CAD Tutorials and Best Practices for professionals and students
Sketching in Revit is quite different with drafting in AutoCAD. It can be very tricky. In this article, we will explore some tricks we can use for sketching. There are many tools that require you to create sketch: railing path, floor boundary, ceiling, detailing and drafting, creating families, etc. You need to sketch! In this [...]
I had this question a few days ago: can we add tags to Revit walls? This question come up because the user always automatically tag his doors and windows. Door tags can be placed automatically during door placement. But not for walls. For many type of objects, we need to add tags manually. You can [...]
Sometimes we get a Revit project file, and see some interesting Revit families in the project. Can we save it to our family library folder and use it for our future project? Yes. Open your Revit project. Using Revit Menu You can click on Revit menu> save as> library> family. Revit will open a save [...]
Let us continue to explore creating our own Revit family further. We have created families with parameters. All of the parameters are type properties. What is instance properties? Let’s take a look this wall instance properties. Instance properties define how a single object is placed in Revit. An object in an instance. They only control [...]
Using shortcut is always favorite way to speed up when working with applications. Including when working with Revit. Since now Revit is using ribbon, we can use ribbon shortcuts. You can see that even ribbon shortcut is cool, it requires us to press more buttons. We can use shortcuts for most Revit tools with ribbon, [...]
Before we continue, let’s review what we have learned in Revit family tutorial: We have created a simple profile and use it for creating wall sweep. We added parameters and create several family types. We created a very simple 3D table using solid extrusion and blend. We added parameters to the simple table. We created [...]
*This article is updated on Jan 11 to fix some error. There is some error that I found when creating the railing assembly. Please read this again, especially when creating reference planes. You can download the file (download link at the end of this post) and compare them. We have created a very simple table [...]
