A few days ago I gave a talk at the BIM Show Live in London. The title of my talk was Considerations on Family Creation. It was an update to a talk I gave this past summer at the LRUG (London Revit User Group) about key areas to review and define when creating or managing a Revit family library.
The Death of the Family Types
As most Revit users know, a family that has types can be created in one of two ways: you can create the types within the family (which I’ll call “built-in” here) or you can create the types in an external txt file called a type catalog. For quite some time now, I have been pondering over the use and future of built-in family types. The more families I do, the more built-in family types just don’t seem like the right way to go. They feel more like a shortcut.
Shared Parameter Standards Part 2 – What’s a Manufacturer to Do?
There are a number of standards offering a list of shared parameters for manufacturers to make use of when developing families for their products. But which standard should a manufacturer follow? I will argue that none should be followed, but that all should be taken into account.
Offset Parameters for Plan Symbols – Part 3
This is an update to the two previous eponymous posts that adds a small but elegant improvement. The idea comes entirely from Bryan Caudill, Electrical CAD / Revit Leader at Cannon Design.
Knauf Walls Pack Now Available
Today we launched a new content pack – the Knauf Walls pack! The content itself is the creation of Paul Woddy, who many of you probably know from RevitGuru.com. I’ve known Paul for a number of years now, and am excited to be teaming up with him to share this pack with the world.
Shared Parameter Standards – Part 1
Revit adoption keeps on growing. There is no denying the benefits of having an integrated project model that holds all related information. But as more and more companies move from using Revit solely for coordination to using it as a project tool encompassing all disciplines, the level of information management required from the application continues to grow as well.
Offset Parameters for Plan Symbols – Part 2
This is a follow-up to a previous post about creating an offset parameter to shift a symbol up or down when faced with overlapping symbols in plan view. In the comments, both Jay and Julian mentioned that offsetting the symbols left and right would be preferable to just having the symbols offset vertically. To do this, we only need to make a minor change to the nested family containing the symbol, which will give us the result shown here.
Revit Structure 2012 UK Localisation Issues
I mentioned in a post last week about Alan Wooldridge’s request for help in getting Revit Structure 2012 UK localisation back into the package. Scott Grant, from Excitech, has tweeted about a fix involving “a quick W7 registry edit”. He warns that a reinstall will be needed.