Families and Parameters for Architectural Design
Revit provides a generic library of standard content to support the creation of models at early stages of design. However, as your design progresses, project specific content with specific data will need to be developed and managed. This course will provide the required skills to understand and build your own content.
After completing this course, you'll be able to:
- Create Revit families, categories, Revit family templates, and custom family templates.
- Create reference planes and assign properties.
- Define parameter types and uses.
- Create instance and type parameters.
- Create, edit, and manage shared parameters.
- Use solid and void geometry to create 3D families.
- Create profiles and understand where profiles can be used.
- Use sweeps and blends for complex shape modeling.
- Create 2D symbolic details with detail components.
- Develop a door family with nested 3D and 2D components.
- Create a parametric bookshelf controlled by formulae.
- Create and place custom tags.
- Create in-place families.
Course modules
Discover what you'll learn in this course and download the software and resources you need.
Learn what various types of families are available, what they are used for, and how family templates can accelerate the creation of families.
Learn to create custom parameters for a project and for any element or component category in the project.
Solid and void extrusions are created in Revit from various geometric shapes, and you use the Family Editor tools to produce the required family geometry. Additionally, profiles are added to define and edit the shape of 3D geometry.
Families that are specific to architecture include doors, furniture, ceiling partitions, and 2D detail components.
Now that you've completed the learning material in this course, you can take the challenge exercise to measure your skills on the topics covered in this course.
Ready to test your knowledge? Pass this required test with a score of 75% or more to complete the course and earn a certificate of completion
Instructor resources
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