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MongooseST1

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I have a project that has various walls that I have assmebled for use. How can I get those walls into another project? Import, Link, Export, I have tried them but unable to successfully get them into the new project. I am doing something wrong but can't figure it out?

I have also looked at the download section of this site and it seems to have limited amount of wall types, unless I am missing something here??

Thanks in advance

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Typhoon

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Just "Copy / Paste" those walls.

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MongooseST1

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Copy and Paste??? I tried that and it is a "one wall at a time" solution. It will not alow Copy / Paste of the WALL family itself. Why can't one import from a base location where one stores ALL families to be used at an office on multiple projects?

There has to be a better way. Especially when trying to build and import famillies for our office to be used on multiple projects. Famlies such as company standard borders, cleints who are building similiar facilities such as franchised facilities.

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WWHub

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We have a project in a resource file that has nothing but our wall types all setup complete with legend views that can be transfered to projects as we need them.  We do this because we have more than 100 types already established and it would be foolish to have them all in our template.  Just copy paste the legend into your project's wall types sheet and your legend is complete and the walls are in the project.

We have these wall types seperated by construction type and placed on seperate sheets in our wall types project.  Our wall types follow a set numbering sequence so that they are easily recognized from their wall tag.

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MongooseST1

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You are speaking of the OBVIOUS. I am looking for a viable solution. So show me HOW you do it then!

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WWHub

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Here is an image of one of our wall types sheets.

We just copy each wall type legend we need and paste it into our project.

And as you say, the rest is obvious.

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MongooseST1

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So you are sayig that one creates the many walls types in a "legend" and copy pastes this legend from project to project and the "families" portion will be populated with the many wall types?

What I am trying to do is get the many wall types that are in one of our drawings to anothjer project drawing. So what I gather is that you assemble this"legend" in the project that has the many wall types with those wall types and copy/paste into the other project? Yes? and it should populate the wall family in the other project?

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WWHub

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By golly Watson, I think you've got it.

Note:  You really don't want every wall type in your template because it will really bog it down.  Our template only has a few generics and a stacked wall.  This wall types project has several "sheets".  Wood stud interior walls, metal stud interior walls, masonry walls and another sheet with a few exterior wall types.  We don't include many exterior types because those tend to be unique per project.

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dgcad

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Oooooo Nice Wall Legend !

So a project with a series of associated wall legends would serve us nicely.

I still cannot get a Curtain Wall to show up in a wall legend however

I have to use a work around.

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