Revit Change Floor Hosted Family To Non Hosted

Here s the basic steps.

Revit change floor hosted family to non hosted.

A hosted family is one that requires a host in order for the family to be placed in the model. It turns out that if you start building a family as a hosted family let s say a wall hosted family or a ceiling. Use a special middleman family with system category elements living inside it karam has provided one on google drive load your hosted family into that special family and host it onto the object that it wants wall floor ceiling roof. We use the copy monitor capabilities in revit 2017 to accomplish this.

When we say not hosted or non hosted we generally mean that a family is not specifically associated with a certain host element like a wall ceiling floor or face. They are either hosted by a level a wall a ceiling a floor or a face surface of some element. For more details on what you can copy and monitor in revit see about copy monitor. Within each camp there is then further specification.

Technically all families are hosted. But the terms as they are used have taken on special meaning. Work with parameters as needed link them through etc if needed. Tips tricks and troubleshooting.

Instructor if you ve ever built revit family content then you probably know how important it is to choose your family hosting carefully. Because of all the things that we can change after we start building the family changing its hosting behavior is not allowed. Convert between hosted wall face ceiling floor and non hosted families in revit january 30 2017 january 1 2018 luke johnson fellow expert elite karam baki has posted an interesting workaround for converting between differently hosted revit families. Technically all family content in revit is hosted be it a wall ceiling level or face.

This four minute friday shows how to convert a ceiling hosted family to a face hosted family in revit mep 2017.