lets say you have a chair
and the options to decide the
1. seat type (wood padded plastic etc.)
2. type of glider
is it possible in Revit to create a furniture model that has checkmarks I could use to drive the configuration of the furniture set
and how could that be passed to the schedule system?
Do I need to build a family into which I load all other models such as glider types seat types etc?
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
As you are probably aware within a family you can have different family types.
For each family type you can have different values for the parameters. So as a shared type parameter you could have a model/catalog number which you can schedule.
Inside the family you can have different models, or nested families, for your different type of gliders/seating. They can be switched on/off with a visbility parameter (is yes/no). If, for example, the shape stays the same and only material changes you could only change the material (with a type parameter).
Always consider what to put into a single family. Some like to create 'super' families with all kinds of options and parameter values. Others create 'lean' families with a limited set of options and create different families to get to the same set of options. Both choices have their (dis)advantages.
Louis
Please mention Revit version, especially when uploading Revit files.
hoping I understood you well.....:
make a New Furniture Family and into it:
Constantin Stroescu
Am I right in the assumption that when I then have to build each piece as a component in a single file and then create a furniture family file where I load all those components into to assamble the chair?
Are those components linked dynamically like when I edit the master glider file the glider in all other ueber family files will be updated as well? I was not able to get that working.
What is the difference between Furniture and Furniture System family?
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
No when you create a family with nested families, the nested families are not dynamically linked.
So you modify the nested family, then you open the hosting family. You then have to do a reload of the nested families.
If you have different hosting families with the same nested sub-family you will have to open each hosting family and reload the nested family.
This is one of the (dis)advantages of 'lean' families versus 'super' families.
It gets even more complicated when you are using shared (nested) families and bring them in a project.
I bleieve there is not a real difference between the two families (furniture and furniture systems).
You might want to look at what the Revit Model Content Style Guide has to say about it.
Louis
Please mention Revit version, especially when uploading Revit files.
See attached family.
It contains a chair with two types. It has two different supports (nested famileis) and two different seat materials
Based on this I prepared tow different chair types.
Put it in a project and you can probably see how it works.
It is not absolutely necessary to have the supports in nested families, but especially when you are creating more and more options your hosting family keeps cleaner if you use nested families.
Louis
Please mention Revit version, especially when uploading Revit files.
The advanced sample family used to do this kind of thing, but current one lost the ability somewhere along the way? i was able to dig up an old version (but I upgraded it to 2015) that does the kind of thing you are describing.
Basically the support of the shade device is a nested family that is then arrayed. The once loded the instance of the support family gets a label attached and uses the "Family Type" parameter setting. This allows it to be swapped out with other family types from the nested family.
The nested family also uses a matertial parameter to control the material of the support. This parameter is duplicated in the host family and connected to the nested family parameter. So the material of the support can be changed in the host.
You can use similar techniques to do the kinds of things you asked about in your OP.
Good luck!
There is some extra settings need to be done
Here is a video shows how to do it
https://screencast.autodesk.com/main/details/12e44a3f-209b-4b9b-a6aa-cb08609dd534
Let me know if this help