From the course: Revit 2021: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial and Metric)

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Families

Families

- [Instructor] This chapter is devoted to the family editor. Now, the family editor is a vast topic that could easily take up an entire course. In fact, we have several courses devoted to the family editor here in the library. I've authored one called Revit Architecture, The Family Editor. And after you're done with this really simple overview of the family editor in this chapter and if you're still interested in learning more about families, I recommend you check it out. And then if you want to go further, we even have some more advanced courses after that. So what I aim to do here is to just give you a high-level overview of how the family editor works and what the basic process is. Now, let me start with my assumptions. I'm assuming that we want to create a model element family and that we want that family to be parametric. Now, those assumptions are important because it will influence the way that we approach this…

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