Manufacturers providing Revit MEP Families

[snowyweston]

Aaron pretty much nailed it.

& saved me the effort of writing it all!

[josephpeel]

Excellent. You should put this in a sticky as a checklist for everyone to refer to.

Face based. FB families CAN be places as Unhosted. Unhosted families cant be placed as FB.

This is the only thing I disagree with.. Level based can be set to Place on Workplane with one check box. In my experience so far, if its content for MEP engineers, we tend to avoid FB or hosted like the plague. This is because we always work with linked arch models and there is a lot of repetition (copy/paste) which is a real pain with FB. But I think it depends on how people work and both options are valid. If only it was easy to convert hosted to/from non-hosted...

[Robin Deurloo]

for all you Dutch people out there

www.mepcontent.eu

[Minotaur]

Man where are the pipes

Anybody using bimobjects?

[GMcDowellJr]

Shared, but as few as possible.

I would go the other way... no shared parameters. It's easy enough to hook up the family parameters to your own shared parameters that I'd rather do that than have to convert the shared parameters I don't want to family parameters.

Face based. FB families CAN be places as Unhosted. Unhosted families cant be placed as FB.

I'd also assume, based on when Aaron replied, that there might be a preference for unhosted content so it will perform better in groups... at least until Autodesk fixes the problems with hosted content and groups. Aaron if that's not correct let us know -- also, thanks for figuring that out!

[Scthompson]

We have developed some great tools that will help with Revit Family Creation. Please reply if you are interested. Thank you

[CarlEw]

Don't forget to add https://www.iacacoustics.global/hvac-attenuators/

They also supply duct sound attenuators, worth checking out for sure

[dmudd]

Such a cool thread

[hitechbimservices]

Hitech BIM Services - create Revit families or BIM objects for architectural ornamental products, louvers, grills, metal stairs, rails, etc., structural building products including columns, studs, foundation, pillars, roofs etc. and various plumbing fittings, drainage products, electrical wires, trays and cables.

[alemazzo9]

https://www.fondital.com/ww/en/bim

We create the BIM families of the products that our company produces. Boilers, radiators, Hot water storage tanks, solar panels and heat pumps.