topic Re: Missing Elevator Family in Revit Architecture Forum

Missing Elevator Family

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 05:07:23 GMT

Greetings All,

I downloaded and installed the trial version of Revit 2021. After using a tutorial to play with it I found many of the families had not been installed. I downloaded and installed the set from the Revit download page, but it's missing elevators. My understanding was it used to be there, now it doesn't seem to be. I don't want to be going to a third party to install their product when an Autodesk Revit model exists. Or used to exist.

Did I miss something or is there a separate area on Autodesk to download the elevators?

Re: Missing Elevator Family

barthbradley — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 05:13:56 GMT

There's no "Elevator" Families OOTB. I'm not even sure what an "Elevator" Family is. Is it a Family that moves up and down?

Re: Missing Elevator Family

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 05:28:42 GMT

Perhaps I'm using the wrong term. There's a group for doors, a group for stairs, railings, floors, ducts, pipes, etc. I thought these were called families. To insert a door or stair into a model you had to load the group into the model and select the style of door, stair, or whatever. I want to insert an elevator and there's no group for it, nor can I find a download for it here.

Re: Missing Elevator Family

barthbradley — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 05:34:43 GMT

yah, I'm not following you too well.

What's an elevator? A platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different floors or levels. Right?

Try this...

Re: Missing Elevator Family

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 05:42:39 GMT

Looks like you're following me just fine. Thank you.

Re: Missing Elevator Family

barthbradley — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 05:51:30 GMT

I wouldn't be bashful about downloading content from on-line. Thank your lucky stars that you found it on-line. That means you can cut out early and go have a beer with the gang.

Here's another...

Re: Missing Elevator Family

syman2000 — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 06:04:27 GMT

I assume you are referring to Specialty Equipment>Elevators and Lifts.

Re: Missing Elevator Family

barthbradley — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 06:22:07 GMT

Interesting. I found 'em under "Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter". 😉

Re: Missing Elevator Family

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 20:04:03 GMT

thanks, was looking for English Imperial but those will work.

Re: Missing Elevator Family

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 22:51:36 GMT

Thanks for posting this question--I couldn't find it either. It's missing from 'English-Imperial'>Specialty Equipment, but can be found under the more generic 'English'>Specialty Equipment category.

Re: Missing Elevator Family

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:10:18 GMT

The only thing I have under English is Structural Precast. Certainly not in there.😁

Re: Missing Elevator Family

barthbradley — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:20:20 GMT

Do you have an "English" and "English-Imperial" folder under C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\RVT 2021\Templates?

Maybe you didn't download it.

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Re: Missing Elevator Family

barthbradley — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:22:26 GMT

Did you notice that @syman2000 posted the content for you in a ZIP file? Nice of him to do so. Don't you agree?

Re: Missing Elevator Family

fle — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:15:20 GMT

Hello,

there are just some basic elevator families in Revit. Btw, there is a very powerful and the free #elevator #plugin for Revit "DigiPara Elevatorarchitect" available at:

https://www.digipara.com/products/elevatorarchitect/

Hope that helps,

Andreas

Re: Missing Elevator Family

billatarcat9MS5L — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:28:42 GMT

We also have some elevator options for you as well: free elevator revit families .

I hope one will help you out. 🙂