
• Appropriately adjust and export images with variations in image file-type, dimension and color.

Learn to use Adobe Illustrator, including the tools and features that make Illustrator useful for photo and graphic projects. This class reinforces basic strategies of Introduction to Adobe Illustrator and introduces intermediate techniques for graphic design. Learn additional tools and methods to craft a series of graphic marketing materials. In this online training class, students will learn basic Illustrator strategies necessary for adjusting, correcting, and supplementing photos and graphics. This course is for professional designers, architects, engineers, contractors, marketers, and others seeking professional advancement or job transition.

• Recognize the basic tools of Illustrator and appropriately utilize these tools for the desired adjustments and corrections.
• Carry out techniques to adjust, enhance, supplement, and compose files necessary to produce marketing materials.
• Implement proper understanding and organization of files and layers within the layers panel and Illustrator interface.
• Appropriately adjust and export images with variations in image file-type, dimension and color.