Videos: Customize Revit

Define settings, use templates to enforce office standards, and improve productivity.

Create basic or custom fill patterns for use in material definitions or for filled regions.

Apply fill patterns to material definitions, filled regions, or as a visibility and graphic override.

Define the properties of a material to change its graphic display, rendering appearance, thermal properties, or structural properties.

Create a library, add materials and assets to the library, and load the library into your project.

Create custom line styles and use them in your views.

Use the Object Styles and Line Weights dialogues to control line weights in models.

Change unit options for a project.

Change the user interface to hide or display portions of the ribbon according to your needs.

Use view templates to apply settings consistently in multiple views.

Enable Temporary View Properties to make changes to a view that has a view template applied without affecting the view template.

Add a custom parameter to a view and use it to create a custom browser organization.

Select a family template that contains the appropriate geometry and behavior to aid in creating your model.

Use a reference line and an angular parameter to rotate geometry in a family.

Control the visibility of geometry in families with multiple configurations by adjusting visibility parameters.

When working with families in the Family Editor, you can sketch a 2D profile to create an extrusion.

While working with families in the Family Editor, you can use the Sweep tool to create a 3D form.

Use the Swept Blend tool to create a 3D form based on two 2D profiles and a path segment.

Create and modify a void in an existing form.

Create a tag family from a template and add labels to the tag to read parameters from the tagged element..

Create and load profile families into a project so they can be used to define geometry of elements.

Control tagging and scheduling of loadable families by using nesting and the Shared parameter.

Associate parameters from a host family to a nested family to control geometry in the nested family.