Recognize family workflows

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in this video,

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you'll learn how to nest families in other families

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and control whether or not they are shared.

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We will also discuss when to use an in place family versus creating a low doble family

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nested families are simply low doble families

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that are loaded into other laudable families.

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For example,

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I'll select a door in this project

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and then click edit family

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to open that door family in the family. Editor

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here in this door family.

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I'll select a door handle

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and we can see that edit family appears on the contextual ribbon tap.

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This means that the door handle

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is a nested family

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because it's a low double family that's been loaded into this door family.

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I'll click edit family again

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and now will open the door handle family

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in the family editor.

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This is another laudable family that's been created with various

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geometric forms and then loaded into the door family.

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I also want to draw your attention to the shared parameter.

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This is a built in parameter for families.

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And as you can see there in the tool tip when it's enabled rev,

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it will recognize the family separately from the host family.

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So I'm gonna close these families

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and then we'll go back to the project and take a look at what that means.

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So here in this original project file,

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I will open the door schedule and we can see that there are two doors

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that appear in the schedule because there's simply two doors here in the project.

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If I go to another exercise file

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that has that door handle family set to shared. Now we can see what that looks like.

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I'll open up the same

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door schedule

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and now we can see that the door handles appear in the schedule as well.

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So if we go back to those families and we'll open them up in the family editor

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and once again I'll open up the

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door handle family

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and for it's the same family, but in this case shared is enabled.

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So when that is eventually loaded into the project and

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in this case it's a nested family and its shared

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then rev it will recognize it independent of the door

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family even though it's loaded in that door family.

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So that's what you need to be aware of when you're working with nested

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families is that you can set them to shared and rev it will recognize them

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as an independent family so that it will appear in a schedule and

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it's that's still dependent upon the category that is used in the schedule.

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Alright, let's switch gears a little bit and talk about

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in place families.

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Once again, there are three kinds of families in rev.

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It there are system families, low doble families and in place families.

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An in place. Family should be used for a unique situation in a project.

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For example,

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in this lobby we have a stair and let's say there was some type of

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custom desk that was going to be built in front of or around the stair.

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What we could do is on the architecture tab in the build panel,

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expand the components split button and click model in place

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and then we can choose the category that we want the in place. Family to belong to.

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So if we say furniture and then click. Ok. And then we can give it a name.

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I'll just leave it at the default name and click. Ok.

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And now here in the project we have the family editor tools available

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so we can create a custom family right here in the project.

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But once again, that's going to be custom to this specific project.

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If that family may need to be used in another project,

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then you will want to create a low doble family.

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That way, it can then be loaded into multiple projects.

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But if you want to create an in place family,

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all of the same tools are available to you.

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That would be available in the family editor and

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you can create it right here in the project.