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Essentials of Revit Families 2012 Paperback – June 21, 2011

by Ken Jolly (Author)

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"This will become your essential reference guide for creating Revit Families" Creating Revit Families has been enhanced in Revit 2012. This guide is for the beginner and intermediate user to create unique families that serve your design. This book is specialized to provide you with essential knowledge easily accessed that you need to quickly begin making Revit Families. This will assist both the beginner and intermediate Revit user in creating your unique custom Families. After we explore the building of simple Families we will look at how to manage more complex Families using Parameters to create nested Family Types, and using Arrays and Formulas to build more diverse Families. Best practices are also explored. Although Revit Families allows some very powerful parameters to be built some of these practices may slow and burden a large Model file. We will advise you of these trade-offs. Just because you can do some spectacular things does not mean that you should do so at the ultimate expense of your Model. We will also provide guides into the procedure of trouble shooting problems in Revit Families. New, this year we will take an exploratory dive into Revit MEP families, categories and connectors.

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132 pages
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English
Publication date

June 21, 2011
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6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
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1463633424
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978-1463633424
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Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (June 21, 2011)
Language : English
Paperback : 132 pages
ISBN-10 : 1463633424
ISBN-13 : 978-1463633424
Item Weight : 9 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches

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Emmanuel A. Garcia

Great for Beginners

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2020

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The author is very up front about how the book does not offer any real "secrets" but information that is readily available in Autodesk's own Intro to Families, the Help System and online forums. It takes you through an introduction to Revit Family Fundamentals in a manner that is likely to save you some time were you to embark on learning about it on your own and the F1 Help System.

I wish the author had broken down the material into Chapters and Sections. Instead, he provides a non-stop series of topics, in a fairly logical and sequential fashion, but you're not left with any little mental breaks or pauses to digest what you have read. It is a non-stop guide that you will have to tackle at your own speed and most likely in several sessions of careful reading.

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Laura

Author should be ashamed

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2012

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Judging by the title I thought this book would have all the ESSENTIAL knowledge for building families. Now I realize ESSENTIAL means "the minimum possible". It is insulting. It`s basically an informal superficial chat about what you can expect to find and do on Revit families, but it doesn't tell you how it's done!!!! Putting it in other words, reading this book is exactly the same as browsing through the buttons in the Revit interface. You are shown what exists, you get a brief description, and on to the next chapter. I is unbelievable how can Ken Jolly sleep at night knowing he's making money out of a useless bunch of printed paper.
Well I guess the author is satisfied because he actually teaches you something. You get to model a 3-extrusions-table and insert Revit's existing chairs into a parametric array. Wow!!! That's definitely going to boost our knowledge and understanding on the incredibly complex and time consuming world of Revit's families.

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Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2016

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