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Updating a Family in Multiple Projects

cc4535 — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 18:33:37 GMT

So, we are an AEC firm and our average project has 15 .rvt files minimum we have had projects that top 100 + .rvt files. My question is. Is there a Dynamo script or a Add-in or anything else that can I can use to choose a single family and update it in all the .rvt files in one of our projects. I know this is possible, I used to build families for a company that did similar things to this, I am just not a programmer or very intelligent about Dynamo. Does anyone have a suggestion or a solution?

Re: Updating a Family in Multiple Projects

barthbradley — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:39:27 GMT

@cc4535wrote:
I know this is possible

I'm not so sure about that, @cc4535.

This question has been fielded before, and I don't recall there ever being an "automated" solution offered. I even wonder if such a "blind" batch updating tool would do more harm than good.

I'll stay tuned...

Re: Updating a Family in Multiple Projects

Corsten.Au — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 06:24:06 GMT

May I know which family you are looking for??

Re: Updating a Family in Multiple Projects

cc4535 — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:17:38 GMT

So, our firm has 15 plus central files to create a single project. We do Mining facilities which are made up of multiple areas with multiple buildings in each area which creates a lot of central files. If we have for example an updated Title Block we have to open all 15 plus central files and update this title block. Does anyone have an automated way of doing this??

Re: Updating a Family in Multiple Projects

Corsten.Au — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:22:21 GMT

Hi
Seems you can use dynamo for that..
Simple script
1. Select the folder ( where Revit files are )
2. Open the file
3. Open particular Revit family
4. Insert that family in the project
5. Save the file...

Am not sure if you can get that script ready made.. but if someone knows dynamo in the team am sure it can be done efficiently..

Cheers

Re: Updating a Family in Multiple Projects

cbcarch — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 19:29:47 GMT

Take a look at the Revit API Macro and/or Dynamo Script mentioned here:

https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/load-multiple-families-from-a-folder/11906/23

Re: Updating a Family in Multiple Projects

cc4535 — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:44:15 GMT

I have seen these but it lets you load multiple families into a single Project. I need to load a single family into multiple projects. I will try to play with his .dyn some more and see if I can get it to let me select multiple projects some how. Thanks

Re: Updating a Family in Multiple Projects

Viveka_CD — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 15:51:41 GMT

Hi @cc4535

You may try to use a dynamo 'package' to automate this.

Please post to the dynamo forum for further feedback.

See related threads for more input:

https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/replace-a-family-rfa-in-multiple-projects-rvt/19723

https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-insert-a-family-and-or-folder-of-families-into-multiple-models/19975

Hope that helps!

Let us know on this thread how it goes. Good luck!

Regards,

Re: Updating a Family in Multiple Projects

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 19:11:33 GMT

Hello Chuck,

You can give a try to this app, to be honest I don´t have used already but I think it fits exactly what you are looking for.

BIM Batch Suite

Keep me updated if Works fine!

Kind Regards,

Alejandro.

Re: Updating a Family in Multiple Projects

cc4535 — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:55:29 GMT

Thanks, I have tried this before and it would not work. It seems to work I still have to sync every file but faser.

Re: Updating a Family in Multiple Projects

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:17:31 GMT

I see three answers are marked as solutions, but none of them have a definite, proven solution. So i'm just throwing this out here:

What about batch executing a journal file? It's what we use for upgrading all files to new Revit version, it seems intuitive that a journal file could instruct Revit to load a family.

I'll delve into that and keep you updated.

Re: Updating a Family in Multiple Projects

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 07:31:10 GMT

It´s sound very interesting for me, could you please describe How I can do that way?

I´m not very familiar with journal file and bach processes in Revit, if you can give me for details or some info it would be very helpful for me.

Thank you for your comment!

Re: Updating a Family in Multiple Projects

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:51:50 GMT

Is there anything like this that will work with Cloud hosted models?