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What does 'Controlled' status mean ?

•'Controlled' families are those which have been checked by various senior Arup Revit users, and are "QA approved".  Or they are families provided by a 3rd party, such as AutoDesk.

•Only certain users have the ability to mark a family as 'Controlled'.

•A 'Controlled' family must be associated with an organisation who has supplied that content, e.g. AutoDesk or an equipment manufacturer.  In the case of custom families created by Arup, the organisation is 'Arup'

 

What does 'Uncontrolled' status mean ?

•'Uncontrolled' families can be uploaded by anyone.  This means you can easily share your families with colleagues around Arup

•'Uncontrolled' families are 'at your own risk'.  They have not been QA checked, the parameter names might only make sense to the person who made the family, they might not do what they are supposed to do.

•'Uncontrolled' families can be overwritten by uploading a family with the same name.

 

Can 'Uncontrolled' content become 'Controlled' ?

Yes.

Once the system is running, and senior Arup Revit users agree about what defines a 'QA checked' Arup Family, then the best families can go through a process of checking and be upgraded to 'Controlled'.

 

Where do the families live  ?

If the Revit Family Browser plugin is unavailable, then Revit users can still browse the RFA files from the shared folder at: \\cadtools\cadtools\cadtools_revit\family library

 

Can I 'Batch Download' all the families ?

No.  And there probably never will be that functionality.

 

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