An Introduction to Revit Families

In Revit, a ‘family’ is a collection of 2D and/or 3D data that represents a single building or documentation piece in the project. This course will teach you all the basic steps you will need to understand and build Revit families, how they fit into the Revit modelling and environment management. We will first examine the structure of families inside Revit by examining the hierarchy of elements right down to individual objects. We will create a basic piece of furniture by going through each step in detail. By following the simple process, we can ensure that a family has a high degree of integrity and stability. We will explore different types of geometry creation to ensure that you are fully aware of all the methods within the family editor. We’ll also make the family parametric by using parameters to control key dimensions to create different types that we can place into a project model. Once we have created the basic family, we will load them into a project, place them within the building model and adjust some of the parameters we have created.

Once you understand the basics, we’ll start to look at ways to increase the family's functionality by implementing additional and more advanced tools. These will assist in adding a variation to the family, including visibility, materiality and detail levels. We’ll then look at different types of families, including 2D families for construction detail embellishment. Discover the types of tags that extract and display information about Revit elements in views and 2D symbolic annotation. We’ll then finish by learning two of the most complex aspects of Revit family creation: nesting families and formulas. Formulas allow us to control parameters based on other parameters or variables, thus building automation into the families. Nesting families improve the organisation and management of families by hosting them inside other families. Using either one of these or a combination will supercharge your families to the next level and significantly improve their management and consistency across your organisation. They enhance stability to guarantee that the families avoid corruption and unintended errors.

This course provides all the rudimentary information needed to become proficient in Revit families. Taught at a comfortable pace with clear examples, you will quickly understand how to navigate in this often misunderstood branch of Revit. You will become an expert at creating, managing and using families. Acquiring this knowledge can make you stand out from the rest of your colleagues regarding your Revit skills and enable you to work efficiently whilst developing projects. Having a deep knowledge of Revit families will ensure you spend more time doing design work rather than wasting time struggling with Revit topics you are unfamiliar with. This course will give you all the stepping stones you need to succeed. You will create your own families to suit your particular projects, workflows and interests. Why wait to learn new skills? Excel in the workplace and enrol today!