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Hidden sub-categories when changing family category.

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Anonymous
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Hidden sub-categories when changing family category.

Just wanted to post this warning to everyone.

 

I was creating a "Specialty Equipment" family complete with sub-categories when I decided to change it to an "Electrical Fixture" category. When I changed the category in the family editor I noticed all the geometry categories changed to "Electrical Fixture" from the sub-categories I had created and none of the sub-categories were available anymore. I didn't think anything about it since I had also decided to change the sub-categories as well.

 

Well after I finished editing and inserted the family into a blank project, I noticed the the sub-categories I created for the "Specialty Equipment" also appeared in the project. I used a snooping app to look at the family database and sure enough the "Specialty Eq" sub-categories were still inside the "Electrical Fixture" family even though they didn't show in the Revit family editor. When I switched the category back to "Specialty Eq" the original sub-cats all reappeared in the family editor. Not a huge deal but it does pollute the project file.

 

Make sure you remove any sub-cats you created before switching the family category.

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barthbradley
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Here's one that will bake your noodle. 

 

The attached Specialty Equipment Family has no Object Style Subcategory named "SEBOX", yet the element in it, is assigned to a subcategory named "SEBOX".  When loaded into a project, note that "SEBOX" line properties are controlled via its own Object Style Subcategory listed under "Generic Models".  

 

The only way I can describe the element is as a nested Object Style. It is not a nested family.    

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