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Editing and creating family types - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Revit 2024: Essential Training for Architecture
Editing and creating family types
- [Instructor] In this video we're going to discuss family types. Now, if you think about the hierarchy of elements in Revit that we talked about earlier in the course, every element has a category, it has a family, and it has a type. So we've been working on a pool table family here in this chapter so far, and the category for our pool table is furniture. And then the pool table version one is the current incarnation of our family. But so far, this family doesn't have any types. So let's discuss that a little bit, and then talk about how to create some types. So let's consider some of the out of the box families you might be familiar with, like this Corbu chair right here. If you have this chair, you may have noticed that when you select it and look on the properties pallet, that there is only one entry beneath the family and it has the same name as the family itself. So it's going to say chair Corbu twice essentially.…
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Families4m 48s
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Creating a new family from a template7m 10s
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Managing saved views3m 49s
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Using reference planes, parameters, and constraints6m 51s
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Editing and creating family types5m 9s
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Adding solid geometry: Extrusions7m 49s
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Adding solid geometry: Sweeps6m 31s
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Cutting holes using void geometry5m 17s
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Adding solid geometry: Blends7m 19s
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Completing the family9m 4s
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