Revit: Architectural Families

Improve your workflow with Revit families. Learn how to model reusable features such as chair rails and baseboards, doors, cabinets, and shelving with Revit architectural families.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Profiles

• Creating a standard cove
• Creating a chair rail profile
• Creating a baseboard profile
• Creating a crown moulding profile
• In-place families

2. Doors

• Configuring an opening and setting the enviornment
• Creating a door jamb
• Creating a stile and rail door panel
• Creating a glass panel
• Adding casing
• Creating symbolic lines
• Creating hardware
• Configuring visibility settings

3. Wall Cabinets

• Creating a box
• Adding doors
• Adding pulls
• Adding 2D hardware such as hinges
• Visibility states
• Lookup tables

4. Interior Shelving

• Creating a shelving bracket
• Creating a shelf
• Creating bracket standards
• Configuring array parameters
• Linking family parameters
• Creating parametric arrays
• Creating an in-place reception desk
• Setting a visibility contingency
• Configuring and painting materials to an in-place family
• Adding countertops
• Modeling countertop brackets
• Setting global parameters
• Creating massing
• Creating adaptive components

Conclusion

• Next steps