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There are two additional recommendations I would make to the Autodesk solution below: use a Generic Model inplace family, and the import can be placed on an additional Subcategory to allow for easier …
Have you ever wanted to copy a directory tree of family files to a single directory? Once you do this, you can load them all into a Revit instance in a single “Load Family” operation – just go to the …
Can you change built-in parameters from Type to Instance based, and vice versa? This post shows you can. The essence of the workflow is to start a family with the desired template, add a value to the …
Following this tweet from Sean: @djnelson75 @lukeyjohnson that’s mysterious, especially since there’s nothing for signage and roads STILL doesn’t have a use.— Sean David Burke (@seandburke) September …
A while back, RevitCat got me thinking about the rules associate with family swapping in Revit. Here are a couple: You can change the Category of a family (using Edit Family, Load into Project) with a…
From time to time, I export all of the families in a project and add it to our Library as a ‘snapshot’ of where our families were at during that project. However, Revit still does not export the famil…
EDIT Current category guide post: https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/2013/09/new-crowdsourced-and-open-source.html In Revit, some families have Cut Dominance, some are Cuttable, and some respect various Vie…
I spotted this cool graphic a while ago on Revitez, but it was in French. Ben Malone has gone to the trouble of translating it into English for us – thanks mate! via BIMopedia Online Original post (Fr…
Here is a little gift to all my readers. The link below allows you to download a 2012 version RVT project that contains In-place and Component versions of families that are of the Category ‘Stairs’ an…
Have you struggled with the Show only if Instance is cut option in the family element visibility settings. Was it grayed out? The following highlighted categories (wall hosted) have ‘Show only if Inst…