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. Perhaps he should have used groups instead (I don't think so)?
The current version (which is an extremely early 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,
- If they have instance parameters such as length and height these will be set,
- Delete the shared families from the family,
- Load a new version of the same family (with a slightly different name),
- Place the cleaned family in the project - with the remaining elements such as lines and geometry
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.
The Break Up Family Application (Revit 2022 - 2025, Experimental version)
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Please take care, verify results, backup your data and reach out to us whenever you find issues.
At any time the software might change or even dissappear, we might update, bugfix, enhance and we might not. It might appear in Naviate or it might not.
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