*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 [...]
Adding Parameters to Revit 3D Family
December 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Creating a Simple Table Family
December 21, 2009 By 6 Comments
This time we will continue learning how to create Revit families. We have created a 2D profile in these posts: Creating Profile: Creating a simple 2D profile that can be used in many Revit families definition. Creating Profile Parameters: Adding parameters to add more controls for the 2D profile family. This will allow us to [...]
Creating Profile Parameters
December 15, 2009 By 4 Comments
In previous Revit Family tutorial, we created a simple profile for our wall sweep. For 2D profile, in most cases, that’s all we need. But sometimes we need the same profile geometry, but in different sizes. Revit Family and Family Types Remember when we can select different door sizes? The Revit project template by default [...]
Creating Profile Family
December 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment
We are going to discuss about creating our own Revit families. As a start, we are going to create 2D family: profile. Profile is used in many other Revit families. We use profiles to create roof edges, floor slab edges, sweeps and reveals, mullions, stair nosing, and railings. It’s a basic stuff, but you will [...]
Placing Curtain Wall
December 7, 2009 By 9 Comments
Curtain wall in Revit basically is a wall. It just use a different family type. Revit Architecture already has 3 curtain wall types. You can find them in type selector, after activating wall tool. The curtain wall type is a curtain wall with single panel. We need to define the grids and the mullions after [...]
E-book: Revit Architecture 2010: Your First Residential Design
December 1, 2009 By 11 Comments
Learning Revit Architecture may be confusing. You may don’t know where to start and what to do. This e-book provides you step-by-step tutorial, from the concept, interface, and building a model from scratch. Until the documentation is ready to plot. What are you going to learn in this e-book? Understand the Revit concept Knowing the [...]
Vertical Compound Wall
November 30, 2009 By 5 Comments
We have defined the wall structure horizontally. Now we are going to make another wall type that define how is the wall defined vertically. Activate wall tool. We are going to make some modification to wall type we created in this tutorial. We are going to make a different type of wall for them. With [...]
