Learn how to add furniture to your Revit design space effectively. This article provides step by step instructions on selecting and placing furniture objects like tables and chairs to fit specific room layouts including conference rooms and reception areas.
Key Insights
- The process of adding furniture in a design space in Revit involves using the component tool to search for and select the appropriate furniture object. The object can then be positioned to fit the space perfectly.
- The article advises on how to select the right size of furniture for each room, illustrating this with the placement of conference tables of varying sizes in different rooms.
- The article also provides tips on how to set up a reception area, including loading a reception desk from the Autodesk family and positioning it appropriately, as well as setting up chairs for both the receptionist and waiting area.
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Next we're going to go ahead and add the rest of the furniture to our space here and we're going to use the conference room table to fill in these and then we'll put a reception desk in here. And so we're going to start from the top here just using our component tool and then I'll go ahead and just use that search bar to find our table. And so we've got many different tables to use from here.
This top room is going to need one of these smaller ones so we'll try that 48 × 96 and that looks pretty good. I'll just kind of center it in the space. That table would be too small for this space here so I'm going to go ahead and go to one of these larger ones and we can go one more here.
And so this one is the 48 × 144 and just like anything else we can we can place these to be exactly where we want them. So I can set it to be in the center of the room and then I can give myself some offsets for where I want it to be located going in both directions. These ones look pretty good so I'm going to go ahead and run with that.
And then in here this one's a little big so we're going to downsize it to that 120,48 × 120. And then I'll position this one and we've kind of got a center point here with this mullion so I'll use that. And that looks pretty good.
So that's the furniture for our conference rooms and then now we're going to go ahead and put it in for our reception. And so this is a good point to you know if there's things we're not using anymore like these reference planes we can go ahead and get rid of them. The reference planes aren't as big of a deal as the dimensions that we put to them because the dimensions will definitely print.
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So just keep that in mind. Now we can put in a reception desk and we don't have a family for that immediately so we can go to the load Autodesk family. And I'm going to go ahead and take it back to the home and then I'll just search for reception desk and hit ENTER and looks like we've got one.
We'll hit select that one and load it in and then we can position it to an area that makes sense for our project. And I think somewhere kind of in this area should work out pretty well. I think I'm gonna line it up here like that and then the person working reception needs a chair as well so we should probably put one of those in.
I can select that chair by using tab and then I can hit CS for create similar and then I can just position the chair along the arc. You can see here when I hover over it and hit space kind of locks it into the arc there and it'll move around that circle. And so I'll just go ahead and place the reception desk there and then if we wanted some similar chairs as kind of like the waiting area we can put those in here as well.
And if we wanted to we could go through that huge library of furniture that's available to us just right out of the box from Revit. If I do the load at Autodesk I can go through that that hierarchy for furniture and then seating and you can see there's a whole bunch of different chairs that we can select from to create that lobby furniture even the Viper chair which looks interesting. But you could go ahead and create a lobby layout that's much more interesting than the one that I just demonstrated.
Now that we've got our reception area set up, our conference room set up, and everything else is looking pretty good we can go ahead now and start defining our different spaces with the rooms and then that'll give us that ability to create that color coding that we've used in previous classes.
