Changing active document title without saving

[Anonymous]

Hello Autodesk Community, 

I'm building a simple external app that creates a family document and loads it automatically into a project. The problem is, I wan't to change family document's name before importing it but I don't want to save it since I create and import multiple family documents at once so saving each one to disk will cause a slow-down. Not to mention I must then load that same family from the disk in order to get the name I want, otherwise it will just be generic names like "Family1", "Family2" etc.

The family document has a "Title" property but it's read-only.  Is there any workaround?

[jeremytammik]

Sorry, not that I know.

Cheers,

Jeremy

[nbrooksFL6XX]

Jeremy - Has there been a change in this answer since your first reply in 2014?  I would like to do the same thing.  rename the document in memory - not save to disk.

[AGGilliam]

I don't think you can change the name of the family from within the family document, but you can rename the family after it's been loaded into a project.

[nbrooksFL6XX]

Thank you.  That’s what I thought.  I was just hoping someone would tell me there really was a new option available now ... that I wasn’t aware of.

[RPTHOMAS108]

RAM disk I was thinking but that is a bit elaborate isn't it.

[jeremy_tammik]

Nope, sorry, I am not aware of any alternative approach. In many cases, the Revit API designers have intentionally implemented things the way they are for reasons unfathomable to us mere mortals outside the factory.