Families load into impossible view

[mark]

Hi,

Whenever I open a family from windows and try to load into Revit with more than one view open, it will, without fail, try to load it through a view where it can't be placed. Seem to remember suggesting this as an improvement some years back but still persisting.

Anybody else noticed this?

Thanks

Mark

[biztrobill]

Yes, I've been seeing this for well over a year. It doesn't happen every time, and the view that it switches to is random. What is consistent is that the view it switches to doesn't allow inserting that family category. Buggy, right?

[barthbradley]

I'm not following workflow.  You are loading or reloading a Family into Revit via "Load into Project"? 

[ToanDN]

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@mark wrote:

Hi,

Whenever I open a family from windows and try to load into Revit with more than one view open, it will, without fail, try to load it through a view where it can't be placed. Seem to remember suggesting this as an improvement some years back but still persisting.

Anybody else noticed this?

Thanks

Mark

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Either have only the 'possible' view open, or use CTRL+TAB to cycle through 'impossible' views while placing until you are in the 'possible' one, then place.

[Corsten.Au]

Happens all the time. Super annoying.

[RobDraw]

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@barthbradley wrote:

I'm not following workflow. 

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Now that explains a lot.

[barthbradley]

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@RobDraw wrote:

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@barthbradley wrote:

I'm not following workflow. 

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Now that explains a lot.

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I don't know what that explains to you, but whenever I open a Family from Windows Explorer and then Load into Project, it loads into the Project Browser of the target Project without a hitch  - unless a different iteration of the Family already exists in the Project. If one does, then the "Family Already Exists" pops up.  No biggie though.  

Maybe the OP is frustrated that when completing Load into Project, the target Project's active View isn't always the View they were last working in.  If so, I feel the OP's frustration.  It's disruptive when that happens.  

[mark]

Hi barthbradley,

Workflow is this (tried this today and fails everytime):

1. I have one or more section/detail views open plus a 3D view
2. I open a detail component via windows explorer
3. Hit the Load into Project button
4. Every time it tries loading into the 3D view (have made sure this wasn't the last view open) and displays error message "Can't create this kind of element in this view in the current mode."

Even tried it with 4 detail views open and it selects the 3D view every time. Not a new problem, has been happening for at least the last 5 releases.

Thanks

Mark

[RobDraw]

This is similar to what I have observed.