From the course: Revit 2020: Essential Training for Architecture (Metric)
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Understanding the Revit element hierarchy - Revit Architecture Tutorial
From the course: Revit 2020: Essential Training for Architecture (Metric)
Understanding the Revit element hierarchy
- [Narrator] All elements in the Revit software fit into a predefined structured hierarchy. At the top of that hierarchy, we have categories. Categories are broken down into families, families can have one or more types, and then finally at the bottom of the hierarchy we have instances. So let's start with categories. Categories are built into the software and not editable by end users. Now, there are categories for all sorts of elements. The most common would be mono-elements that represent real things. Examples would include walls, floors, or doors. But there are several other kinds of categories, as well. We have items for annotation such as text and dimensions. We have detail items like lines and filled regions. We have view elements like floor plans elevations and sections. And we have data elements like grids and levels. Now at the moment it's not really important to know every single category and go looking for some kind of comprehensive list. What is important to understand…
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