Easily change hosted family to non hosted family

[Kevin.Bell]

Hi,

I would like the ability to be able to turn off and on element hosting in the family editor.

Say change a door family that hosts into a wall into one that can be placed anywhere.

This should be a check box in the family editor.

[jkarben]

Ideally this would also include changing the orientation of the family too. Example: changing a faced based electrical wall panel, which is modeled horizontally, to the vertical position and make it un-hosted. 

[mayurpawar082]

We can do it for some hosts not all. 

[emmanoelneri]

It would be really cool to change the host of an existing family. For example: transform wall-based(ceiling...) families in face-based family. Or even in non-hosted families

[bimarqasia008]

Well, in version 2023 Autodesk has still not bothered to respond. They don't have to, because you don't have a choice but to use their product.

[ks2_wmb]

All I want is to be able to Copy/Monitor every single category.  When I convert my Casework family into a Light Fixtures family, I lose all the subcategories that I've assigned.

https://www.revit.news/2016/07/converting-wall-based-casework-to-face-based-in-revit/

[ks2_wmb]

Okay, so what I did yesterday to convert my casework families:

1. I nested my wall-hosted casework inside of a wall-hosted light fixture family.
2. I loaded the light fixture outer family into a small dummy project
3. I loaded that project into an empty project
4. I used copy/monitor to convert my outer light fixture family to a face-hosted family
5. The nested casework families were also converted to face-hosted.

The common wisdom here is to convert your casework families directly to light fixtures, but then you lose the subcategory assignments of the family elements.  Using casework families nested inside a light fixture family, the casework families kept their subcategory assignments.