topic Re: Generic model family defining category in Revit API Forum

Generic model family defining category

GeomGym — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:39:41 GMT

From the API, can I set the family category having started from a generic model template?

I recall being told it might be possible in 2014 (maybe I've overlooked and it's possible in earlier versions).

At the moment I ship various templates with categories preset.

Thanks in advance,

Jon

gopinath.taget — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:58:44 GMT

Hi,

I enquired with my colleagues in engineering and they mentioned that this is possible in Revit 2014:

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This was enabled in 2014 (from what’s new):

Family category

The property

can now be set. This allows the category of an family being edited to be changed.

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Hope this helps.

Best Regards,

Gopinath Taget

GeomGym — Sun, 18 May 2014 12:52:47 GMT

Hi Gopinath,

Thanks for the reply. I can see this property can now be set, but what I can't see is how to construct a category object to assign.

Can you please advise (sorry for the delay in responding, I didn't use to many new categories since posting but looks like I will soon).

Thanks,

Jon

Anonymous — Wed, 21 May 2014 22:53:13 GMT

Hello,

It talks about creating a new category and adding it to a new category set.

Cheers

Gopinath

GeomGym — Wed, 21 May 2014 23:14:39 GMT

Thanks, I hadn't seen that post.

I just tested and something like this seems to do what I need.

famDoc.OwnerFamily.FamilyCategory = famDoc.Settings.Categories.get_Item(BuiltInCategory.OST_PlumbingFixtures);

This is great news. Appreciate your help.