All buttons of the Family Model tools will be enabled only when a family model is made current in the Revit window.
The Material Exporter in the Material Organizer command group of Family Model tools of Revit Family Organizer allows users to export all or some materials from the current family model to some external Revit family files.
Some Revit family target files need to be picked first.
After the OK button (with a green check mark) is pressed, all materials of the current family model will be listed out in the following dialog to choose.
The Transport button can be pressed to double check where to export the chosen materials to. Now, the OK button can be pressed to proceed.
In fact, a lot of things will be going on during the process, and can be in many different ways, which can be controlled by a simple setting in the single Settings command/dialog of the same Family Model tools.
When materials being copied, transported, exported, or imported, four options are available as can be seen above.
- KeepExistingifNameConflictsDuringCopying: keeps the existing material if the name already exists.
- OverwriteExistingifNameConflictsDuringCopying: overwrites the existing material if the name already exists.
- RenameExistingifNameConflictsDuringCopying: renames the existing material if the name already exists, based on the suffix as given.
- GiveNewNameExistingifNameConflictsDuringCopying: gives a new name to the new copied material if the name already exists, based on the suffix as given.
At the end, some messages will appear to show what have been done or what might be wrong. In the case as indicated below, the target family files were with higher versions (e.g. 2016 or 2014) than what the current Revit (with version 2012) could handle.
Otherwise, the chosen materials would have been exported quickly and reliably.
All of these can be exercised in the free trail edition of Revit Family Organizer.
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