make non-hosted family hosted

[HVAC-Novice]

I know how to convert a wall or ceiling based family to a face based family.

but I have a family that is not hosted (s. screenshot). And for that one the above trick doens't create a face-based family.

how can i get a face based family (I would settle for making it wall based, since I can convert that one to face-based)

My example is a hose reel, and all the families I found seem non-hosted. Ideally I don't re-create a family.

(i already sent A-desk my feedback on wanting this an easy feature)

[Alfredo_Medina · Accepted solution]

Nest the family into a face-based template.

[HVAC-Novice]

thanks for the reply. I noticed there is no face-hosted plumbing template, so i use a generic face hosted model and mad that into a plumbing family. but for some reason the hose reel (either nesting, or copy/paste) was 90°F off and the family stuck into the room. There wasn't away to turn it.

I ended up doing the same with a wall-hosted plumbing fixture and that works (assuming I always attach a hose reel to a wall).

[MuirEng]

Hello, this is an old conversation but we have a non hosted family that we'd like to make face based so it is of interest to us. Our family has many types each with assigned parameters so we hope not to recreate those. I don't see how this solution preserves family types or parameters. It looks like this is useful for converting geometry from non hosted to face but in our case the geometric is very simple (a box). 

If anyone has advice thank you in advance. 

[ToanDN]

Several ways:

- You can change it to work plane based by ticking Work plane box and unticking Always vertical box in the family's category properties.  When you place it in the project you can choose place on a face or a work plane, or a level.

- Make the family shared and nest it in a face based family.

[MuirEng]

Hi

This particular family is normally hosted on a wall (but we don't want it wall hosted, we are working with linked revit files). Making it shared and hosting it in a face based family seems like a decent idea but but not as clean an outcome as I was hoping for. I might just have our intern rebuild it.

thanks for coming back to me on the topic!

[prousseauCQJ6U]

Facing this issue aswell. This is inconvenient to say the least.