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JBRADLEY

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Revit 2018.3.  Is there a tool or a Dynamo Script, or does anyone have a way to "Swap" a large number of Families within a Revit Project - Something along the same line as the "Type Swapper" that is included in the CTC Bim Manager Suite.  I am having to Swap families, with updated families with new parameters and parameter values.  The new familes I have; supplied by the client, have new names.  I need something that reports the existing family names / types within a project and then Replaces these families with the new ones.  The Client is adimate about renaming the New Families specifically. The family Geometry is the same. The Family Names, and types are different.  If anyone has a decent solution to this, I would be very appreciative.

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If the families have the same origin loation and they have the same shared parameters, you should be able to swap them.  Load one and try one instance.

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I know I can swap them easily. The problem is we have many projects with hundreds of Families that need to be swapped, and most likely swapped again.  (You don't want to know why. The Clients are Revit experts even though they have never used the software........)  I was just wondering if anyone has had to do anything like this before, or if any one has a way to automate the process a little more.  Thank  you.

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First, you do understand that this does not need to be a one at a time process.  From your family list, you can select all instances in the project that are the same family and type and swap them all?

You could build a dynamo program to do this using a list of families to swap but this requires knowledge you obviously don't have. 

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Yes. I understand I can select all Intances of families and elements......  I've been doing this longer than you have.  Your not understanding the question.  Nevermind.  I got it.

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This used to be an excellent site to get information from and ask questions. Nobody knows everything about Revit.  Now it's turned into a group full of retards that don't do anything in the real world except troll around this site all day.  The last few questions I have posted this year have not been able to be answered. 

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I'm sorry if I offended you by saying "You could build a dynamo program to do this using a list of families to swap but this requires knowledge you obviously don't have.".  I should have stated this better.   Since you joined in 2007, you have only posted 16 times and you never asked  about Dynamo and did not ask about a Dynamo solution this time.  So I should have questioned your knowledge of Dynamo rather than making an assumption.

BTW, I joined RevitCity in 2006 and I still have my copy of Revit 3.1 sitting on my desk that was sent to me free from Revit Technology Corporation in 2001.  Long before Autodesk bought it.

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