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Revisiting type catalogs: Controlling which fields are included

Revisiting type catalogs: Controlling which fields are included

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Revisiting type catalogs: Controlling which fields are included

- [Instructor] Way back in July of 2017, I covered type catalogs here in the series. I'd like to revisit that this week and talk about a few items that weren't discussed in this earlier video. Surprisingly, even though this video is, at the time of this recording, nearly eight years old, most of the information in here still applies. So creating type catalogs is something that we can do to manage types within our family content. It's most often employed when you have a family that has lots of variations, lots of types. So you'll see it a lot in the structural families like steel families where there are just dozens and dozens of different potential sizes and it would be unwieldy to try and build all of those sizes directly in the family file itself. But that's not the only reason to create a type catalog, and it's certainly not limited to those situations. So you can create a type catalog from any family that you wish.…

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