Creating Revit Families

About this course

Every object in a Revit model — doors, furniture, walls, roofs — is built on the family system, so the ability to create your own families determines how fast and how well a BIM team works when stock libraries fall short. This course from the RDSIC training centre of the Institute of Information Technology in Civil Engineering — Hanoi University of Civil Engineering (HUCE) teaches that skill systematically.

The programme moves from the nature of System, Component and In-Place families to full parametric modelling in the Family Editor. Learners build the most common families by hand — title blocks, annotation symbols, doors, windows, furniture, railings — then progress to nested assemblies and one-off in-place components, finishing with the know-how to run a company-standard library.

What you will learn

• Tell System, Component and In-Place families apart and know when to use each.
• Work confidently in the Family Editor with reference planes, dimensional constraints and parameters.
• Create 2D families for documentation: title blocks, annotation symbols, keyplans, detail components and profiles.
• Model flexible parametric 3D families for columns, doors, windows, furniture and railings.
• Combine nested families into complex door and window assemblies and sun-shading elements.
• Organise, name and share a family library so a whole team can reuse it across projects.

Who should enrol

• Architects and engineers already using Revit who want independence from downloaded libraries.
• BIM specialists tasked with standardising their company's family library.
• Modellers aiming to raise both the speed and accuracy of their work.
• Architecture and engineering students building an advanced skill for job applications.

Detailed syllabus

1. Family fundamentals in Revit

• What a family is and where it sits in the Revit model structure
• The three groups: System, Component and In-Place families
• Getting to know the Family Editor environment
• Principles for organising, managing and reusing families in a project

2. Working with System Families

• Common System Families: walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, stairs
• Organising and controlling System Family types in a project file
• Creating, editing, duplicating and removing System Family types
• Hands-on practice with Basic Wall and Stacked Wall types
• Defining floors and roofs with custom build-ups
• Decorative details using reveals and sweeps
• Sharing configurations between projects with Transfer Project Standards

3. Component Families at a glance

• Typical Component Families: doors, windows, furniture, columns, equipment
• The standard workflow for starting a Component Family from a template
• A preview of the advanced families covered later in the course

4. Building 2D families

• Annotation symbols: room tags, elevation and section marks
• Designing a drawing title block
• Keyplans as Generic Annotation families
• Construction details with Detail Components
• Sample metric profiles for use in other elements

5. Parametric 3D families

• Structural columns driven by parameters
• Furniture such as shelves, tables and chairs
• Windows and doors with dynamic parameter sets
• Railings, handrails and balusters

6. Advanced and nested families

• Nesting families to form complex door and window assemblies
• Parametric sun-shading and louvre elements

7. In-Place families for special elements

• Creating and editing families directly inside the project
• When an In-Place family is the right choice for one-off geometry
• Practice modelling 3D massing with in-place geometry tools

Learning format

The course runs over eight evening sessions in a classroom in Hanoi, with occasional intakes in Ho Chi Minh City on the centre's schedule. Every session is hands-on: learners model families from real project documents while the instructor reviews each result on the spot.

Certificate of completion

On finishing the programme and the final practical exercise, learners receive a certificate from the Institute of Information Technology in Civil Engineering — Hanoi University of Civil Engineering. Call 0989 427 809 for advice and class placement.

Promotions and discounts

Group tuition discount — applied to every group member and the group leader:

Note: this discount cannot be combined with any other promotion.

Discounts for taking multiple courses at RDSIC

• Take two courses in parallel and get 10% off the tuition of each course.
• Your second course at RDSIC is 10% off.

Deferral policy

• In-person courses: deferral of up to one year from the date the centre confirms it.
• Online courses: no deferral; as an exception, students who have attended less than 50% of the course may be granted a deferral of up to one year.

Related courses

• In-house Revit Training
• Revit for Electrical Substation Projects
• Revit API Programming
• Six Most Popular Revit Courses (bundle)

Browse the full list at Construction Courses.