From the course: Revit: Parametric Curvature in the Family Editor

What you should know before watching this course - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit: Parametric Curvature in the Family Editor

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What you should know before watching this course

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- [Paul] Before we start, let's just take a moment to talk about some of the skills you should maybe know before you start this course. Now, you're welcome to dive right in and start learning right away, but I'm assuming that before you start this course that you at least have some foundational skills in the Revit software. So if you've never used Revit before, and this is you're first time, then I might recommend that you go to some of our other courses here in the library and start there first. So for example, I've got my Essential Training course here on screen, and there are several core topics in the first several chapters that would at least give you a familiarity with the overall concepts of how Revit functions and the basic skills required to be successful in Revit. Now, if you've used the family edit already and you've already created family content, then you're ready to go. You can drive right into this course and you should be just fine. If you've never created any Revit family content before and never been in the family editor, then we have several courses in the library that could help you with that too. And I have my family editor introductory course here, and the first few chapters would certainly be of help explaining to you how basic model families work, family geometry, reference planes, that kind of thing. So if you have some basic exposure to those key concepts, I think that'll go a long way toward making the content of this course feel a little bit more comfortable to you. Now, if you don't use mathematical formulas or any kind of higher math in your everyday job, then some of the math that we're going to talk about in this course might also be a little rusty for you. So we're going to definitely be looking at some higher formulas and some trigonometry. Now, I am not using math in my everyday job, and I'm not an expert mathematician. So what I do when I need to figure some of these things out for my own work, when I'm creating one of these complex families in Revit, is I just pull out pad and paper and I start making sketches. And I do lots of lots of drawings, and scribble notes all over them until I reason out the problem, and I figure out what it is that I need to do. And then I convert that to Revit format. So for the exercises in this course, I'm going to outline all of that for you. You'll see exactly how I figured it out, and I'll explain everything. But when you want to embark on doing a similar problem in your own work, then just have a pad and paper handy, nearby so that you can pull it out and jot down some notes and try some things out. And don't be afraid to do some trial and error right inside of Revit, the worst that happens is that you just have to save as and start again.

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