Industry standard Member size naming convention.

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:19:03 GMT

The industry standard appears to be to use lover case "x" not capital "X" in the member names.

The text books the engineers are taught from and everything I can find referencing this shows a lower case "x" in names like W6x15 or 2L3-1/2x3-1/2x1/4.

Is there a way without manually going to an editing all the TYPES of all the members to change this to lower case?

I assume this needs done in the all the TXT file and in the TYPES inside Revit?

Per each revit version and replacing all local tables on each machine too?

Any other ideas about this?

I wouldn't be tying to figure this out if the Engineers were not having an issue with it.

Re: Industry standard Member size naming convention.

L.Maas — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:27:21 GMT

I would not do it that way.

You can copy the relevant families including the text files to a different location (e.g server).

The libraries can be found as shown in the screenschot. (you might have a different Revit version and a different country library).

You probably only have to do this for the oldest version of Revit in use in your company.

You will need to copy the family (rfa) and the type catalog (txt) together.

You can open this txt file with something like notepad/notepad++. Then you can can use search and replace to replace the Xes.

When people open this family it will work. People with newer Revit version will get a message that the family will be upgraded which should work Ok. For a single family this will not take just a little time. If you get complaints from users you might load the family in each revit version and then save it to a different location for each Revit version in use. During loading and saving the family will be upgraded to the used Revit version.

The user can point Revit to this new location (e.g. on a server).

Basically you are creating a user library. If this location is on a server you only have to do this process for each relevant family.

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