We’ve been working on some updates to our website over the last month, and late last week we finally pushed a few of them live. We brushed up our copy on various pages and tweaked a few layouts, including our Get a Quote page, all with the aim of making it easier for visitors to understand what we do and to get in touch with us.
Family File Naming Standards
A few days ago I gave a talk at the BIM Show Live in London. The title of my talk was Considerations on Family Creation. It was an update to a talk I gave this past summer at the LRUG (London Revit User Group) about key areas to review and define when creating or managing a Revit family library.
The Death of the Family Types
As most Revit users know, a family that has types can be created in one of two ways: you can create the types within the family (which I’ll call “built-in” here) or you can create the types in an external txt file called a type catalog. For quite some time now, I have been pondering over the use and future of built-in family types. The more families I do, the more built-in family types just don’t seem like the right way to go. They feel more like a shortcut.
Shared Parameter Standards Part 2 – What’s a Manufacturer to Do?
There are a number of standards offering a list of shared parameters for manufacturers to make use of when developing families for their products. But which standard should a manufacturer follow? I will argue that none should be followed, but that all should be taken into account.