Revit 2019 Manager Tutorial Topic

• Loaded Revit Family Files are loaded into a project
• System Family Types are created in a project
• System Family are part of Template Files
• Edit/New – Duplicate
• Loaded Family Files are different than System Family Content
• File location / Content / Reason
• Using Standard Family Tricks for the Audit Process

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6.1 Yes they are different than “Standard Family”

6.1.1 Differences

• Standard Family = loaded into a project
• System Family = created in a project
• System Family = part of “Template Files”
• Edit/New – Duplicate

6.2 File location / Content / reason

6.2.1 File location

• \ServerBIM StandardsRevit TemplatesSystem Family
• Protected?
• Update process?

6.2.2 Possible Project Names

• Wall Standards - W2P.rvt
• Object Styles Standards - W2P.rvt
• Roofs + Floors Standards.rvt
• View Templates Standards.rvt
• Annotation Standards.rvt
• What about materials?

6.2.3 Reason behind it all

• Separation for easy management
• Audit process
• Material Types

6.3 Using Standard Family & the “Audit Process”

6.3.1 Tools

• Transfer Project Standards
• Copy and Past
• Setting Loc Lines and using Create Similar

6.3.2 Audit Process

• Walls
• Layer function
• Material
• Thickness
• Identity Data

6.4 Upgrading to 10

• All projects should be copied to a 09 folder
• Why
• What about Central Files
• Open the original in 10
• Save to 10 folder structure
• Double check the function
• Time, Time. Time!
• Standard Family
• If you created them, update them, with the same process
• If default 09 content, leave alone
• If default 10 content, use in 10 projects
• Note : Autodesk’s Web Library