Groups and Assemblies can sometimes help here too, depending on the application. Of particular note for MEPT: shared families nested inside a parent family can help when (for instance) laying out an office where you often need a receptacle and data drop next to each other over and over, or any other situation where an object from one category or discipline needs to always get connections from other categories or disciplines.
Knowing your way around the Family Editor is absolutely invaluable for understanding how to get things to look and work the way you want, and it's shocking to me how some of my coworkers will just use the company standard families as-is and are afraid to even make a new type to better represent things. Using Worksets as intended (to load only the parts of the project you're actively working on) is a big help when dealing with large projects. Please excuse the shitty formatting and overuse of emojis but I'm on my phone ? I don't know what I would do without it ?.Īnd that's all my friends. It's got a tool that works similar to a Photoshop's eyedropper tool for "override graphics in view" which saves you even more time.īut that's not all!! It's got a friggin super easy to use "pattern creator" ?, sheet creator that makes sense and that's just the surface of it. Which reminds me of probably the best open source addin for Revit. This tool makes your drawings look the way you want to without the hassle. Create a brand new wall type (270mm Brick-Grey ?) I've literally seen people draw fill regions over a wall coz they wanna show it in grey. The other big one is: Right click > override graphics in view Set a shortcut for it as well! Super versatile tool and criminally underutilized ☑️ Need to select all 2.5mm text notes and change it to red colour? ☑️ Need to change all your blockwork walls to brickwork? (or you can just deselect whatever few don't require changing holding shift) For that you can use 'isolate category'). Set a shortcut for it and you can select everything in your current view belonging to a family group of anything (except lines. Right click > Select all visible in view.