Reloading automatically Revit families into Revit

[omidZKHNF]

Hi all,

Is it possible to save Revit families on the Cloud, then with a plugin reload all the Revit families in a project from their source?
Simply put, I want to save families on the cloud and use them in different projects. Since families gets developed by time, I want families to reload themselves into Revit automatically.

Thanks for you help in advance.

[omidZKHNF]

or by Dynamo if anyone knows  how to do it
https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/reload-families-in-revit-using-dynamo-pyhton/94903

[mhiserZFHXS]

What do you mean by "reload themselves into Revit automatically"? Like whenever you make a change to a family, it auto-updates in all of your projects?

[HVAC-Novice]

I'd be careful auto-reloading. I have older and newer projects. For the new project i get a great idea how to enhance my family, tag and schedule BEFORE i complete construction documents and bid it out. 

but for older projects (in bid, or construction), i usually leave them as is and don't introduce new features. 

And if a family edit also changes shared parameters, you also have to update the schedules/tags.

I don't see a meaningful way to auto-reload edited families. Even if it was possible.  

Maybe explain what the exact objective and problem you are trying to resolve is. 

[omidZKHNF]

yes

[omidZKHNF]

yes you are right, but I am curious about how to do it actually.
You got me correctly so I do  not have more explanation. I should do it with dynamo so that I would be able to run whenever it is necessary. but as I am new to Dynamo, I do not know how to do it.

[mhiserZFHXS]

You want it to reload back into ALL of your projects? Are you sure about that? Not just active projects?

Either way, this sounds like a ludicrous idea to me.

One - Why? Why do you need to load it into a project you're not working on anymore?

Two - while I think this would be theoretically possible with Dynamo, putting the script together would be incredibly tedious. To start with, this goes beyond just Dynamo. Your data storage would have to be perfectly consistent on your device or server in order for Dynamo to be able to find your project files. There are also no OOTB Dynamo scripts to do what you're wanting. There are packages with nodes to do it, but they are very finicky. IF you're able to write the script, and take the time to get all of your data organized, this still wouldn't be an instantaneous process. Dynamo takes time to run, especially on things like this where it has to open up multiple files and reload families into them.

You would be far better off just manually loading modified families into CURRENT projects and template files.

[omidZKHNF]

Yes I was thinking about dynamo. but I am new to Dynamo so I don't know how to do it. I know it is possible with python and I shared the link above. still don't know how to write the script though

[mhiserZFHXS]

Did you just ignore everything else I said?

Theoretically, yea, I THINK the script would be possible, but it wouldn't be a simple one. Definitely not one to jump into if you've never used Dynamo before.

And on top of that, even if you manage to write it, I still find this to be a bad idea. The script could very well take longer to run than just loading modified families into pertinent projects as needed.

[omidZKHNF]

Thanks for your response. Yeah, actually I know it is not a ideal solution. However, I wanted to know if there is any solution out of curiosity.