From the course: Revit: Structural Families

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The anatomy of a family

The anatomy of a family

From the course: Revit: Structural Families

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The anatomy of a family

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- [Instructor] You're going to find out soon enough or you may already know families can be really fickle. I believe there's a certain order in which families should be created. I believe this 'cause I've screwed up hundreds of families until I got the formula down myself. I'd like to just run through the process of creating a family from start to finish. The first thing I'd like to take a look at are going to be reference planes. I believe reference planes are the skeleton of your family. Without them, your family's not going to be very parametric. A well-created family is going to have good, strong reference planes. Next thing I'd like to take a look at are going to be dimensions. So we already have reference planes in. Now we're going to add dimensions to them. Dimensions keep objects in place, and they keep them aligned. As you can see here, we'll have a two-foot square that's equally centered upon our center line…

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