Control How the Families Are Loaded

This Revit add-in automates the process of loading or reloading families into projects. Select one or more project files, or an entire folder tree of project files, to have families loaded.

Family options

Below the list of families to load are settings for how the loading should be handled. “Only reload families that already exist in each project” is useful when family content has been updated and the goal is to ensure the selected projects all have the latest version of the updated families in them without loading families that are not already being used.

Dialog

The option to ‘Suppress overwrite dialog’ can greatly speed up the loading process, as the Revit user will not have to confirm the load of each preexisting family as each project file is processed. However, suppressing the dialog means that once the process starts, the families will be loaded using the selected options and will not stop until it is complete.

Save

This tool also does not relinquish control of the loaded content, so a user must manually synchronize the changes to a central file and relinquish control once the loaded content is verified as correct.

Processing

During the processing of project files, a progress bar and status information will be shown near the bottom of the screen.

Project processor is a powerful tool that allows planned changes to be made to many project models. This tool can be configured to rename, swap, purge and more based on rules. This can save hours of time for model managers when mass changes need to be made.

The Pain Point

Updating standards and making model corrections, especially when those changes affect multiple models, can be very time consuming. Opening multiple models and making those changes by hand is never convenient and rarely ever executed consistently.

Key Features

Process Multiple Models

Automatically open, process and save multiple models provided in a selection set, or process multiple models opened in the active Revit session.

Rules-Based Processing

Options can be configured to look at a model and make intelligent choices. Want to delete views based on a specific property? Project Processor can handle that. Maybe you need to rename multiple sheets, again based on properties? Project Processor is the tool to help make that process more streamlined.

Task Specific Rules

While configuring rules, the options that are available are relevant to the task. Renaming views has different option than deleting line styles. Both require careful handling, and this tool can be configured to handle almost anything you need to maintain in a project.