Overview
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Learn how to create standardized content such as furniture, doors, and other architectural components using the Family Editor in Revit.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Content is king
- What you should know
- Defining a Revit family
- Understanding the kinds of families
- A systematic approach to content use and creation
- Exploring annotation families
- Creating an annotation family
- Creating a tag family
- Shared parameters for tags
- Understanding reference planes: Work planes
- Creating extrusions
- Creating blends
- Creating sweeps
- Creating revolves
- Creating swept blends
- Using void forms
- The family creation process
- Creating a new model family
- Adding reference planes and constraints
- Parameters
- Adding geometry
- Adjusting Geometry
- Sweep by path
- Complete the geometry
- Using material parameters
- Adding family types
- Working with identity data
- Creating type catalogues
- Understanding symbolic lines
- Editing element visibility
- Creating visibility parameters
- Cutting families with voids when loaded
- Ensuring the display of overhead items in a plan
- Understanding subcategories
- Introducing complex families
- Using blend forms to model an awning family: Part 1
- Using blend forms to model an awning family: Part 2
- Adding reference planes and importing nested families
- Building arrays and applying rules
- Adjusting a parametric array group
- Adding formulas to drive parameter values
- Understanding the reference planes IsReference property
- Working with a family type parameter
- Using a formula to prevent common errors
- Testing in a project and adding a flip control
- Shared families and shared parameters
- Tracing a view
- Adding zones
- Adding conditional formulas
- Loading and flexing the key plan
- Using reference lines to control rotation
- Understanding sweep profile rotation
- Build a sweep with a parametrically driven profile
- Apply rotation parameters to a sweep profile
- Prevent common error conditions with a formula
- Adding a parametric void element
- The challenge of creating a parametric brick arch
- Crash course in the adaptive family editor
- Modify the default template to match your requirements
- Using reference lines to create parametric formwork
- Build a simple flexible adaptive component
- Create a divided path and a repeater element
- Making a divided path parametric
- Creating flexible void forms in the adaptive family environment
- Apply materials to adaptive components
- Create family types and load into a project to test
- Next steps
