Revit 2019 Manager Tutorial Topic

• Standard File locations and setup
• Audit Process and Upgrades
• Best Practices for Creating Families
• Revit Drafting basics

#RevitTopic

How do you standardize standard families? We’ll talk file location, naming and best practices. What about the upcoming move to 2009? Did you plan ahead?

4.1.1.1 Revit standard templates, How to manage Revit File Nameing Convention; all these BIM Managers questions are addressed.

Topics

• Standard File locations and setup
• Audit Process and Upgrades
• Best Practices for Creating Families

4.2 Standard File Locations and Setup

4.2.1 Family Content Folders

4.2.1.1 Who has access

• Creation
• Modify the Family
• Create new types

4.3 Audit Process and Upgrades

4.3.1 Audit Process – Increasing your Standard Library

4.3.1.1 Checking for

• Usefulness
• Parameters
• File size (save as)

4.4 Best Practices for Creating Families

4.4.1 Training

1. Basic – Family types
2. Advance – basic creation / updates
3. Expert – formulas and trouble shooting

4.4.2 Who can Create Families

• BIM Manager, Project Manager, Senior Drafter
• One v. Many debate
• The “Family Person”

4.4.3 Issues

• Categories
• Subcategories (big issue)
• The “rabbit hole”

4.4.4 2D – 3D Toilette Setting up for Speed

• Settings Options File Locations

4.5 Family Content Folders

4.5.1 3 Mandatory & 2 Optional Content Folders

Breaking this down into in-house content and external content

4.5.1.1 In-House Content