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• Family Creation Fundamentals Course

  Family Creation Fundamentals
  (Video Run Time: 45 minutes)
  (Minimum Course Duration: 45 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 Agenda
  Introduction to Family Creation
  Starting a Family
  Creating Extrusions
  Creating Sweeps
  Creating Revolves
  Creating Blends
  Creating Swept Blends
  Working with Void Forms
  Using Reference Planes in Families
  Adding Parameters and Types in a Family
  Managing Family Element Visibility Settings
  Using Visibility Parameters
  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
  Families and Types
  Family Creation Fundamentals
  Family Creation Advanced

  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 Run Time: 95 minutes)
  (Estimated Exercise Time: 175 minutes)
  (Estimated Quiz Time: 35 minutes)
  (Minimum Course Duration: 305 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

  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.