Revit Template & Family Creation

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Course Overview

The course provides a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of Template and family creation and introduces some key features that help to set up a more advanced workflow. Students learn how to modify families and to create them from scratch, and also to structure a template so that it is on a professional level.

Course Objectives

After completing this course participants should be able to understand and/or create:

Custom Templates
Schedules
Custom System Families
Component Family Concepts
Advanced Family Techniques
Additional Family Types
Architectural-Specific Families
MEP-Specific Families
Structural-Specific Families

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed to teach Revit Modelers who want to learn more about creating Revit Templates and Families.

Pre-requisites

Computer Literate and working knowledge of Microsoft Windows proficiency
Experience with drafting and design principles
Revit Fundamentals (Architecture, Structural or MEP)

Operating System
Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit

Processor
2.5 GHz Intel® i-Series, Xeon®, or AMD® equivalent

Memory
8GB

Display Card
DirectX 11 compliant 1 GB GPU with 29 GB/s Bandwidth

What's Included

e-Manual

Software Trial

Certificate

Certified Instructor

*Items may differ between courses, contact an agent for details

Qualifications

On completion of the course, you will be presented with an internationally recognized Autodesk Authorized Training Certificate.

Creating Custom Templates

Preparing Project Templates
Managing Settings
Families in Templates
Using Resource Projects
Setting Default Template Files
Customizing Annotation Types
Creating Text Types
Creating Dimension Types
Loading Tags and Symbols
Specifying View Tags
Creating Title Blocks
Adding Labels
Adding Revision Schedules
Adding Sheets to Project Templates
Setting Up View Filters
Adding View Templates

Creating Schedules

Introduction to Schedules
Importing and Exporting Schedules
Creating Building Component Schedules
Fields Tab
Filter Tab
Sorting/Grouping Tab
Formatting Tab
Appearance Tab
Schedule Properties
Filtering Elements from Schedules
Modifying Schedule Appearance
Setting Up Parameter Values
Modifying Columns and Rows
Modifying Titles and Headers
Setting the Appearance
Adding Image Fields and Images
Additional Schedule Types
Creating Key Schedules
Creating Material Take-off Schedules
Advanced Schedule Options
Conditional Formatting
Embedded Schedules
Working with Project Parameters
Creating Fields from Formulas
Combining Parameters
Introduction to Revit Families

Custom System Families

Creating Wall, Roof, Floor, and Ceiling Types
Vertically Compound Walls
Stacked and Embedded Walls
Creating MEP System Families

Component Family Concepts

Creating Component Families
Preparing to Create Families
Saving Custom Family Files
Creating the Parametric Framework
Adding Dimensions and Labels
Flexing Geometry
Creating and Modifying Parameters
Creating Family Elements
Creating 3D Elements
Extrusions
Blends
Revolves
Sweeps
Swept Blends
Aligning and Locking
Creating Family Types
Working with Families in Projects

Advanced Family Techniques

Additional Tools for Families
Adding Controls
Setting Room Calculation Points
Adding Connectors
Adding Openings
Adding Components
Associating Family Parameters
Heat Pump
Practice Sc Modify the Structural Column
Visibility Display Settings
Adding Lines
Creating Masking Regions
Column

Additional Family Types

Creating 2D Families
Creating Detail Items
Creating Profiles
Creating Tags and Symbols
Creating Line-based Families
Family Category and Parameters
Creating In-Place Families
Working with Shared Parameters
Shared Parameters

Creating Architectural-Specific Families

Creating Custom Doors and Windows
Creating Angled Cornices and Coping s
Creating Fascia’s
Creating Custom Railing s
Creating Rail Profiles
Creating Baluster, Post, and Panel Families
Creating Railing Types

Creating MEP-Specific Families

Creating Structural-Specific Families

Students are to be at the training venue by 08h00 in preparation for a 08h30 start time.
Bookings can only be considered confirmation on receipt of payment.
Bookings may be changed up to three weeks in advance of the course. A fee of 20% will be levied to cover charges.
For full day courses, we will supply you with the relevant training material. A desktop computer to use for the training (where
applicable) tea/coffee and a full lunch for full day InClass training hosted at the training center only. Catering is not included for OnSite training
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Revit Template & Family Creation

Course Overview

Course Objectives

Who Should Attend?

Pre-requisites

What's Included

Qualifications

Creating Schedules

Custom System Families

Component Family Concepts

Advanced Family Techniques

Additional Family Types

Creating Architectural-Specific Families

Creating MEP-Specific Families

Creating Structural-Specific Families

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