I have set up a project template. We start our homes from this template. The template has all our typical families in it, ie, doors, walls, casework, windows. We also have homes that are our base plans. Some clients pick our base plan and want it to be customized. I take the base plan and copy the parts of the house that the client wants into the template. When I copy the parts of the house I need Revit likes to add a 1 behind the families that are the same as the ones in the template. We have a BOM process that includes a Material Manager later down the process that does not like these families with the "1" on them.
Is there a way when I copy from project to project that Revit does not add a 1 to the families? If not, is there an easy dynamo script that can be made to run and do this for me? The family name is the same except it has a 1 on the end of the name. If the family name has a 1 on the end change that family to the same name with out the 1.
thanks for your replies
Not clear on your workflow. Are you saying that you are inserting other projects as groups?
no, I have a project file that has all our typical families in it (file A). I open a base plan that has the same families in it (file B). I copy parts of File B into File A. If the client Likes The Kitchen From File B, or a Master bath. I will grab it and Copy and paste it into File A. File A now has new familes in it with a 1 behind it. If i grab a 2880 door from File B into File A. The door will change to a "2880 1" door. I have to make sure that I get rid of all the 1's before it moves forward.
If Revit added 1 after a family after you pasted it then the family is NOT identical to the family already resides in the project. There are several ways to fix this:
1. Open the family from the template and load it in the client project, override the family in it.
2. Select all family types with 1 in your project and change them to the comparable family types without 1.
ToadDn, it seams like it does it for identical families. For instance. I just copied and pasted a bath with a commode in it. As far as I know there has been no changes to the commode. Revit added a new Commode 2 to the project. I currently do your 2nd solution. I pick all the families that have a 2 on it and select all and change it to a the correct family. The problem comes when I grab a big part of the house and copy it to the empty template project. all the doors windows casework all will have a new 2 on them. I have to make sure I get them all. I'm not prefect and sometimes I miss one. I am hoping for a setting that I need to change.
Share an example of a project you want to paste and your template. You can remove the content but one family that supposed to be identical in each file.
I've written a blog post documenting my observations on this renaming with incremental numbering. The renumbering occurs for several possible reasons, Revit perceives differences in Family Type(s), version, and source folder location.
Also contributing is worksharing users loading the same family "at the same" time without synchronizing/coordinating the action. Only one user should add the family and then sync to let the other users begin placing the family.
Steve Stafford
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