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Pasting family between projects fails

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wblaney-cda
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Pasting family between projects fails

The attached family will not copy/paste between projects. It's about as simple as can be, and I have tried purging, resaving deleting geometry - everything.  The only thing I can do to get it working is start a new family and copy the geometry and reference planes into the new family. That also means that I have to re-create any formulas used in the parameters.

 

One small model like this is no problem to fix, but I've found numerous families in our library that have this problem, and I am not looking forward to re-creating months worth of work.

 

Can you help tell me what is wrong here and how to fix these families? Maybe even find a way to automate the process?

 

At a loss-

Wes

 

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Message 2 of 5
L.Maas
in reply to: wblaney-cda

Wes,

 

I can not seem to reproduce the problem.

-I opened your pedestal family, no problem (automatically converted to Revit 2014)

-I loaded it into one of our projkects, no problem.

-Placed an instance in the project, no problem.

-Within that project copied the family several times, no problem.

-From that project used copy/paste to copy it to a different project, no problem.

 

Maybe I understood you wrong, but I can not find anything wrong with the family at the moment,

Louis

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Message 3 of 5
wblaney-cda
in reply to: L.Maas

Thanks for looking into it. I can indeed confirm that this "undocumented feature" that limits copy/paste between projects has been removed in v2014. Content that does not work properly in 2012 or 2013 works like a charm in 2014.

Doesn't do much good if I'm supposed to give content in earlier versions to a manufacturer, though. If you have the ability and inclination to test in earlier version, I would be appreciative.

Thanks!
Message 4 of 5
L.Maas
in reply to: wblaney-cda

Wes,

 

Sorry, we do not have older versions of Revit on our computers as there is no requirement for us.

So maybe somebody else can assist you.

Louis

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Please mention Revit version, especially when uploading Revit files.

Message 5 of 5
Alisder.Brown
in reply to: wblaney-cda

Have you tried loading & placing the family instead of Copy/Paste?

Thats the way i would always do it, not a huge fan of the copy/pase function for project to project content.

 

Regards

Alisder Brown
Senior BIM Coordinator
Scotland, UK

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