From the course: Revit 2022: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial and Metric)
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Understanding the Revit element hierarchy - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Revit 2022: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial and Metric)
Understanding the Revit element hierarchy
- [Instructor] All elements in the Revit software fit into a predefined and 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 model elements that represent real things. Examples would include walls, floors, or doors. But there's several other kinds of categories as well. We have items for annotations, such as text and dimensions. We have detailed items like lines and filled regions. We have view elements like floor plans, elevations, and sections. And we have datum elements like grids and levels. Now at the moment, it's not really important to know every single category and go…
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