Salt Lake Community College Enhances Interior Design Education with RevitFamily.biz

How an Instructor Purchased Revit Content Licenses with Perkins Grant funds

Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) teaches its Architecture and Interior Design students how to use Autodesk Revit—the industry standard for creating 3D BIM designs. While an exceptional program, most schools face a major challenge with the software. 

The software comes with limited out-of-the-box elements such cabinets, doors, and light fixtures, known as “families” in Revit-speak. The out-of-the-box virtual design elements are bland, simplistic, and not ideal for professional modeling. 

Third-party alternatives exist, but they often vary in quality, and the more professional-looking families typically exceed a school’s budget. This impedes learning in a variety of ways and leaves students with substandard portfolios that fail to impress prospective employers after graduation.

Professor Nawabi, a former instructor at SLCC, began searching for a solution to this problem when she discovered RevitFamily.biz. RevitFamily offers realistic, high-quality Revit families used by professional designers. 

Using a Perkins Grant to pay for the licenses and taking advantage of RevitFamily.biz’s 40-60% discount for educational facilities, Professor Nawabi transformed the educational experience for SLCC’s Interior Design students with licenses for 60 workstations.

The Challenge: Finding High-quality, Affordable Revit Families

Before purchasing discounted licenses from RevitFamily.biz, SLCC expected design students to search the internet for free Revit families, as most schools do. 

Using third-party freebies comes with a number of problems:

• Searching for free families is a time-consuming distraction with no educational value
• Using different families from different sources produces inconsistent designs
• Free, third-party families are often low-quality and unprofessional
• Poorly made free families behave unpredictably and causes frustration for students
• Unprofessional portfolios rarely help students land jobs after graduation

Design firms typically purchase high-quality, professional Revit families from third parties, but the licensing fees usually exceed anything colleges or trade schools can afford.

The Solution: Discounted Licenses from RevitFamily.biz—Purchased with a Perkins Grant

Professor Nawabi discovered RevitFamily.biz, which offers a wide array of professional-grade families for hard-to-find items. 

Taking advantage of the 40-60% educational discount, SLCC purchased licenses for every workstation using a Perkins Grant, designed to support Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. 

RevitFamily.biz licenses are all eligible for Perkins Grant funding.

Today, SLCC students have access to high-quality, hard-to-find Revit families, such as:

• Barn doors
• Pocket doors
• Doors with transoms
• Oval windows
• Inset and overlay cabinets
• Shaker, modern, raised-panel, and beaded-style cabinets
• Attractive, realistic light fixtures in a wide range of styles
• All the electrical items required to painlessly create residential electrical plans

Results: Optimized Learning, Creativity, and Professional Designs

Thanks to RevitFamily.biz, Interior Design students at SLCC can create high-quality designs that they’ll eventually use in their portfolios. Rather than losing their focus chasing down free families, they can now devote their time and creativity to enhancing their skills and paving the way for success in a competitive field. 

Set Your Students Up for Success with RevitFamily.biz

RevitFamily.biz’s founder, Brenton Wiberg, has been creating consistent, high-quality, realistic Revit Families for over 16 years. The company itself has been in business for over 8 years, which amounts to nearly a decade’s worth of user feedback used to improve and optimize designs.

Get a 40–60% educational discount and learn how to fund it all through Perkins Grant!