Pfister Design is proud to
announce that it has recently been certified by Autodesk® to be a qualified developer of Revit® Manufacturing Content.  With Revit, manufactured products such as doors, windows, furniture, and even truss systems can be modeled as Revit families.  Revit families are then loaded into any Revit building model to be placed into walls, ceilings, and rooms as part of the toolkit of 3D objects available to the architectural team constructing a building information model. Architects designing a project with Autodesk Revit rely on the existence of expertly created families to help them quickly and accurately build a complete 3D model of the building they are designing.

Architectural product manufacturers that provide design information, CAD drawings and details, and specs have a much greater chance of getting their products specified in a building construction project.  Architects prefer to drop professionally created Revit objects into their design projects that they know will display properly and show up in the correct materials schedules.

Pfister Design, trained and certified by Autodesk to develop Revit Manufacturing Content, is developing Revit families for architectural product manufacturers.  Working from photographs, spec sheets, and existing CAD blocks or cells, Pfister Design can create intelligent objects that model actual architectural products available in catalogs or by custom order. For example, a window manufacturer may produce 16 types of window in hundreds of different sizes and configurations. Pfister Design can develop 16 Revit families that can be modified parametrically by the end user to reflect the actual sizes and options available by the manufacturer.

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Pfister Design also customizes CAD applications such as AutoCAD®, Autodesk Architectural Desktop®, and MicroStation® using the Visual Basic®, Visual Lisp®, and Java® programming languages.

Pfister Design can assist architectural firms to migrate to Autodesk Revit from traditional CAD products.  Using Revit on a pilot project is usually the best way to begin moving into the world of 3D parametric design.

Design tools such as CAD applications and add-ons to existing commercial CAD applications are a focus area for Pfister Design.  Applications for performing simulations, applications for managing large amounts of design-related data, and applications that display quantitative information are all areas of interest for Pfister Design as well.