High Quality Gym Equipment Families?

[Anonymous]

I'm currently designing a professional-level weight room and performance center; where can I find professional quality powerlifting and exercise equipment families?

[barthbradley]

You could start here:

https://www.revitcity.com/downloads.php?action=viewmf04&mf04_l1_id=0&mf04_l2_id=76&mf04_l3_id=0&mf04...

Maybe here:

http://revit.autodesk.com/library/archive9/html/Revit%209.0%20Library/US%20Library/Families/Specialt...

..or maybe here:

https://www.caddetails.com/BIM-Models/OmniClass/fitness-and-exercise-equipment

..or, search by some keywords from here:

https://www.google.com/ 

...hey, check out this rfa courtesy of RevitCity.com  

[Anonymous]

While I appreciate the time you took to write this, I could really do without the sarcastic response.  I've looked for 2 hours across roughly 10 BIM library websites.  The families available aren't detailed enough to place into a schematic design level set.  Are there any manufacturer-produced families anyone is aware of?

[pieterschiettecatte]

I think @barthbradley was only trying to help

I have modeled 3 pieces of fitness equipment in the past (included them in attachment of this post). They are not great quality but perhaps you'll find them useful. Haven't set up materials on them unfortunately.

[barthbradley]

Sarcasm? What part of my reply -- the only reply you received thus far -- did you find sarcastic?  Was it the Links I provided which steered you directly to a collection of fitness equipment Revit Families? Or, was it the Revit rfa and screenshot I provided?  Or, was it the suggestion that you Google it?  Believe or not, the latter suggestion is often the most helpful to newbies, who are amazed at the wealth of BIM content that they are able to find through a simple keywords search on Google.  It never occurred to them. 

Anyways, sorry I wasted your time.   

[Anonymous]

Wow, I'm really sorry; probably should have given a little more context behind the prompt.  Over my years using the program, it seems there's a true lack of detailed families in this area across the internet.  Combined with the fact I've barely been sleeping, my response definitely should have been a bit more measured.

[RobDraw]

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@Anonymous wrote:

The families available aren't detailed enough to place into a schematic design level set. 

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Huh? A schematic design doesn't require much detail at all, at least in my world.

[RDAOU]

Do not limit your search to revit families only...you can find loads of detailed gym equipment in different formats which you can easily import to revit. 

[ennujozlagam]

Welcome back RDAOU. Nice to hear again from you. Thanks

[barthbradley]

@Anonymous:  

@RDAOU makes an excellent point. I found a lot of Fitness Equipment yesterday that were done in Sketchup. You can import those skp files into Revit. 

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/EN...

[Anonymous]

thanks alot bro

[HVAC-Novice]

With families you have the following options:

- find some that meet your requirements (Google, BIM sites, manufacturer) and edit them

- make your own (you can use nested families of suitable families of sub-components you find) and that includes converting sketchup parts etc.

This is true for any type of family. A lot of generic stuff already available. the more specific you want to be, the more work you need to put in. No need to accuse members to be sarcastic. Everyone here just tried to help and gave good advice. 

[JDMather]

@HVAC-Novice 

You have replied to a 2 year old thread resurrected by a spammer.

[RobDraw]

At least it was a quality response that actually addressed the issue. How about that part?

[Anonymous]

REVIT CITY STUFF HAS A LOT OF BUGS AND COULD DAMAGE YOUR PROJECT FILE, HAPPENED TO ME

[jm.amaya]

https://market.bimsmith.com/category/Fitness-Equipment-revit

Not a lot, but hey, useful

[matias.gomezCPQYL]

About two years later the technogym guys have almost any fitness equipment done in cad 3d imported to an rfa, you should, in my opinion, delete the 2d cad file that shows the equip in plan view and import another one (also provided) because the one that comes with the rfa has some useless text