Revit Snippet: Turn ANY Family into Line or Curve Based

This tutorial will show you how to turn any Revit family to a line based or curve based component. We will begin by creating a generic model family based on a straight line. Then, we will take it further and make a curve based family where you can choose any normal Revit family and it will array/copy that component along an arc. You can use the same technique to create spline based families as well.

[omarsaravia]

Thank you so much! I wasted 15min of my life so I could earn hours of work XD of course I used your tutorial with something else and in a different way. Same idea thou. Thanks again!!

[angadtiwari]

To anyone who is facing an issue with there component placement make sure that it is Shared, always vertical is ticked off and it is a workplane-based family.

[joecro]

Hi RV boost, love the vid, but I have a similar problem to others in the comments. When I place the family on the second reference point, I am not given an option to host it on a ref plane as shown in the video. The option simply isn't there.

[vrbaac]

hi, very nice and informative video... just want to know... will this method work with a spline??? thank you

[parsoncalopa]

Hello Sr. Great tutorial there!
I’m working on a theater design right now and is there anyway you can share the adaptive curved family?
I’ve tried it only succeed in the first family, for the second one, I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but I just can’t get the chair to rotate along with the second based point, I’ve tried different chair families but still the same.

[drvlive]

Tried the curved based family on an imported 2D Cad file----but the repeat option is not clickable. I hope there's an another way around to solve this. Thank you!

[thanhhieunguyen]

awesome, This is really handy in arranging auditorium chairs :D, thanks so much

[MegaPacman]

Does it matter what type of family we use for the component we load into the adaptive points family? What type of family was the chair that you used?

[leben]

Great tuto but may i ask a question. For the adaptive chair, why do you use two points (an adaptive and a reference) one over the other. Wouldn't it work only with the adaptive alone?

[conceptsincontext]

I don't know what the problem is, but i followed all the steps you presented but still couldn't rotate the chair. it's really i placed the chair exactly on the point and it refused to rotate 😡😥😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

[apollonzeus]

Can't find the "Placement" tab anywhere. The one in between Mode and Family editor under "Modify | Place Component"

[khanto]

i did exactly everything step by steb , same . Chair does not rotate ( spent whole day doing this ) i did it super slow too but no result .

[hildevarmartins]

Great content... awesome tips and tricks... thx...

[rhandel]

My radius' makes for a lopsided arc. Any suggestions? I would like them to be as symmetrical as possible.

[jessie_]

As a beginner this curve based chair is not easy. But i will try.

[vikranthviki]

Thank you sir...its really useful tutorial...moreover thanks for considered my comments sir

[simonockas]

8:50 mine doesn't rotate when i change the parameter... help?

[spithfirm]

i tried this but it didnt work out, the Rotation Angle parameter idnt work. i dont know why?!

[antonioconde]

Hi, how come when I place a chair Breuer (ootb) onto the reference point, the chair does not rotate?

[rksudera]

tried many times but chair won't rotate, please help!