In response to Revit’s handling of “duplicate families,” Guardian’s Family Mapping feature will automatically exchange the incoming family, once mapped, to the family already present in the project model. It will also maintain the Instance Parameter values of the incoming families.
We have heard from our customers how project models become bloated with duplicate Revit families. For example, “E1 30 x 42 Horizontal.rfa & E1 30 x 42 Horizontal1.rfa”. Guardian assumes the project model in which content is being insert into contains the accurate content and provides you means to map, or merge if you will, these incoming families. Thus, this prevents the accumulation of duplicate families that happens over the course of a project. Better yet, Guardian memorizes these mapping so it happens automatically for everyone in the firm moving forward.
Guardian identifies all the Revit Families in your project models and provides you the means to map them you to other Revit Families, and their family types, in the model.
Typically seen when the Insert Views from File command is used, all the families associated with those views, typically Annotation Symbols and Detail Items, come with the views. In real-time, Guardian provides you the means to map these incoming families to those already in the project model. This prevents the duplicate family types warnings the Revit creates and also elements the superfluous families that accumulate over the course of a project.
