Family Jewels - Creating Quality BIM Content

How to Employ Type Catalogs for Revit Families - from Revit Clinic

Harlan Brumm dropped me a line today about their latest post (by Harlan Brumm & Steve Campbell) on how to employ type catalogs for Revit families.

I have added a link to Revit Clinic under Favorite Blogs - have a look. 

Harlan said "With a little help from Steve Campbell, I published a post today talking a little bit about Type Catalogs."

Thanks Harlan & Steve!

Feedback on Revit Family Jewels Videos

Hey all,

A couple of you have mentioned that YouTube is blocked at your place of employment, so I have added (and will continue to include) an additional link at the bottom of each video so they play native to the Typepad environment. There was also some feedback about the poor fidelity of the first two videos, so I got some tips on how to improve the recording and production phases. Let me know if the Autodesk's BIG Family Seekret video and subsequent videos are better for you.

Happy Reviting!

William

Revit Family Pre-Basics Video - Autodesk's BIG Family "Seekret"

More and more frequently in my travels & conversations, I hear users lament that from one family to the next - from one manufacturer to the next, the naming conventions (thought up) are different for the same parameter or piece of equipment, even though in reality, they're all referring to the same entity. What this incurs for the user is the inability to schedule by a single name or ID. So then the user has to go back into each diverse family and edit them to insure like entities have the same name. So I get asked a lot if there is documentation on conventions or some kind of standard for parameter names in Revit families. Well there sure is, but it's a BIG Seekret. However, just for my blog followers, I put links to them on the Family Guides page on this very blog. Let's have a look and see in this video how these guides help us create families, and keep them all standardized. (Be sure to select 720p HD view resolution for best viewing fidelity.)

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Pipe break & Duct break Symbols

Had these on my computer, but cannot recall where I found them. Here you go!!

Download Detail Break Pipe

Download Detail Break Duct 

Note:

These two downloads have been removed until I have time to review them and either delete them permanently, or put them back after I have determined they're suitable for this site and it's users. Please see my comment in the Comments section below.

Revit Family Basics Videos

Hey all,

I finally got a chance to start creating some videos on the very basics of Revit Family creation. The first video Revit Family Basics #1 is for anyone who is just starting out and you need to know which template file to begin with, or you need to know where you are in the Revit family editor, how to save families, load them into a project, etc. I will be following this video up with others as I can make time to make them. Please feel free to add your comments so I can tailor these to meet your needs and implement any ideas you may have.

Thanks,
Wm

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Revit Family Basics #2 - Here's a case of an over detailed piece of Revit content that we can pretty quickly pare down and rebuild in Revit using model lines to depict the details that were originally modeled instead of just drawn with model or symbolic lines. This is a video you will want to point your manufacturers and vendors to so they can start to understand Revit designers HATE geometrically over-detailed content. We like simple looking content that is Informationally robust. Make the link to the content pretty & fancy, and make the content simple but accurate, and you (manufacturer) will be designed in!!  

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