Revit Hints and Hacks: When Purge Just Won’t Purge

When you are a Revit Family builder, you know that sometimes you will grab a family from just about anywhere to keep from having to start from scratch. You can admit it, this is a safe space. There are trusted websites and some not so trustworthy, that we go for help. Then there is the “I’ll just grab it from this other project option that gets used so often. Wherever you grab a family from, there is a good bet that you will have something to cleanup in that family.

Here is a hanging fireplace that was pulled a sample file. The Purge command the first time shows 10 things could be purged. Pretty clean family to begin with.

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Second Purge command option and you get to remove Material Assets from the Materials that were purged the first round of purging.

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The third time to Purge command is used, it appears that everything that can be removed is removed.

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But wait, there’s more!

You need to investigate the Materials, and this is no matter where you opened the file from.

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Any of the Analytical, any of the Default, any of the Phase, Glass, Earth, Poche, and Systems-Zones will not purge. You will have to delete them yourself. If a family has been edited from within a project, then these Materials are what I call little cling-ons. If some of these were removed from the project, then they will not be here.

Make it easy and do a search for “Analy” for example. Then you can just pick the first from the list and hit and hold down the Delete key. Delete them and then purge their Material Assets.

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Delete them individually.

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Now purge their Material Assets out.

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Donnia Tabor-Hanson aka CADMama

Revit Family Counselor

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