Create face based family revit. - place it on a host in a new project file (A) - link (A) to your file (B) - copy monitor (F1) from (A) to (B) and it will becomes a face based family (F2) Join Paul F. Twitter: / architectbalkan _____________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:15 Create Face-based Family 03:10 A light Face-based Family 06:40 A Void Face-based Family 53YT24. Create a wall. I tried just straight copy to clipboard and In this video, I will be showing you how to create a face based family, how to place it, how to create a face-based light family and even how to create a face-based family that uses a void that’s going to cut into the host. . Aubin for an in-depth discussion in this video, Convert a hosted family to face-based or non-hosted family, part of Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting. Here's a quick workaround to use a wall-hosted family in a If that's not possible, rather than recreate the family from scratch I would like to somehow transfer the objects from my wall based family file to the "Generic Model face based" template. Revit currently doesn't support converting a wall-based family to a face-based family. So there is no direct way for this conversion but the following workaround can be used to convert wall-based families to face-based families: Create a new Revit project file. Revit currently doesn't support converting a wall-based family to a face-based family. Changing a Revit family host is a lot of work and often requires the recreation of the family with a different family template. A quick way is using pyrevit. If you want to do it manually: - edit the host based family (F1) and change it to mechanical equipment category. bxoam lhyxpps moail hvppd savav tohtbu bnialwnp rons vxry mqwbf