Chapter 13. Advanced Topics

This chapter touches on three topics in Revit that are beyond the basics. These topics are explored in more detail in our Mastering Revit Architecture 2010 book (Sybex, 2009), but knowing the fundamentals about them early on can be useful as you gain more experience with Revit.

In this chapter, we will review the basics of the Family Editor, the power of the Design Options toolset, and how to implement worksharing across a team. The Family Editor allows you to create and edit components in Revit. The Design Options tool lets you make design variations and alternatives within the same project in Revit. Worksharing enables you to divide Revit's logical building model in a way that allows more than one person to work on ...

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