Learning Revit Architecture 2010

Lesson 13 | Working with Component Families

This lesson describes how to work with component families in a project. You begin the lesson by learning about component families and the steps in the process of adding components. Next, you learn about modifying component families and the steps to create and modify these families. The lesson concludes with some recommended practices to add and modify component families, followed by an exercise on loading component families and adding components in a project.

A component family groups elements with a common set of parameters, identical use, and similar graphical representation. Any modifications that you make to the parameters of a component family are automatically reflected in every element of that ...