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Phaeax

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Hi Everyone, I am having a recurring issue which can be bothersome, but not hindering. When loading families into my revit projects they often load into the wrong opened views. Say I have a chair and the last opened view was a floor plan. When I load the family, it takes me to another view or my welcome view. Is there a way I can specify which views I want to have revit families load into projects? Another option would be a sure-fire way I would know what view was going to be opened when load a family.

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Families don't load into views.  A new view is never opened when you load a family but sometimes Revit will switch to an already opened view. 

Ideally, you should be in the correct view (and active) to place the family when you load it.  In most 3D families, that would be a plan or sometimes an elevated view.

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How do you say Revit doesn't load into views? A view is each levels plan view which is associated and the family is loaded into the project, then the place component command is activated. You are correct that Revit should not open a new view, but what if it could? Asides from those two observations my problem still exists. My projects changes to random views, for lack of identifying what views and I like to work with knowns. Revit will not open the most recent/active view I had, per project. I should note that I am using the load family action when i have the family open, not using place a component.

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I thought you wanted an answer - that is what I gave you.

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What family category are you loading into your project? Does your family contain objects visible in 3d or just in 2D?

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The objects are 3D and it seems to be very random when it comes to what categories the families are. I will try and monitor it more and report back with my findings. I was seeing if there was a quick answer to my question but it seems to be a bit deeper regarding WW's response.

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