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Understanding Revit Families

The Understanding Revit Families series is designed to help Revit users master family creation, from foundational concepts to advanced, fully automated components. Across four levels, you’ll learn how to build, control, and standardize intelligent Revit Families using best-practice workflows, parametric modeling techniques, formulas, nesting, and adaptive components. Whether you’re new to family creation or responsible for maintaining company-wide standards, this series provides practical, real-world skills to create reliable, flexible families that improve consistency, efficiency, and BIM quality across your projects.

This live online series offers 4 four-hour courses. You can take all four courses or just the ones that meet your needs. Each separate course is delivered in 2 two-hour sessions. A live instructor explains the detailed functions and addresses questions as the class progresses.

Note: Instructor will present using Autodesk Revit 2026. Students who wish to follow along with instructor are encouraged to use the same version.

Prerequisite: Students should have a solid understanding of Revit or have taken the Revit for New Users course series. 

Recording: Registrants for a course will receive access to a recording of each session for 7 consecutive days. Access will start the next business day after the session ends.

Understanding Revit Families I

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4 hour course | 4 CPC/CEU credits

Families are the foundation of any Revit workflow. This course introduces the basic rules, settings, and concepts needed to create and modify Revit Families. You will learn about reference planes and lines, parameters, solids and voids, visibility settings, and practical exercises to build parametric components from scratch.

Session 1: Family Basics and Ground Rules

  • Revit Family Basic Concepts
  • Reference Planes vs. Reference Lines
  • Workflow and Organization
  • Parameters vs. Shared Parameters
  • Practical Exercise - Parametric Box with Extrude

Session 2: Modeling for Families

  • Creating Solids and Voids
  • Working with Angles and Visibility Parameters
  • Practical Exercises - CAD Files & Details

Understanding Revit Families II

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4 hour course | 4 CPC/CEU credits

This course builds on basic family skills to explore advanced Revit Family creation. You will learn how to work with nested families, formulas, MEP connectors, and lookup tables to create intelligent, parametric components tailored to your projects. Emphasis is placed on library organization and quality control for efficient, real-world BIM workflows.

Session 1: Nested Families and Basic Formulas

  • Understanding Nested Families
  • Working with Formulas
  • Practical Exercises - Formula and Nested Families

Session 2: Advanced Features

  • Working with Advanced Formulas
  • Creating MEP Connectors and Parameters
  • Understanding Lookup Tables
  • Family Quality Control and Organization

Understanding Revit Families III

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4 hour course | 4 CPC/CEU credits

This course is designed for advanced Revit users looking to optimize company family structures and elevate their skills in standards management. You’ll learn to create smarter, more intelligent families by mastering advanced parameter settings, nested families, and complex formulas—improving both efficiency and consistency across your Revit projects.

Session 1: Family Creation & Parameters

  • Working With Line Based Families
  • Creating Array Parameters
  • Working With Image Parameters
  • Practical Family Setup Exercise

Session 2: Working with Advanced Formulas

  • Review valid formula operators
  • Conditional formulas
  • Practical Advanced Formula Exercise

Understanding Revit Families IV

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4 hour course | 4 CPC/CEU credits

Building on previous levels, this advanced course is designed for Revit users who need to create complex, adaptive families with fully automated behaviors. You’ll learn how to work with adaptive components, control layouts with advanced formulas, and use lookup tables and global parameters to streamline and standardize family creation across projects.

Session 1: Adaptive Component Families

  • Adaptive Points and Orientation
  • Adaptive Components and Shape Handles
  • Practical Adaptive Component Exercise

Session 2: Lookup Tables & Resources

  • Working With Lookup Tables
  • Setting Global Parameters
  • Practical Resources Use Exercise
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