Explore the step-by-step process of virtually furnishing an apartment room using Autodesk's Revit software. The piece delves into the specifics of selecting and arranging furniture pieces such as lounge chairs, ottomans, end tables, lights, and bookshelves.
Key Insights
- The article explains the process of selecting and adding furniture into a room using Autodesk's Revit software. Examples given include using the component shortcut to place combinations of lounge chairs and ottomans, and the use of visibility parameters to switch between different furniture types.
- Techniques such as using the detail line shortcut and the mirror pick axis tool for replicating and aligning furniture pieces are also discussed. The writer demonstrates how to use these tools to place two lounge chairs symmetrically in a room.
- The piece also covers the use of Autodesk's family library to load in other furniture elements such as tables and shelves, showcasing the flexibility of the software in accommodating different furniture sizes and configurations.
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For this room, I want to put a couple of chairs and maybe like an end table, and we can take a look at how that's going to go together. If we go to our insert tab and load family, I've got the Eames chair with an ottoman here that we can load in, so I'm going to hit open to load that in. And this comes with a handful of types as well that we can pick from.
So they've got the lounge chair with the ottoman, just the ottoman by itself, just the chair by itself, and different colors. And so I could bring in, I think I'll bring in these three, the ebony versions, and I'll click okay. And the reason I'm bringing all three of them in is it gives us the option if we want just the lounge by itself, the ottoman by itself, or we want the lounge and the ottoman together.
So I'll hit okay. And using that component shortcut, you can see this is the version that is the lounge and the ottoman. If I place that, you can see here, we can always switch it to the different options where it's just the lounge chair, oh, went to the wrong thing there, where it's just the lounge chair, or maybe we just want the ottoman.
And so we do have those options, because when you look at the way that this family was created, there's visibility parameters for each of the different family types here, to where it's just the chair, or it's the chair and the ottoman. And so in our case, we want just the lounge chair here. And I'll go ahead and rotate this.
And we're going to place it in the corner right here. And then I'll place another one here. And so what I could do is I could draw just a detail line.
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So just annotate detail line, or you can see keyboard shortcut DL. And I can actually just mirror this using the mirror pick axis tool to give me another one. And then we can adjust these using I'm using the directional pad on my keyboard, which is just left and right in this case here.
If you want to be more precise than you, you can definitely do that as well. And now we'll go ahead and place a kind of an end table here. And so if I go to insert, this one's going to be a load Autodesk family.
And I'll just search table. I think we have a few options to pick from here. So I like this one, the table trio, and it's kind of got that those cool legs on there.
And so we'll place this guy sort of in between these two and slide this over a little bit. And so like, let's say we wanted this one, you know, after looking at it, like, man, we'd be cool to have one with the Ottoman. Well, it's no big deal, right? I can just change the type.
And now we've got one of the Ottomans sitting in here. And if we wanted to give each person an end table, we could definitely do that, just copy that over. And so now we've got a little bit of a lounge space, but we definitely need some lighting.
And so I like this, the idea of this light in here for that. And it could be in the corner, kind of rotate it, maybe on a bias again. And so now we've got a couple of lounge chairs and tables and some lighting in this room.
And so the next thing we need is a bookshelf. And if we go to Insert, load Autodesk Family again, because I know there's a shelf in this library, I can just search shelf. And we've got a few different options.
There's kind of this magazine rack. There's a very generic bookshelf here, which should work for us here. And I can click on that one and load it in.
And what's nice about this is it's pretty flexible with the size. And so this one is 15 × 72, but that's going to be way too big for us here. And so I could reduce the size.
And again, this one is also a length based on the instance parameter. So I can make it like three feet to reduce it down also, so we don't create a really tight corner here. And so now we've got a few bits of furniture in this room.
And so that was fairly quick. We went through and added many furniture into this entire apartment. And so we went from totally unfurnished to a furnished apartment in a couple of videos there.
