Revit Structure | Intermediate - Family Creation

Revit Structure | Intermediate – Family Creation is an intensive one-day virtual course designed for proficient Revit users looking to enhance their skills in creating custom families for structural projects. Led by a Certified Autodesk Instructor, this course focuses on advanced family creation techniques, allowing you to build efficient and detailed structural families tailored to your project needs.

During the course, you will thoroughly explore the Family Editor interface and learn how to create parameters and apply formulas to automate and control the behaviour of structural families within your projects. You will learn how to set up reference planes to establish the framework for your families, apply dimensioning concepts, and manage visibility settings, ensuring that your families meet the specific project requirements while maintaining clarity in both 2D and 3D views. Throughout the course, you will practise applying these concepts by working on elements such as slab edge profiles, metal composite deck profiles, structural framing profiles, and connection plates with parametric controls, among others. You will learn how to work with nested families to maintain consistency across projects and apply materials to enhance the appearance and accuracy of your families. Additionally, you will learn how to create complex forms such as extrusions and sweeps within families, associate parameters between nested families and their host components, and use shared parameters to improve scheduling and data consistency in project documentation.

Upon completing the course, you will have a comprehensive understanding of how to create, manage, and manipulate custom families in Revit, enabling you to optimise project workflows and deliver high-quality structural designs with precision. This course provides a solid foundation for developing flexible families that adapt to varying project requirements.

During this course, you will explore the following topics:

• Module 1 – Family Theory | Family Editor UI | Parameters | Formulas: Begin the course by exploring family theory and the Family Editor interface. You will learn the theory of setting up and managing parameters and formulas, giving you full control over the behaviour and flexibility of families in the project environment. This module provides the foundation for creating custom components with precision, ensuring your designs can adapt efficiently to various project requirements.
• Module 2 – Reference Planes | Dimensioning Concepts | Visibility: Learn how to set up reference planes to define the framework of your families. You will practise applying dimensioning concepts and managing visibility settings, ensuring that your families meet the specific requirements of your projects while maintaining clarity in both 2D and 3D views. You will apply these concepts to develop a slab edge profile, building your skills through practical training.
• Module 3 – Formulas | Type Catalogue | Shared Nested Family | Materials: Discover how to apply formulas and type catalogues to standardise family creation. You will practise creating shared nested families, ensuring consistency and reusability across multiple projects. Additionally, explore how to apply materials to your families to enhance their appearance and accuracy. You will model a metal composite deck profile, structural framing profile, and a connection plate with parametric controls.
• Module 4 – Nested Families | Forms | Associate Parameters | Shared Parameters: Learn how to create complex forms such as extrusions and sweeps within families. You will practise associating parameters between nested families and their host components, and understand how to use shared parameters to improve scheduling and data consistency in your project documentation. Throughout this module, you will create a pile foundation and a culvert using these concepts.

Before the course, you will receive a Course Pack containing training notes and/or files that need to be downloaded prior to joining the training. Please note that our training sessions are not recorded to maintain the privacy of all participants.

Participants joining this course virtually will need:

• Revit '22 or higher, or Revit LT '22 or higher installed on their computer (required). We strongly recommend that participants join using the most recent version of the software. Please contact us if you need to purchase a software licence.
• The latest Zoom version installed on their computer (required).
• A stable internet connection with a minimum download speed of 10 Mbps (required).
• A secondary screen to follow instructions shared by the course instructor during training, along with a mouse for easy software navigation (recommended).
• A headset to ensure clear communication with the instructor, and preferably a microphone and webcam for interactive conversations (recommended).

To join the course, participants must be confident in their use of Revit Structure. It is recommended that individuals have a thorough understanding of all topics covered in the Essentials course, along with at least six months of regular usage of Revit on structural engineering projects. This foundational knowledge ensures full engagement with the intermediate concepts and techniques presented in the course.

ARKANCE, an Authorized Autodesk Training Center, delivers high-quality training for Autodesk software users. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive an official ARKANCE Certificate of Completion, demonstrating their commitment to ongoing professional development.

Additionally, participants are encouraged to register their attendance with Autodesk Education to receive a Certificate of Completion from Autodesk. To obtain this certificate, participants must follow the steps provided in the confirmation email sent after registration and submit a post-training feedback survey within 60 days of completing the course.

Our Core Curriculum Series courses are regularly scheduled and delivered virtually by Autodesk Certified Instructors, Bluebeam Certified Instructors and experienced Subject Matter Experts. These sessions are priced per ticket and open to the public, meaning you will attend alongside other registrants.

Alternatively, all our courses can be organised privately for your team, following either a standard agenda or a customised curriculum tailored to your specific requirements. Private training sessions are available both virtually and in-person.