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Username: Mike Kelly Book: Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012 Essentials: AUTODESK OFFICIAL TRAINING GUIDE. No part of any chapter or book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means without the prior written permission for reprints and excerpts from the publisher of the book or chapter. Redistribution or other use that violates the fair use privilege under U.S. copyright laws (see 17 USC107) or that otherwise violates these Terms of Service is strictly prohibited. Violators will be prosecuted to the full extent of U.S. Federal and Massachusetts laws.

CHAPTER 6 Adding Families


Revit includes quite a few family categories. Becoming familiar with the various categories will help you develop the right lexicon of terms and understanding. There are families in the project environment (system families) like Walls, Floors, and Roofsbasically anything that is defined and created directly in the project. But there are other families created outside the project in the Family Editor. These are referred to as component families. In this chapter, we'll be dealing only with component families. In this chapter, you learn the following skills: Understanding different family types Loading families Placing families

Understanding Different Family Types


There are various family types and many behave somewhat similarly. In some cases you can change the family definition from one category to another. But in other cases, the behavior is unique to a family, and families can't be changed to another category. There are only two important things to remember. First, schedules are based on family categories. So when you create a schedule, you'll be scheduling inside a single category as shown in Figure 6.1. FIGURE 6.1 Schedule categories

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Second, you load families into your project based on their category. The Revit library is organized into real-world categories, so even if you've never used Revit before today, finding the right content (or at least a good placeholder during design iteration) should be straightforward (Figure 6.2). FIGURE 6.2 Loading families by category

Now let's discuss some of the family categories in Revit. We're not going to do this alphabetically (as shown in the list in Figure 6.2). We'll progress with regard to how things behave and whether they're one-, two-, or three-dimensional.

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