Wow this was a great tutorial. I walked thru the video and modeled the unistrut support. Great step-by-step narrative. The video packed a lot of info in one Revit family session. • Line Based Family • Nested 3D Family • Parametric Constraints • Work-planes • Parametric Formula/Constraints • Object Styles • Detail Level/Visibility I walked away with a wealth of tips for family modeling. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you were able to get so much out of the tutorial! I did indeed try to pick a family which covered many aspects of family creation and you picked up on all of them, great work.
thank god for the 0,75 watching speed! Thank You Aussie BIM Guru for all these great videos. I myself have a lot of experience in BIM and I really enjoy watching these smart videos. Peace ✌🏻
One of many good users out there no doubt - some people excel in other areas more than me such as MEP but I like to think I'm fairly good on the architecture side. Thanks for the kind words though!
Damn you BIM Guru! ;-D!!! I've just gone back and re-modeled all of our Unistrut content families after watching this video! Painful at the time, but so much better than the way I did it in the past. Thank you for the tutorial. Class A content as always.
Haha glad to have helped, even if it gave some extra work! Depending on your discipline it may be worth considering the same methodology, but using structural framing instead of a line based generic model. This would enable you to analytically assess the elements as well, or include them in a structural takeoff.
Cheers Brandon! I try to keep things pretty laid back and approachable, lots of viewers are beginners looking for a friendly leg-up into the software. Tried and tested in previous professional training 👍
Okay, you were right I should have seen this video before the window masterclass. There is so much to learn here. But I still made it to the window until the brick sill, still very commendable of me lol.... A big thanks for such a never seen before revit content. When are you coming up with a paid course?
Getting to the sill is a solid effort! I'm hoping to start building courses in July, still a few products to work on in my content store. Dynamo first, families after. Ideally they will be out before end of this year. Anyone who has been following my dates will know this has been sliding quite a lot - lots of things competing with this, but I am reducing my consulting workload progressively to make room for it.
@ 6 min when you create the sweep, mine doesnt show as a sweep, it says: cant create sweep, any Idea whats going on?, did the exact same thing as you did...0o
Awesome video, gonna be recommending this channel a lot!!! There is one thing that I really did not understand. What is the difference between the references. What differs a weak reference plane, from a no reference, and a top reference?
Named reference planes can be useful for when you switch between families - these help Revit maintain dimensions if objects are swapped. For example a 'Left' plane can be used if both families have one and it is dimensioned. I explain them in a bit more depth in this video if it helps: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SMSaApGPVhI.html
Dear Guru Thank you for your great videos on RU-vid I have one question about one of them in this video, you didn't create a hole ( void form) in the support it helps the profile be more realistic I create a profile with voids ( holes) but when the length changes the void interfere to each other I'' really appreciate you making a video about this issue thank you, sir
Generally the voids at this scale would be onerous level of detail and as you also found revit doesnt do void profile arrays very well unfortunately. A face based void array family would be the only way but it uses a lot of memory so i would not recommend it.
Great video. Is it possible to make the hanger to snap onto duct and adopt duct width and under side of duct as reference plan? fixing length might be different because the concrete slab varies in thickness. Thanks.
I would try building a duct fitting if you want it to be sized to the duct. My workflow accounts for slab thickness as it finds the underside at each hanger.
@@AussieBIMGuru thanks for replying, its important that the hanger snap to duct so it will move with the duct, also to snap under duct as the duct sets up and down. Agin thanks for sharing and your help.
Great stuff as always Gavin. I have a question regarding nested components, is it possible to schedule them as part of the overall family (like what you said @26:46)? let's say you wanted to include the unistrut family into another family say, a tv bracket. When I try to do this I get the unistrut and the bracket on separate lines. this makes sense if I use the OOTB manufacturer parameter for both. but even when I create a shared parameter for the unistrut manufacturer it doesn't seem to recognize them as the same family. What am I doing wrong? I just don't know what I am missing.
Nested families that are 'shared' will always report as separate entities in schedules - each line represents an object. Typically, I'd use filters in a schedule to exclude nested components (by a field they have in common, like an additional visibility parameter like 'IsComponent' if all you want to capture is the host element itself. Capturing a component as granular as Unistrut might be quite macro in approach, it depends on your trade and intent (e.g. a contractor probably cares more about the item, whilst a component fabricator cares more about their respective piece such as the total length of Unistrut, and the lengths by which they need to cut).
Yes you could set it up differently to achieve such a rule. The point of the script you'd need to adjust is the spacing/division code block. Instead of finding max segments and equally dividing, you could find max fit and build a range between 0 and the upper range of this amount (spacing * max segments -1) and this would give equally spaced to the last required segment.
This is so handy. Is it hard to add in a parameter to add a 2nd or 3rd unistrut and offset that. Also could this be added to some sort of dynamo script to place bracketing for all elements in a project?
Potentially, it all comes down to the ingenuity and time of the scripter! If you add extra variables its more conditions to measure, e.g. identifying stacked runs is hard to do unless you systemize them together.
Awesome video, excellent commentary, thank you for this beautiful video. My question is, Is it possible to make the rods automatically touch the floor above regardless of channel height?
You could use a face hosted family instead, but the channel height wouldn't be set relative to the level below. The best workflow would probably be using Dynamo to detect the height of linked model floor/beam above. Feel free to check out this video on my channel to see how: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-szZF-N7R27k.html Thanks for the kind words!
Hi, is there any solution for the Revit Family created in Italian Language, to be converted into English? I'm using Revit english but when i open the Family, the parameters and properties are on Italian language. Can anyone help me out on there? Thanks in advance.
As far as I am aware this is not possible for parameter names, as the user names these and revit doesnt have a translation tool built in. It only translates inbuilt things like commanss and tooltips which are hard built into the language pack. If firms need to have content in a language, typically it must be made in that language from the start.
I believe fabrication parts are built in other software such as CAMduct or CADmep as ITM objects. This is the best i could find for itm file creation by autodesk; knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fabrication-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/Fabrication-UsersGuide/files/GUID-8BF4B16F-339E-4730-82FC-29B8ACB9CF74-htm.html
@@shakirali4122 unfortunately I'm not aware of any channels specializing in mep currently. I would search autodesk university website and see if there are some masterclasses there. Sean Fruin has some great content, but the videos aren't usually full tutorials and have dynamo focus.
Pretty much what Mostafa said, it is often used to carry the Uniformat or Uniclass code of a Revit object. By default there is an assembly code table that comes shipped with Revit that provides access to a basic Uniformat table. Typically located at: C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\RVT 2019\Libraries\Australia\UniformatClassifications.txt
@@lepocse510 no, theres lots of videos showing how to use github. Its basically just a matter of finding the folder and downloading it from the menu. github.com/aussieBIMguru/Revit-Files
I’ve got something from facade world you could show on your videos how to create step by step. Let me know if you will be interested It will touch same topic but differently I’ve seen some mullion transom families made in weird way and it would be handy to present a better solution on such a forum as RU-vid
Sure, I'd be happy to talk further and see what you're talking about in more detail. Feel free to email me at the email in my banner and I'll see what I can do in the new year!
