I work for an office furniture manufacturer and we have all our furniture modeled in AutoCAD DWG format.
Are there any tutorials on how to create libraries of furniture for use in Revit.
I have no experience at all with Revit and so would be starting from scratch.
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The best way is to create your own furniture objects as 3d Revit Families.
Anyway , you can import .dwg files ( with layers for each distinct material) into Revit Furniture Family and then load it into Revit project. The problem with these method is that you can not use other parameters except those of material ( if you have allocated these to different layers in AutoCAD).
The Revit families can be gathered into a "library " in a .rvt file where from you can bring using Copy/Paste into your your project.
You can see below one of my "library" file. You can bring only the types that are shown into the project.
If you have multiple types of the same family ,then you can use Family Types tables (.txt files) ,to import only the desired types of a family.
You can see below how to Export a bunch of Family Types into a Family Type .txt file :
and how a Family Types table looks when loading family with this:
Constantin Stroescu
Thank you for that.
The thought of re-creating thousands of CAD blocks from scratch is not very appealing.
I'll look at what can be done using the existing DWG files.
I'm finding the terminology a little confusing.
For instance:
I have a range of office furniture called Ambus.
Within that range are different types of furniture: rectangular desks, corner desks, tables, storage etc.
Within each of those types are different sizes and options: desks with panel ends, desks with metal frames, different lengths etc.
So, which element is a family, or a family type or a library?
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Within that range are different types of furniture: rectangular desks, corner desks, tables, storage etc.
Within each of those types are different sizes and options: desks with panel ends, desks with metal frames, different lengths etc.
For a better understanding have a look on Paul Aubin's AU class( handouts and video):
Constantin Stroescu
I don't know if it's been mentioned here yet, but I'll throw out this suggestion: Reverse-Engineer other [competitor] Manufacturers' BIM Content. That's how I have always rolled -- and learned. By going into and breaking apart others families and rebuilding them.
Have fun!
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