Creating Revit Family Content

Rewritten for Revit 2009, This is a learning guide to teach the basic steps for building Revit Families. After becoming productive with Revit the first question that arises is "how to create a family?". Through this is a straightforward question many trainers and textbooks steer wide or gives it only a close brush. Finally comes a clear concise step by step guide to creating your first simple Revit Families! The book begins by explaining the concept of Revit Familes. Exploring their Form, Structure and Purpose. We then explore creating Solid 3D Extrusions with Blends and Sweeps used to build the Components and Model 3D Elements. We then explore adding Parameters for both Instance and Type Families thus adding intelligence and versitity to the Family. We then approach adding Family Types to the Revit Type Selector in the Project. This is a quick, painless and easy way to take the first steps in becoming proficient with Revit Family Creation. More advanced techniques are available in my books Revit Family Creation 2010 and Essentials of Revit Families 2011.