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Does anyone know a way to explode famies?
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Same here I’m keen to find out if there is a way to explode already placed families within a family file. For example, I have a heap of nested families that I want to reduce there file size so I want to explode the nested component. Otherwise I have to cut and paste each component (from other family files) to make up my families. There must be an easier way???
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There is no way of exploding a family as far as I'm aware.
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no explode no xplode nnnnnooooooooo
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That I know... it can't be done, not even copy-paste the elements between family and project....
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I was able to copy elements from my family file to another family file. I recreated 1 of my many nested families to a non-nested family. The non-nested family was half the size. Thanks RTC
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There is only one way of 'copying' across a solid across from a family to a project and vice versa. What you need to do is edit your extrusion and copy the lines with ctrl-c. Then inside your project you need to create a similar process by starting the extrusion and going ctrl-v to paste the lines across. This is essentially the only process that I am aware of that will do what you need to have done.
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I'm with trayrider, just say no to splodes. Nested families are some of my favorite kinds. A friend of mine has been experimenting with compaction and purging of nest families and reloading them through all nested sequences and into the project. He claims up to 2/3 reductions in file size and tangible performance gains. Might be something to try, expecially since it might keep a loving family from being ripped apart.
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purge yes, explode no. I really doubt that the familiy size going from 300kb to 150kb or whatever is really going to help the speed of revit, but the loss of control over a familiy is real tangible time that can be lost when it needs to be changed.
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I seriously hope he's not worried about 150k. The friend that I reference had a 9GB family drop to 3GB. Now that's a chunk of file-size worth spending a few moments to recover.
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What in gods name could be in a 3gb family????!?!?!?!?!
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sorry, couldn't help myself... I think he was building a pretty complicated section of stadium seating. External makes it a LOT easier to edit. In hind-sight, probably would have been better as a separate Revit project file linked in.
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yea but revit isn't even 3gb let alone a singular family.
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true, i meant megs not gigs...but the "your mom" is funnier with gigs.
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now I want to make a 3gb family and put it in our standard template.
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