Modeling Question

[joseph alexander]

I'm going through the tutorials for Revit. To make families it appears that you have to model in 3D using the Revit modeling interface. (which is slow). Has anyone had success modeling outside of Revit and importing in geometry to make a family with constraints?

-joe

[czoog]

I'm going through the tutorials for Revit. To make families it appears that you have to model in 3D using the Revit modeling interface. (which is slow). Has anyone had success modeling outside of Revit and importing in geometry to make a family with constraints?

-joe

 

 

Any import you make will be static, so no constraints. You *could* create several versions of the object in the package of you choice then make sperate families for each of them, then nest them into another famiy and swap them out interactive via the family type selector parameter.... but..you will run into graphi display issues and the like.

 

you are MUCH better off just modeling them in revit. It gets fast once you get the hang of it

 

-Z