Load families into a project
Browse your library from inside Revit and load a family into the open model.
Work in progress
The add-in docks inside Revit and connects to your cloud library, so you do not have to hunt through network folders.
Find a family
Open the add-in from the OceanBIM panel on the Add-Ins tab. Its side menu mirrors the web app: Dashboard, My families, Favorites, Share, Trash and Workspaces.
- My families is your personal library. Workspaces holds your team's libraries; open one and use its Families tab.
- Switch between List view and Thumbnail view, narrow the list with Filters (choose Clear filters to reset), and use Load more at the bottom to bring in the next page.
- Refresh reloads the list from the cloud.
- Mark families you use often as favorites and find them again under Favorites.
Load a family into the open model
- Find the family.
- Open its row menu and choose Load to Revit.
- The family is placed in the open Revit project and is ready to use from Revit's Project Browser, as if you had loaded it from a file.
You can also drag a family from the add-in into a Revit view.
To load several at once, tick them with the checkboxes (Select all selects the whole list) and use the same action.
Revit identifies a family by its name
If the project already contains a family with the same name, loading replaces it with the version from the cloud, and parameter values come from the loaded copy. In a workspace the row then reads Reload in Revit: choosing it brings the current cloud version down again.
If the families you selected include two that share a name, the add-in stops with Families with the same name and asks which copy to load before it continues: Revit can only hold one family of a given name, so the second would silently replace the first. Choose Load to continue or Cancel.
Download is different: it only saves the .rfa file on your computer and does
not touch the open model.
TODO — Confirm before publishing
- Whether a family can be loaded at an earlier version than the current one from the add-in, and how that is chosen.
- What the add-in says while a load is running and when Revit refuses a file (for example one saved in a newer Revit).
- Whether Favorites works the same way in workspaces, and how to mark one from the add-in.