I’ve been wanting to write about a technique I used recently while working on some families that allows for the symbols nested in them to be moved around independently of the modeled family. I learned about the process from R. Robert Bell, who explains the problem-solution as follows:
First Look at a New Standard for Food Service Equipment
Last week I found out about a standards project for foodservice equipment Revit families. Having just completed a couple food service equipment families for a customer, I thought it would be good to dig into the standard and see if I could apply it in the future. I checked out their Foodservice Industry Revit Task Force and began reading their published standard for foodservice equipment families. The standard looks like a great first step and one I hope other industry groups will follow. It builds on top of Autodesk’s Revit Model Content Style Guide available through Seek, which is a good place to start. As I reflected on the food service families I’d just delivered, however, I found a few areas that I think miss the mark when it comes to manufacturer-sponsored content. I thought I’d share those here as I think they could apply to many other industries as well.
Materials Display Standards
Below there are two images I included in a recent blog post. Do you know those photo hunt games they have in bars? Well then, can you spot the difference?
On Strengths and Weaknesses (in the Revit Family Editor)
There are plenty of posts around the net that cover reference planes in detail. So I’ll skip the obvious for the most part, and address what’s not being covered anywhere else. Reference lines, model lines, symbolic lines and masking regions are left for future posts.