BIM WORKSHOP 1

BIM

Creating Families - 23rd October 2017

The session was on creating families and showed how these families can be loaded into a main file. 

Below are the notes taken on the session, and screen shots of the process.

Figure 1. Notes taken on class

Figure 2. Bench created as family

Figure 3. Bench created as family

Figure 4. Bench created as family

Figure 5. Bench families exported into mail file

The following is a small exercise I did on creating families using the Lynda tutorials. 

1- Creating a new family from a template.
After the file is open it is easier to have different views tiled on screen to see the elevations and 3d views while modelling on the floor plan view. In order to do this use the shortcut w+t to tile and z+a to zoom all. 

Figure 6. Tiles for different views created

2- Using Reference plans, parameters and constraints.
After drawing in the reference lines, add in dimensions using the shortcup DI for dimensions. After that add parameters to the total dimensions on x and y axises (length and width). 

Figure 7. Reference lines added

Figure 8. Dimensions added and parameters associated to the length and width

 3- Adding solid geometry

Figure 9. Adding Geometry

Figure 10. Adding Geometry

Figure 11. Adding additional elements to the model

Figure 12. Adding elements to the model

Figure 13. Adding material to the model

Conclusion

This session was helpful as it demonstrated how doors, windows and furniture can be modeled separately as a family. This eases the work and saves time as these families can be imported to various projects that I work on.