global materials / wall types

[23mills]

I'm working on a project with several buildings and we have broken them down to seperate models. Does anyone know how we can share wall types and materials across these models so that we don't have to recreate them for each building?

Thanks.

[cliff collins]

In the Project Browser go to Families, locate the wall types
you need, and the select "copy to clipboard" and paste into the other project
with both projects open. I think this will work--don't have Revit open to test.

I believe another way is to use Transfer Project Standards, having both projects open,
and select Wall Types from the project which contains the wall you want to place into
your other project.

Hope that helps.

cheers

[eric.piotrowicz]

Either of Cliff's ways work. Personally I prefer Transfer Project Standards but Copy/Paste does the job as well.

[twiceroadsfool]

Be advised:

All of the methods have things to look out for.

1. Copy and paste: Works fine the first time. Everytime after that, its probably going to tell you "Types exist already. The types in the project to which you are pasting will be used" aka its not overwriting.

2. TPS. Will ask you if you intend to Overwrite or bring in new only, if you mean to overwrite, youre all set.

3. Model groups saved out and loaded as group. I use this, and have had success with managing wall types and Storefront Configurations with it, but it CAN be quirky with wall type definitions. It works, but i HAVE seen a bug (2009) where the exact same wall name will exist with two different definitions.

Also, be advised: Wall types with SWEEPS in them WILL transfer, or copy, or load as group.... But the Profile Family wont. Itll use the Profile thats already in the project, if its already loaded.

[rkitect]

A third option that I'm sure I'll be roasted by some for mentioning is creating your wall types in a project wall type file and using Transfer Project Standards to transfer the wall types in to the various models. This can help eliminate confusion about which model has what wall types since they are all named the same. Create/develop and finalize your wall types in this seed file and then just Transfer them to all models once changes are made.

It'd be kinda neat to have a "Push" project standards to propagate standards TO multiple files instead of only being able to do one at a time!

[23mills]

Thanks for all the tips!