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I have 4 Imported catagories that i cannot delete. they are all empty,nothing to expand, and do not show up in purge unused tab. Any ideas on where i can find them to deleeted them.
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Category - As in family category?
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under the VV there is a tab that states imporrted catogories, there are 4 listed but i can not seem to find where they are to delete them.
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You mean VG - not VV - correct?
These are CAD files and they are in your project somewhere. If you are the only one working in the file, you should recognize their names and be able to think about where you may have used them. You probably hid them in the view they were used in. (They could also be beyond the view window or in turned off worksets.) Imported CAD objects should be used carefully and tracked because they are very hard to find later.
Somewhere in the forums, there was an app posted that finds these files.
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it is VV, but I see VG gets me to the same place now. When i started revit VV is what i was taught back in 03'
It is a Template File I have been working on, it was started by someone who is no longer here. I am Trying to clean it up and those are the last 2 things i need to get rid of and the Template File will be done. Looks like i have some hunting to do in order to find them.
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Try this: http://www.revittools.com/
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WOW!!, that thing should about 50 Files that i couldn't even see, deleted them all and the other 4 are still there. But it cleaned up a bunch of crap the Temp file did not need.
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I would suggest you make your users aware of the problems of imported CAD. Always link if you can or convert to Revit using a seperate file.
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Having the same problem getting rid of those files.
I deleted all the detail & model groups from my template and they are still there. So, I decided to start fresh with a new template.
I opened a new template and the previous template and first did a transfer of project standards only selecting View Types. I then checked the imported catergories in my new template and there are all those files I want to get rid of! So i undid the transfer, checked again and they were gone!
How/ why is it that the files are coming in with View Types?
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Someone has incorrectly built some of your families. I would copy / paste in a few at a time to identify the problem(s). Fix those and you can reload them back into your original template.
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next step, i went back into the old template and turned off all the imported categories in each view template.
transferred only view templates again and...NO luck, the unwanted imported categories showed up again.
re-creating the view templates from scratch is going to be yuck
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WWHub, i did that already with families and they are good to go. The pesky files come in with the View Templates
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It is not a view template problem. It is a family problem.
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