I am not sure where Luke found this but it is an awesome full length video about adaptive components. Even if you are new to Revit or just diving into family creation I would give this a look... In fact, if you are just diving into family creation I would learn both "primitive" family creation (I think I might coin that term) and adaptive at the same time.
Click here to view the adaptive component tutorial....
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