Working with family templates

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Family templates are used to control certain aspects of your new family

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specific categories,

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geometry and parameters are set up to rapidly

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configure how the family behaves within a rivet project

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rev It has a library of family templates that you can begin with or

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you can use a generic family with your desired hosting style as a starting point

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rev, families have the file extension dot RFT

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family templates control how the family will be hosted in a project.

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Some templates offer a variety of versions based on different hosting options.

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However,

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you can select a generic model and select from the following hosting options,

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wall based ceiling based floor based roof based line based or face based.

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This model contains a simple set of geometry to practice hosting on.

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So here in green, we have a roof

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in yellow, you can see that we have a seeding

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in red are the walls and then in blue is the floor slab.

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You'd also see here that we have an in place

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family where we can practice hosting onto individual faces.

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Let's begin by creating a new family.

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Go ahead and select the file ribbon

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and on the fire ribbon hover over new

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and then go ahead and choose family.

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This will expose the new family dialogue box.

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And here you can see that we are viewing rev

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family template files.

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Most of the template files are fairly self explanatory.

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For example, if we scroll down to the structural area here,

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you can see that we have structural foundation,

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structural column,

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structural framing, beams and braces.

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So these are fairly obvious.

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However, let's imagine that we wanted to create a plate that was hosted onto a wall.

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A good option may be to select a wall based family.

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So if I scroll up here,

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you can see that I have generic model and then I have a variety of hosting options.

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So you'll see here, we have face floor line pattern based roof based and so on.

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And this example here, let's go ahead and select generic model wall based.

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We'll go ahead and select to open

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and the family template will open.

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We're now in the

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family editor

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and you can see here, we are currently looking down on a plan of our wall.

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And here we have a piece of text telling us the placement side

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we'll begin by creating an extrusion on this wall

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on the creates Rippon, select extrusion

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on the context ribbon in the draw panel, select rectangle.

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Here, I'm going to sketch a rectangle that's attached to the wall

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and in this approximate location here

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in this particular exercise,

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we're not too worried about getting the dimensions completely accurate.

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We're just interested in the hosting options

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to finalize the extrusion again.

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On the context ribbon, go ahead and select the finish edit mode button.

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So we're now ready to test this. In the project.

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Note on the modify ribbon,

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we have two tools to enable us to load this new family into our project.

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I can load into project which will keep this file open

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or I can load into projects and close,

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which will close down this family file but have it available in the project.

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I'm gonna go ahead and select load into projects and close.

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I'm prompted to save this file. I'm just gonna say no here.

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And we'll now see that we are in place component mode in rev's

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project environment.

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And you'll see here, we have our new family in the properties pad.

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Of course,

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when I move over blank space or inappropriate elements such as the floor or the roof,

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then I'll get no entry symbol.

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If I move over one of these red walls here,

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then I can start to place down my families.

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The family can be placed in 3d or of course, you can place it in plan.

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So I'm going to open up the structural plans level one

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to start the command again.

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On the structure ribbon, I'm going to select component

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and then the properties paddock, you have your family.

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Uh In my case, it's family six,

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but this will be an automated name that Rev's given his family.

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And then if I hover over a wall here,

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I can place these plates down.

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Ok, let's press escape to leave the place component command.

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And now we'll notice that if we select the wall and we move the wall,

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the plates move with the wall because in fact, they are hosted onto that wall

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and the same will happen here.

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So of course,

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if this plate was going to be something like a joist

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hanger or a cast in plate for a steel connection,

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this would be a very useful property.

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Again, in 3d, you can see our plates visible on the wall

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to change the elevation of these. We can simply select the plates like this.

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And again, in the properties pad it, you'll notice we have elevation from level.

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Let's say that I wanted these to be 6 ft.

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I could type in six. And of course, now you'll see those plates have changed level.

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But the key thing to understand here is that this family is hosted onto the wall.