@Anonymous wrote:
Hello i am due to start a new job instigating REVIT LT into a company with 3/4 designers (I have been using REVIT LT myself for about 10 months). I am wondering whats the best practice for for saving family members that users create. I understand that only one user can work on a project at a time with REVIT LT. My concern is if a user whose working on a different computer goes to open the project up will it also pull any user created family members they have created? i hope this makes.....
Families loaded onto a Revit project will be accessible to anyone opening the project. The problem you will have is different people making changes to the families but saving the families in different locations. It will become a nightmare to control.
My advise, aim to have library of families you or your colleagues have created. As everyone will have a different take on what those families should do, have a clearance folder where they can save the file so that the person in charge of the library can clean up and access the suitability of those families before they are added to the library. Your library should also include scripts, notations, etc.
Instigate a naming convention that tells the user:
1.-Name of family
2.-Family type
3.-variation (if needed)
Break up your library into sub-folders that clearly state the purpose of the families between that sub-folder.
However, as a rule of thumb, if anyone has created a family for a specific project, have them save it in a project folder called "families" or something along those lines. Another copy should go into the "clearance" folder. Over time, you will build-up a library that serves your purpose.
As a last point, sometimes families from the central library would need to be modified to suit the project at hand. If that is the case, the modification should be saved on the project folder. Hope that helps.
