Load Family Into UnOpened Projects

[paullimapa]

Is there a method to load a family into multiple projects by selecting them in a browser like window without having to open the projects first?

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[RobDraw]

I certainly hope not.

[Corsten.Au]

Hi

there is not inbuilt command to do that.

Easier method would be to export all the required families in one folder

and then import in one go to open revit files.

Reason : It may ask to override families, so one needs to mention to override or keep originals..

Option 2: You can create a Dynamo script to do that, but that would take some effort to create and 

need to customise it .

[paullimapa]

Thanks for the feedback...Dynamo Script sounds promising.  Any experts out there that would like to give this a shot?

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[Viveka_CD]

Hi @paullimapa

Try this link HERE and see if it helps resolve your issue regarding loading families.

Regards,

[paullimapa]

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, this is not what I'm looking for.  The code provided in the link loads a list of families in a given folder into the current already opened Revit project file. I'm looking for something that will allow me to load the current opened Revit family file into a list of unopened Revit project files.

But thanks for trying.

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[Viveka_CD]

Hi @paullimapa

I see what you are saying. This may be possible with an additional package. (Run a search for families here)

In the above link in my previous post, I assume the 'DanEDU Dynamo' package was used.

You can try posting on the dynamo forum for further feedback.

We will keep this thread open for any other feedback from the community.

Regards,

[paullimapa]

Hi Viveka_CD, thanks again for your suggestions. I ran a search for families but no additional package is available that will accomplish what I'm looking for.  I just posted using the same topic under the  dynamo forum Thanks again.

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[RobDraw]

I'd be wary of any tool with that kind of brute force power. It would have to have some serious permission and error checking that, AFAIK, can only be done by opening the model. Alternatively, it could be done when no one has the model open and no one will open a local and synch to central. Be cautious.

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @paullimapa

Thanks for posting on the dynamo forum!

Please follow up on this thread if you have an update. @RobDraw sounds right, this function maybe tough with unopened models, but we can still try.

Regards,

[paullimapa]

So far no solutions from the dynamo forum either...

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[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I realize that this is an old post, but has anybody come across any solutions for this issue? I have the same problem that I am looking to solve. Basically I am looking to update/add new parameters to a bunch of families and would like to push that updated information to a whole bunch of closed Revit files. I am not worried about the brute forcing of the solution as I am only changing textual data, nothing modelling based at all. I have done tests with individual files and everything works great, but I don't know how to make the File.LoadFamily node iterate through multiple Revit .RVT or .RFA files.

Any assistance or direction would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot!

[RDAOU]

If I remember right, there has been some promising attempts to generate something using a combination between Python and Dynamo...but not while the families are closed...they used a script to batch open >> modify >> save and close

[Anonymous]

Thanks very much that would be perfect, any idea where I could find some assistance on this? 

I have looked quite a lot and cant quite find what I am looking for, maybe you know of a place?

[DXRodriguez]

Not sure if this is what you are looking for but CTC Family Batch Tool? its free! its an add on thou.

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=4189328255668537679&appLang=en&os=Win64