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  • Family Creation Fundamentals Course

    Family Creation Fundamentals

    (Video Play Time: 55 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 55 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    This course will help you understand the fundamental concepts, skills, and tools needed to create your own families.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course helps you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Understanding the Family Editor environment

    · Best practices

    · Creating form geometry

    · Working with reference planes

    · Adding parameters

    · Creating family types

    · Controlling element visibility

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should complete one of the following learning paths:

    · Revit Architecture Fundamentals

    · Revit MEP Fundamentals

    · Revit Structure Fundamentals

     

    Learning Path Progress

    · Family Creation Fundamentals

    · Family Creation Advanced

     

    AIA (USA) Accredited Course

    Eagle Point Software AIA CE Provider Number 404109445.

    FamilyCF – Earn 1 AIA (USA) LU. This course is eligible for AIA Continuing Education Credits. 

     

    AIA (USA) Course Prerequisites

    ​Prerequisite Knowledge:Revit Architectural Fundamentals, Revit MEP Fundamentals, and Revit Structural Fundamentals.

    Learning Objective 1: Understand the Family Editor Environment.

    Learning Objective 2: Understand the Best Practices in Family Creation.

    Learning Objective 3: Learn How to Create Form Geometry.

    Learning Objective 4​: Learn How to Work with Reference Planes.

    Learning Objective 5: Learn How to Add Parameters.

    Learning Objective 6: Learn How to Create Family Types.

    Learning Objective 7: Learn How to Control Element Visibility.

     

    CanBIM (Building Transformation) Accredited Course

    Family Creation Fundamentals

     

    TIPS:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

  • Family Creation Advanced Course

    Family Creation Advanced Course

    (Video Play Time: 1 hour 45 minutes)

    (Estimated Exercise Time: 2 hours 55 minutes)

    (Estimated Quiz Time: 35 minutes)

    (Minimum Course Duration: 5 hours 15 minutes)

     

    Course Description

    This course will help you understand tools and techniques to create more complex and different categories of Revit families.

     

    Course Objectives

    The material presented in this course helps you gain an understanding of the following topics:

    · Common and discipline-specific built-in family parameters

    · Creation of family parameters

    · Family parameter types

    · Working with nested and shared families

    · Working with family formulas

    · Using If statements for family parameters

    · Using Boolean operators in family parameters

    · Employing reporting parameters

    · Creating type catalogs

    · Creating and working with lookup tables

    · Understanding and placing MEP connectors

    · Creating parametric arrays

    · Adding controls to families

    · Adding symbolic linework, regions and detail components to families

    · Creating Generic Annotation families

     

    Course Prerequisites

    To participate in this training course, you should complete one of the following learning paths:

    · Revit Architecture Fundamentals

    · Revit MEP Fundamentals

    · Revit Structure Fundamentals

     

    Learning Path Progress

    · Family Creation Fundamentals

    · Family Creation Advanced

     

    AIA (USA) Accredited Course

    Eagle Point Software AIA CE Provider Number 404109445.

    FamilyCA – Earn 1 AIA (USA) LU. This course is eligible for AIA Continuing Education Credits. 

     

    AIA (USA) Course Prerequisites

    ​Prerequisite Knowledge: Understanding of Revit Architectural Fundamentals, Revit MEP Fundamentals, and Revit Structure Fundamentals.

    Learning Objective 1: Learn common and discipline-specific built-in family parameters.

    Learning Objective 2: Understand creation of family parameters.

    Learning Objective 3: Understand family parameter types.

    Learning Objective 4​: Learn how to work with nested and shared families.

    Learning Objective 5: Learn how to work with family formulas.

    Learning Objective 6: Learn how to use IF statements for family parameters.

    Learning Objective 7: Learn how to use Boolean operators in family parameters.

    Learning Objective 8: Learn how to employ reporting parameters.

    Learning Objective 9: Learn how to create type catalogs.

    Learning Objective 10: Learn how to create and work with lookup tables.

    Learning Objective 11: Understand and place MEP connectors.

    Learning Objective 12: Learn how to create parametric arrays.

    Learning Objective 13: Learn how to add controls to families.

    Learning Objective 14: Learn how to add symbolic linework, regions and detail components to families.

    Learning Objective 15: Learn how to create Generic Annotation families.

     

    CanBIM (Building Transformations) Accredited Course

    Family Creation Advanced Course

     

    TIPS:

    · Turn off your phone, close your email, text and social media apps.

    · Plug headphones or ear buds to your computer.

    · Go Full Screen when watching videos.

     

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