Revit Architecture: Family Editor (Imperial and Metric)

Course details

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, Paul F. Aubin shows how to create standardized content using the Family Editor. Paul kicks off the course by covering basic concepts: the different kinds of Revit families, resources, reference planes, and constraints. He 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.

Learning objectives
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

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Content is king
02 - What you should know

1. Basic Concepts

03 - Defining a Revit family
04 - Understanding the kinds of families
05 - A systematic approach to content use and creation

2. Annotation Families

06 - Exploring annotation families
07 - Creating an annotation family
08 - Creating a tag family
09 - Shared parameters for tags

3. Family Geometry

10 - Understanding reference planes - Work planes
11 - Creating extrusions
12 - Creating blends
13 - Creating sweeps
14 - Creating revolves
15 - Creating swept blends
16 - Using void forms

4. Simple Model Families

17 - The family creation process
18 - Creating a new model family
19 - Adding reference planes and constraints
20 - Parameters
21 - Adding geometry
22 - Adjusting Geometry
23 - Sweep by path
24 - Complete the geometry

5. Beyond Geometry

25 - Using material parameters
26 - Adding family types
27 - Working with identity data
28 - Creating type catalogues

6. Controlling Visibility

29 - Understanding symbolic lines
30 - Editing element visibility
31 - Creating visibility parameters
32 - Cutting families with voids when loaded
33 - Ensuring the display of overhead items in a plan
34 - Understanding subcategories

7. Building a Complex Parametric Model Family

35 - Introducing complex families
36 - Using blend forms to model an awning family - Part 1
37 - Using blend forms to model an awning family - Part 2
38 - Adding reference planes and importing nested families
39 - Building arrays and applying rules
40 - Adjusting a parametric array group
41 - Adding formulas to drive parameter values
42 - Understanding the reference planes IsReference property
43 - Working with a family type parameter
44 - Using a formula to prevent common errors
45 - Testing in a project and adding a flip control
46 - Shared families and shared parameters

8. Creating a Parametric Key Plan

47 - Tracing a view
48 - Adding zones
49 - Adding conditional formulas
50 - Loading and flexing the key plan

9. Controlling Rotation Work Planes and Shared Parameters

51 - Using reference lines to control rotation
52 - Understanding sweep profile rotation
53 - Build a sweep with a parametrically driven profile
54 - Apply rotation parameters to a sweep profile
55 - Prevent common error conditions with a formula
56 - Adding a parametric void element

10. Create an Adaptive Component

57 - The challenge of creating a parametric brick arch
58 - Crash course in the adaptive family editor
59 - Modify the default template to match your requirements
60 - Using reference lines to create parametric formwork
61 - Build a simple flexible adaptive component
62 - Create a divided path and a repeater element
63 - Making a divided path parametric
64 - Creating flexible void forms in the adaptive family environment
65 - Apply materials to adaptive components
66 - Create family types and load into a project to test

Conclusion

67 - Next steps