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Clean and Up To Date Family Database

Clean and Up To Date Family Database

I posted this in my introduction, but I feel like it belongs here more. 

 

  • Right now, the need for individual engineers to create Families from the ground up is very high. Most manufacturers do not provide high-quality or up-to-date BIM objects, especially not for smaller projects like residential design.
  • This places the burden on the engineer at the worst possible time, too; you need Families of your equipment to get started modelling at all, so you frustrate yourself making amateur errors in Family creation, and then have a shaky foundation for the rest of the project.
  • A good solution to this would be to find experienced Revit users who are also experienced engineers to make these Families in advance. 
  • The problem is that most equipment manufacturers aren't quite on board with this idea, or aren't aware of it. I think it could be profitable, done right. The marketing alone would be worth the yearly hours put into maintaining a basic Family database, but the engineers at my firm have expressed that they'd pay good money for a well-designed database of clean MEP equipment Revit Families. 
  • I am aware Autodesk Seek exists, but these Families are not very clean and, again, are often out of date. 

 

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