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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 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 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

  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.