Autodesk Revit 2023 Families Download

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Margorie Gomoran

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:45:10 PM8/3/24

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i am not sure if this is the correct forum to post this issue. if not, can someone direct me to a proper forum.

i am acting BIM Manager and we are at a cross-road with limitation on access to our company revit library. the i have as the one managing the revit library is, everyone has access to each family. meaning, someone can edit/ make changes to one of our standard families (title blocks, doors, windows, etc.) and save over the top of our standard family. with this happening and the manager not knowing about it, others are using said family and wondering why it is different than the last project they used said family in.

i feel that there should be some limitation on how much control the users have with the library. i would like to get everyones thoughts on how they manage their revit content (family) library?

Honestly, my first thought upon reading your post was why everybody and their brother's uncle is messing with the families without governance. Sounds like the wild west. I would think the first thing you want to do is to restrict access and regain control of the company assets. If the families were built properly before, then why are people needing to reconstruct them? And why is that an individual prerogative?

an example of what is happening is the title block for instance. I made some company approved changes to our title block and some of the projects were still using the previous title block. someone felt they needed a project specific change to their title block. unfortunately, people don't think before they act or they just don't care so they hit save after they made their changes and it saved back to the library. this sort of thing happens to our doors and windows as well

Unfortunately, if your people don't care enough to follow best practices, you've got bigger issues than maintaining a library. Even with good people, this will happen occasionally. Families sometimes need to be modified for a project but they shouldn't be saved to the standard library without pre-authorization. Having a copy of the library in a secure location is probably the easiest way to fix mistakes. Make it clear to everyone that any unauthorized changes to any families will be lost when the modified copy is replaced with the approved version. That usually makes them think before saving.

You'll want to start exploring content management systems that are designed to solve this specific issue. Have a look at for the leading Revit content management system. It even will let you store your system families such as walls, floors, duct, pipe, conduit, etc. In addition, you can manage other types of Revit content such as schedules, materials, and drafting views. For the cost, it is well worth it.

Thank you for your response. I have a 3D view setup in revit that filters out all families other than my cabinets. I am able to export that view to dxf, meaning all families in the view are exported into one file.

I am also able to tab-select a panel family nested inside the cabinet box family and activate Temporary Isolation on that object. Once I do that, I can export it to a dxf file, and it successfully exports just the nested family.

Since I can do this with manually by using Temporary Hide/Isolate, is it possible to write an API that will take every cabinet family selected and export each individual family as a separate dxf file named based on a shared instance parameter of that family (like a mark ID)?

Well, I think you should start with the second post in this forum. Familiarise yourself with the basics of creating a simple Revit macro. (If you haven't already.) Devour the SDK, using search words like DXF, export, isolate, view3D. Devour TheBuildingCoder, starting with these topics:

I am exploring the differences between Revit and Revit LT thru free-trials. The Revit trial lets me select additional families I have set up thru the company I work for - our own revit families (we are just beginning). The Revit LT will not let me browse out to those separate files (or to my computer or network) to bring them in. I cannot find the Revit LT library itself to add them to.

Thanks for the reply, Jeff! I'm assuming that if we purchase the program and it is installed properly then - that Revit LT WILL be able to access my computer or network files then? Likewise, it WILL be able to save to my computer and network - without the necessity of transfering to the 360 cloud first?