# Change Category **Panel:** Families | **Button:** Change Category button icon Changes the Revit category of the family currently open in the Family Editor, preserving its subcategories. ## What it does - Checks that the active document is a **family document**. If it is not, the tool reports *"This is not a family document."* and exits. - Presents a list of the categories available for the family's category type, so you can pick the new one. - Reassigns the family to the selected category, recreating the family's subcategories under the new category and re-assigning elements to them so the family's graphical structure survives the change. ## When to use this Use this when a family has been created or received with the wrong category and needs to be corrected before it can be properly scheduled, filtered or tagged. ## Requirements - **The family must be open in the Family Editor and be the active document.** This tool does not operate on families loaded in a project — open the family first (via Edit Family or by opening the `.rfa` directly). - The target category must be valid for the family's template. Only categories matching the family's category type are offered. ## Notes - The family is **not saved** by this tool. Review the result, then save the family yourself — or close without saving to discard the change. - After saving, reload the family into any projects that use it for the change to take effect there. - Changing a family's category affects tags, schedules, view filters and visibility settings that reference the original category. Review those downstream dependencies. - Subcategories are carried across, but any host project overrides keyed to the old category's subcategories will not follow automatically.