Revit Families and Content Creation Course

Course Summary
Teaches you techniques and best practices for creating dynamic, flexible and data rich families and content within your working environment.

The techniques you learn cover the basics of family and content creation within Revit, from profile and simple families through to nested fully parametric objects.

They are relevant to all disciplines, whether you’re using Revit for Architecture, Structures or MEP.

The training is practical and ‘hands-on’; throughout the course you create your own content that you can take away and use on your net Revit project.

who should attend?

This course is ideal for anyone who wants to get to grips with the fundamentals of family and content creation with Revit.

Typical delegates include:

• Design professionals
• Managers who wish to improve the workflow of interdisciplinary projects
• Manufacturers who want to encourage use of their products.

Delegates should have basic understanding of construction techniques.  You do not necessarily need to have any existing Revit experience.

Courseware and Certificate

Delegates receive:

• A comprehensive training guide for Revit families and content creation
• An e-certificate from autodesk confirmning attendance on an accredited Revit course

Course Syllabus

The Family Editor
Getting to know the Editor UI
Differences between the family and project interfaces

Templates
A guide to selecting the right template
Family categories
Hosting

Framework
Working planes – understanding the different options
Reference lines or planes?
Setting dimensions as parameters
Creating additional parameters

Basic family creation
Creating 2D and 3D geometry
family testing
family types

Shared parameters
Shared parameters vs family parameters vs project parameters
Tags and labels

Advanced topics
Materials
Equations
Catalog creation
Family type parameters

MEP and other sources of content
Loading and using 3D objects from other software
MEP connections
Lables

Families and standards
Background data in families
COBIE standards
NBS standards

User-created families
Supervised practice exercise to create your own families, specific to your needs

Cost: £550 + VAT

Duration: 2 Days

Revit Training  Scotland,  Inverness, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dunfermline and other sites throughout the UK including onsite closed company courses are available.