Revit Video Tip: How to Build Your Own Roof Truss Families
Posted on April 25, 2013 by Bill Knittle, Synergis Building Solutions Engineer:
Today I am posting my latest video, Building Your Own Roof Truss Families. Creating your own custom Roof Truss Family will save you time over the internal Truss tool. This video covers the benefits and the workflow to creating your own Roof Truss Family in Revit.
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Let us know if there are any other tips you need to reduce your clicks and your time in design, so you can stay ahead.
Thanks,
Bill
See some of Bill’s other posts:
- SET’g the Stage in Autodesk® Navisworks®
- Revit Tip: Worksharing between Revit and Revit LT
- Revit Tech Tip 26: Construction Modeling and Phasing
Bill has a four year Architectural Engineering degree from the University of Hartford. He has accumulated over seven years of industry experience at George J. Donovan AIA & Associates of Bedminster. During that time he managed the company’s CAD standards and mentored his colleagues while providing design, documentation, and in some cases, management services on a variety of architectural projects. Some of his most notable projects include the adaptive reuse of a two vacant structures into usable facilities. The first was an empty factory into leasable office condominiums and the second was the conversion of a dilapidated 81 year old silk mill into a local bank’s administration building. For the past five years at Synergis, Bill has been training, supporting, and implementing the Building Solutions offered from Autodesk, primarily the Revit applications. His accomplishments include many certifications which include AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture, and Revit Architecture. He is also an Implementation Certified Expert for Revit Architecture and Structure. Bill’s latest achievement was acquiring the MEP Systems Specialist certification from Autodesk which has propelled Synergis as a Platinum Service Provider. Bill’s interactions with customers have provided him with constant challenges that lead him to think outside the box. As a result, he has authored several technical solutions for publications which include AEC Bytes and Cadalyst as well as, produced several tips and tricks videos for the Synergis Website and You Tube channel. He enjoys consulting with a many different Architectural or Engineering firms struggling to implement the BIM process using the Revit application. Bill has been certified many times on Autodesk products, including Revit Architecture, Revit Structure, AutoCAD , and AutoCAD Architecture.
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You cn repost whatever you like. I am glad you find it useful.
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Thanks very much for your well thought out process in creating this type of family and your kindness in sharing it. It was very informative and helpful. I especially liked how void extrusions could be applied using yes/no parameters to control the appearance, as well as how the family types could be quickly modified via schedules.
Very informative. Hate the black background – very hard to see especially for an old guy like me. I am trying to learn Revit and would it be possible to obtain a copy of your family?