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Ken Jolly

Creating Revit Family Content Paperback – October 28, 2008

by Ken Jolly (Author)

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Rewritten for Revit 2009, This is a learning guide to teach the basic steps for building Revit Families. After becoming productive with Revit the first question that arises is "how to create a family?". Through this is a straightforward question many trainers and textbooks steer wide or gives it only a close brush. Finally comes a clear concise step by step guide to creating your first simple Revit Families! The book begins by explaining the concept of Revit Familes. Exploring their Form, Structure and Purpose. We then explore creating Solid 3D Extrusions with Blends and Sweeps used to build the Components and Model 3D Elements. We then explore adding Parameters for both Instance and Type Families thus adding intelligence and versitity to the Family. We then approach adding Family Types to the Revit Type Selector in the Project. This is a quick, painless and easy way to take the first steps in becoming proficient with Revit Family Creation. More advanced techniques are available in my books Revit Family Creation 2010 and Essentials of Revit Families 2011.

Print length

122 pages
Language

English
Publication date

October 28, 2008
Dimensions

6 x 0.31 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

1440453047
ISBN-13

978-1440453045
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About the Author

Ken is the CAD / BIM Administrator . He teaches Revit daily among his other responsiblities, thus the book is written in a concise manner to learn how to build your own families. He is a Autodesk Univerisity Instructor and is on the forefront of using Revit in the Real World of Project deadlines and fast schedules. He supports a multi-discipline office and has been using every release of AutoCad since Version 9. Revit has become his favorite!

Product details

Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 28, 2008)
Language : English
Paperback : 122 pages
ISBN-10 : 1440453047
ISBN-13 : 978-1440453045
Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.31 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #5,828,862 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Architect in Boston

Nobody's perfect, but I appreciate the effort

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2009

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As one of the original Charles River Software/Revit guinea pigs, I have been using this software and admiring the help and tutorials files that come with it, for a few years. So I was not looking for how-to books, But like most people who have to train others, I have my own favorite authors. Paul Aubin is very good, but Paul is very busy training these days. Cyril Verley is a great trainer, but his books needed a little more editing. Having read the entire 810 pages of the Autodesk Revit Families Guide, this book is far more accessible and useful to the employee whose boss just gave them a week to get the model done. There are some glitches but I always encourage staff to use two sources so they can see the different approaches of different authors.So get this book, and Paul Aubin's book. Or use the Help and Tutorials that come with the product. Good lick, oops, nobody's perfect.

4 people found this helpful

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Just Dave

Required Reading

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2011

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I required this to be read by anyone on our team who was just starting to create Revit content.

While it might not be written by a professional writer, it was written by someone who could walk through the process & explain it in lay-mens terms! (And someone who can explain so others can understand gets to have a pass at the grammar others are complaining about!)

I only wish his update to this & his Revit model book were as good!

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J. Miller

Needs an editor

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2009

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This is apparently a self-published book with rampant layout problems, poor spelling, and frequent grammatical errors. It refers to specific layer colors in illustrations which is a bit confusing since it is printed in black and white. On the plus side it takes a nice step by step approach; which would be great if you could just work out which page the rest of the sentence you were just reading fled to.

7 people found this helpful

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James J. Balding

Dissappointed

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2009

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I have to say that I was excited to see a book out on family creation and I picked it up as soon as I saw it. I am an advanced user and did not buy it for myself, but to review it as a possible text for my firm. That said I will not be getting any more copies as I found it chalk full of errors, misunderstood information and down right errors. Sorry Ken, I know how hard it is to put a book together. It would serve you better to have a technical editor as well as a copy editor on your next releases. Good luck, don't give up!!!

3 people found this helpful

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Guitar playr

Can i give a zero?

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2009

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Don't bother. This is so elementary and thin as to be useless. If you want to become an author, put a little effort into it. This was obviously written over a short weekend. I am considering writing a revit book. It looks easy!

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Amazon Customer

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2016

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Great buy!

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Thad A. Broom

Very Disappointed

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2009

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