Critique: "Autodesk Revit Families - A Step-by-Step Introduction"

Once you get past being intimidated, you will find that the Family Editor is extremely powerful and actually can be great fun!

- Paul F. Aubin, Autodesk Revit Families: A Step-by-Step Introduction

Family Editor is indeed an incredibly complex and powerful tool.  Aubin outlines a concise description of vocabulary, techniques, and processes to aid those new to the Family Editor and introduce them to developing their own Revit families.  Although the introduction seems to boil down the editor into simple functions, learning to model through Revit can be an intense struggle.  

I would not describe the Family Editor as intimidating, but rather counter-intuitive.  The most complicated aspect of modeling in Revit is understanding the processes of the software in which to achieve your desired results.  Granted, when you manage to persuade Revit to model your desires, the software hosts a powerful array of visuals, information, and parameters.  Due to the nature of the program to document vast amounts of data, it can be difficult to discover the exact methods and processes to model in Revit.  I don't believe a single step-by-step introduction to the Family Editor can possibly teach one these processes and the only way to understand the complicated mind of Revit is to wrestle the beast for hours.