{"id":2102,"date":"2021-09-02T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camilion.dms3labs.cat\/2021\/09\/02\/quick-family-a-revit-family-maker\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:01:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:01:47","slug":"quick-family-a-revit-family-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/2021\/09\/02\/quick-family-a-revit-family-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Family: A Revit family maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn&rsquo;t it be great if you could create Revit 2D families <strong>with the same ease<\/strong> as making <strong>blocks<\/strong> in AutoCAD\u00ae?<br \/>\nWell, that was <em>exactly<\/em> our intention!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/QuickFamily\/\">Quick Family<\/a> is a <strong>free<\/strong> plugin for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/revit\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revit\u00ae<\/a> that lets you easily create 2D families with just one click!<\/p>\n<div class=\"toc\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#what-is-quick-family\">What is Quick Family<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#creating-a-north-arrow-symbol-and-an-m24-bolt-detail\">Creating a north arrow symbol and an M24 bolt detail<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#supported-2d-elements-and-categories\">Supported 2D elements and categories<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#conclusion\">Conclusion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Quick Family gif\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/video.gif\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-is-quick-family\">What is Quick Family<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/QuickFamily\/\">Quick Family<\/a> is a plugin for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/revit\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revit\u00ae<\/a> that is meant to simplify the process of creating 2D families on the fly while you&rsquo;re in the project: simply select the 2D elements you wish to convert to a family, click on the QuickFamily button and choose the name and category.<br \/>\nThe following example will explain the plugin usage.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"creating-a-north-arrow-symbol-and-an-m24-bolt-detail\">Creating a north arrow symbol and an M24 bolt detail<\/h2>\n<p>Suppose you find yourself with a collection of detail lines in a 2D view that represent a symbol or component.<br \/>\nThe best practice guidelines suggest you convert these lines to 2D families (annotations, detail components, profile, etc).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As a reminder, an <strong>annotation<\/strong> family is meant to be used for <em>abstract symbols<\/em>, such as north arrows, exit symbols, switch symbols, etc. while <strong>detail components<\/strong> are used to represent an <em>actual element<\/em> such as bolts, window frame sections, floor details, etc.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/QuickFamily\/\">Quick Family<\/a> greatly simplifies this process by allowing you to <strong>select the 2D elements<\/strong> you wish to convert to a family. A dialog is presented where you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose a <strong>name<\/strong> <code>(a)<\/code> for your family<\/li>\n<li>Choose a <strong>category<\/strong> <code>(b)<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Choose if you wish to specify the origin and delete the original 2D elements <code>(c)<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&hellip; and <em>voil\u00e1<\/em>!<br \/>\nAll your messy detail lines are transformed to a <em>neat<\/em> and <em>fully-native<\/em> Revit family.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Quick Family dialog\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_pic_01.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"detail lines converted to family\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_pic_02.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"supported-2d-elements-and-categories\">Supported 2D elements and categories<\/h2>\n<p>For a list of supported 2D elements and categories, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/QuickFamily\/docs\">documentation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"conclusion\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Creating 2D families in Revit has many times been time consuming and a necessary chore if you find yourself trying to keep consistency across your projects. With <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/QuickFamily\/\">Quick Family<\/a> you can reduce significantly the time needed for the creation of this kind of families.<br \/>\nThis is a free plugin, if you found it useful, please let us know so we can extend it&rsquo;s functionality in future releases!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn&rsquo;t it be great if you could create Revit 2D families <strong>with the same ease<\/strong> as making <strong>blocks<\/strong> in AutoCAD\u00ae?<br \/>\nWell, that was <em>exactly<\/em> our intention!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/QuickFamily\/\">Quick Family<\/a> is a <strong>free<\/strong> plugin for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/revit\/overview\">Revit\u00ae<\/a> that lets you easily create 2D families with just one click!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192,159,153],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howto-es","category-quickfamily-es","category-revit-es"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}