Loading Multiple Revit Families

[arc2lab]

Hello,

How can I load multiple custom families into a Revit project? Say if I have more than 20 families and when I try to open them all at once it just crashes, Is there a way that we can load all the families together? Also is there a way to permanently load them into Revit ?

Ashwin 

[L.Maas]

You should be able to open multiple families in a revit project at once. This can be done from within the project, use Insert", "Load Family" and select several families. Or (from windows project browser) drag the families on your project. For me both works without crashing (Revit 2016).

Maybe you try to do too many at once? Try to do it in 'chunks'.

For your second question, project templates. Create a new or modify an existing template and preload it with some families and other settings.

When you start a new project you load in the template wihich already contains your families.

[mauryarte]

Hello I am Christian Maury and I have a cuestion.

I need to import a model that I create in Fusion360 to revit, I import this in .sat format. From Fusion 360 I separate and export each  component in diferent files.

How can i open this in revi?  

I can open it (all components of the model) in a single family of revit, importing each component to have the complete model in a family?

Or I have to open each component in a file of family separated. And then load in the project?

I need to have the components separated in the project with parameters and different materials.

I appreciate very much the support is very important to do things well !! 

[ToanDN]

It depends.

If the components are unique, then you can import all the SAT files in one Revit family, arrange and constrain them.

If the components are to be re-used for different things, then you can import each SAT file to a Revit (child) family file, load the (children) families in one (parent) family.

[Sahay_R]

First things first, Revit is always happier with native content. Creating geometry outside of Revit may go quickly but takes too much time and effort to bring correctly into Revit.

I would take separate components out of the .sat into separate Revit families (.rfa), set up parameters, then insert them into a project. This will give you the control over materials etc that you desire.