Microsoft Video Editor. You probably have this free tool embedded in your Photos app, but if you don't, you can download it from the Microsoft Store for free. https://www.howtogeek.com/355524/how-to-use-windows-10s-hidden-video-editor/
I have various lectures on the Web.
Villa Rotunda Revit tutorial.
Parametric families in Revit tutorial.
Start developing and documenting your architectural language. Create a dictionary and a primer on syntax. Create some poems in your language. We can start looking at them next week.
Many architectural theorists see architecture as a fundamental, primordial language. An architectural style corresponds to a particular language or dialect.
Linguistic theory suggests that, at the highest, most abstract level, a language makes use of three concepts: vocabulary, syntax, and semantics.
Vocabulary is the set of words that are arranged into sentences. A dictionary is largely about vocabulary.
Syntax is the set of rules that define how the vocabulary elements may be put together. For example, in English a sentence must always have a subject, a verb, and an object. Subject and objects are nouns.
The concept of semantics is more subtle and ephemeral. The arrangement of vocabulary according to syntactical rules has a meaning and forms the basis for communication among two or more individuals. Semantics is more subtle because some arrangements of words, although syntactically correct, are meaningless. Some arrangements are ambiguous. Some are poetic. Some arrangements are precise and concise, some are verbose or suggestive. The use of language that explores meaning through manipulation of the vocabulary and syntax to accentuate meaning and reveal unexpected insights is literature.
A good way to develop a design idea with Revit (or any tool, for that matter) is to start with sketches. Use a sketchbook to move your idea to a graphic image. The graphic image can also tell you whether the idea is good or adequately formed. Thinking and drawing are seen by many theorists in design methods as indivisible aspects of designing. There are some excellent books by Crowe, and by Laseau on Visual Thinking and Graphic Thinking. For parametric modeling, you could annotate the sketch with dimension lines to represent the parametric dimensions. You can list the parameters and enumerate the options or ranges of parameter values.
You may realize that the design idea is best decomposed into separate, interrelated models. Fro example, a porch might consist of a deck, a set of columns, a railing, a set of steps, and a bench. Break it up and draw sketches of each one, and then draw a sketch to show how they all fit together.
It would be cool to photograph or scan the sketches.
Once the ideas are worked out as sketches, then start using the computer tool. Define the reference planes, add dimensions to fixed, “pinned” planes, and convert the dimensions to labeled parameters. “Flex” them by using the Type dialog to change the parameter values to make sure that they move in the you expect.
Note that in Revit, rotations can only be done with reference lines and not with reference planes. You can lock the end points of lines to reference planes.
Once your reference planes and lines are moving appropriately, only then start adding solids, locking them appropriately to the references. Keep flexing the model to make sure that it behaves as appropriate.
Test the new families in a project file to make a new building composition.
Review your families and see if they can be further decomposed. The goal is to discover and find reusable patterns that you can use to make other families without having to reinvent something that you already invented.
Teaching someone else to use it is the ultimate step to refine and perfect a model.
An architectural language can be documented in a way like natural spoken/written languages are documented. A visual dictionary describes all the vocabulary elements in the language and the parametric variation of each element. A syntactical reference describes how the vocabulary elements can be arranged and the parametric variation of those arrangements. Finally, one could describe the resulting meaning by “translating” from your architectural language to English.
You can use Revit to describe your language. Although when using the family editor, you cannot make a sheet and place views of the family on the sheet, you can print views of the family to image files or use screen captures to grab a view. Compose the views into dictionary entries and assemble them into the complete reference. Printing to an image or screen captures, make images of conceptual masses that establish the reference planes and mass surfaces of your syntax. Show examples of the parametric variations. Optionally, explain each vocabulary element or syntactical construct with a video by recording a Zoom meeting. Write to describe the semantics of example constructs.
Try composing a short “poem” using your language.