After writing my Magnum Opus over here on titleblocks, I have a simple (almost fundamental) idea for you:
Allow direct dynamic linking of a revit family. By that I mean eliminate the static copy of every family that exists in a revit model once it's loaded.
Basic example: You have Project A and Family 1 version 0. You open Family 1 version 0 from a family (.rfa) file sitting in your working directory and then load it into your project. Congratulations, now you have two copies of that family one in a .rfa file in the directory and one in your project (.rvt).
Say you make a change to Family 1 and create version 0 (and that you do this in your project). You must remember to save (or save as) the family over that .rfa in the working directory. If instead of saving you just load into project and don't save, now you have version 1 of Family 1 in the project and version 0 is out there languishing in the project folder.
This seems unnecessary. We should be able to directly link in a family and use it without storing a static copy in our revit project.
As a sidebar: I guess only revit models are allowed to be treated this way now. And that's not even really true is it...you must manually reload models (or at least that was the way it was in 2014 and prior versions, in 2015 and later Revit seems to automatically reload for you).
Sidebar #2: This problem is really exacerbated by project templates... If you start a project from a project template you get all the families in that template as a starting point. If your company also has a library of families in a directory structure (in .rfa files), you must VERY carefully manage that these copies stay in sync with each other and all updates to families are saved in both places. Totally non-automated.
