Course description
Revit families and content creation, 2-day, training course. Teaching techniques and best practices for creating dynamic and flexible families and content that can be used in all Revit working environments.
The ability to create families and intelligent parametric content for use in your Revit models helps you realise extensive productivity improvements. This course teaches everything you need to know to begin creating your own Revit families and content.
The techniques you learn cover the basics of family and content creation within Revit, from profile and simple families through to nested fully parametric objects.They are relevant to all environments, whether you’re using Revit for Architecture, Structures or MEP. (To create content to use in an MEP environment you must use full Revit, not Revit LT.)
Armada is a long-standing Autodesk-authorised Training Centre (ATC), accredited to provide training in Revit. Courses are hosted by Autodesk Certified Instructors (ACIs) with vast experience of using Revit professionally.
Training is designed for the busy professional, being fast-paced and intensive. The tuition combines lecture, demonstration and practical exercises carried out under guidance. It goes beyond a basic ‘how to’ approach, offering best practice advice. Delegates have ample opportunity to discuss their specific requirements and issues with the trainer.
Upcoming start dates
Course Content
This course typically covers the following topics:
The Family Editor
- Getting to know the Editor UI
- Differences between the family and project interfaces
Templates
- A guide to selecting the right template
- Family categories
- Hosting
Framework
- Working planes – understanding the different options
- Reference lines or planes?
- Setting dimensions as parameters
- Creating additional parameters
Basic family creation
- Creating 2D and 3D geometry
- Family testing
- Family types
Shared parameters
- Shared parameters vs family parameters vs project parameters
- Tags and labels
Advanced topics
- Materials
- Equations
- Catalog creation
- Family type parameters
MEP and other sources of content
- Loading and using 3D objects from other software
- MEP connections
- Labels
Families and standards
- Background data in families
- COBIE standards
- NBS standards
User-created families
- Supervised practice exercise to create your own families, specific to your needs
Suitability - Who should attend?
Pre-requisites
It is a prerequisite of this course that you have a good working knowledge of Revit, i.e. have attended our Revit Essentials course or have equivalent knowledge through other means.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Delegates receive an e-certificate from Autodesk confirming successful completion of an accredited Revit course.
Course delivery details
The Armada approach to live online Revit training
You participate in the same course as in-class delegates, and we do everything possible to make your experience as close as possible to actually being in the classroom…
- Your course is Autodesk-accredited, hosted by an Autodesk Certified Instructor(ACI) with vast experience of using the application professionally.
- You can see and hear our trainer, the other delegates and our trainer’s screen.
- Our trainer and the other delegates can see you (via your webcam) and hear you.
- We’ll make the course files and resources available to you ahead of the course.
- Your training is hands-on: you’ll practice and carry out exercises throughout.
- If you don’t have access to to Revit, we’ll send you a link to fully-functional trial software that you can download for your course.
- If you need assistance, you can share your screen with our trainer, and pass control to them.
- You’ll receive an e-certificate confirming successful completion of an Autodesk-accredited course.
- You’re entitled to 30 days’ email support from your trainer.
Why choose Armada
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5 locations across UK and live online courses
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