Continuing on our REVIT template journey, we are going to look at loading some typical door and window families. Although the standard REVIT door and window families aren’t horrible, they don’t offer the level of flexibility I like when jumping into REVIT. They are one of the first families I always load, so why not make sure some of our standards are at the ready.
The first task in getting our standard door and window families into our REVIT template is unfortunately a bit of house-keeping. Our digital library is organized according to MasterFormat 2012. The first folder doesn’t look so bad…
But, once you get past that pretty veneer, things start to get a little messy. For example, our 08_Openings folder is a hodge-podge of a few libraries merged together. Originally we had a manufacturers library and a cad block library. When we started to use REVIT, we realized that we didn’t want another library with duplicate information. Now we have one CSI organized library that is meant to house all of our product and material information.
So, technically step 1 of this process is determining the folder hierarchy.
Step 2, is to actually organize the folder to follow the rules!
Now, that our folders are organized (that took a while!)… We can insert them into our REVIT template and set them up for easy use.