TABLE OF CONTENTS In this chapter, we ll dig into customizing the Revit system families. Knowing how to leverage the adaptability of the system families by using type catalogs, view templates, and other global project settings can save you headaches early in the design process. In addition, the documentation process will be a lot easier because the assemblies are created correctly from inception.
You ll learn to do the following:
Create new types in the Family Editor for common building components such as walls, floors, ceilings, roofs, and stairs
Create type catalogs to quickly generate many types of the same family
Create view templates for specific requirements
Walls are made from layers of materials that represent the construction materials used to build real walls. In Revit, these layers can be assigned functional values, allowing them to join and react to other layers in the model when walls, floors, and roofs meet. Each wall has at minimum a core, and then you have the option to add additional layers of material to the core to create the wall. These layers can be added inside the core or placed outside the core. As you ll see, this special wall core layer is a powerful element, and understanding it is essential to mastering Revit.
A wall core is much more than a layer of material. The core influences the behavior of the wall and how the wall interacts with other elements in the model such as floors or roofs, etc. Every wall...
