Exporting in-place families for use in new documents.

[jeroenvanlithWWCBG]

Hi All,

I have a question. I want to re-use in-place furniture families from document A into document B, programmatically.

I have thought of two ways: 

option 1: export/save the in-place family from document A to a separate .rfa file. 

option 2: load in-place family from document A to document B directly. 

But haven't found ways to do this programmatically.

Could anyone help me?

Thanks!

Jeroen

[jeremy_tammik]

Dear Jeroen,

The API will hardly provide any functionality that is not available in the user interface, so that will be the easiest way to research for the best approach. Afaik, RFA provides no support whatsoever for in-place families; they live in the RVT  environment only. However, as a BIM element in the RVT, it ought to be possible to copy an in-place family between different documents using the CopyElements copy and paste API:

https://www.revitapidocs.com/2023/b22df8f6-3fa3-e177-ffa5-ba6c639fb3dc.htm

Cheers,

Jeremy

[jeroenvanlithWWCBG]

Thank you for your quick reply Jeremy! I will study your suggestions and update when I've found something.

[RPTHOMAS108]

If you group the contents of the in-place family in the in-place family editor then you can save the group to a rfa file

However, there is no support for editing in-place families within the API.

[jeroenvanlithWWCBG]

Thank you, it's a pity I can't edit in-place families in the API.