Module 2 - Points to Ponder

What are the primary goals of creating a building model? Who are the key stakeholders?

• Building modeling helps to make a project feel realizable. Words and even sketches hold no candle to seeing and entering a to-scale digital space. Stakeholders are primarily the people who are seeking to create or have someone else create a space. Stakeholders may also include those being paid to model.

Many door and window manufacturers provide Revit families for doors and windows that you can specify for your building design.

• What is the advantage to manufacturers for providing these families? (it's not free to create and provide them...)
• The advantage is definitely monetary, both directly through purchasing the digital products to use and long term for those who come to really like the digital products they see mounted on a building.
• What is the benefit to you as the designer of using these manufacturer-provided families? Is there an advantage to using them versus the families provided in the Revit library?
• You get to see what’s real and how the real products that you come across when purchasing materials, like windows and doors, and how they interact with spaces you’re imagining. The families on Revit are helpful placeholders, but the real products out there are important to have handy.

What are the advantages of getting the Revit component families (for furniture, equipment, and fittings) directly from the manufacturer versus from an online sharing website like RevitCity.com?

• It allows you to see how real products fit into spaces that you’re seeking to potentially create. This is way more helpful than generic furniture, which act like placeholders.