Kitchen Counters. What is a good approach to complex configurations?

[mcobb]

I'm relatively new to Revit and I'm trying to get my mind around how one should approach doing kitchen countertops.  I see there are a number of countertop family types that come with Revit but none of them seem ideal for what I am doing.  I've attached a plan of the countertop I'm attempting. The first image is how it presently looks in my Revit file.  The second image is from a Vectorworks drawing and I'm trying to recreat this in Revit.  Because the counter goes from being against a wall to being a penisula the backsplash is not continuous.  I've read some very old posts about using wall styles for countertops.  Is this still recommended?  Any help is greatly appreciated.  I've tried assembling this countertop configuration out of L-shaped counter types and straight counter types but I can't get the line work to clean up (even what I use the linework tool).  Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Regards,

Mike

[cbcarch]

Learn the Family Editor. Model the counter top and backsplashes as extrusions. Create Material Parameters, Dimension Parameters, etc.

Set up Reference Planes FIRST--then create dimensions to the ref. planes, associate them with new parameters. Then lock geometry to the Ref. Planes.

"Flex" the Family by typing in new values for length, width, etc. and see if it "breaks" or behaves correctly.

Then save the family, and load into the Project.

[mcobb]

Thanks for this. I actually have done some other family editor stuff previously with double hung windows. A lot of smoke came out of my ears on that but after I was done it felt very empowering. It sounds like you are telling me to man up 🙂 and not rely on out of the box products for basic elements that might seem like they are provided by the manufacturer. I guess at some point you just have to make your own families if you want your drawing to behave the way you want it to. Is this right.

Really appreciate the response.

Mike

[cbcarch · Accepted solution]

Yep!