{"id":637,"date":"2014-12-02T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T10:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.ca\/auwebsite\/?p=637"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:19:33","slug":"process-of-developing-family-framework-in-revit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/blog\/process-of-developing-family-framework-in-revit\/","title":{"rendered":"Process of developing family framework in Revit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before describing and discussing the right way of developing a family framework in Revit I would like to ask my readers what is family framework. &nbsp;Well family framework is nothing but the supporting structure of a family which is constructed out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/blog\/what-are-reference-planes-and-reference-lines-used-for\/\" title=\"What Are Reference Planes And Reference Lines Used For\">reference plane<\/a> and parameters which are later on used by Revit users for drawing family geometry. For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/revit-family-creation.php\" title=\"Revit Family Creation\">developing family framework Revit<\/a> users are required to define family origin which means designers have to define the insertion point of those elements that are created by them with the family.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Family framework is then created by Revit users with the assistance of reference planes and reference lines.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Process of developing family framework in Revit<\/strong><\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For developing appropriate family framework Revit users are required to define family origin at the first place. Family origin is often defined once a component family is created by Revit users.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When family origin is defined by Revit users two reference planes are often intersected with each other in a view.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When it comes to defining the family origin with the assistance of reference planes, Revit users can easily govern and control reference planes by changing their properties after selecting them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>However, with the assistance of various family templates families can also be developed by Revit users with predefined origin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But there are some families wherein Revit users are required to set origin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Once family origin is thoroughly defined by users they are then required to lay out reference planes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reference planes must be sketched by Revit users before they start drawing family geometry.&nbsp; This is because sketches and geometry can be easily snapped by Revit users to reference planes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After this Revit users are required to define properties for reference plans. &lsquo;Is Reference&rsquo; is one of the property of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/blog\/what-are-reference-planes-and-reference-lines-used-for\/\" title=\"What Are Reference Planes And Reference Lines Used For\">reference planes<\/a> and if this property&nbsp; is set by users it indicates or specifies that reference planes can be easily dimensioned when a family is placed into a project by users.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After this reference lines can be used by Revit users for creating and developing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/blog\/revit-parametric-families-check-out-the-process-of-creating-component-family\/\" title=\"Revit Parametric Families Check Out The Process Of Creating Component Family\">parametric family<\/a> framework. Elements of a family can be easily attached to a parametric family framework.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After this angular dimensions of a family can be controlled with reference lines by Revit users.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Revit users are now required to dimension reference planes and lines which end up our process of creating family framework.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before describing and discussing the right way of developing a family framework in Revit I would like to ask my readers what is family framework. &nbsp;Well family framework is nothing but the supporting structure of a family which is constructed out of reference plane and parameters which are later on used by Revit users for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5669,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/5669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}