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my firm is new to the revit world and we're having a difficult time looking for families for hospital job that we're involved in. does any one have a good source or site we can retrieve/download families? the project we're doing is a hospital project, therefore the type of families that we're looking for would be chillers, cooling towers, pumps, air separator, expansion tanks, valves, and such..
www.revitcity.com has SOME of the stuff you are looking for (but not much). Mostly I think you need to do solid modeling or get the manufactuer to send you solid models. From that you can create revit families pretty quick.
i've checked out revit city, and you're right, they have SOME of the family i am looking. but thanks for the advice. by the way, would you happen to know how to "clip" view of a floor plan where we have to use matchlines that's not simply a straight up and down, left and right cut?
Unfortunatley no.
We do alot of hospital work as well and it will be interesting to see the problems we face. I do plumbing, so I am screwed with Revit MEP 2008. It has nothing for medgas or gas or compressed air or sanitary vents. We'll see.
thanks for your help.
i know the pain that you're going thru with revit mep. i am helping out in putting together the designer's plan onto revit and it's so frustrating when there's no source to fill those missing gaps..
you'd think that autodesk would've created the essentials for the mep platform.
I have personally built many of the revit families you have spoken of and you are right, it is very time consuming. I worked as an intern for a large A/E firm this summer where I had the opportunity to become highly involved with the design and construction of parametric families.
Does anyone know of any third party family builders? I have thought about doing some third party work myself since many firms are having trouble getting these Revit families built. I would especially like to see Trane, Armstrong and some of the other big name manufacturers get there game together and start providing these families themselves.
If you are willing to swing me an e-mail I would like to see if maybe I can do something to help you out.
thanks for the offer of assistance. how can you help me out with the situation that i am in, exactly?
as for going into building the revit family, i think it's an awesome idea. there's not much out there for mep disciplines. i'd do it, but (1) i don't have access to revit except @ work, (2) i hear it's rather time consuming, (3) i gotta get an idea of just how to create a family...
Best way to start I have found out is with solid modeling. You can bring in autocad solid models and apply Revit feature to them. But they have to be SOLIDS! Surfaces won't work. Has to be solids.
Well in short, I think I could produce Revit families for less money and with better quality than many firms could. So ideally, I would like to help people like you (your firm) by dealing with the frustrating nuances of parametric families on my end.
Again, if you are willing to swing me some contact info, I would like to hear your opinions on this and whether you think your firm might be interested in utilizing something like this.
I, for one, dont look forward to the day when I start getting
manufacture fam's; I want my own parameters, not theirs. I want to see
access panel and clearance locations not bolt and lift locations.
Manufacturer's fam could be quite a bit bigger and nastier then what i want.
Matthew Brown wrote:
> I have personally built many of the revit families you have spoken
> of and you are right, it is very time consuming. I worked as an
> intern for a large A/E firm this summer where I had the opportunity
> to become highly involved with the design and construction of
> parametric families.
>
> Does anyone know of any third party family builders? I have thought
> about doing some third party work myself since many firms are having
> trouble getting these Revit families built. I would especially like
> to see Trane, Armstrong and some of the other big name manufacturers
> get there game together and start providing these families
> themselves.
>
> If you are willing to swing me an e-mail I would like to see if
> maybe I can do something to help you out.
>
> mbrown1441@gmail.com
Here's a site someone pasted the other day. Looks like they have some
basics and will do contract work.
http://lon.broutek.com/
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my firm is new to the revit world and we're having a difficult time looking
for families for hospital job that we're involved in. does any one have a
good source or site we can retrieve/download families? the project we're
doing is a hospital project, therefore the type of families that we're
looking for would be chillers, cooling towers, pumps, air separator,
expansion tanks, valves, and such..
This site http://www.broutek.com/ has a lot of material. I have personally requested content and have bought that content after it was created. They do wonderful work and are very helpful. One of the families I had created, a duct-mounted grille, was not 'acting' the way I had envisioned. Jonathan Lloyd spend many hours (e-mail and phone calls) trying to get it to act the way I had envisioned. They finally got it to behave the way I wanted and it works great. I highly recommend these guys for creating content you don't feel comfortable tackling yourself.
Some manufacturers are creating Revit Families. For example, Visa Lighting at http://www.visalighting.com/site/resources/building-information-modeling-files-bim has content of their light fixtures. The fixtures are available for download for free.
thanks for the link. this is awesome. thanks for the heads up. would you happen to know if there's an hvac mechanical company that has revit families created as well??
