MS Access database that can export Family Tables?

[Michi-Ken]

Has anyone built a MS Access database that can export Family Tables? Or knows of a 3rd party application that all the type information can be houses in a database, and the family table's TXT is just an export. The family tables we create are nemorus, and lengthly family tabels, and Excel just is not cutting the mustard.

[cliff collins]

There is an add-in/Extension from Autodesk called DB Link that can do this. I believe it is available on the Subscription Center.


cheers

[Haden]

I thought I remembered a new feature in 2012 that allowed you to export the types that have been built within a family file to a Type Table .txt file, and I found it. With a familiy (.rfa) file open, just go to the Application Menu -- Export - Family Types (per attached screenshot). If you have already defined types for a family inside of a project rather than in the family file prior to loading into a project, then you can edit that family directly from the project, and in turn, export those types from the family to a Type Table.

You may not be looking for a single manual way to do this rather than a batch export, but for what some people may need from time to time, I find this very useful.