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How to extract thumbnail images from a Revit family?

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ysautodesklover
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How to extract thumbnail images from a Revit family?

Dear Revit users,

Is there a way to extract thumbnail images from Revit Family?
I would like to make "Family Library" connected with lists as a databased file.
So I want to extract all images of my families which will be more than 1000 without taking captures of them one by one.

Any advices will be appreciated!

Yuki

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Matt__W
als Antwort auf: ysautodesklover

@ysautodesklover this post is fairly old and I don't know how much of it is still applicable but....

 

Have a look at this post from 2009.

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/rvt-and-rfa-thumbnail-image.html

 



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Viveka_CD
als Antwort auf: ysautodesklover

Hi @ysautodesklover alias Yuki

 

Welcome back:)

 

A more recent post HERE that discusses thumbnail image preview.

 

@barthbradley I remember you made a post on the thumbnail preview. Can you pls help out Yuki?

 

Regards,

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Viveka_CD
als Antwort auf: ysautodesklover
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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: Viveka_CD

The thumbnail image is associated with a view in the family. The only way I know of to "extract" that Thumbnail image out of Revit, is by saving the associated view as an image (Export).  Sounds like the author is aware of that method, but is looking more for a "batch processing" method (e.g. extracting multiple views from multiple families).  

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ToanDN
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

Load all families in a project.  Create an Assembly for each one.  Generate a 3D view for each Assembly.  Batch plot or export all assemblies's 3D views to an image format.

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: ToanDN

@ToanDN: Why Assembly step? 

 

...never mind. Automatic view creation! got it. 

 

,,,smart

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ToanDN
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

It is just a preference.  It isolates the element without manual hiding other stuff...

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cbcarch
als Antwort auf: ysautodesklover

you can try add-ins as well.....

 

https://www.getavail.com/

 

http://unifilabs.com/

Cliff B. Collins
Registered Architect The Lamar Johnson Collaborative Architects-St. Louis, MO
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ysautodesklover
als Antwort auf: ToanDN

Thank you @ToanDN

 

I have been looking for more efficent way cos I have about 600 familes to extract images in lists.

At the last, one of my colleagues wrote code to extract jpg so this problem has been solved!

But this way might be able to use for something other.

 

Thank you for all comments!!

 

 

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ysautodesklover
als Antwort auf: Viveka_CD

Thank you @Viveka_CD

 

I reckon my colleague used this process to make a program for this issue.

I wish that I am skillful to understand programming but not yet now :zwinkerndes_Gesicht_mit_Zunge:

 

Anyway, it helped me to understand how it work.

 

Yuki

 

 

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parleyburnett
als Antwort auf: ysautodesklover

Preview Image Generator will batch process nice previews for your .rfa library.

The next update will also allow high res.png files to be generated also through the process.(1 or 2 months)

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=951715850256335253&appLang=en&os=Win64 

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Anonymous
als Antwort auf: ysautodesklover

Hi.

Im having same issue of yours, so I gonna try to make simple program like familly image generater.

I think if I get some examples or source code, it is really helpful, because I am noivce at C# programming, too...

May I get some sample codes of yours?

 

Thanks, 

Jin

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ysautodesklover
als Antwort auf: Anonymous

Hi Jin,

I am afraid to say but due to the confidentiality policy in my company, I am not able to post code itself.

However, I think my colleague used this guy's code which I found later.

We haven't really use the application yet cos the quality of image isn't enough for our intranet web page.

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2010/06/open-revit-ole-storage.html

Anyway, I hope it will help you :leicht_lächelndes_Gesicht:

Yuki
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parleyburnett
als Antwort auf: Anonymous

Preview Image Generator (PIG) now allows you to export high resolution .png images for your families, along with saving them to the .rfa. 

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=951715850256335253&appLang=en&os=Win64 

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rubenvivancos
als Antwort auf: ysautodesklover

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