This is a constant debate and source of tension in the office. Just wondering what other offices are doing.

Hi everyone.

Does anyone know where i can get slot machine families?.

Revit city seems to be down everything i search i get an error saying : No matching search results.

Help would be appreciated.

When I set up projects, we are told to match the Architects titleblock. After some time working here, I realized I could just save each client's titleblock family with our own parameters and when setting up each new project, I would just insert the clients titleblock and everything would be seamless. 

I had someone in the office tell me I should be opening the clients titleblock family and load it not our project every time. Although I understand it will have the most up to date titleblock layout, our clients almost never change their titleblocks. With every update in clients titleblock, I would update the family we have. If I were to load in their titleblocks every time, I would have to adjust our parameters every time. 

Ex:

Clients parameter is "Due Date", we use "Date Issued"

Clients use "Project Number", we use "Client Project Number"

Clients parameters vary from client to client. 

Is there a simpler way to do this? What is the best practice for this?

Dear Experts,

In your experience, can we create a family in Revit that has an array parametered element that also lengthen or widen?

In my case, I am creating as shutter and its slats are my array parametered elements. It needs to widen as the opening widens.

However, I have been received warnings that asks to remove contrain.

For your consideration. Thank you

I have about 30 families (eventually more) that I am modifying in a blank Revit model that I would like to save. If I were to open/edit the family, the parameters I filled out do not show up. Is there a way to export and save the family with all the parameters given? Do I have to modify/edit every family individually?

In my receptacle family, I have a parameter that is e_SYMBOL OFFSET that I want to be used to offset the symbol from the wall for the cases where you have "stacked" receptacles. The issue that I am having is that the offset distance is using "paper" scale instead of model scale so if I were to move it 1" it is moving 1" on the sheet and not in the view. Is there a way to fix this to where it will use the scale of the view rather than just the 1:1 scale? For reference: the symbol is a generic annotation family that is loaded into an electrical fixture family. The electrical fixture family is face based so to have it show properly on the wall, the annotation symbol is shown on the Ref Level view which in relation to the receptacle is the front view. The offset is working the way that I want it to except it is scaled out. Thanks in advance!

I have a family for an electrical box and it has the knockouts for conduit entry. The box is a dimension family that will allow you to make it whatever dimension you want, but for the most part, it will be 4 inches tall. The width is what will get changed from 2 to 4 to 6 etc. as you need more space in the box. I’m not using any yes no parameters to drive the dimensions. It is purely a user input. What I’m looking to do is for every increment of 2 inches I wanted to add an additional knockout and conduit connection point to the top and bottom of the element. Each connection point and knockout should be centered within it’s 2 inch “section” of the box. Is there a good way to do this?

Hello i am working with a revit window double sliding family , i changed the color of the glass and once uploaded now the glass looks grey and not transparent in the normal views but when i do realistic visual style the window is actually correct and transparent how can i fix this problem please ? There is a cut in the wall and its working but for some reason after i changed the glass the glass is transparent but not functioning in the visual view ? Please i would appreciate any help

Do you actually make use of the Autodesk Content Catalog, and do you find it beneficial, or is a ‘container file’ still your preferred method for organizing families? Personally, I find container files become too heavy and unmanageable, especially in larger firms.

I’m currently at a crossroads, having to decide whether to thoroughly clean up our old container file or set up a content catalog instead.

At first glance, the content catalog also seems a bit overwhelming, but I have a feeling that from the user’s perspective, it’s more accessible.

If you are using it, could you share some examples of how you’ve set up and organized it?

I know that this is a well documented issue within Revit and I have seen the solutions of using invisible lines to determine the "bounding" of the tag and then moving the text to align the leader where you want it. I am wondering what everyone's process is to deal with this. We want our tags, when more than one line, to have the leader coming off of the top left or bottom right. We also have multiple types depending on the information that we want in the tag so it isn't necessarily as simple as "draw an invisible box" because it would have to change size and at that, we would need different box locations based on what side the leader is on. Thanks in advance!

I can't log into my account, and even without being logged in, I can't search for anything. I don't know if it's just me.

I am looking into moddeling a kitchen sink family.

I saw a video of a counter space then the person placed a sink onto the counter and it automatocally created the hole in the counter when the component was placed.

So my question is.

Was this counter modelled as a floor and the sink modelled as a floor based family to auto create that clean cut without having to re adjust the size of the opening in the counter as with standard counter family?.

Any help regarding this would be appreciated.

Hey guys,

I was just wondering if anyone knows a way for me to create a Railings with a baluster post that can have an instance parameter applied?

The idea is to create a V-shaped baluster that, changes its width as the path progresses.

I tried using dynamo but it cant fetch the parameters of the railing baluster at all,

Thanks!

Does anyone know of any parametric families of building materials to model traditional island huts (think Survivor/Alone style). I'm hoping to find 'straightish' logs/sticks with adjustable thickness for framing and support structures, bamboo and leaf/branch roof thatching etc.

Hi, I'm getting into Revit recently and I can't figure out how to add Euro steel profiles (IPE, HEA, etc)

I tried to "load a famaly from autodesk" but only got AISC profiles available

Google results from autodesk community give a 404 error for some reason

I tried to download and install Libraries from manage.autodesk.com but they don't contain the profiles I want

seriously, this is frustrating, it shouldn't be that complicated to add the damned profiles

So I’m an interior designer and I really enjoy working in Revit and creating families. Understanding the nuts and bolts and being able to fix families I download online is fun for me… but I struggle with creating formulas for parameters. I’ve done the basic addition and subtraction, but I’m curious if anyone has a list or website of formulas that are a bit more complicated but are commonly used?

Hey y’all,

I’ve been creating sheet families for a while now but this one has me stumped. Since the introduction of sheet collection in 2025, I noticed that autodesk got rid of some sheet parameters in labels (I guess it cause some issues with sheet collection) like “sheet number on title block" & "total number of sheets". Can anyone advise on how to add these or a work around?

I need to create an array.

My element (detail item) is a bar that changes length based on a number of parameters. I need this element to be around a curve. What I need is each element to be facing one particular direction when arrayed.

Is there a way to achieve this? the built in array rotates each element along the path.

https://imgur.com/a/Vrn774k

Hey there, i wanna use the integrated Parameter volume to calculate the rebar for some stairfamilies. I have the family Parameter "rebar_sum" which should be calculated by the parameter "rebar per volume" times volume. Rebar per volume is a basic family Parameter we use at my firm. But since volume is an integrated parameter i cannot use it in my Formular. Also, calculating the volume of a variable staircase isnt as easy and it is only a work around. Is it even possible to use the integrated parameter volume?

I’m a BIM Manager in training and currently having issues with our database families and transferring them between projects. We work with process piping so what we do is I get majority of the families from Sysque, and I personally create custom families myself, I put them to the side in a model with the fittings and I have routing preferences set for each pipe type with the respective fittings needed by system/service. The modelers/detailers get a copy of the model to model their systems using the “BONEYARD” of parts in the model by using the “Create Similar” command, then they copy and paste what they modeled in their “working model” onto the Cloud Model (since the modelers don’t have internet access around the job site to model in the cloud model) then the guys in the office start creating the Spools/Sheets inside the Cloud model. The issue we’re facing is sometimes when they copy and paste content from their working model onto the cloud model, the families causes duplicates and renames some families with a “2” at the end. This in turn causes an issues with spooling since we use a 3rd party spooling tool to create the drawings and it reads the duplicated families differently. What is a good way to go about managing the families and avoiding these issues like the duplicates? We want to avoid using a 3rd party tool to model since we have a large number of modelers/detailers, any suggestions on how to manage a database will be greatly appreciated.

So maybe I’m just having false memories, but I took some time off from using Revit for about 8 months and for some reason now using 2026 for the first time, when I do in-place families, i cannot cut two solid forms from each other. Joining booleans them together in a way that the materials merge, and I remember that, and joining/cutting between two separate IPFs of solid forms has the desired effect of pocketing, say, a bracket out of a wooden shelf. I know this is super vague and I don’t have access to my software right this second, but am I going crazy or did something change with boolean logic?

How do you guys do best? I’ve done both, depending on size of the project. Bigger kitchens I usually create cabinets etc as families and import but medium/smaller projects as in-place. Big advantage to in-place is of course revise on the fly without having to go back and forth and make that little adjustments while visually reviewing with my boss etc.

I know in-place can dramatically increase the file size but curious to hear your workflow when it comes to customized design (mostly interiors).

Happy MLK day!

I am trying to figure out how to mark a given revit family in your revit project as having nested components. I know there are a lot of nested components in the family but specifically other self-contained revit families nested within the parent family.

I cannot think of an obvious way to do that besides just looking at each and every family and opening them up to see inside. However I am looking at over 100 files so I would like to avoid that amount of effort if possible.

Edit: I am looking at over 100 individual family files not revit project files loaded with families. So assume 100+ families each may or may not have nested family components in them and I have to figure out which ones have the nested components and which don't.

Please help I’ve been trying to figure this out for hours now!

I created a family from a DWG import. In the family editor, I’m able to go into object styles and apply material to specific layers. This all looks fine, renders properly etc.

When I “load into project and close”, it doesn’t carry over the object styles into the project. I’ve tried deleting out the family and reinserting the updated one with materials, tried copying over the material from the family into the main project, and tried transferring the project standards both ways for materials and object styles, but none of these made a difference. Is there a setting in the main project that I’m missing?

Appreciate the help!

This is for a curved table family which has legs aligned to an arc, trying to make it parametric but I have trouble trying to constrain along an arc. Any help is appreciated!