Name: Roundtable Workshop: Modeling Strategies - Loadable Component Families
Start: 2025-05-21T12:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-21T13:30:00-04:00

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**Roundtable Workshop: Modeling Strategies - Loadable Component Families**

**Moderators:**
John Trevor, Bethany Pritchard

**Session Description**
This presentation explores 3D strategies for creating a bookshelf family in Revit, focusing on creating a design tool to get feedback throughout the design process to inform decisions. With a little bit of setup we will show how to make Revit work intelligently for you. We will setup custom parameters and use them to calculate the provided linear feet of book storage to meet the program requirements. Participants will learn strategies for building basic families that utilize shared parameters so the data within them can be accessed in schedules when the family loaded into a project. We will discuss best practices for modeling basic geometry as well as the different types of parameters (shared, family, project, type, instance) and how we can extract and utilize data values from those parameters in formulas in calculated values in schedules.

**Prerequisite Knowledge:**
Knowledge in Revit family functionality, type and instance parameters and a general knowledge of construction techniques.

**Learning Objectives**

* Understand best practices for structuring the variable elements and parameters of a family to create effective type variations.
* Learn how to model basic geometry and constrain it to adjustable parameters.
* Explore the process of creating parameters to hold customized data that can then be extracted from the model.
* Learn how to set up calculated values with formulas in schedules using custom parameters.

AIA Learning Credit CEUs will be offered.

Bethany Pritchard

Robert

Sidney Griffin

Karim Habbab

Salvatore DiPietro

Charlottesville Revit User Group

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