Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2012: No Experience Required

Creating a Basic Family

The first item we'll tackle is how to create a basic family. We'll start with the creation of a wall sweep and then move on to creating an arched doorway. As you become fluent with these two basic family types, you will really start to become quite fast at creating families.

You have to start somewhere. To be honest, no good family is “basic,” but some are easier to create than others. The concept is the same, however.

Essentially, a family has three fundamental components:

Reference Planes Yes, reference planes drive the family. Look at these as the family's skeleton.

Constraints Constraints are dimensions with a parameter associated with them to give the skeleton its flexibility.

3D Massing 3D massing is locked to the ...