Revit Architecture is the name of building and architecture design software made by Autodesk. It is intended for use by professionals in the building design, architecture and construction fields. Achieving Revit certification enables an individual working in these fields to demonstrate that they are proficient in the use of the software. User and Professional certificates are available.

Becoming an Autodesk Revit Architecture Certified User or Professional has many advantages. It proves an individual’s credibility when applying for a position, improves their productivity through a thorough understanding of all features of the software and ultimately helps advance their career prospects.

The best way to earn Revit certification is by learning the features of the software through textbooks, online courses and video walkthroughs, among others. Once the student has a thorough grasp of the tools and features the software offers they should gain hands-on experience by using the software in practice. A certified user certificate typically requires 50 hours of hands-on experience while a certified professional requires over 400 hours. The next step is to validate these skills through the examination which must be passed to achieve certification.

The professional exam contains 35 questions the majority of which require the applicant to use the software to create and modify files and then submit their work. There are also multiple choice questions, tasks that require matching items and point-and-click identification. The exam takes two hours to complete. It tests for skills in the following areas: collaboration, documentation, elements and their families, modeling and views. Below are some examples of individual skills which the professional certificate applicant will need to demonstrate in each:

• Collaboration: copying and monitoring elements in linked file, using worksharing, using Worksharing visualization and accessing review warnings.

• Documentation: creating and modifying filled regions, placing detailed components, tagging elements (such as doors and windows, for example) by category, using dimension strings, set colours in a colour scheme legend and working with phases.

• Elements and Families: changing elements within a curtain wall, creating compound or stacked walls, differentiating system and component families, working with parameters and using Family creation tools.

• Modeling: creating a building pad, defining floors for a given mass, creating a stair with a landing, creating elements (such as floors, ceilings or roofs), attaching walls to a roof or ceiling and editing room-aware family elements.

• Views: defining element properties in a schedule, controlling visibility, using levels, creating multiple views of a given plan (IE elevation, section), creating and managing legends, managing view positions on sheets and organizing and sorting items in a schedule.