Lynda – Architectural Families in Revit

Revit families are an incredible feature, offering libraries of ready-made objects that can be used in CAD drawings or customized to fit any project. Families can also be modeled from scratch and shared with colleagues and clients. This course dives into Revit architectural families, a specific family type for architecture and building information modeling.

Author Eric Wing shows how to model families that help you build exactly what you need for your drawings. Eric investigates profiles such as chair rails, baseboards, doors, cabinets, and shelving, as well as adaptive components. Along the way, he introduces the reference planes, parameters, and formulas necessary to build architectural families on your own.

NOTE: The exercise files included in this course are compatible with Revit 2017 only. We will add 2016-compatible files soon.
Topics include:

Working with family parameters
Creating a standard cover
Creating chair rails, baseboards, and crown moulding profiles
Working with in-place families
Creating doors and hardware
Creating wall cabinets
Creating interior shelving
Linking family parameters
Creating parametric arrays
Creating massing
Building adaptive components