Tuning Up Your Revit Template (w/ Special Guest Aaron Maller)

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Awesome to hear others starting lineweights at 3! I started this my second year into Revit after stumbling onto the pattern reservation by accident and felt like a madman explaining it to others until I found the forum guide.

[@nicolapeccin3759]

Made my template a few weeks before learning that. Never had the energy to go back and fix it...

[@AussieBIMGuru]

@deividaskukis1951 been so long that i wouldnt know unfortunately. Basically, start at 3.

[@jgkobus]

Just found this and watched for first time. Fantastic Video! I am part of our BIM Revit Template team, and I'm going make these points. We are rebuilding our template now, and you've inspired me to rethink some of the things we are doing. WOW! I've doing Revit for 13 yrs, and been a BIM manager for portion of that time. Great stuff! Also, totally agree with door instance. Been using that method for a few years now. Aaron Maller is a genious, and he might have changed my mind on a few things.

[@TheRevitKid]

Cheers James! So glad you tuned in and enjoyed!

[@TMUngureanu]

Extremely useful tips, especially the last one about 1-2 line weights. Didn't know about it. :) Thank you!

[@travisvaughan567]

Thank you for doing this. Loved watching even if it was a coupe of days after the fact!

[@utopianarch6802]

Great Session, Just starting out creating my company template. I would love to see a Part 2. I was fascinated by the power of filters use, i would like to know more about how to set up a proper template.

[@AussieBIMGuru]

I wrote an article for my business that might provide some ideas; www.bimguru.com.au/post/well-built-revit-template Hope it helps.

[@moutazsherif383]

I wonder how to make the hatches for the various fire rating walls shown at 13:27. Specially the solid portion of the pattern.

[@TheRevitKid]

He's using Filters to control how the walls look per fire rating. I had Aaron on the show to talk about filters (here: therevitkid.blogspot.com/2020/08/filters-in-revit-ultimate-guide-waaron.html) and I will also be creating a course on filters for beginners, soon!

[@moutazsherif383]

@@TheRevitKid I know about filters and I've seen the live video as well. Which is really helpful. Thanks for your effort and insight. But what I was asking about is the hatch itself not the filter.. I tried using make hatches from pyrevit, but it doesn't work with solid only lines.. So, I was wondering how Aaron managed to create the solid parts in the hatch itself.. I also tried doing hatch with multiple lines close to each other.. But it works only when thin lines is deactivated.. So, is there's a better way to achieve this hatch!??

[@TheRevitKid]

@@moutazsherif383 I'll have to ask Aaron. My guess is that it is the line trick as you mentioned... But, I don't want to talk for him...

[@makerbobdesigns365]

On the topic of linked in grids and levels, I use a filter to hide all that aren't mine. It adds a filter, but obviously extra filters are not a problem for the Parralax team. I try to avoid going into the link settings whenever possible.

[@Andrew.Branch]

Pro Tip; use Ceilings for Floor Finish modeling instead of Roofs. They build up from the constraint as well but have the benefit of automatically creating and associating boundaries to surrounding partitions. This is also a safer category to have turned off within (non Finish) Floor Plan View Templates as you may need to see a Roof Below in some plan views.

[@BradleyFrench]

Love your video - I wish my firm would hire a BIM manager or allow me to build the Template. We have people that are still drawing detail lines for floor patterns. I want to pull out the few hairs I have left!

[@Jason52597]

Wow I love this stuff

[@studioEARL]

First of all, THANKS to Aaron and Jeff for doing this. About 1:10 in, Aaron said we could have Parallaxes keynote file, I've tried to reach him, but can't. Is there any way someone can share that file if they got it? This would be huge for our small studio.

[@TheRevitKid]

Thanks for tuning in. I will reach out to Aaron. He just had his 3rd child so he may be on a bit of a paternity leave so it may take some time . Stay tuned…

[@studioEARL]

@@TheRevitKid Thanks, lots, kids do take up some time.. I'm done with new ones. phew... I wouldn't miss your videos. finally got my foot in a small firm (a yr ago) and they were a Acad shop that jumped into Revit, it's admirable how they do it, but it's mostly "out of the box" ... trying to get us better templates/practices while trying to take care of the workload... You, Nicolas (Revit Pure), and a few others have really made a difference... Thanks.

[@TheRevitKid]

@@studioEARL cheers man! Good luck with the new gig !

[@zagros90]

how to make those, legends, templates titles and annotations, any tutorial?

[@amybeckenham]

personally. I would love part two around now :D

[@TheRevitKid]

We might have to make that happen… next season I’ll see if Aaron is game!!

[@amybeckenham]

@@TheRevitKid 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😍

[@kasperkorea]

Good Stuff

[@ancellingael3963]

Hi, thanks for this amazing video, very helpfull ! I've a question about Aaron's revit interface, how could he color his tab in orange? Is it an add in ?

[@TheRevitKid]

ancellin gael - yes, that is something a member of his team created ... I believe it is only available within the parallax tools kit... I will ask.

[@thumDerr]

@@TheRevitKid pyRevit also has this function, but afaik it is from parallax originally, as it is noted in pyRevit. Anyway, huge shout-out to Ehsan for this superior addin!

[@skyeparker5822]

Part 2 on titleblocks please

[@TheRevitKid]

Thanks for tuning in! Duly noted on the title-blocks discussion.

[@nandiniray8749]

I hit like the moment you dethroned 'Category'. Its been bothering me for soooo loooong!

[@TheRevitKid]

I know, right??! Thanks for watching!

[@ne9man714]

Even we had super complex templates to start with, but at the end of the line we decided it's of no use creating such complex templates, we are in the process of making it as simple as possible with fewer views.

[@Pennyman2001]

Agreed, keep it simple. I appreciate how deep these guys go. I find it's easier to start with a basic template and build up if needed. You'll beat yourself up trying to standardize Revit. Great content, been following Jeff for a while. Learned tons in the past 12 years. 👍

[@72wildside]

The title says "Tuning up your Revit template. I feel like this video was just two guys going off on different sunbjects and not actually showing how to tune up your template as the title says

[@TheRevitKid]

I am sorry you feel that way... but, I would challenge that if you did watch the entire video and viewed all of the incredibly useful tips, standards, and tricks Aaron demonstrated in his templates and did not think ANY of them would make your template better you... must not have really watched??

[@Ravenall]

How large is your template. Lol