Change Category¶
Panel: Families | Button: Change Category
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
.rfadirectly).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.
