Please Note: Our Discussion forums have moved. If you would like to discuss this article or any aspect of Revit, please do so at www.forums.revit.biz We will be more than pleased to help you with ANY Revit query. Returning to our component in the Family Editor, let’s select “Family Types” from the Design Bar…. 
Now we’re getting down to business! This is the “Family Types” control panel. 
You can see that we have access to ALL the Parameters in our Family- the parameters that were already pre-defined in the Family Template AND the three new parameters that we have just created. So let’s go ahead and add some Types. Select “New” from this control panel and give a name for the new Type. I’m going to leave the name as the default “Type 1”- but you’ll obviously want to use a more descriptive name for your Types. 
Repeat the above process to create 2 more Types- named “Type “ and “Type 3” respectively. Now that you have your 3 Types, you will see them all listed in the drop-down Name selector- (staying with the “Family Types” control panel)….. 
And now all we have to do is select each Type in turn and set the parameter values as we wish. Go ahead and create three totally different boxes by setting the length, width and height parameters for each of the three Types. All we need to do now is load the component into a Project and start using it. Let’s hit “Load into Projects”- make sure you have a new, blank Project open so that you may load the component. Once you are in the Project, hit “Component” from the “Basic” Design Bar menu…. 
Now take a look at the Type Selector on the Options Bar…. 
You will see our Component listed. The Family is called “Family1” (because we didn’t call it anything specifically!) and the default Type (“Type 1”) is selected. Activate the drop-down menu to see all three Types….. 
You can see our three Types listed at the top of the list. Go ahead and place one instance of each of the three Types into the Project. This is what we see in 3D…. 
And there we have it. ONE Family, THREE Types. The box is still fundamentally a box, no matter which Type we look at- but the use of pre-defined Types makes the use of components both quicker and more flexible. I hope you have found this article on Revit Type useful? If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to ask them in our Forums.
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