Editing Elements in Groups

You can group elements in a project or family and then place that group many times in a project or family. Grouping elements is useful when you need to create entities that represent repeating layouts or are common to many building projects.

Examples: Hotel rooms, apartments, or repeating floors

With each instance of a group that you place, there is associativity among them. For example, you create a group with a bed, walls, and window and then place multiple instances of the group in your project. If you modify a wall in one group, it changes for all instances of that group, simplifying the modification process.

You can create:

• Model groups, which can contain model elements.
  

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• Detail groups, which can contain view-specific elements (such as text and filled regions).
  

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• Attached detail groups, which can contain view-specific elements that are associated with a specific model group.
  

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  An attached detail group that includes tags for doors and windows

A group cannot contain both model and view-specific elements. If you select both types of elements and then try to group them, Revit creates a model group and places the detail elements into an attached detail group for that model group. The result is the same if you select both detail elements and a model group; Revit creates an attached detail group of the detail elements for that model group.