{"id":311,"date":"2018-07-16T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/bsi_new_design\/blog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2018-07-16T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T10:02:00","slug":"process-of-creating-subcategories-for-a-family-in-revit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teslabimservices.com\/blog\/process-of-creating-subcategories-for-a-family-in-revit\/","title":{"rendered":"Process of creating subcategories for a family in Revit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before describing how to develop subcategories for a family in question, it is really important for us to understand what exactly family subcategories are. Well, a family subcategory is developed by Revit users for controlling line pattern, line color, line weight and geometry material that is assigned to a family in question. In other words, family subcategories are created by the design team for governing the display of different geometric components associated with a family.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whenever family subcategories are defined by users they are required to specify its cut pattern materials and surface for the sake of having a drafting pattern. The model pattern can never be applied by Revit users to a family.&nbsp; As far as drafting pattern is concerned Revit users must know that only flat and cylindrical surfaces can have it.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When family geometry is created by users&rsquo; suitable components must be assigned to family subcategories. Though there is no dispute over the fact that Revit incorporates predefined subcategories for some families. But then there a lot of families for which predefined subcategories are not available in Revit and hence users have to create subcategories for those families.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The process of creating family subcategories<\/strong><\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For creating family subcategories in Revit its users have to click on to &lsquo;Manage&rsquo; tab then to &lsquo;Setting panel&rsquo; and finally to &lsquo;Object styles.&rsquo;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Users are then required to select a family category. A family category can be selected by users by approaching &lsquo;Model Objects&rsquo; tab that is located in &ldquo;Object Styles&rsquo; dialog under &lsquo;Categories panel.&rsquo;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After that Revit users are required to click &lsquo;New&rsquo; under Modify Subcategories.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Users are then suggested to enter a new name, for &lsquo;Name&rsquo; in the new Subcategory Dialog.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Revit has such a mechanism that it automatically selects a suitable category for the subcategory in question.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After this users must click the &lsquo;OK&rsquo; button.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Users are also required to assign line pattern, line color, and line weight etc. for the subcategory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;Values must be assigned for line pattern; line color and line weight etc. after which users are suggested to click &lsquo;OK.&rsquo; This finally completes our process of creating family subcategories for a family in question.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this way, appropriate family subcategories can be created by Revit users. Check out our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslabimservices.com\/family-content-creation-services.php\" title=\"Family Content Creation Services\">Revit&nbsp;family creation services<\/a>&nbsp;now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before describing how to develop subcategories for a family in question, it is really important for us to understand what exactly family subcategories are. Well, a family subcategory is developed by Revit users for controlling line pattern, line color, line weight and geometry material that is assigned to a family in question. In other words, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslabimservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslabimservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslabimservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslabimservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslabimservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslabimservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslabimservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslabimservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslabimservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslabimservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}