Downloading Revit Families

Question

Do you know where can i get high quality free Revit MEP family? Please give me some suggestion. Thanks for your time.

Response

• Autodesk provides its “Seek” site to download families.
• You can find many others with this Google Search.

Once you’ve downloaded the file you need to “load” them into your project. To do that one way is:

• Choose “Component” in the Architecture menu (it’s the icon in the upper right in the image below

Then choose “load” in the “Type Properties” dialog box that opens”

Blog Entries for Week-2 – How To Approach Them

As you’ll have discovered by looking at the description for Week-2, your topic is to look into the future and address what you expect to find, with each group assigned a different technical area.  I suggest that you keep at least the following in mind when performing your research and preparing your blog post.

• Define what you mean by “future” – I suggest 3-10 years, but will accept other periods if you are clear in your definition.
• Be explicit in what implications you think that future will have for the building industry.
• Be sure to include your sources so others can follow what you’ve found.
• Indicate your evaluation of the credibility of the source(s) and thus the prediction.
• BTW – I’m perhaps in a minority in finding Wikipedia often a good starting point for explorations of this sort.  The credibility of the articles there varies greatly, but often they’re quite plausible.

 

Blog Use and Tools

In AE-510 this year we’re going to make extensive use of blogs.  I’ll demonstrate their use in class so this post will serve as notes to which you can later refer.

Entering blog Posts

If you’re working with a blog created by someone else (as in this course), entering a blog post is essentially just a matter of typing in a heading and then the text of the post as in any word processor.  I will make you all co-editors of the blog once I have your gmail addresses from the survey.

The only thing that I request/require for this course is that you make extensive use of “Labels” (sometimes called “tags”).  That way it’s easy to find all the posts on a given topic, by a given person or a in a given week.  I’ll be searching for your work using those labels, which I’ve established already – you can see them in the upper right of the blog screen.  For each required post in the blog please apply at least the following labels:

• Week ### of the term
• Your Last Name
• The general topic of your post
• Any other labels you think are descriptive, including ones that you create yourself.

 

How you can enter blog Posts

The most straightforward way is directly in your web browser for the blog. You can do this from any computer or mobile device that has web access. 

• I suggest that you create your post in a word processor and then paste it in to the text format
  • Remember to apply the labels.

 

Following Blog Posts

The easiest way to keep up on what’s been posted in a blog is to use a “Blog Reader”, a tool devoted to providing you with the latest posts in whatever blog interests you.  The most common, and very easy to use is Google Reader.  There are many others for different devices.  I use gReader on my andorid phone and Feedler on my iPad.

 

Creating your Own Blog

If you decide to create your own blog you can do so directly on the web (Google’s Blogger is my choice, but there are many others). 

If you’re going to write many posts there are dedicated programs/apps that can ease the experience.  I use Microsoft’s “Live Writer”.  it’s a part of Windows Live Essentials.  There’s a mac version as well.