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Batch upgrade families

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Marcus.Isacsson
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Batch upgrade families

Hi fellas!

I wonder if anoyone of you have any tips for batch upgrading families?
Useful when going from Revit 2017 to Revit 2018 and you want a copy of your family folders with upgraded families.

We often have some long running projects continuing in Revit 2017 when some newer ones are started in Revit 2018 and so on.

In a perfect world a plugin checking last changed dates would be nea: 
- 2017 version exists but not 2018 version: Family simply gets updated and copied to new folder. 
- 2017 version is the latest: Family gets copied to the family folder for 2018 and files are overwritten.

- 2018 version is the latest: Family from 2017 folder doesn't get copied and nothing gets overwritten.

 

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L.Maas
als Antwort auf: Marcus.Isacsson

In general we have a folder (e.g. Revit Families) which contain our own Revit families. With the arrival of a new Revit version we backup this folder to an archive and to another folder e.g. Revit 2017 Families. The ones in the Revit Families folders are batch upgraded to the latest Revit version (e.g. 2018).

 

This does few things for us.

Families inside a project "remember" from which folder they were loaded.

So if the project is updated to the new Revit version (which we do in most cases) it keeps reloading the families from the same (upgraded) families folder.

If the project is not upgraded and tries by accident to reload from that folder it gets an error (newer files). In that case the user knows/remembers he has to point the reloading to the other families folder (e.g. Revit 2017 Families).

 

Because we keep families folders for previous Revit versions it is easy to keep track of them and restore a family if something went wrong.

 

However your case might be different

 

 

Louis

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Please mention Revit version, especially when uploading Revit files.

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Marcus.Isacsson
als Antwort auf: L.Maas

Thanks for your answer! Questions:
- What do you use to upgrade the families to the latest version?
- How do you keep track of new families created in an earlier version? 


For example a family could be copied to Revit 2018 then updated there. But you also know that new families have been made in Revit 2017 so you decide do batch upgrade one more time. If you batch upgrade you will overwrite the changes in made in the Revit 2018 folder(?). 


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L.Maas
als Antwort auf: Marcus.Isacsson

I now use our own add-in that can (batch) update our families. However you can use the batch upgrade scripts. See THIS thread which also contains scripts for batch upgrading.

 

We do not really keep track of new families made in previous versions. We rely upon the experience of our users. For example. If they create a family in a previous version and he/she thinks it might be useful for future use they hand it over to a modeller who can modify it according to our standards and add it to the relevant libraries. So in general we do only a batch upgrade when a new Revit version comes out, upgrade our complete family library. After that we look on a family by family basis what to do with it. An in case something goes wrong we have backups to fall back upon

Louis

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Please mention Revit version, especially when uploading Revit files.

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loboarch
als Antwort auf: Marcus.Isacsson

Here is a link to another forum where someone has built a batch upgrade tool via Dynamo. Pretty straight forward.

 

https://www.revitforum.org/dynamo-bim/36261-bulk-upgrade-families.html



Jeff Hanson
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Erling_ARK-NET
als Antwort auf: Marcus.Isacsson

There is another way of doing this.

I have installed the plug-in JOTools.

This plug-in can mass load and mass save families.

It takes a lot of time, because revit is upgrading one family at a time.

I went home, and left my computer on for the weekend.

 

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