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.
Key Insights
- 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 will not have the family library downloaded and installed on your computer. We have been seeing this in about half of the installs that we have done so far. What you will want to do is navigate to this link here, and then we are going to download the content that we need.
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For most of us, that will mean downloading this US Imperial file. What this will do is download and extract all of the Imperial library content, including the families and the family templates, into the default Revit folder. By doing that, you will have all the same content that we use in our Revit classes.
