Advanced Revit Family Tutorial (with Brenton)

On this episode of BIM After Dark Live Brenton Wiberg returns to the show to share some of his most useful (and impressive) advanced Revit family techniques, tips, and tutorial.

Brenton will be demonstrating some of the following real-world advanced Revit family creation techniques:

- Nesting multiple windows or doors that are fully parametric but also able to be tagged and scheduled on their own...
- Dealing with parametric drawer and cabinet fronts...
- A custom door tag you WON'T want to miss...
- and more...

So sit back, relax, and let's geek out!!

Links Mentioned:
Link for the Hatch Pattern
Link for the Door Tag

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:50 Thanks to Our Sponsor Twinmotion
03:40 Welcome to Brenton
08:13 Grouped and Nested Window Family Demonstration
17:14 How to Make a Nested Family with Type Selectors
27:19 How to Make a Nested Family Tag and Schedule Correctly
42:45 Brenton's Awesome Window and Door Tag Family
01:00:00 Outro

Here are some links to all of the hardware and software I use:

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[rocketman]

Brenton is one of the smartest guy I've seen, his chain of thoughts is awesome

[raquelduarte]

Hi guys, great show! Thanks for all the content and tips!

Just adding some thoughts to the topics you mentioned. I'm quite sure they are still valid in Revit 2021, not sure if they changed it in the newest versions.

- Only instance parameters from the nested family can be mapped in the host family. Type parameters cannot;
- The "shared" parameter can also be found in the Properties pallete, under "other" categorie. I guess is a bit easier to find;
- Once you loaded a shared family in a host family or in a model, you cannot un-share it. I guess you need to change the name of the family and reload it as a new one. It is a bit pain in the ass, so this feature should be used with caution.

[digitalcontractservices]

finally got around to watching this one --- loving the Star Wars wall decore by the way --- respect!

[ramonvandenelsen]

I respect his knowledge and sharing of information only one level of nesting is to little for information perspective and use.
I use max 2 levels of nesting in the basics. I work with revit for 12, 5 years and a long time family creation.
I worked at architectural companies and contractors and the last one is more to the I in BIM as architects are more into only geometry (in basics).

[teeknow]

Hi Jeff wonderful session yesterday really glad I was able to watch it live - precious information for sure! Can you please post more info on how Brenton made that glass hatch pattern with PyRevit?

[conordally]

Damn... grouped invisible lines for labels is smart. Not as smart as using metric units, but very impressive none the less!

[youssefibrahim]

Thank you a lot, Do you prefer to lock the centre of the nested family to the correct reference plan or host the nested family to the reference plan?

[andresrojasradrigan]

Unfurtunaly I couldn’t catch the live. Lots of questions. Activated the bell