Revit Family Browser - Search Function

In this video I would like to show the awesome power of Family Browser's search function to quickly filter through thousands of families in an instance to find the family that you are after.

We have made some slight modifications in a new build that is now available in the downloads section.  This includes:

1. A 1 sec delay in the processing of the search string, so that the searches are allot more fluent.
2. Grey italic text in the search text box more clearly show that there is a search function in Family Browser.

Watch and enjoy ;)

Phillip

Element Renumber 2012 - FREE

We are pleased to announce that we have upgraded our Element Renumber Tool to be compatible with Autodesk Revit 2012.  The best part - its totally FREE.

The installer can be downloaded from HERE.

Easily renumber Families, Viewports and Grids Etc.

Kiwi Codes becomes 50% Aussie

This is hard to believe but as of next Monday 50% of Kiwi Codes will reside in Australia.

Yep that’s right, Chris has taken up a BIM Managers job at “Mitier3” in Melbourne starting Monday 9th May. 

So to all you Aussie mates that have been at me to produce tools for the Australian market we now have someone on the ground.

Good luck to Chris in his new and challenging job.

Phillip

Family Type Catalog GUI Creator/Editor

With the release of Revit 2012 Autodesk introduced the ability to export from a Revit Family document a catalog "TXT" file that could then be copied into the correct location to be used when inserting families.  Although this was a good start we feel that it falls well short of the mark of what users actually need.

With the Autodesk way, the end user needs to:

1. Copy the txt file into the correct location.
2. Use a text editor like notepad or excel to edit/add/delete family types.
3. Can only be exported from a Family Document, not a project document.
4. Know the exact family parameter names and syntax of the text file for it to work.

Luckily Family Browser solves all of these issues in a very simple way.

1. Type catalogs created within Revit and the project environment.
2. No need to even load the family.
3. GUI for editing, adding and deleting parameters and types.
4. Family cleanup when catalog is created.
5. Inbuilt units converter.

If this all sounds far to good too be true check out the below video which show how simple this really is.

Keyboard shortcut to Family Browser 2012

In Family Browser 2012 we added a minor enhancement to toggle Family Browser on/off using a keyboard shortcut.

This might be a minor addition but use full all the same.  Watch this video to see how it works.

Cheers
Phillip

Family Browser 2012 - Now Released

I am pleased to announcee that Family Browser 2012 is now available for download from here.

For Family Browser 2012 we concentrated of four main areas:

1. AutoDesk Revit 2012 Compatible
2. Fixed errors that we received from user feedback
3. The addition of "Collections" which are similar to having multiple MasterText files as in Family Browser ver 3.  A tutorial video can be viewed here.
4. Better deployment options for Site License users.  A tutorial video can be viewed here.

There is no need to remove Family Browser 3 if you have it installed, it will work side by side ver 3.

Once again, thank you for all the support and comments/suggestions that you have provided us.  We still have a lot of ideas to implement in coming versions and look forward to making these available to you at a later date.

Cheers
Phillip

New Video Tutorials Posted

Well it has been awhile since my last post.

I intend to be a bit more regular in the coming weeks and months.

I have just uploaded six new video tutorials and more will be coming shortly.

Keep an eye out for another post in the next few hours with an announcement from us. ;)

Cheers
Phillip