Family Type Creation in Revit Dynamo
July - August 2020
The family type creation dynamo script was developed for a user who needed to import a few thousand pieces of equipment of varying sizes into a Revit model. The name, department, room number, width, height, and depth were listed in excel spreadsheet for each piece of equipment. The user wanted each piece of equipment to include this information as a family type as well as change in size depending on the data listed. A generic lab equipment family was created to included these size parameters.
The script creates lab equipment family by type, using the equipment name and department from the excel sheet (index 0 and 1) as the type name and the size parameters of the equipment by the data from excel (indices 2, 3, and 4). Lastly, the equipment is separated by rows, designated by room number. The script can work on many thousands of pieces of equipment, eliminating the need to create these family types manually.
Software: Autodesk Revit, Dynamo