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Whenever I insert a Revit detail form a library file, it duplicates all of the detail components “to avoid possible conflicts.” This really increases the number of families and makes it much harder to find the one I want, is there any way around this problem?
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I am having the same issue right now. Very frustrating as we are trying to get typical details set up in Revit in order to start using it for our construction documents and not just as a model only. Did you ever figure out a solution? I can't ever find anything in Revit's help site, and was hoping for an answer on here. Thanks!
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i was not able to find any solution. I agree, it is a major PITA!
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This doesn't happen to me except in special circumstances. Can you give more details as to when it happens?
Most times if you happen to try and load a family that already exists, Revit will ask you if you want to over-ride or add it as a new family. Problems occur when you have nested components that may have changed. I think there may also be a problem when the family is pathed to a different location (like an old library as pathed in your template) but I'm not sure.
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Here are some screenshots and background. I tried to insert a drafting view from a file of typical details on our server into a new file. I used the default "Centerline" family in that detail. That's when it tells me that the Centerline family from the details file has been renamed "Centerline1" to avoid conflicts with the "Centerline" family from the template for the new empty project. It also gave the same warning for the Weld Symbol family, which again is just the default, unmodified Revit family. I notice that it also likes to create an additional Drafting Views folder on the Project Browser called "Drafting Views (Detail View 1)" to put any views in that I insert from the typical details file. Is it supposed to do that? Seems like it would be easier to have all of them in the one Drafting Views folder.
I'll try looking up stuff on templates and paths and such. I've tried looking for info on importing views and duplicates and families, etc in my Mastering Revit book, and the Revit Wikihelp (although I wish they had something better for beginners, usually very short descriptions), and in forums on here, but this thread was the only thing I found that seemed to match my issue. Thanks for your patience in answering newbie questions.
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Apparently my screenshots didn't come through. try this again...
Ok, well, nothing ever shows up for attachments, so I guess just use your imagination. I don't know if it has anything to do with RevitCity putting "fakepath" in my directory path in the file box or not.
"Some days it just doesn't pay to chew through the restraints..."
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OK... You are talking about nested detail components and I do see that when you copy drafting views. My solution has been to select the "Centerline1" family in my project browser, right click to select all instances, switch them to "Centerline" and delete the Centerline1 family. This is a pain if you have very many of these but I believe in keeping my project as clean as I can.
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Yeah, I like to keep them cleaned up to. Thanks!
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I've had this problem too.
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I have this problem too but cleaning up my file by selecting all instances and converting is not really an option because any component that has an instance property reverts to the default size in the family. Has anyone figure out something in the past year?? Thanks.
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Stealth, funny you should mention that. This had just come up again in our office as a renewed source of frustration
recently, particularly with the instance properties being reset to default. No solutions here, unfortunately.
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If the family is already in your project, why are you inserting a another one? I understand the problem when they are nested but otherwise, you should be looking in the project first.
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Hi WWHub, We aren't just trying to bring in the same detail component family. We are inserting 2D detail views from a source project to the current project. If the current project already has the same named detail component, then the source project detail component is renamed with a 1 at the end. Revit should give us the option of using the existing detail component or overwriting it just like it does when you want to reload a detail component family. Thus you end up with duplicate families in your model.
If you have a detail component that has an instance property (such as the length of a layer of gypsum board) and you try to replace the duplicates with the original, then the instance property is reset to the default length in the family for some reason.
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WWHub, this is when inserting typical details from another file using the Insert Views From File command. Say we have a beam to column connection in our current project that has a breakline in it to hide the rest of the column that extends out of view. We want to bring in a typical stair stringer connection detail. So we insert a detail either from our Stair Details.rvt library, or from a previous job using that Insert from file command. The breakline from the stair stringer detail is automatically relabelled as Breakline1. Now do the same thing with a typical step footing detail, and you have Breakline2. By the time you bring in all your typical details, Revit has cluttered up your type browser with Breakline1,2,3,4..., Weld Symbol1,2,3..., and so on. Then if you change Breakline1 back to Breakline, the masking depth and width revert back to something that maybe doesn't cover what needed to be masked out in the detail, so you have to either waste time cleaning up details that didn't require ANY time back in the AutoCAD days, or have this cluttered list where it takes you twice as long to find something every time you want to pick a different size because the list is now a mile long. Make sense now?
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