Understanding family hosting - Revit Tutorial

- [Instructor] Before we get started with actually doing any creating any modelings or components. We need to first understand how those components work. So there's a few different types of components out there. There's a hosted component and a non hosted component. Your hosted components go in these different things. So you have a floor hosted component. Which means you must have a floor in place in your model before you can take that component and place it on top of it, a wall hosted component which is the same thing you must have a wall in place inside of your model before you can host that component on to that wall. So in other words it gets hung onto that wall, and then you also have which I do not have that view up right now a ceiling hosted component which is the same thing you must have a ceiling in your model before you can place that item onto the ceiling. A lot of times this has to do with light fixtures, ceiling fans, different items that get hung from the ceiling. Those are not the only type of hosted components but those are the main ones, and then you have just the main type of component itself which can actually be hosted on any reference plain or even floating in space. It's best though to try to use the right type of component for the different hostings or different uses that your using. So in other words let me make this a little bit simpler. You could have a base cabinet which actually sits on the floor. So instead of it going onto the wall it's going to be hosted on the floor. Before I can get started in placing my components into the model. I like to create different views that I can use where I can see my reference plains a little bit better. One of those is an interior elevation. So I'm actually going to go up to view and inside of view I'm going to click on elevation. Now, when you open up elevation. There's two different types of elevation that you usually will have as an option. So if you look over here inside of your type selector and you click the drop down there. You have the option of an building elevation and an interior elevation. We are going to do an interior elevation. Then, you are going to then place that interior elevation into your model and the way that it works if you haven't noticed is. When you go to place it inside of an enclosed space it automatically sees what those bounding items are. So it sees where your walls are So, I'm going to click and you see the wall here or the elevation is facing that one wall. Then if you click the circle. Okay? Of that elevation. Not this arrow here but the actual circle of that elevation. It gives you more question marks. Those question marks are actually check boxes and those create the other views. So if I want to see a view pointing towards this wall. I'm going to actually click this check box, same thing here, and same thing here. You'll also notice if you look over here inside of your project browser and you click the plus sign next to interior elevation. That's where those elevations are now. One last thing we want to do to this elevation markers so that it's not so confusing or it's not so much cluttered on your drawing. I'm going to actually hit escape twice to make sure I don't have anything selected. I'm going to click on this browser or this elevation marker and once again I need to hit the circle because that's what I want. I'm going to come over here to my properties box. I'm then going to go to the elevation tag that says half circle. Inside of here you'll notice it says elevation marked body circle filled arrow and view name. We don't want that, we're going to actually click inside of here and click the drop down box and I'm just going to change it to elevation marked body circle filled arrow or some people like to use the square that was actually also an option if you look at the drop down again you also can change it to a square. but I'm going to use the circle because it helps me differentiate between an exterior elevation an interior elevation. I'm going to click okay. I'm going to click okay one more time, and those words disappear. Your elevations didn't disappear just the words so that you didn't have as much clutter inside of your file.