Family Making Guidelines

CAD Content (NZ) Ltd has for nearly 10 years, created Revit content for our customer use and for manufacturers on a commissioned basis. Below we list some Best Practice Guidelines.
 

Our Guidelines

Family Essentials

Some Basics, File Naming, Categories, Nesting, Shared, Visibility, Lineweights, Linestyles, Materials, Types v's Instances,Type Naming, Complex v's Simple Families, Profiles, Sub-Categories, Catalogues, Classifications, Library Storage, Management.

Annotation

Custom TitleBlocks, Revisions, Symbols, Text, Tags, Dimensions, Keynotes.

2D Content

When to Draft, Details Components, Repeating Details, Details, Use of CAD files.

3D Content

Handling Levels of Detail, Doors and Windows, MEP Ready, Massing.

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Other Guidelines We Know Of

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The Autodesk site dedicated to Family components created by or for USA Manufacturers. Users can also contibute to this pooling service. Access is off the Help menu whilst the Revit applications are running. HelpMenu Additional Resources > Revit Web Content Library...
[V] Click here to read about the Autodesk Seek product model contribution style guides.

ANZRS Standards

The first digital public release of the Australian & New Zealand Revit Standards focuses on Content Creation and Management – specifically, Revit families. The document pack is now available for download.
[V] Click here to download the full document pack.
     ANZRS_FAMILY_COMPLIANCE_PACK_PORTFOLIO_version3.pdf

 

Disclaimer

We take no responsibility for the usability of any content that you may create based on our guidelines or from information found in links given on our site.

Should you have issues with creating your content, email one of our Authors and we will endevour to help.