This course is intended to help those who work in the
live performance and entertainment industry better understand Autodesk Revit's asset development
known as “Families”. The course will utilize the tools used to create basic
geometry but will focus more on how to make that geometry work for us and adapt
to different types within a family.
The goals of the course are as follows:
- Gain an understanding of Revit families
- Have an intermediate knowledge of how to flex a family and develop family types.
- Understand how to nest base families to create complex families using arrays and rotation.
- Understand how formulas can make flexing automated and how to protect the formulas so the families don't "break".
- Understand how to model a family in place while working in the project space.
This is a live virtual course. Each training session will take place online via Zoom, and will last 1 to 1.5 hours each. We provide 1 training session per week, and students should anticipate an additional 1-3 hours of exercises outside of the online training. While we offer the syllabus as a guide, learning may be customized to the classes needs.
About our virtual courses:
- While Performance BIM will be
presenting, this is not intended as a “lecture course.”
- Training should be a dialog, and
discussions / questions / alternate viewpoints are encouraged.
- If a question covers a topic that
requires more extensive discussion, we may request to table that until another
session.
- The session organization serves as
a template and may be adjusted based on project needs.
Students must be proficient in and/or completed the Introduction to Revit for Theater course. Students must have knowledge of how the Revit modeling environment works prior to enrolling.
Each participant must have the following software packages
available during the sessions to participate in real time:
- Autodesk Revit v2025 (full version)
- Autodesk AutoCAD (v2020 or later)
- A Zoom account and Zoom application installed on the computer (not web browser based)
Participants should have access to a minimum of 2
screens – 1 to watch the presentation, and 1 to run the software in real time.
