Imported lookup tables not working (2016)

[spinckney]

Hi Folks,

Here's what is happening:

I am not really familiar with assembling a type table but I have used them in the past so I know what they are supposed to do.

1. I downloaded a Revit Family from a manufacturer into a zip file, extracted both files to our local directory and then tried to open the family. The family upgraded (from 2012) and opened but the type table did not come up.
2. I went to the Manage Table button in the family editor and that was when I realized it was a txt file (since it was not an option for import) so I opened the txt in Excel and converted it to a csv (comma delimited) file, imported this into the family and tried again - Still no luck. 
3. I recalled using the family successfully before so I tried opening it from an older file but it, too, has a txt table and does not provide the type table.

Note: both files have the exact same name except for the extensions. I have attached the txt file in case it helps.

I have 2 questions:

    *What else can I try?

    *When did they stop accepting txt files because when I look back at our older families a lot of them have txt files for the lookup tables so I imagine txt was once a compatible format?

[barthbradley]

If you can post the original manufacture's Family and Text File, I'll try to replicate at my end.

[spinckney]

Thanks. Here they are. In case you have issues with that the Mfr link is: https://www.nienkamper.com/products.aspx?id=23

[barthbradley]

Works like a charm!

Just paste all the txt into notepad, save it under the exact same name as the rvt file, and put it in the exact same directory as the rvt file. Load into project from there. 

[spinckney]

It's still not working. I tried it twice to be sure...Could it be some kind of setting? Like in Notepad it saves the encoding as ANSI...


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[barthbradley]

Let's review your problem...

When you load the family into the project, you DO NOT get a listing of the family types to choose from. Is that right? 

Try mine...

[spinckney]

Correct. No list pops up.


Susan Pinckney, NCIDQ, Interior Designer
One Hartford Square West | 146 Wyllys Street, Bldg 1-203 | Hartford, CT 06106 | 860.547.1970

TSKP STUDIO ARCHITECTURE | PLANNING | INTERIORS
Hartford | Boston www.tskpstudio.com

[spinckney]

Yes. That is correct. I open up the family and I get no type options before the family actually opens. (FWIW If I check out the family types in the editor there is only the largest size listed.)

I can't open your family. It says it was done in a later version. I'm working in 2016. 

[barthbradley]

Don't know what to tell you. Sounds like the RVT file and TXT file ARE NOT the EXACT SAME NAME (spaces included) or, the TXT file IS NOT in the EXACT SAME FOLDER as the RVT file. Like I said, I had no issues whatsoever.  

[spinckney]

Thanks for your help. I have double/triple/quadruple checked all of that. All I can figure is that there is some setting in Revit in need of adjustment OR the Revit Gremlins are playing head games with me. 

[barthbradley]

Could be a permissions issue. Put both files on your desktop and retry from there. 

...and you actually CUT & PASTED all the lines of text to a new Notepad session and saved that file? When I saved the txt file, I COPIED & PASTED the entire rvt file name to the txt file name - just to make sure it was EXACTLY the same (there ARE a lot of spaces in that rvt file name). 

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

- Do not open the family

- Open Project, go to Insert Ribbon Panel, then Load Family.  You will see the list to choose from.

[spinckney]

That was it. How stupid do I feel? I was opening it from the folder...

Thank you.

[craigjonnson]

This is misleading... The problem you have is with Type Catalogues, not Lookup tables.