Revit Template Sharing

[cadkiller]

Group;

As all of you know a good set of templates can make a world of difference with Revit.
The Revit templates that come out of the box are lacking much content. I haven't had much time to develop a good set of templates and have just been using the out of box ones with some minor changes.

It would be wonderful if all the Revit users shared their templates with one another.

I know this may be asking too much; but would anyone be willing to share their templates?

[DaveP]

I'd be happy to share, but we've found that there are so many company standards embedded in our Template, that it's not really worth much to everyone else. For example, we have all of our typical (uniquely named) sheets built in.

A couple of us in the Minnesota Revit User Group were going to collaborate on a door family , but we quickly found out that, since we do our Opening Schedules differently, we needed different parameters, and thus needed different families.

[Shaun v Rooyen]

Dave is spot on.
I consult to a number of Architectural firms and have built a different template for each one. The only common thing among them all is the line weights which adheres to a standard stipulated by our regional councils.

[cadkiller]

Okay I can understand about the custom sheet numbers, line weights and company title blocks that would be in your template; but there are many other things that can be extracted and transfered from a template. Some people may have custom templates for certain home styles (Mediterranean, Victorian, log cabin, etc.), certain building construction methods (steel, concrete, wood, etc.) or a custom template with a certain font style (which I have). If everyone did share their templates, we could just extract specific content from each one and transfer them to a new template without the custom sheet numbers, line weights and title blocks.

Anyway it was just a thought and I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.

Thanks for the replies.

[christo4robin]

Here is one that we are constantly evolving. Seems we always find information that is missing as we are working on projects, but then we update. So, for what it is worth...

BTW, This was developed for primarily for residential use.

[ok - file was too big to post. I'm willing to expose our top secret stealth template. I think sharing is a great idea to further the cause for all involved. Any suggestions for file exchange of these larger files? Someone's ftp site?]

[cadkiller]

Chris;

How big is the file?
You can email it to me and I can upload it to my website.

Thanks for the offer.

[Scott D Davis]

This is not our template, but our set of "standard" wall types. We don't put these into a template, rather cut-n-paste them into a project as needed. There are two plan views, one for Coarse, one for Medium. Each wall is constructed to real world dimensions, and has properties for sound transmission ratings. Each will tag with the appropriate information (per our company standard). There are wood stud, metal stud, masonry (CMU), Brick, and many variations woth various materials. Oh, and I uploaded our 8.1 version for those of you who haven't upgraded yet!

Let me know what you think!

(uh oh..too large a file also. We need a large upload location!)

[cadkiller]

I have an FTP site on my web site.
I never used and don't know how to set it up.
Does anyone know how to setup an FTP site?
I will try to figure it out in the meantime.

[archjake]

.... Some people may have custom templates for certain home styles (Mediterranean, Victorian, log cabin, etc.), certain building construction methods (steel, concrete, wood, etc.) or a custom template with a certain font style (which I have). If everyone did share their templates, we could just extract specific content from each one and transfer them to a new template without the custom sheet numbers, line weights and title blocks.

Anyway it was just a thought and I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.

Thanks for the replies.

We have found that it is too much work to keep more than one template. It is always evolving and we make minor changes on a weekly basis. The goal is to have all the little tweaks in the template so we can focus on modeling. We keep most of the families out of the template except the ones we use on every project. It helps keep the most up to date family loaded in the project if the user has to load the family from the company library.

[cadkiller]

Okay I finally figured it out and was able to get it to work.
You will need an ftp site viewer like FileZilla, WS_FTP, CuteFTP, SmartFTP, etc. to be able to upload and download files.

Host name- precisiondraftingllc.com

User Name- revit@precisiondraftingllc.com

Password- sharing

All lowercase.