Essentials of Revit Families, Updated for 2013

This book is updated for Revit 2013 and provides basic essential knowledge that you need to quickly begin making Revit Families. This will assist both the beginner and intermediate Revit user in creating your own unique custom Families. After we explore the building of simple 3d component Models we will look at how to manage the more complex Revit Families using Parameters to create nested Family Types, and using Arrays and Formulas to build even more diverse Families. We also take an exploratory dive into building Revit MEP families, using the new categories and connectors. Best practices will be explored. Although Revit Families allows some very powerful parameters to be built some of these practices may slow and burden a large Model file. We will advise you of these trade-offs. Sometimes, just because you can do something spectacular does not mean you should do this at the ultimate expense of your Model’s performance. We will also provide detailed guides into the procedures of trouble shooting problems in Revit Families.