Revit Architecture: Family Editor (Imperial and Metric)

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About this Course

Learn how to create standardized content such as furniture, doors, and other architectural components using the Family Editor in Revit.
The Family Editor offers Revit users a robust way to create standardized assets such as windows, doors, and other architectural components. These assets can contain smart data about their properties, which adds to the amount of information architects know about the buildings they design.

In this course, expert shows how to create standardized content using the Family Editor. Expert kicks off the course by covering basic concepts: the different kinds of Revit families, resources, reference planes, and constraints, also takes a deeper look at the smart data beyond the geometry, such as material and visibility parameters, as well as how to build a complex parametric family, control rotation in work planes, and create adaptive components.

 

Topics include:

  • Creating annotation and tag families
  • Adding geometry
  • Working with reference planes and constraints
  • Creating extrusions, blends, and sweeps
  • Adding family types
  • Editing element visibility
  • Building complex parametric families
  • Controlling rotation work planes
  • Creating an adaptive component

 

Contents

 

1. Basic Concepts
Defining a Revit family

Understanding the kinds of families

A systematic approach to content use and creation

 

2. Annotation Families
Exploring annotation families

Creating an annotation family

Creating a tag family

Shared parameters for tags

 

3. Family Geometry
Understanding reference planes: Work planes

Creating extrusions

Creating blends

Creating sweeps

Creating revolves

Creating swept blends

Using void forms

 

4. Simple Model Families
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

 

5. Beyond Geometry
Using material parameters

Adding family types

Working with identity data

Creating type catalogues

 

6. Controlling Visibility
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

 

7. Building a Complex Parametric Model Family
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

 

8. Creating a Parametric Key Plan
Tracing a view

Adding zones

Adding conditional formulas

Loading and flexing the key plan

 

9. Controlling Rotation Work Planes and Shared Parameters
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

 

10. Create an Adaptive Component
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

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