How to have walls automatically load?

[Anonymous]

Hi.

in short - Im very new to Revit and I'm wondering if there is a wall to have some walls I've created automatically be loaded into Revit when open. 

basically, I work for a property development company and I've been tasked with created our different wall styles. I have made all the walls in a seperate project and I was wondering if there was a wall for the wall profiles I've created to be added to the current list of walls you get when you open a new project.

[RobDraw]

Put them in your project template.

[Anonymous]

How do i do this? 

[RobDraw]

Type "How to modify a Revit project template" in your favorite search engine.

Here I did that and found this:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/EN...

[PaulusPresent_BB]

Dear Jack

If you already have created the walls in one project there are multiple ways to get them in another project:

1. Open both projects (the one containing the walls and the new one) in the same Revit session. Use the functionality Manage > Transfer Project Standards in the new project and activate Wall Types. All wall types from the old project will be copied to the new project. Downside is however that all walltypes are copied. Also maybe the ones you didn't want. You can however easily delete those from the project browser.
2. Create instances (draw some walls) in the old project of the walls you want in the new project and copy and paste them in the new project via the Copy To Clipboard tool and Paste tool of your choice. The walltypes of the copied walls will be added to the project browser in the new project. Upside is that only the walls you want are copied. I know firms who have a MASTER file with all their typical walls and floors drawn one instance each. If they need one in a new project they copy it over to get its type. That way they keep their template from overflowing with walltypes that are maybe never used in the project.

Of course you can always add walltypes to your template and have them readily available when you start a new Revit project but I hope the nuanced explanation above is also helpful.

Kind regards and Gods blessings

Paulus Present

[Anonymous]

Thanks for this, any information is always useful 🙂 i think the template idea will be better but its good to know another way 🙂

[joe_keogh]

Hi @Anonymous 

@PaulusPresent_BB is correct, this is the method to use, the only difference is you want o open the project you have created the walls in, then open the project Template.

to find the project template, go to Options, File Locations and follow the File path listed for the template you use for your projects