Adding Families - Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 Essentials - page 129

exercise 5.5: Work with hosted Families
To begin, go to the topic's web page at www.sybex.com/go/
revit2015essentials , download the files for Chapter 5, and open the file
c05-ex-5.5start.rvt . The example file should open to the Level 1 view.
1. On the Architecture tab, select the Place A Component tool, and
then click Load Family on the ribbon. Navigate to the location of the
downloaded exercise family files, and load the ex-5.5hosted.rfa file.
2. In the room at the upper right in the layout, place five instances
of the ex-5.5hosted.rfa family on the horizontal partition wall
(Figure 5.9). Space the first and last fixtures roughly 3 ′ -0 ″ off the
wall ends, and set the other three equally spaced. Notice that you can
place these components only on a wall.
FIgUre 5.9 Placing hosted components and deleting the wall
3. Click the Modify button on the ribbon or press the Esc key to exit
the command, and then move the host partition wall up and down.
Observe how the components move with the wall.
4. Delete the partition wall where you placed the components in step 2.
The hosted plumbing fixtures are automatically deleted when the wall
segment is deleted (indicated in Figure 5.9). Use the Undo command
to restore the wall and hosted fixtures.
5. Next, you will use the unhosted version of the family. Start the Place
A Component command again, and click the Load Family button.
Navigate to the c05-ex-5.5unhosted.rfa file, and load it into your
project.