Everything you reuse, in one place
Families, drafting views, view templates, wall types, filled regions, line styles and view filters sit together as preview cards. Keep your own library, or point it at a shared folder for the whole office.
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Library
Families, types and view templates in one searchable library, shared with the office.
Coming soon
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In Revit: NimDeck tab → Library
What it does
Find it by what it is
Search by name, family, category, tag or a type value such as a wall’s fire rating or Rw. Every word you type has to match, and #tag finds one tag exactly.
Screenshot to come:
a search for “FRL 60” narrowing the wall types
a search for “FRL 60” narrowing the wall types
Drag it into the view
Double-click a card, press Enter, or drag it onto a Revit view. A view template goes onto the views selected in the Project Browser, and a wall type switches the walls you have selected.
Screenshot to come:
a view template dropped onto a plan
a view template dropped onto a plan
One team library, kept in step
Whoever can write to the shared folder can edit it; everyone else sees it read-only. Saves merge with what colleagues changed meanwhile, and an open window updates when someone else saves.
Screenshot to come:
the footer line “Team library: you can edit”
the footer line “Team library: you can edit”
Good to know
- When the project already has something of the same name, you choose: keep the project’s, replace it with the library’s, or load it as “Name (2)”.
- Items saved in an older Revit can be used in a newer one. It upgrades them once and keeps the copy; items from a newer Revit show greyed out.
- Save a family once and create several sized types as you insert it, for example 900, 1200 and 1600 wide.
- Add ▾ saves what you have selected, or indexes a folder of .rfa files without copying them.
