From the course: Revit Architecture: Family Editor (Imperial and Metric)

What you should know - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit Architecture: Family Editor (Imperial and Metric)

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What you should know

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- [Instructor] There's a few things you should know before starting this course. If you have access to the exercise files then I've provided the files that I'm going to be using in the course and you can download them and follow along in those same files. Now I've placed them in a folder called exercise files and placed it on my desktop. And when you open that there is a folder for most chapters within the course. If you look in the chapter folders they contain a variety of different file types so on the view tab here I have turned on file extensions and you can see that the exercise files include RFA files or Revit Families. They include RFT files or Revit Family Templates and in some cases they include RVT files and those are Autodesk Revit Projects. Now the Revit Family Templates are the out of the box provided templates that you should already have installed with the software, I've just provided copies of those for your convenience in the exercise files folder whenever I refer to them. The project files are just testing files and sandbox files for us to load our family content into. Most of the work is going to take place in these RFA files, the Revit Family files and as you can see in many of the chapters there will be several versions A, B, C, D and so on as we progress through a lesson that occurs across several videos. Now at the root of exercise files I've also got a finished files folder, this folder contains the same chapter folders again and contains completed versions of many of the files that we will walk through together in the course. So the one's that say the letters FIN at the end are usually the finished version now you can open those files and compare them to your own progress if you wish. Now one last point I want to make is about units. I've tried really hard to present the course in as unit-less a fashion as possible. I understand that some of you might be working in imperial units while others might be working in metric units so to try and avoid as much confusion as I can, most of the exercise files have been saved into a decimal format. Now granted they are still in decimal inches so technically the unit is still inches but I'm hoping that by changing the unit format to decimals it will make it a little bit less jarring for those of you working in metric units to have to put in numbers in an imperial file. You always have the option to work in metric and along the way I give you the metric equivalent to numbers that I'm putting in so if you just prefer to work in a metric file you'll notice that in cases where I'm providing the sandbox files, the Revit Project files or where I'm providing the template files, I have actually provided both versions so for example here you'll see there's a metric specialty equipment template and right next to that is the imperial version of the same. Likewise here is a sandbox file that we'll use to open up and load in our family content and I've also provided a metric version with the prefix M. So I hope that helps explain the files that I've provided. If you don't have access to the exercise files you are welcome to use your own assets throughout the course in really any file that you like you could follow along with me and since we're building a lot of the content from scratch you could follow along quite well without any of the provided exercise files at all.

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