Generic model family defining category

[GeomGym]

From the API, can I set the family category having started from a generic model template?

I recall being told it might be possible in 2014 (maybe I've overlooked and it's possible in earlier versions).

At the moment I ship various templates with categories preset.

Thanks in advance,

Jon

[gopinath.taget]

Hi,

I enquired with my colleagues in engineering and they mentioned that this is possible in Revit 2014:

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This was enabled in 2014 (from what’s new):

Family category

The property

• FamilyBase.FamilyCategory

can now be set.  This allows the category of an family being edited to be changed.

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Hope this helps. 

Best Regards,

Gopinath Taget

[GeomGym]

Hi Gopinath,

Thanks for the reply.  I can see this property can now be set, but what I can't see is how to construct a category object to assign.

Can you please advise (sorry for the delay in responding, I didn't use to many new categories since posting but looks like I will soon).

Thanks,

Jon

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Have you looked at this blog post already: http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2012/04/adding-a-category-to-a-shared-parameter-binding.htm...

It talks about creating a new category and adding it to a new category set.

Cheers

Gopinath

[GeomGym]

Thanks, I hadn't seen that post.

I just tested and something like this seems to do what I need.

famDoc.OwnerFamily.FamilyCategory = famDoc.Settings.Categories.get_Item(BuiltInCategory.OST_PlumbingFixtures);

This is great news.  Appreciate your help.