Revit Architecture 2008

Autodesk Revit Tutorials, Revit Families, BIM Revit

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Home CHAPTER 1 Intrduction What to expect from BIM Where can you go from here The bottom ine CHAPTER 2 Introduction Working with Revit Parametric Elements The Revit User Interface Using the Project Browser The Bottom Line CHAPTER 3 Introduction Selecting, Changing, and Replacing Elements Editing Elements Interactively Other Useful Tools The Bottom Line CHAPTER 4 Introduction Starting a Project with a Custom Template Settings for Graphic Consistency Creating Custom Annotation Tags Creating Custom Title Blocks Creating a Custom Title Block with the Family Editor The Bottom Line CHAPTER 5 Introduction Wall Types Floor and Roof Types Ceiling Types Door and Window Types Stair Types Types and Type Catalogs Graphic Overrides of Host Objects with Complex Structure Additional Global Project Settings The Bottom Line CHAPTER 6 Introduction Modeling with Revit Principles of Modeling in Revit Where Can You Go From Here? The Bottom Line CHAPTER 7 Introduction Massing Studies The Bottom Line CHAPTER 8 Introduction Conceptual Design and Early Studies The Bottom Line CHAPTER 9 Introduction Revit Design Options The Bottom Line CHAPTER 10 Introduction Modeling Parametric 3D Families Choosing the Right Family Template Types of Families Smart Workflow: Nesting One Family into Another Parametric Arrays in the Family Editor Encoding Design Rules Building a Parametric 3D Family The Bottom Line CHAPTER 11 Introduction Basic Walls: Advanced Modeling Techniques Curtain Walls: Advanced Design Techniques Roofs Roofs and Slabs: Advanced Shape Editing Railings and Fences The Bottom Line CHAPTER 12 Introduction Drawings with Shadows Color-Coded Plans and Sections Elevations That Convey Depth Working with Perspective Views Rendering Creating Animated Walkthroughs Exporting to Other Formats The Bottom Line CHAPTER 13 Introduction Preliminary Design Tools Calculating Areas Schedules Using Schedules for Preliminary Cost Estimates The Bottom Line CHAPTER 14 Introduction Sustainability in Architecture Preliminary Design Tools Tracking Recycled Materials Window Surface Percentage vs. Room Area Energy Analysis The Bottom Line CHAPTER 15 Introduction Annotating Your Views Displaying Information about Rooms Schedule Keys Tags Shared Parameters Text and Keynotes The Bottom Line

Smart Workflow: Nesting One Family into Another

When you open a family in the Family Editor, you can load another family and place instances of it into your host family much as you would do in a project. This powerful feature allows you to manage your content and reuse existing work. For example, consider the workstation family illus-trated in Figure 10.20.
Figure 10.20 Nested families used to create a workstation.
This family is composed of loaded filing cabinets, a desk top, partitions, and a chair. This makes building the family much more manageable and also makes it much easier to place and manipulate the family as a unit when placed in a project. One common example of family nesting is the combination window. Rather than model the entire unit from scratch, you can load and insert existing window components into a base window family. You place the windows just as you would in a project. For example, you can place a fixed-window family in the center and two double-hung windows on either side (Figure 10.21). You can then save the family and load it into a project. The entire assembly acts as one element when placed in the model.
Figure 10.21 One family, created from two nested families
Choosing to use nested families not only saves modeling time but can also simplify your work in the Family Editor. It’s often easier to manipulate and constrain an assembly of extrusions as a nested family than to model the same geometry in the host family. In another example, a bracket for a sunshade is modeled separately and nested into the host sunshade family (Figure 10.22). Two instances of the bracket can now be placed and constrained in the family much more easily than modeling the same elements as separate extrusions. Later in the chapter, we’ll review some pow-erful features that you can use via family nesting.
Figure 10.22 Nesting a bracket into a Sun Shade family (host)
Scheduling Nested Families Linking Parameters Linking Parameters (Conditional Visibility)