One of our customers used combined families for hospital equipment and contacted us to ask how he could separate them in an efficient way? It's not possible to copy/paste between family and project and recreating them manually would take a very long time.
Workflow
The current version of the Break Up Families application will;
- Process a pre-selected family
- Find the loaded families (those which are Shared) inside
- Recreate them in the current project
- Attempt to keep instance parameters (currently only integer & double parameter types)
- Only Shared nested families will be placed - 2D elements (lines, text etc) will not be recreated!
- Available for Revit 2022 - 2027
Please Note
Level based Shared Families will work best, families hosted by surfaces or reference planes will most likely not be placed correctly in the project. Mirrored and complicated nested families will probably cause issues. Please be careful and verify results.
Deeper nested families might need a second pass to fully unnest.
You can ignore the warning about Duplicate Elements - that'll be improved in due time...
Technical Support / Requests
You may contact us at labs@symetri.com or reach out to your favorite Symetri associate!
Revision History
v0.2.0 2026-10-01
Bug fixes, adjusted workflow - read below!
After placing nested families - the application no longer cleans and replace the original family, instead it is selected and letting the user decide whether to keep, move or delete it. As well as verifying how well the function worked.
Logging and error messages reduced.
v0.1.1 2025-04-10
Support for Revit 2026
v0.1.0 2025-03-17
Initial Release
