Session 2.2
Lab: Streamline Revit Family Content
Synopsis:
This session will suggest ways to streamline family creation. Either as you create new families, or approach them retroactively by revisiting previously created families, adding parameters, nesting and/or formulas can eliminate the need for multiple families.
This approach will make your family library more dynamic, more efficient, and more robust.
Learning Objectives:
1. Leave with a few thoughts on streamlining family library
2. Understand values for formulas to be positive or negative
3. Gain a better understanding of conditional formulas
Body:
When two or more families have enough similarities, rather than adjust one family to accommodate several conditions, it often seems simpler to duplicate a previously created family and make the necessary changes to make a new family fit the desired additional criteria. Despite this temptation, in the long run it is usually preferable, for several reasons, to create additional parameters, nesting families and/or formulas to the previously created content to achieve the same result, thus eliminating the need for multiple families. Modifying simple families to adapt to more situations will make your family library more dynamic, more efficient, and more robust. Furthermore, reducing the number of families loaded into a Revit project will positively affect project performance. This isn’t limited to 3D content but is also true for profile families and detail item families. Whether you are just starting to create families, or you have been developing an extensive library of Revit content for years, this session will suggest ways to streamline your library, which will intern improve project performance.