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Autodesk Revit

03 - Family Creation (2015)

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Family Creation Tutorial - Sample Table

You can follow the tasks and steps in this process to create a coffee table for a project. The following tasks will guide you through creating the skeleton of the family, adding geometry, and finally adding parameters to control the geometry and create a parametric coffee table family.

To help you understand some concepts better, view the classes on:
Family Creation for Beginners
Family Creation with Simple Parameters
Non-parametric families

This process will guide the user through the tasks and steps necessary to create the geometry and apply materials for a non-parametric Revit family.

To help you understand some concepts better, view the class : Family Creation for Beginners

You can also follow all the tasks and steps in the 4.0 – Family Creation Tutorial – Sample Table process if you are not familiar with the creation of Revit families.

Note: As best practice, it is always recommended that you start your family creation processes by reviewing existing families in your project or corporate library. And, if possible, start from a copy of them. Otherwise, select a template that provides you with as many presets and guides as possible. For example, if your family needs to be hosted by a ceiling, select a ceiling based template. Or, if needs to be hosted by a wall, select a wall based family.
Parametric Families

This process will guide the user through the tasks and steps necessary to create the geometry, create and add parameters to the family, and apply materials to create a Revit family with multiple types and parametric behavior.

To help you understand some concepts better, view the classes:
Family Creation with Simple Parameters.
Using Equations and Expressions in Family Paramet
Creating and Using Shared Parameters in Families

You can also follow all the tasks and steps in the 4.0 – Family Creation Tutorial – Sample Table process if you are not familiar with the creation of Revit families.

Note: As best practice, it is always recommended that you start your family creation processes by reviewing existing families in your project or corporate library. And, if possible, start from a copy of them. Otherwise, select a template that provides you with as many presets and guides as possible. For example, if your family needs to be hosted by a ceiling, select a ceiling based template. Or, if needs to be hosted by a wall, select a wall based family.
Forms Toolbox

Use the tasks and steps in this process to understand the use of several of the form creation tools found in the Revit Family Editor environment. You can copy these task and steps to customize your own family creation processes.

To help you understand some concepts better, view the classes on:
Family Creation for Beginners
Family Creation with Simple Parameters
Creating a Hosted Family

You can also follow all the tasks and steps in the 4.0 – Family Creation Tutorial – Sample Table process if you are not familiar with the creation of Revit families.