Revit families are an incredible feature, offering libraries of ready-made objects that can be used in CAD drawings or customized to fit any project. Families can also be modeled from scratch and shared with colleagues and clients. In this course, Eric Wing dives into Revit MEP families, a specific family type for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) design. Eric shows how to model MEP families on a topic-by-topic basis, so you can learn the ins and outs of family creation while modeling exactly what you need for your drawings. He starts by reviewing the basics: parameters, connectors, dimensions, and various family modeling techniques, then investigates specific parts and systems that can be created with Revit families: electrical panels and junction boxes, recessed and track lighting, HVAC systems with ducting and air terminals, and pipe systems. Along the way, he introduces the reference planes, parameters, shapes, and hosting options necessary to build families on your own.

Learn how to use Revit families to model electrical panels and junction boxes, recessed and track lighting, HVAC systems with ducting and air terminals, and pipe systems.

Learn how to migrate your AutoCAD standards into your Revit projects quickly and effectively.

Learn about building information modeling (BIM) best practices for a collaborative Revit project workflow.

Learn how to design multifamily housing, including apartment buildings and duplexes, in Revit.

As the building information modeling (BIM) methodology and philosophy becomes more widely used in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), it's become increasingly important to grasp how to incorporate BIM into your workflows. In this course, learn the fundamentals of the BIM philosophy, how it fits into industry usage and government strategies, and how to use Autodesk Revit to optimize CAD workflows that relate to BIM. Instructor Shaun Bryant shares practical strategies and best practices to help you grasp essential BIM concepts, as well as how to most efficiently work with CAD drawings in Revit, set up worksharing to facilitate easy collaboration, use sheets in Revit, create schedules, publish your project, and more.

Tame unruly parametric curves. Learn how to control the curvature of nonrectilinear geometry such as circles, arcs, arches, splines, and complex curves like cyma moldings.

Learn how to create custom furniture for your BIM models using Revit families and templates.

Phasing in Autodesk Revit allows you to show the complete life cycle of a project, such as a before and after or existing and proposed status, while design options allow you to save multiple iterations of a concept in a single project file. In this course, Paul F. Aubin shows how to use phasing and design options to organize multipart, multifaceted projects in Revit. The course also covers adding and assigning phases to views, scheduling phases and designating future work, working with design option sets, and presenting complex designs to clients.

Learn how to use the tools of Revit for managing design options to quickly convey your design ideas to clients.

Learn how to create permit-ready interior plans for commercial office spaces with Revit.

Learn how to generate high-quality output directly from Revit, and create photorealistic renders for presentations and visualizations.

Learn how to design sprinkler piping and systems in Revit. Explore features, tools, and techniques that can help you perfect your sprinkler designs using this powerful BIM software.

Learn about performing a structural analysis of a design using Autodesk Revit within a Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflow.

Learn how to create custom structural families in Revit 2016.

Learn how to create custom structural families in Revit 2020, including foundations, framing, and trusses.

Get a new tip, trick, or troubleshooting technique for Revit every Tuesday. This weekly series offers workflow enhancements, customizations, and shortcuts for every Revit user.

Twinmotion is a real-time visualization tool for the AEC and product design world that enables photo-realistic renders for a variety of platforms. In this course, multidisciplinary designer Jonathan Racek shows you the workflow between Twinmotion and Revit. Jonathan explains how Twinmotion can improve your workflow, then shows you how to get started with the Gizmo, the Scenegraph, and the Library. He steps through how to sync your Revit file and add materials and furniture in Twinmotion. Jonathan covers environments, including tools you can use to add vegetation, then goes into weather functions, nighttime renders, and more. He concludes with useful information on how to export your images and animations and how to share your work with the Presenter tool.

Note: This course was created by Jonathan Racek. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Join Brian Myers as he takes you through the process of incorporating point clouds into your Revit projects.

Learn how to adjust view range properties (Top, Cut Plane, Bottom, and View Depth) in Revit to control exactly how your roof, ceiling, and foundation plans display.