1. Your competitive edge in a competitive world focused training.

2. Revit Management Training BIM Manager Survival Skills

3. focused training. Standard Families Session04

4. focused training.Topics: Standard File locations and setup Audit Process and Upgrades Best Practices for Creating Families

5. focused training. Family Content Folders Who has access Creation Modify the Family Create new types Settings>>Options>>File Locations

6. focused training. Audit Process – Increasing your Standard Library Checking for Usefulness Parameters File size (save as) Detail Levels and Visibility…

7. focused training. Best Practices for Creating Families Training Basic – Family types Advance – basic creation / updates Expert – formulas and trouble shooting

8. focused training. Who can Create Families BIM Manager, Project Manager, Senior Drafter One vs. Many debate The “Family Person”

9. focused training.Issues Categories Subcomponents (big issue) The “rabbit hole”

10. focused training. 2D – 3D Toilette Setting up for Speed

11. focused training. Family Content Folders Session04

12. focused training.Topics 3 mandatory & 2 optional Content Folders In-House Content External Content Optional Content Folders

13. focused training. 3 Mandatory & 2 Optional Content Folders Breaking this down into in-house content and external content

14. focused training. In-House Content

15. focused training. Company Standard Content

16. focused training.Information This content is COMPANY standard for all projects Use Families from this folder when your project dictates All Title Blocks and Annotation Families are stored here

17. focused training. Permissions / Responsibility This folder is READ ONLY The CAD Manager is responsible for all content ONLY approved content may be added to this Folder

18. focused training.Location DriveLetter:\Revit Building \ COMPANY Content Example: R:\Revit Building 2010 \ W2P_Content

19. focused training. Project Specific Content

20. focused training.Information During the development of a project you will have to create some custom families this is the location for all content created for the project Please follow Family creation guidelines when creating these families. These Families DO NOT have to be perfect; we may only have to use them once. If you need to pull a family from another project, DON’T Please advise the CAD Manager, who will approve the content to be moved into the Company Standard Content Folder

21. focused training. Permissions / Responsibility You may create, edit, and save any content in this folder You are responsible for any content you create here At the end of project, please advise CAD Manager of potential Company Standard Content This will allow us to build/improve our Company Standards

22. focused training.Location R: \ Revit Project Content Example: R:\2010 \ 100101\ Revit Project Content

23. focused training. External Content You don’t ever have to manage the default for Autodesk. If you ever modify any Autodesk content, then it has become Project content. If you modify download content you should create an audit process for it. Either create a sub folder under the “Downloaded Content” folder or some other process. Don’t just move it into your Project Content, you don’t know what it does; you don’t know what release it was created in.

24. focused training. Revit Default Content:

25. focused training.Information This is default content that is release specific. Every new release all of the content gets updated to the current version of Revit The more content you use from here the less content YOU will have to manage!

26. focused training. Permissions / Responsibility This folder is READ ONLY Nothing EVER gets saved here The CAD Manager is responsible for all content

27. focused training.Location DriveLetter:\Revit Building \Content Example: R:\Revit Building 2010\Content

28. focused training. Optional Content Folders Be aware of these possible content locations it’s up to you as the BIM manager to decide how you would like to handles them.

29. focused training. Downloaded Content - Project specific

30. focused training.Information If you want to keep your project “clean” I would suggest that you also have a folder for any family that is download from internet sites. Although most downloaded families should not cause problems with will at least allow you to audit your office’s download practice.

31. focused training. Permissions / Responsibility You may download and save any content in this folder You are responsible for any content you create here At the end of project, please advise CAD Manager of potential Company Standard Content This will allow us to build/improve our Company Standards

32. focused training.Location R: \ Revit Project Content Example: R:\2010 \ 100101\ Revit Downloaded Content Downloaded Manufacture Content - Project specific

33. focused training.Information By keeping your manufacture content separate you have create some things. You know what manufacture you are pulling content down from You create an Audit Process for their content The next time a manufacture comes by to sell you their goods, well. Show them your content.

34. focused training. Permissions / Responsibility You may download, and save any content in this folder You are responsible for any content you create here At the End of project, please advise CAD Manager of potential Company Standard Content This will allow us to build/improve our Company Standards

35. focused training.Location R: \ Revit Project Content Example: R:\2010 \ 100101\ Revit Content