Created in wrong template

[RamRocks60]

Hi,

I have started learning Revit and have a questions. 

I've created multiple modules in a family template. I really wanted them in a project template. How do I separate them into individual modules in project? 

[hmunsell]

Ummmmm... lesson learned i guess 😊.  

• you cant Copy/Paste from a Family to a Project
• you cant Bind the family like you can a RVT Link
• you cant Drop the family like you can a CAD Link

unless there is something I'm missing, I don't think there is much you can do but redraw it in a project model.

[RamRocks60]

What about creating a save as for each module and then bring them in as components into project template? Can that be work arounds solution?

[hmunsell]

"I've created multiple modules in a family template. I really wanted them in a project template."

i may have misunderstood. Did you want each module to be a separate family that you can insert into a project? Or did you mean to draw them as modeled content in a Project (wall, floor, etc...)?

You cant Save-As an RFA to a RVT.  you may be able to save each component out as a separate family though. which are you trying to do ?

[RamRocks60]

Yes, I am trying to create separate (module) family that you can insert into a project. But I created all the module types in one family template.

[hmunsell]

ok... a couple things you can do then.

• if they are Groups, you can go to the Group category in your project browser, right click on htem and save as to a family. 

          

• If these are different "types" of the same family... add constraints and make them Types in the family. 
  • in the family you would have one "box", with dimensions, and a bunch of Types where the dimensions are different for each Type. 

                    

[RamRocks60]

Thanks for your patience with this issue of mine. The difference is not the size it's the interior walls with openings and wall configuration. So I am thinking if I save as the family template I already created with all the types. As module 1 and erase all the others one and so on with each type. I will have a family for each type. Will that work?

[hmunsell · Accepted solution]

don't know your workflow, but you actually might want to consider not making this a family and looking into Design Options and/or Model Groups in a Revit project model. You will be able to sue the Revit Wall/Door/Opening/etc... content in the project and then group it to make copies or use design options to show different variations of the layout.  

[ToanDN]

They look dead simple.  Recreating them in a project is likely taking less time than converting them.

[RamRocks60 · Accepted solution]

I agree but I am still learning the ropes. Since they are already created with right geometry. I do not want to recreate them wrong. Thanks for comment. 

[ToanDN]

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@RamRocks60 wrote:

I agree but I am still learning the ropes. Since they are already created with right geometry. I do not want to recreate them wrong. Thanks for comment. 

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You are trying to hack it.  It is not healthy trying to hack something while you are still "learning the ropes".

Load that family in a project and recreate walls/floors/roofs/etc. based on the family geometry.

[RamRocks60]

Thanks, I will.