Cleaning Your Template

One of the many benefits to Guardian is that it can help to clean and maintain your template files. Guardian makes it easier to remove unused properties, convert old standards to new ones, and apply protections to important families. This section will go over different ways to use Guardian to clean up your template files.  

Template files typically contain key families and properties that are crucial in maintaining a company standard. Revit has many different properties that must be accessed in different ways. Guardian's Project Properties allows all of the properties to be shown in a single convenient window. Viewing the properties in this way helps to ensure consistency and to point out any old or unnecessary properties.  

In Project Properties, Guardian can scan through everything in the file to look for any unused properties or possible duplicates.  

To check for unused properties, select a property (or set of them) and use the Scan selection for usage button.  

Each tab can be scanned through by using the Scan <tab name> for usage.

Once scanned, the usage will be shown for each property. Any with a usage of “-” is unused in the current file. These can be removed from the file by deselecting the property.  

Duplicates can be scanned for in each tab in Project Properties by selecting the Scan <tab name> for duplicates button.

Once scanned, any suspected duplicates will have an integer value in the Duplicates column. Hovering the cursor over the integer will highlight any associated properties that may be duplicates.  

Any rules created through the cleanup process for your template can be remembered by Guardian and applied to other projects and families to keep them closer to the company standard.  

The template file can also be trimmed down by keeping any excess fill patterns and line patterns in the cloud.