Embed More Data into your Revit Families (you’ll be happy you did!)
Jan 17, 2009 Revit, families, latest
Be honest, how much data do you really embed within the families you use (or create) in Revit? Do you ever use the Manufacturer or URL areas? Do you create your own parameters to add even more data? Going beyond the basics of creating and inserting families will allow you to really take advantage of the I in BIM (for those of you who don’t know by now, it stands for Information). The other benefit is that your Revit model becomes more than just a means to an end (ie. modeling so you can have drawings so you can make changes in one location so those changes can be automatically dispersed to every view so…). The model will now contain all information about your building which can be very useful for its maintenance over time. In this post, I’m going to show you three things: first, we’ll see where you can embed information using the standards parameters, second, we’ll see how to create your own parameters directly within the family so you can add more information. Finally, third, we’ll see how you can quantify that information within a schedule. Here we go:
In the image below we see a bathroom floor plan. Within it there are several objects with characteristics that we might want to specify: the sink, toilet and floor tile. For this example, we’re going to work on the toilet:
