Revit - Nested Families
Software : Revit Architecture
Category : 3d Modeling, Curtain Panels, Nesting Familes
Description : We nest a generic family in a curtain panel and use the length and width of a single panel to drive the the amount of extrusion of each panel.
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The teacher is a little too schizophrenic, i.e. jumping around too much and too fast. I gave up on this tutorial although I wanted to learn it. Worst is that he’s not explaining enough in terms of what he’s doing, e.g. what he’s naming things etc. Most of all there is a lot of wasted time because he hasn’t thought this through yet. He’s making it up as he goes. There needs to be more forethought to this tutorial first to make it clear and concise.
I’ll try and re work it. sorry you didn’t like it.
I disagree with Jerrod. Maybe because I am very familiar with Revit but i fully understood it all.
OMG. I have to say this “Bad Bad video”. I too understand revit, to an expert level but this just confused the heck out of me. Or at least until I couldn’t take anymore and had to stop it. Please put that video in your back pocket and never take it out again. This should be a 3 minute straight forward video. If you are a new revit user please ‘disregard this demonstration’ (or at least the first 15 minutes anyway). It is no where NEAR as dificult as this video ‘tries’ to demonstrate. Yikes, it said something about a ‘nested familiy’ but 12 minutes into the video he’s still trying to create a flexible box. I’m normally not negative about anyone trying to educate people but don’t be lazy man, this video needs a re-do like the US needs a new goverment.
This was from a working session with students. I COULD redo all these videos and make them more efficient but then i would have no time and there would NO videos.
Sorry you didn’t like it. If you have site with better and clearer videos i will gladly link to it.
D
Please keep with your work.
I found it excelent.
Thankyou for sharing it with others.
MM
thanks! I give these away for free for that reason. If i were to sell them then I would be a bit more critical of the content and structure.
That being said i also like for people to see the trouble shooting process. many of these video are so “cooked” you never see what goes wrong.
Thanks for the kind words,
Dave
Great tips. Excellent video. Thanks Dave
I’ve previously had trouble with nested families and instance parameters loaded into curtain panels. Until now I’ve never completely understood why sometimes it works and other times it’s been a very frustrating failure.
Great! Glad it helped.
Dave
Nice vid! I learned a lot. I can see that there is a way to use the formulas to do proportional type constructions like golden section with the curtainwall.
Keep up the good work!!!
(ignore the bad comments)
I disagree with those who pretends professional video because these are free videos. I’m gona explorare your website because it seems very interesting, mainly for achivieng the flexibility of Revit.
Goog job, keep on!
I also disagree with all the negative comments. I would much rather view tutorials that were on a personal level and fast paced/jam packed as apposed to slow and monotone. The world moves faster every day. Keep up or fall behind.
I look forward to future tutorials. Keep up the great work.
Thanks
D
Hey dave just a quick question what is the difference between an instance an type parameter and how will that affect the parameters and the families.
Cheers
I think it’s important to understand the processes one goes thru when exploring something new. Therefore, the fact that this demonstration is not ‘perfect’ is exactly what’s valuable about it. It makes all of us aware that simple things are not always easy to achieve, and yet, with a bit of effort and patience, in the end, you can accomplish much more.