For those utilizing Revit 2021, issues may arise when trying to import a Revit family due to the lack of a downloaded and installed family library. This article provides a solution to this problem, guiding users on how to download the necessary content.
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- The issue of not having the Revit family library installed is common, affecting about half of the installs.
- Users can resolve this problem by downloading the US Imperial file which contains all the Imperial library content, including the families and the family templates.
- After downloading and extracting the content into the default Revit folder, users will have access to all the same content used in Revit classes.
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For those of you who are using Revit 2021, you might experience some issues where if you go to import a Revit family, you won't have the family library downloaded and installed on your computer. And we've been seeing this in about half of the installs that we've done so far. And so what you'll wanna do is navigate to this link here, and then we're gonna download the content that we need.
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And for most of us, that's gonna mean downloading this US Imperial file. And what this'll do is it'll download and extract all of the Imperial library content, including the families and the family templates into the default Revit folder. And so by doing that, you'll be able to have all the same content that we use in our Revit classes.
