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Building a Parametric Tree in Revit

by Kelvin Tam

In this course, we will learn to create a parametric Revit tree family. Software required: Revit 2014.

What you'll learn

In this course, we will learn to create a parametric Revit tree family. Throughout these lessons we will learn about the family behavior of a tree. We will learn to create the leaf as an adaptive component family. Also, we'll learn to create the branch as an adaptive component to which the leaf family is nested and repeated. Finally, we will learn to construct a tree family by nesting the branch family and repeating the instance along the rest of the tree. Software required: Revit 2014.

About the author

With a passion in BIM, Kelvin Tam (Registered Architect, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP) has been thinking out of the Revit package box for challenges that the program could hardly do and trying to push Revit Architecture to the very limit to satisfy architects' specific needs for design, documentation, and management. Kelvin is an architect, the Studio BIM Lead, as well as the Revit coach in an architecture office in Columbus Ohio. He is highly involved in setting up standards and protocols for the firm's... more

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