From the course: Learning Revit Families
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Creating a generic family - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Learning Revit Families
Creating a generic family
In this lesson, we're going to create a generic Family, which is going to be fully parametric. It's going to consist of a stile to go into a stile and rail system, or it's basically a stick of wood. Sometimes a Family needs another smaller Family to function properly. In our case, it's good to have an entire component that we can bring into our Family to perform functions, such as a Layer Copy. Also, as you can see with other Families such as Profiles, they make our day to day modeling much easier. So, I want to create a stick of wood. Under Families, let's go to New. Scroll down till we find Generic Model. 'About as basic as we're going to get. Click Open. What I'd like to do is create a few reference planes, of course, so let's right-click on this Reference Plane, let's Create Similar. On the Draw panel, let's click on the Pick Lines button. For our Offset let's type in three feet. Hit Escape a…
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