Class Family

Namespace

OpenMEPRevit.Element.Family

Assembly

OpenMEPRevit.dll

An element that represents a custom family (not a system family) in Autodesk Revit.

public class Family

Inheritance

object

Family

Inherited Members

object.ToString()

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

object.GetType()

object.MemberwiseClone()

Remarks

Custom families within the Revit API represented by three objects - Family, Autodesk.Revit.DB.FamilySymbol and Autodesk.Revit.DB.FamilyInstance. Each object plays a significant part in the structure of families. The Family element represents the entire family that consists of a collection of types, such as an 'I Beam'. You can think of that object as representing the entire family file. The Family object contains a number of Autodesk.Revit.DB.FamilySymbol elements. The Autodesk.Revit.DB.FamilySymbol object represents a specific set of family settings within that Family and represents what is known in the Revit user interface as a Type, such as 'W14x32'. The Autodesk.Revit.DB.FamilyInstance object represents an actual instance of that type placed the Autodesk Revit project. For example the Autodesk.Revit.DB.FamilyInstance would be a single instance of a W14x32 column within the project.

Methods

EditFamily(Family)

return family document

public static Document EditFamily(Family family)

Parameters

family Family

family

Returns

Document

family document

Examples

FamilyCategory(Family?)

Retrieves or sets a Category object that represents the category or sub category in which the elements ( this family could generate ) reside. All category objects can be retrieved from the application by using the Categories property of the Application.Settings object.

public static Category? FamilyCategory(Family? family)

Parameters

family Family

family

Returns

Category

category

Examples

IsOwnerFamily(Family?)

True if the family is the owner family for its own editable document, false otherwise.

[NodeCategory("Query")]
public static bool? IsOwnerFamily(Family? family)

Parameters

family Family

family

Returns

bool?

result

Examples