My Residential Revit Template: An Exclusive Look Inside

On this episode of BIM After Dark Live I will be giving you an exclusive look inside my personal Residential Revit template. I'll talk about how I created it, show some of the features, and walk through a sample project that used the template.

Sit back, relax, and lets geek out!

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[ethanorians]

My template is way more in depth and I am still evolving it, residential timber frame is my focus though and I do it every day. I cant say how much more efficient having a good template has made me, It has cut my time spent on a project down to a quarter of the time I used to spend.

[matthewshultz]

Your plans are so clean and compact, very impressed. There's a lot of cool tips in the presentation aspect such as using a non-black color for anno text and printing in color in general. We've moved past the days of illegible 2D prints! The exploded view on S100 is particularly impressive, it's like looking at a LEGO guide.

[valeriepierre]

@22:38 Your section shows the roof finish in line with the structure. How would you show the plywood extending beyond the structure in a much LARGER scale wall section? Thanks

[Emma-gqe]

Hi Jeff, Now with sheet categories is a lot easier to organize sheet sets but I wish they had something similar for views. How do you deal with the organization for a project that needs similar kind of drawings for a Permit set, Landmarks approval set, CD set, DOT, etc..? Essentially the pemit, Landmakrs and CD sets will all have the same kind of floor plans/elevations/sections just with different notes/graphics. Do you have any strategy for organizing the views in a project like this?

[miketaylor]

I 100% agree on the browser organization. Having it well thought out and organized can save HUGE amounts of time looking for views and sheets.

I have 3 different browser organizations set up for both views and sheets; Standard, Multi-Building, Renovation (Phase). Each have the same basic organization (Multi-Building and Reno are the same as the standard with one higher organization by Building and Phase).

Once users understood the concepts, and a few lessons on how to customize it if needed for certain use case scenarios adoption was incredibly fast.

[ollyhollymolly]

A filter could be utilized to make the annotations color, that maybe more helpful than modifying the family itself.

[sheanfarias]

Firstly thanks for sharing your workflow, I'm wondering do you have a tutorial starting from scratch/zero a residential project? Would love if it was this project ;)

[paulelby]

Great templates..im new to Drafting and plans have always been hard to read, but this simplifies them and is easy to read. Can you convert all families perimeters etc to metric?

[cdotstudio]

What do you do with the fonts for text styles? Did you pick a font that standard windows PC's have installed?

[Sitche]

Great template. Is it also available in metric system.

[VictorCosmin]

After 10+ years of mastering Archicad I always wonder why I didn’t start the transition to Revit sooner.

[hazimalwaali]

Do you have residential structural templates? It will really help us. We appreciate your kindness and work.

[jourendy]

I’m a Revit modeler from the Netherlands I was wondering how to setup your tabs as color tabs

[PintYup]

Hi. How do you get those arc leaders? Is it a family?

[krasimirganchev]

Kudos for getting Tyler the Creator to do the dub for the episode!