Cleaning Your Library

Maintaining your content library can be a very tedious task and often falls by the wayside. Let Guardian act as your personal BIM assistant to clean up your library in batches or over time. Guardian's mapping rules and cleanup procedures can save you a lot of time and energy in this process.

Whether company standard content is maintained in a project file or on a server, Guardian can be used to run through all of them and their associated properties.

One recommended workflow is to start with a template file or some project that contains the current company standards as far as naming and system family types. Any family files can then be loaded into the clean standard file and have any mapping rules be applied. During the loading process, the incoming properties dialog will give the chance to look over all the properties in the families and make additional rules. Before processing the incoming families, the Export Files option should be selected. This will ensure that any changes made by Guardian will be saved back to the original families.  

This cleaning process will also help to build up the mapping rules that can be applied to any other incoming families/properties.