The following versions: Revit Architecture helps you capture and analyze design concepts and accurately maintain coordinated design data through documentation and construction. Building Information Modeling BIM with the Autodesk Revit Platform offers the ability to easily configure save and deploy a standard working environment.
Each member has specific disciplinary strengths and shared a draft working district specific Revit template with the team. The feedback was debated and the group decided on revisions and enhancements that supported the intent, purpose and general needs of the USACE. The upfront time and effort required to set up, configure, and coordinate a Revit project and environment can be minimized significantly by deploying a Revit template file.
In order to make all different types into 1 family file, I have to create a ton of reference planes, forumlas for the frames and visibility boolean options. If I would make them all into seperate family files, it seems to be easier to keep the families clean and working. Go to Solution. Solved by hmunsell. For me it all depends on my time and the complexity of the family. I personally don't like having one massive family that can do anything I see it as one big point of failure if somthing goes wrong.
I will often try to break them down it smaller groups. You can also use Type Catalogs to help manage family types. Structural framing families uses them a lot J Howard Munsell Sr.
Thank you! I do not think my family is THAT complex, but I will make multiple files to make it easier for myself. In-place families therefore prove effective for modeling unique existing conditions or very specialized and unique design scenarios. However, wherever possible, consider if the item you wish to create can be built using either predefined system elements or a component family first before resorting to an in-place family.
Often creating an in-place element seems like a good idea at the time only to later be the source of regret. We will not be exploring in-place families in this article. Here is a brief summary of Revit for Architecture critical terminology. The illustration is borrowed from the online help file a few releases back. There is a different version in the current help system, but I prefer this illustration as I believe it still does the best job of summarizing all of the various kinds of elements in the Revit environment.
There are several kinds of elements. Each represents something fundamental to your project. Elements in italic can be created and edited in the family editor. Can be freestanding or require a host. Views conform to the characteristics of typical architectural drawing types like plan, section, elevation and schedule. Some View Element families allow customization of Types, many do not. These are used establish project context, limits, extents and the like. Datum Elements provide guidelines and limits for other elements within a project and can also include annotative qualities.
The families and types of datum elements cannot be edited. View-specific elements do not appear in any other views automatically. If you wish to repeat view-specific items in other views, you can copy and paste them. Detail elements appear only in the view in which they are added. Detail Elements remain their actual size as created and do not adjust scale with the view.
These items are view-specific appearing only in the view in which they are added and are used to notate, embellish, describe and document design intent within a Revit Architecture project. Annotation elements maintain a constant size relative to the plotting scale of the view in order to maintain a constant size relative the sheet on which they are placed.
Text and Dimensions cannot. Many of the branches in the diagram contain both system and component families. Naturally for a discussion on the family editor, we are therefore limited to considering only the non-system families. This includes all items on the Component Elements model branch, Detail Item families on the Detail Elements branch, Loaded Tags on the Annotation Elements branch and a few other miscellaneous elements as well like titleblock families or view tags and level head symbols.
The first step to working in Revit in general and building families in specific is to become comfortable with this list of terms. Keep it handy as reference as you continue. But before you embark on the process of building family content, it should be noted that there are many families included with the software and many more resources available online.
A quick search in Google will turn up hundreds of sites containing tips, tricks and downloadable content. Do take the time to explore the out-of-the-box offerings and some of many available sites as well if you have not already done so.
As has been noted, you cannot create or delete system families. All system families will already be in your project file. To add types that are not present to a system family, you either have to duplicate an existing type, rename and modify it, or import one from another project. To import from another project, you can use Transfer Project Standards Manage tab or copy and paste. To use a component family from outside the project in your current project, you can load it from a family file RFA or copy and paste from another project.
To load a family file, use the Load Family button on the Insert tab of the ribbon, or the contextual ribbon tab when a command is active. This lets you load a door family and place it all in the same procedure. Also, on the Insert tab of the ribbon, on the Autodesk Seek panel, you can run a search from directly in Revit of the online Autodesk Seek website. You can also type seek. In many cases, a family similar to the one you wish to create will already exist somewhere in the product or online in one of the myriad online resources.
Most companies also maintain their own libraries of office standard content on their internal servers. Practical wisdom says that it makes more sense to begin with something in the library and either use it as-is, or modify it to suit your needs. Typically, this will be easier than starting from scratch. In your day-to-day work when you are up against deadlines, this is by far the best approach. If you are new to creating families in Revit, then I recommend that you create your first few families from scratch.
By building the entire family yourself, you will learn more than simply modifying one. Furthermore, families can include very complex parameters and constraints that often link to one another in a chained and sometimes complex or even convoluted fashion. Even for seasoned family content authors, it can be difficult to dissect these often complex relationships. Therefore, to avoid becoming discouraged, it is recommended that you start with a small simple example and work your way to more complexity over time.
These are more complex than they at first seem. Begin with something small, simple and boxy: like a simple piece of furniture or equipment. The basic process for creating a family is as follows: decide what type of family you need.
This will include deciding what it should look like, how much detail to include and whether the graphics or level of detail should change in different views. You can start by sketching out yes on paper the family you intend to create and make notes about its requirements. Next, create a new family file from the appropriate template or open an existing family file similar to the one you wish to create and save as.
The choice of family template is important. The templates included with the software are provided by Autodesk with the product.
Each contains basic settings, behaviors and in many cases some simple geometry or reference planes. The geometry included like a sample length of wall is only for reference and does not get inserted with the family when used in a project. While it is possible to change the category of family after creation, it is best to choose wisely at the start. Try to choose the most appropriate category selecting: Generic Model.
Unlike category, the hosting behavior of a family file cannot be changed after it is created. So if you are not certain that you want the family you are creating to require a Host, it is safer to build it without one. In other words, if you choose Casework wall based.
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